Naturally, we had to make it lol.
Think about it before you use it though, do you really want to give the BBEG the wish spell?
Still, we have to make it lol. It's a "many things"! And honestly, I'd love to see how the players use this thing. I think I'll either play it that the players can choose which version of the deck (including harrow, tarot, hazard, etc) to apply the charm to, or it'll apply to the most recent deck that they found. We'll see how it goes when it comes up.
So, since charms in dnd are bestowed by legendary creatures, or are things received after opening an ancient tome or something, the DMG leaves it quite open, I decided to create an actual physical charm to bestow for this supernatural gift. We wanted something spikey, but good, like the kinda good and bad side showing at once. So after playing around with the design a little bit, we came up with this design, which kinda looks like a moon on one side, and crossed spikes on the other. I think it portrays the deck of many things well :D
Also it looks a little bit like a walking fish or something, something something evolution of the deck, I dunno lol. Looks cute and amusing though ^_^
Now, how to make it. We took that cardboard pressboard that we used in the deck of many more things instruction card, and cut a whole pile of copies of that shape that we wanted to create out of it, as well as some smaller side pieces to round out the charm when sanding (also this pic just looks pretty cool). And after gluing all of those together, we did just that, and began to round out and shape the charm. And then we proceeded to coat it in multiple layers of PVA glue with ample drying between, to give it a solid surface and firm up the whole thing more. Also, we needed to make the instruction tag, that will attach through the hole.
Though on that note, thinking about it, testing it, the hole through the side looks a lot better and more like a moon, rather than through the crossed spikes which definitely looks like a trilobite dragging something lol. So definitely keeping the hole on the side.
On that note, we need to make an instruction card. And, while not wanting to use the metal tag I used in the testing photos (it's my really tiny 'flat hard surface' to use a hole-punch on), I did use it as a template for size and shape, and used some convenient, quite sturdy purple plastic from a candy container as the material. Also we ended up cutting out the shape for the back of the tag, so it has a purple surround.
With that finished unexpectedly quickly (also hand-written, because I really didn't want to muck around with printing to this shape), all we need to do is well-coat the charm in pva glue layers, and give it a final coat, I'm thinking single colour, maybe a wood brown. See what we do once we get a few layers on there and smooth it out.
Made April? x, 2024
