Deck of Stories (5e Equipment)

A deck of stories contains 100 unique cards with six suits of 13 cards and 22 unsuited cards. The deck can be used for a variety of purposes including games of chance, interpretive storytelling, and various divinations. Depending on the purpose, the contents of the deck can be divided to exclude suits and unsuited cards. Many games involve only 52 cards; these typically use only the Swords, Sickles, Skulls, and Seeds suits.

The suited cards are listed in the following table:

	Swords	Sickles	Stones	Skulls	Seeds	Stars
Song	The War	The Harvest	The World	The Plague	The Bloom	The Sun
2	The Dagger	The Crumbs	The Sands	The Mind	The Drought	The Moon
3	The Heart	The Grains	The Cairn	The Corpse	The Winds	The Fates
4	The Blood	The Soil	The Gems	The Sorrow	The Grass	The Fool
5	The Rage	The Farm	The Henge	The Rites	The Rain	The Quest
6	The Warriors	The Thieves	The Freefolk	The Magi	The Druids	The Clergy
7	The Plan	The Fruit	The Wall	The Crypt	The Tree	The Lost
8	The Battle	The Sweat	The Tower	The Worms	The Ritual	The Sign
9	The Nightmare	The Slaughter	The Cave	The Lich	The Storm	The Conspiracy
10	The Victory	The Feast	The Mountain	The Peace	The Birth	The Resurrection
Herald	The Smith	The Serf	The Pilgrim	The Ferryman	The Beast	The Sage
Queen	The Empress	The Lady	The Giant	The Witch	The Mother	The Oracle
King	The Emperor	The Lord	The Golem	The Reaper	The Father	The Celestial

The unsuited cards are as follows:

The Shield

The Spear

The Staff

The Sorceress

The Student

The Spell

The Sky

The Shadow

The Secret

The Scream

The Steed

The Search

The Shelter

The Sacrifice

The Scar

The Shackles

The Strings

The Spider

The Silence

The Sea

The Shell

The Spirit

Cost: 10 gp
Weight: 1 lb

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