Harrow is a tarot-like deck usable in everyday life or in any roleplaying game. Regardless of where you use it, use it with care. A harrow deck is loaded with power, so you must learn to read the cards correctly or else suffer an ignominious fate.

In these pages, you will learn to perform a harrowing, which is a reading of the cards in such a way that you wrest information out of someone’s life. It’s a difficult process for your subject, as their entire past, present, and future is laid bare. Sometimes, the deck talks of good tidings, sometimes of ill. Rarely is it wrong.

The most important thing is to treat your harrow deck with respect. Disrespect the deck, and the deck will disrespect you. That way surely leads to ruin. You don’t want ruin, do you? You want to know how to read these cards.

The Harrow is a divination deck similar to tarot on Earth, but with six suits of nine cards each. The suits each have a symbological correspondence with one of the six ability scores. For example, the suit of hammers has a connotation of strength, and the suit of books is related to learning and intelligence.

You may need to draw a card from a harrow deck. If you don’t have a harrow deck to draw from, you can instead roll a d6 and a d10 to simulate a draw using the tables to the right and below.

Rolling Harrow Card Draws

(1) Hammers

(2) Keys

(3) Shields

(4) Books

(5) Stars

(6) Crowns