d20 Adventure Deck: Add a little Adventure to your… adventure…
A few years ago, I picked up the d20 Adventure Deck from Pinnacle Entertainment on RPGNow. I figured I’d give it a shot and use it in my campaign. To this day, I’m still very happy I did and I plan on using them in my new Pathfinder campaign. The cards are a great way of allowing your players to do things a little “outside the box” without being overpowered. Each player gets one card at the beginning of the session; at higher levels they get more than one card. Players can use one, and only one, card per session. All unplayed cards are turned back in at the end of the session. The cards allow you to do things like completely negate the damage from one attack or automatically succeed at a Search or Spot check. Considering the cards that a player has is completely random, it calls into play some creativity on the players part. Especially when they get the card that allows them to pick a feat from any d20 supplement and, as long as the meet the prereq’s for that feat, they can use that feat for one round. 
I highly recommend these little gems and, if you want to get them, you can click here. They run $9.95. For some reason, on the RPGNow page, the demo doesn’t work. Here are a couple of pages from it so you can take a look and see what it’s like (you can’t print or edit it).
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CarlZog April 14th, 2009 at 2:37 PM
I’ve used a number of card sets like this. Adds a great element to the game. Sometimes, I’ve used them in conjunction with action points. Allowing players to buy a card with APs.
And if you absolutely could not care less about balance, check out the Dork20 deck from Atlas games!