I have a D&D aid that is an actual Deck of Many Things, corresponding to the one in the 1E Dungeon Masters' Guide.  It was made in the early 1980's by a company called Mercenaries Guild that specialized in aids for D&D, and might have published a game or two of their own as well.

Does anybody remember this company?  Anyone have any idea what this deck might be worth?

I've tried Googling, and all that comes up are modern-day "mercenaries' guilds" from video games; the only things on Ebay are versions of the Deck for newer D&D editions.  

Yes, I know, pictures, but right now I have to run to work and don't have time to post any; I'll post some pictures as comments tonight.

Thanks very much!

dbartman wrote in Deck of Many Things/Mercenaries Guild:Not sure if you've seen this, but RPGGeek has some information on the company and their products:

Mercenaries Guild | RPG Publisher | RPGGeek

A Deck of Many Things isn't listed among the products they produced, but it could be that it hasn't been documented, it was a limited distribution, or perhaps another product was intermixed or confused with something from Mercenaries Guild. Given the company’s small size, their print runs were likely quite limited.

Wait, the Deck is in fact listed within the list of their other products.  Click thru to that rpg Geek page, and on the yellow cover sheet, that has the list of other products forthcoming, the Deck is listed towards the bottom of the first column

jeffsea wrote in Deck of Many Things/Mercenaries Guild:Wait, the Deck is in fact listed within the list of their other products.  Click thru to that rpg Geek page, and on the yellow cover sheet, that has the list of other products forthcoming, the Deck is listed towards the bottom of the first column

Good catch.  I didn't look at that picture.  Wonder how many of the other products listed were actually produced.
It looks like they could only come up with nine player character races, too. :)

mbassoc2003 wrote in Deck of Many Things/Mercenaries Guild:This s one I didn't know existed. Anyone know of anything else they published? Have any of their other products been spotted in the wild?

Therecis this one that has been out there going on at least 3 years now:


** expired/removed eBay auction **


It was briefly discussed here:

Re: Interesting Non-TSR Items Currently on eBay

Probably also worth noting is that the person who apparently put all the scans there(back in 2019) of those products is one user(an Admin, I think) named Clark Timmins. I did some digging, and he appears to be from Utah, so my original thought that he was possibly one of(or the) creator of them doesn't seem to be likely, as these were listed as being produced out of North Carolina.

Being that these seem to be extremely obscure and he has several of them it still might be worthwhile for someone to ping him over there about them to see if has any additional insight into them.

Thanks so much to everyone, especiallly for the Ebay link!  Clearly this is a very rare item.