Adventure Spreads - The Deck of Many Things: Card Reference Guide

Adventure Spreads. An adventure spread is an arrangement of cards from Deck of Many More Things card set that you can use to craft an adventure for your D&D game. With this method, the cards drawn determine adventure details such as the situation that launches the adventure, challenges the party faces along the way, and the final obstacle the party must overcome. This kind of spread typically uses the full deck, but you can use a smaller set of cards if you want your adventure to focus on particular themes or adversaries. Creating an Adventure Spread To prepare the deck for creating an adventure spread, shuffle the cards, being sure to rotate some cards as you do so some cards will be upright and others reversed (upside down). Then lay out the top nine cards in a cross pattern, as shown in diagram 2. Each card represents a situation, person, creature, location, or treasure in the adventure, using the signifiers for each card described in the "Reading the Cards" section. You can pick any of a card's signifiers for any of the positions in the diagram, so let your imagination wander and build a story that excites you. Treat the cards placed sideways as upright if the top of the card is on the left and as reversed if the top is on the right. Diagram 2: Adventure Spread Lay out the cards in this order: 1: Party Gathers This card represents the situation the characters are in before the adventure starts. It might be a place where they meet, a person they're visiting, a treasure they're all drawn to for different reasons, or a dangerous creature unrelated to the adventure to follow. 2: Adventure Begins Place this card across the first card to represent how the adventure starts. It might be a situation that starts the action, an individual who gives the adventurers a quest, or an attack by a creature that prompts the party to follow it to its lair. 3: Journey To the right of the first card, place a card that describes the transition from the introduction to the adventure...