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Description
Card Meanings
The Tarokka deck is a full deck of cards, so there are lots of possibilities and permutations possible—which is what makes it such a great tool for crafting encounters—so we won’t be exploring every possible card. Instead, we’ll look at some example cards and how you might translate them into an encounter when reading from a Tarokka spread.
Each of the 54 illustrated cards has its own meaning as detailed in Ravenloft: Horrors Within, some of which are featured below. You can use these meanings, come up with your own, or better still, listen to how your players interpret the cards. By leaning into their intuitions and building an encounter from there.
How to Draw
The first step in performing a Tarokka reading to generate an encounter is to lay the spread. After shuffling the deck well—or stacking it carefully to produce a desired spread—lay out five cards in a cross pattern.
Card 1 is the focus of the reading, with cards 2-5 being the past, opposition, future, and aid, respectively. Reveal each card in order from 1 to 5 and, with some dramatic flair, explain their meaning or what portents they hold. Then note each card and use it to inspire an encounter.
First appearing in 1992 as part of the Dungeons & Dragons second edition Forbidden Lore boxed set, the Tarokka Deck is a tarot-like deck of cards that has a long connection to the setting of Ravenloft. It appeared once again in D&D third edition under the name “The Ravenloft Deck” before making its appearance as part of the seminal D&D fifth Edition adventure Curse of Strahd, as well as in the Curse of Strahd Revamped in a full tarot-sized foiled version.
