Aesgareth Deck of Many Things

Oh hey, another video game deck!

The Aesgareth Deck of Many Things laid out on a wooden table, 22 cards in the set, the box above and the instruction card in the upper left.

Another deck of many things! This one, quite possibly the last one for the forseeable future, I was made aware of by FreakyM in our Discord server, another deck from a video game much like the Deck of hazards, except this one comes from Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal (Baldur's Gate wiki). First spotted in The Gambling Cambion sidequest, Aesgareth themselves are playing with the deck with you, and involves the cards Strife and Plague at that moment, but once the deck is dropped at the end of the sidequest and you can pick it up and use it yourself, those particular cards aren't involved, so I'm chalking those up to Aesgareth's own magic at the time. Strangely further, the cards Fates and Idiot are changed out for Erinyes and Magician, so we swapped those around, and it remains a 22 card deck. Strangely even further, along with the... absolute multitude of changes with the rules for the cards, Knight for example is a bad card in this deck, and things like the Void card are... dodgeable. You can read the rules for it here (or here in .jpg format), and of course, they get printed out to make an instruction card for the physical deck.

Speaking of, let's make us a physical deck! Made on (mostly) the same day as the Deck of Chance and Lesser Deck of Many things, I was told about this deck after showing off the previous creations to the Discord, and the build was on! Grabbing yet another deck of cards, this time a red deck felt right for it, we pulled out the same 22 cards as needed in the regular DOMT (though no card conversion exists (until now) for this video game edition, but we just ran with the same conversion), and grabbed an extra blue card from the lesser DOMT to use for the instruction card, taking the same idea of having the instruction card be distinctly different for easy identification. Going through the familiar motions of writing on the bottom of each card, sanding the face of the box and resizing its depth, we created the bulk of the item, and (this is where the different completion date comes into play) had to wait for the next day to get back to the print shop to get out tiny text instruction sheet printed out.

And print it we did, to create our instruction card, and finish off the deck. Awesome :D

Finished November 3, 2024




Did you want to digitally draw from it, sorta like in the game? 		The cards, written out and spread out on a bed beside Kabutroid's chainmaille box, itself piled with miscellaneous notepads and pliers, so that the cards can dry after having freshly been written on.The face of the card box, still cut off from the second half of the box to make it thinner, laying on an empty model paint box to be used as a work surface, with the title of the deck written into sanded portions of the face.

The 22 cards laid out on a wooden table in three different length rows, with the box arranged in the center above, and the instruction card in the upper left with the rest of the cards.