The Deck of Many Things was absolutely printed for 2e. But to answer the question, technically yes, but the deck will probably find a way to ruin your day first with bad draws like Perpdepog said.
Since the Deck of Many Things was never printed in 2E, ima flag this for moving to the 1E part of the forums.
Anyway, this gamble is not a great one. The odds of getting the Star are 1 in 22, and to meaningfully beat the soft cap, you need to succeed twice. You need to declare how many cards you're going to draw, and once you draw those, that's it- no more opportunities to ever draw cards. You'd expect it to take about 44 draws to hit the Star twice. Two cards cause you to cease drawing, and if we simply assume that everything else balances out for simplicity, you have a 1.5% chance of drawing 44 cards without hitting either of them. Those 44 cards don't guarantee you getting the Star, so it's already looking dicey. If you're roleplaying a character, that's some genuinely unhinged behavior because the actual benefit of beating the ability cap is minuscule compared to the risk for them. (It also probably won't work on intelligence, since there's an intelligence-reducing card in the deck.)
You also only have a 60% of drawing the Star twice in 44 draws ignoring whether or not those draws are interrupted. I'm not gonna go calculate the conditional probabilities, but the overall probability of it working is probably in the 1% ballpark with a lot of very unpleasant side effects along the way.
What's an Ability Score?
What's an Ability Score?
Farien, do you really have a memory that short?
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According to the rules, I apparently still do. Nothing to say more than six seconds.
I dislike how half of the cards basically break the party leveling apart. Having party members at different experience totals/levels is not a great design at all imo.
It isn't! That deck's entire thing was it's D&D legacy. Changing it too much means it's not gonna be a deck of many things anymore, but leaving it as it is is indeed quite broken. That item shouldn't be taken too seriously by most GM anyways.
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Since the Deck of Many Things was never printed in 2E, ima flag this for moving to the 1E part of the forums.You sure about that?
Gah. Bad memory and with the Prefer Remaster stuff selected on AoE, literally searching "Deck of Many Things" did not yield it as a result >_<
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Why are you responding to your own posts?What's an Ability Score?Farien, do you really have a memory that short?
It's semi-in-character posting between a familiar and their witch as a comedy bit.
Why are you responding to your own posts?
Role-playing. It's fun.
And sometimes we take ourselves too seriously on these forums. Just trying to lighten the mood a bit.