The Deck Of Boons And Banes, A D&D Aid By Ginny Di, Subverts TTRPG Mechanics In The Best Ways
Pick the wrong card and not even a restful good night's sleep is guaranteed
She continued: "I think there are a lot of changes in those new rule books that are neat and good and positive, and there are also some where I'm like, 'What up with that?' But that's inevitable, I think, when anything that you love and that you're very familiar with gets adjusted. I feel confident with this deck that it will be just as functional at the table as it would've been with 5e. Obviously we wrote it in the context of 5e. There's a very real possibility--and I can't think of any off the top of my head, but there is a real possibility--that there's something in this card deck that's like, the language has slightly changed now, or we don't quite do that thing the same way anymore. But I also think that it's going to take a really long time for people to shift their tables over to the new game [system]. And some tables just won't."
That didn't stop Di from wondering whether she should at least delay working on the deck if only to see how the new D&D edition was going to shake out. "But ultimately, when I started working on this almost a full year ago, I just hit this point where I had to be like, 'I can't stop all of my work on the off chance that something is going to get changed that ends up making that work useless,'" Di told me. "I basically had to just say, 'I'm going to keep creating and I'm going to keep creating with the information that I have now, and when we get new information, if things need to change, if I need to adapt, then I will adapt.' But I wasn't willing to just press pause on everything I was creating to just exist in limbo for a year."
You can preorder The Game Master's Deck Of Boons And Banes from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, Bookshop, and Indigo. The deck is set to launch on October 1.
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