Harrow Deck (game aid)

For other meanings of "Harrow deck", please see Harrow deck (disambiguation).

Paizo has published three Harrow Deck products.

Harrow Deck, a card-based game aid by Jason Bulmahn, Mike Selinker, and Teeuwynn Woodruff, was released in February 2008. The accessory won a gold ENnie in August 2008 for Best Aid or Accessory.

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Prepare to get Harrowed

In the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting, the Harrow deck has long been a sacred tool of Varisian fortunetellers. In skilled hands, the Harrow deck can predict crop results, divine the gender of your unborn child, or give hints about your immediate future. In unskilled hands, the Harrow deck is a sacrilegious gambling game—a cutthroat diversion for ruffians in every port to lose their hard-earned fortunes.
Harrow will be featured throughout the second Pathfinder Adventure Path, Curse of the Crimson Throne. At least once in each installment, players may divine their futures with the Harrow deck, and Pathfinder #7 contains an in-depth article about the history of Harrow and its in-game use.
Harrow is also a standalone card game designed by Jason Bulmahn, Mike Selinker, and Teeuwynn Woodruff for use inside or outside the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting. Harrow is lavishly illustrated by Kyle Hunter, the artist behind Downer: Wandering Monster and Downer: Fool's Errand, the Paizo Comics compilations of Kyle's original Downer comics from Dungeon magazine.
Harrow contains:

One 54-card deck illustrated by Kyle Hunter

Five chronicle cards to aid in divination

One rulebook with divination rules and card game rules

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Deluxe Harrow Deck

The Deluxe Harrow Deck, released in May 2014, revises the original deck with a new card back and larger, tarot-sized (2-3/4" x 4-5/8") cards.

The Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop released their platform's licensed version of the Deluxe Harrow Deck in December 2017, priced at $22.99.

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Divine your destiny with the Deluxe Harrow Deck, the legendary fortune-telling deck of the Pathfinder RPG world! With this 54-card, full-color set of fortune-telling cards, you'll learn how to include the Harrow in any Pathfinder RPG game, and enhance play with rule cards detailing spells, fortune-telling methods, and other insights. With vivid art, patterned backing, and a size common to many real-world tarot decks, the Deluxe Harrow Deck straddles the lines between game supplement and storytelling set piece. Master the Harrow and make the future anything you desire!

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Pathfinder Harrow Deck

The Pathfinder Harrow Deck revises the original deck with a new card design, shinier, fancier, and in a size (2-3/4" x 4-3/4") common to many real tarot decks. It is published for use with the Stolen Fate Adventure Path, and reflects name changes to a few cards.

The Pathfinder Harrow Deck's main release was on August 30, 2023, available both in print format and in digital format (containing PDFs as well as JPG image files). Before then, three of Paizo's virtual tabletop licensees released their platforms' versions of the product, each for $14.99: on Foundry Virtual Tabletop in May 2023, on Roll20 in May 2023, and on Fantasy Grounds in June 2023.

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Divine your destiny with the Pathfinder Harrow Deck, the legendary fortune-telling cards of Pathfinder's Age of Lost Omens setting! With this 54-card, full-color set of fortune-telling cards, you'll learn how to include the harrow in any tabletop RPG game and enhance play with immersive fortune-telling methods and other insights. With vivid all-new art, exciting printing treatments, patterned backing, and a size common to many real-world tarot decks, the Harrow Deck straddles the line between game supplement and storytelling set piece. Also included is a small booklet that provides details on the history of the harrow, how to simulate fortune-telling readings for your group, and details on the meanings and roles of all 54 cards in the collection! Next time your players encounter a fortune teller at the carnival or a sooth-sayer at the local tavern, don't just tell them their future—show it to them with the Pathfinder Harrow Deck!

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