Divine your future! Lose your shirt! All in one box!
In the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting, the Harrow™ deck has long been a sacred tool of Varisian fortunetellers. In skilled hands, the Harrow deck can predict crop results, divine the gender of your unborn child, or give hints about your immediate future. In unskilled hands, the Harrow deck is a sacrilegious gambling game—a cutthroat diversion for ruffians in every port to lose their hard-earned fortunes.
Harrow will be featured throughout the second Pathfinder Adventure Path, Curse of the Crimson Throne. At least once in each installment, players may divine their futures with the Harrow deck, and Pathfinder #7 contains an in-depth article about the history of Harrow and its in-game use.
Harrow is also a standalone card game designed by Jason Bulmahn, Mike Selinker, and Teeuwynn Woodruff for use inside or outside the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting. Harrow is lavishly illustrated by Kyle Hunter, the artist behind Downer: Wandering Monster and Downer: Fool's Errand, the Paizo Comics compilations of Kyle's original Downer comics from Dungeon magazine.
Harrow contains:
One 54-card deck illustrated by Kyle Hunter
Five chronicle cards to aid in divination
One rulebook with divination rules and card game rules
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Se voce gosta de tarô e gosta de d&d compre, se voce gosta de objetos cênicos para adicionar imersão no seu jogo e voce vai mestrar Curse of Crimson Throne ou Carrion Crown COMPRE. Mas fora ambas as situações ele nada mais é do quê uma curiosidade interessante mas de ilustrações que não inspiram muito (mas se eles um dia fizerem uma versão luxo com o Wayne Reynolds desenhando e o dinheiro estiver sobrando…).
Love Every thing about this product. Lots of fun and multiple uses. Just convinced the company i work for to carry these, since for some strange reason we never carried them before, and we tend to carry most Paizo products. Very worth the price imo.
If you are into Tarot reading, playing a mystic character, or playing a Harrower in your Pathfinder Game, I highly recommend buying these cards! They are very artistic, unique, quirky, and look great on the table.
My only quip about this deck is that each card says "Harrow" on the back, and they are normal card sized. I would have preferred a plain back and slightly over-sized cards, but that's just my personal preference. In my opinion, this is one situation where Three Dragon Ante decks ROCK!
I have been using the harrow deck in every rpg i have been running or been in since I received my cards. As a vetrean of Second edition, I felt that the exclusion of Commliness would not go unanswered so I made nine extra cards for the forgotten 7th stat. Which is why I am glad that they are standard card stock so they can fit in pocket protectors so no one knows if one my my cards will turn up until they flip. There is already a subculture of gypsies in my DnD campaign so I will be using the cards at every opourtunity and so are my friends who run the games I play in.
I've had a lot of fun using the Harrow deck already. I've done a few reads for characters, and will probably use it for a bit more adventure building in the future. However, if you were to do another run, I'd buy them again if they were slightly over sized card (like tarot or Three Dragon Ante sized), and the backs did not have the art they do now. I don't mind the card art itself, while a bit cartoony, this doesn't bother me. It's the backs that bug me much more. Put them out again, larger and with backs that look like the ones in the picture (or just any generic back) and I'm sold on buying another set.
I recently performed my first Harrow reading as a player character in the RotR Adventure Path, and it was a real hit. I am very impressed with the mechanics, which are easy to grasp and allow for both great specificity and ambiguity- perfect for any up-and-coming psychic or gypsy! I did some readings for my family and they thoroughly enjoyed it as well.
Like some other reviewers, I don't love the whimsical, cartoony flavor of the artwork. The art is quality, but I would have preferred a more traditional mystic/tarot style. The deck storage box isn't great, either.
Overall, this is a high-quality product that should add a shot of fun and flavor to any D&D session.
The deck is really a great thing to use in play. Fun, great, nice... but...
Even if the art of the cards is fine, it's totally not in the mood of the gam fr me. I would have prefered illustration which would look like the cards the gipsy are using.
The illusrations have a cartoon flavour that doesn't fit, for me.
First of all, I love the card backs!!! Secondly, Wow! Are these fun to use in play! I don't do some involved reading, but give them out to players to use for a one time bonus as the situation warrants...or as a clue!
These are nicely illustrated cards that help one aspect of the Pathfinder world to come alive! They are fairly inexpensive for the amount of fun that they can add to your campaign! I cannot recommend them highly enough!
I think the art on the cards themselves is great, but the backs are lacking as far as suspension of disbelief. Putting them in card sleeves solves this problem well.
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