Luba's Tarokka of Souls - A Deep-Dive into a Very Cool Magic Item For Your 5E Ravenloft Campaign...

This video goes into detail about a magic item - from the D&D 5E sourcebook Tasha's Cauldron of Everything - called Luba's Tarokka of Souls. I explain what it is, how it works, and give guidance on changing the monsters that get released from it (as there's a few repeats in the list and they're all Monster Manual monsters). I also talk about how the 'released souls' business has gone down in my own campaign (6 out of 14 have escaped so far), and talk about how I've tied it into the lore of my campaign (and where I've placed Mother Luba herself)...
00:00 Intro
02:08 Luba's Tarokka of Souls overview
03:15 What it does ("more lore?")
03:30 Random Properties
04:03 Spells
04:34 Enduring Vision
05:07 Twist of Fate (Weal & Woe)
06:01 Prisoners of Fate
08:31 Shuffling Fate
09:32 Destroying the Deck
11:02 Handling escaped souls (where do they go?)
16:05 How it's played out in my campaign (so far)
25:18 Tweaking the monsters
29:41 Drawing cards from the tarokka deck (instead of the d100 table)
32:19 How to give the item to the PCs
33:44 Tying the item (& Mother Luba) into your campaign's lore
36:16 Tying it to the BBEG (who's Azalin Rex in my campaign)
38:00 Including LToS in a non-Ravenloft campaign?
39:23 Outro
Here's the link to the original Reddit post I did all about Luba's Tarokka of Souls: / the_magic_item_lubas_t...
At one point I mention PhD&D's Rider's Bridge video - here's the link to that: • Let's make THE RIDER'S...
And here's the link to my DMsGuild product The Second Tarokka Reading that I mentioned: www.dmsguild.com/product/4692...
Here's my suggestions for tweaking the monsters:
- Artifact: Flameskull (kept as-is)
- Beast: Wraith (kept as-is)
- Broken One: Bone Naga (changed from Banshee)
- Darklord: Boneclaw (changed from Vampire)
- Donjon: Deathlock Wight (changed from Mummy)
- Executioner: Death Knight (kept as-is)
- Ghost: Ghost (kept as-is)
- Horseman: Mummy Lord (kept as-is)
- Innocent: Deathlock (changed from Ghost)
- Marionette: Mummy (kept as-is)
- Mists: Allip (changed from Wraith)
- Raven: Vampiric Mind Flayer (changed from Vampire Spawn)
- Seer: Vampire (kept as-is)
- Tempter: Shadowghast (changed from Vampire Spawn)
- Nether (final card): Demilich or Death Tyrant (changed from Lich)
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[@Azreal231916]

I love your cat so much! She deserves the world.
How weird, I was looking at this artifact just last night and I managed to come up with yet another way to work in something involving Azalin. The basic idea is the final soul that was trapped, the Lich, is Azalin himself. And it is, of course, another escape attempt. Basically getting himself trapped in the Tarokka deck of a Vistana who can in theory leave the Demiplane of Dread and essentially be smuggled out.
I like Azalin too much...

[@DMoftheMists]

Thanks! She's the best. 😸
Ohh that's a cool idea! Smart. And so someone takes the deck out of Darkon and 'frees' him? That sounds just like the kind of scheme Azalin would dream up. I like it.