As the Deck of Many More Things is made up of 66 cards, we needed to use two decks of playing cards to create it. And since the deck is now about 66% good and 33% bad (some are of course kinda both), I decided to double up on the red cards, and for ordering what should go where, more or less followed the theme of the original deck of many things card conversion from 10 downward, more or less keeping similar things (like the various stat upgrade cards) together, and going from more powerful higher cards to less powerful lower cards. The 'kinda both good and bad' cards tended to fall into the black cards to make up the full set of numbers.
And so, we come to the instructions, which of course contains all of the original 22 cards (though with Vizier and Idiot renamed to Sage and Puzzle), and 44 new cards. Interestingly, there doesn't appear to be a maximum number of cards listed that you can draw, so you could ask for like 15 cards lol! Don't worry, we still have Dennis... for most things. Seems the wish spell doesn't work for some of these, so... more dangerous than the harrow deck, just a heads up lol. That stated though, our next step... was to create the instructions in little tiny text that I can contain in the box with the playing card version.
Though on a random note before that, it seems that they've given a few nods to their other decks of many things, at least I hope! You can get a pet dragon as with the Deck of hazards, and you can turn to stone as with the original Deck of Many Things, talk to plants like the Harrow perhaps? There could be specifics taken from the Tarot of Many Things such as stat increases too even! But anyways, onward to the miniature instruction page!
Now, the first step was to create formatted images (three page version) with the same aspect ratio as a playing card, so that we can basically tape that to either side of a card and have it sitting in the pack with the rest of the deck. Also, for ease of printing, I made an image of all of the decks (without border, half size) because I mean... saves paper. And there's little dots on there so you know where to cut it apart and such.
Random note, regular paper size is half an inch taller in the UK than in Canada, so we're just going with this for now. Make your own or put swirly decorations down the sides if you want full paper size lol.
Now, we first tried printing it onto two pages at playing card size, but the text was just too tiny to be reasonably readable, so we opted for the three-page version, which like the harrow deck of many things, I used an accordion method and attached all three pages to one side of the card. I'd debated wither to attach a cover and two pages to one side, and the third to the back, but that just didn't feel right, so we went with this.
And thus, a very similar taping method to the harrow card took place, and we have a tape-strengthened folding seam, tape covering all paper surfaces, and the back of the card just visible as it is. It was actually a little bit of luck that I happened to have printed it out at a size that perfectly fit the face of a playing card while folded, since my multiple printouts were getting smaller in 5% increments. The fact that this one, the smallest printout, was *exactly* the width of a card was a miracle, and well the height could of course be adjusted a half-millimeter one way or the other since there's a smidge of extra space above and below the text. But of course, trimming simply isn't possible when dealing with a folded side. I had expected to have to cut them all out separately and then have a tape-only seam, so this was a pleasant surprise.
Nice and readable, not too small, fits inside the box, I'm quite happy with how it came out :D
Also, as an unexpected surprise, when the box set finally came in, it had come with both the original cards and the replacement cards, so the initial set ended up becoming yet another deck of many more things, with the replacement box becoming the spare! Also this.
Created December 20, 2023, box set received January 5, 2024
Of course you can draw a card!
