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Andrew,

Card decks accessories.

Yes, the Harrow Deck is not really up to the task. It is complicated even when one reads about it and when I tried it - long ago in Sheffield in my first go at RotRL - I managed to fluff the whole thing, which confused the players, so we dropped it.

I had the Plot Twist deck in mind when I was typing the previous post though. To me it scores as "A bit meh" as Bart Simpson would say.

As for the collectible card approach for the item card sets, Paizo listened to its customers/subscribers and dropped the idea pretty quickly. I guess there is a critical mass threshold for potential customers for a collectible card set to be successful. The number of those who buy the product should always be above that who moan about it. WotC should easily sell their D&D Fate Cards at whatever price they want though because they can rely on a still consequent fan-base. This is a great business idea by the way, they effectively merge two of their leading brands: MtG and D&D thus can exploit their means of production to the hilt: They already print cards, they already produce a monthly hardback... so MtG players could soon expect monthly rulebooks and minis!

Adam.

You should work at WotC, you have good design ideas.

Laurent,