Curse of strahd cards
#CURSE OF STRAHD CARDS HOW TO#
If your PC has obtained a deck in this state and they have been given this power, you will be able to use the gift of prophecy, if your character knows how to perform a tarokka reading. When not in use, tarokka cards must be wrapped in silk and stored in a wooden box. Once they are crafted and empowered, they must be stored in accordance with ancient tradition, or they lose their efficacy. In the details of the Tarokka Deck in Appendix E of Curse of Strahd, it states:Īnyone can craft a deck of tarokka cards, but only someone of Vistani blood can imbue the cards with the gift of prophecy. You can also use the results of tarokka readings to guide your campaign and make sure predictions come to pass.Ĭurrently, officially in RAW, they are mundane cards and essentially a focus for the magic of the Vistani. Once you’re familiar with the cards and their meanings, you can interpret them in ways that tie in to the characters’ pasts or events in your adventures. Tarokka decks allow you run encounters where fortune-tellers predict characters’ fates. In Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, the advice is given to the DM, rather than a player: Although the cards aren’t magical, can use them to perform a card reading for the characters, like the one that can be performed by Madam Eva. They appear in the stat block of a character in Curse of Strahd: Looking at Curse of Strahd and Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (and using D&D Beyond to search through other official sources), the deck doesn't appear as an Item with any associated actions, abilities or mechanics. There are no mechanical descriptions (for PCs) of the Tarokka deck in the current edition.