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Item - Deck of Major Arsenal
🕑 Added 2024-06-22 09:28:01 +0000 UTCUPDATE : Adding newly made The Empress and The Emperor (more would be made this month~)
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Deck of Major Arsenal
Wondrous item, Legendary (require attunement)
Created by Ergatis, the Goddess of Forge and Fortune, the Deck of Major Arsenal is a portable vault that stores weapons crafted by her champions during the First Chaos Insurgency. During this calamity, she descended to the material realm to establish the Grand Forge on the highest peak of the White Spine mountain range, the final barrier against the invading Outsiders. The mountain dwellers united, armed with weapons forged by Ergatis' artisans at the Grand Forge, and fought valiantly to buy time for the main force to prepare. Despite their eventual defeat, they succeeded in delaying the enemy long enough for the celestial champions to complete their preparations, ultimately stopping the invasion and averting true catastrophe.
During this period, Ergatis and her followers suffered significant losses. The civilization of the White Spine mountain range was eradicated, with some cultures lost entirely, and the Grand Forge itself was buried as the peak was destroyed. However, to immortalize the deeds and masterpieces of her artisans, Ergatis used her weakened divine power to gather the remaining magical weapons and encase them in metal cards, each representing an artisan and the weapon they created.
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The deck contains 22 metal cards, each representing a different weapon. When a card is drawn, it melts and transforms into the corresponding weapon, which you become proficient with. You can use your Strength, Dexterity, or Spellcasting ability for the attack and damage rolls with these weapons regardless of their properties. The conjured weapon lasts for 1 hour, or until a new card is drawn, after which the weapon disappears and the card returns to the deck. The same card cannot be drawn again until the next dawn. Drawing a card is akin to drawing or sheathing a weapon. To determine the drawn card, roll a 1d20; if you roll a previously drawn card, reroll until a new card is obtained. Attacks made by these weapons gain a bonus to attack and damage roll equal to half your proficiency bonus, and the DC for each effect is 12 + your proficiency bonus.
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Combination of the prompt Tarot + battle deity + transform, This is a bit of a special item. I got the idea when one of you suggested the prompt 'Tarot' in one of the prompt collection occasions. It gave me the idea to create this crazy item (so much so that I need to use a different layout format XD). It's probably too much and too strong, but I hope some of you can find a way to use it.
In the process of making this item, I end up making a rather serious template and the design for two of the tarot cards. My concept is that each card also depicts the weapon that will be summoned when the card is drawn (like the reddish-pink rapier on the Magician card) and the purple crescent dagger on the High Priestess.
I'm not sure if anyone would like to see the rest, so let me know if you do; if enough people are interested, I'll consider making a couple of cards each month until we get at least all the major arcana (if I'm crazy enough, maaaybe minor arcana too XD)
I hope you like this item,
Cheers~!
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Current Progress
I - The Magician
II - The High Priestess
III - The Empress (NEW)
IV - The Emperor (NEW)
The files have been added to the Vault Post.
Comments
Sebastian Van Den Dungen
I would love a physical deck of these, they are so pretty!
Vanilla Ice
Beautiful Sinlaire the deep red for the emperor the green for the empress are such Georgeus colors
LordGorges
Love the new cards
Sinlaire
unfortunately not YET
Sheo of Isles
No card arts for all options? :(
lyd/whatever else
Saw this on insta and reposted on Pinterest absolutely couldn't resist wanting to see the weapons, great concept, beautiful execution.
Alexandre Froumy
Probably my favourite of this year :D Amazing work
Alistair Ender
The art for those cards is amazing, i'm sure the rest would be too!
Sinlaire
Oh sorry, it's wondrous item, i was using the power armor template and forgot to change that.
Lane Clyne
Can't wait to see the rest of the 19 cards' arts! There's one question related to the deck's category. Is it a plate armor (image), or a wondrous item (text)?
Jake Bullek
Want to see the rest of these for sure!
JACOBI52 .
Definitely definitely would love to see the rest of them. I love the idea of magic cards that summon stuff. Especially cards that summon weapons is such a cool idea.
Grand-Captain-General-Peace
Definitely would love to see more. Reminds me of the stellar armaments and those were some of my favorites!
Sinlaire
thank you~~ :D :D oh I forgot about the number, I'll change it later with some other typo in the long ass list of weapons there XD
Sinlaire
Oh, it's 20 + 2 (The Fool and The World have different triggers) because I want to simplify it by rolling d20 (since there's no d22 dice XD) (also, yes, I think it was initially a mace, but i changed it to quarterstaff, gotta fix that typo XD)
fco. javier diaz de la iglesia
Of course we love to see the rest!!!!!!
Pajcho121
Mate, are you serious ? You have shown me one of the best "collection" items i have probably seen, and now i physically NEED to see the rest of the set. There is no way you could hurt me more than to abandon the idea now. I love it.
ScottB
Love to see the rest
Eubrieal
I would love so much to see thewhole deck man ! your art is as gorgeous as ever damn
Nedzilla
I always love deck of *anything* ideas, but the art on the two cards you made here have such a distinct style. I am so excited to see more of them. (also, extremely small nitpick. It seems like the art shows card 3 becoming a blade handle when it's marked down as a bow. I don't know if it's worth swapping the III with IV in the image, so don't worry about it
Z3brim
If you are, maybe reach out to one of the other creatives like hit point press or something, I know they print things like the deck of many animated things.
Z3brim
Beautiful! And I'd even pitch in to see a completed set, but I understand you have only so much time you can set aside for a project like that. Two things I saw was that the item description mentions 22 weapons, but there are only 20. And the quarterstaff has the word mace in its description, not sure if that's a typo.
dustdevils
omg Sin. Sometimes you blow me away with your art. Absolutely would love to see the full deck!
KumaTheBear
Every time you make an upload like this I genuinely have to sit and stare at it for like 30 minutes to stop geeking out over it. The creativity is unbelievable lol
Delton
Love the concept and would love to see more cards!
The Critic of Innocence
Holy hell, this is a masterpiece of an item! and yea, I would also buy a whole tarot of this
Maurice seayII
I'd absolutely buy the whole tarot deck! Love your work I will definitely make use of this item in a campaign.
Vanilla Ice
Beautiful art Sinlaire and yes the whole deck is something that i would love to see.
kadog 63
Ye I live in Australia so if you do manage to make merch I can only pray you can ship there
Sinlaire
Possibly if I can find a manufacturer that can also handle delivery (since shipping from my country gonna be extremely expensive for people in western hemisphere...)
kadog 63
No probs lol happy to help
Sinlaire
Oh thank you, so much text that I missed that one XD
kadog 63
Btw on the image with all the cards info you made a mistake on wheel of fortune you typed "cre of youature within 20 feet" which I assume is supposed to be any creature with 20 feet of you
kadog 63
Oh hell ye a card deck are you gonna make the rest and possibly turn it into merch?
Adam Crear
I love this and would honestly buy a tarot deck that you made,your art is the most creative and always is top tier 👌
Sinlaire
thank you, definitely one of my personal favorite too >___<
Thousandaire
One of the best brews of the year so far, brilliant!
