As a tarot reader and former dungeon master, I thoroughly enjoy this deck. True, it’s initially a bit challenging to tell which card is which visually, as others have said—the minors aren’t actually labeled with their suits. I would have liked to see that (though you could easily write them in with a permanent gold maker, which was initially my plan). However, if you do know your RWS and play DnD, you can also just take an hour or so to lay out all the aces, twos, threes, and so forth next to each other in a row. If you do, you’ll quickly see that they reflect the RWS system in clever and sometimes very humorous ways that speak to the DnD universe. For example: the two of cups here shows the sale of a dragon egg (and at first blush looks like it could be the two of pentacles for that reason). However, it’s actually a brilliant take on two of cups. Why? We still have the two of cup’s traditional connotations of forging new alliances, first encounters, emotional negotiations, life-changing exchanges, and, on the negative side, the potential for interpersonal deception or false faces, mistrust, and so on, but we have it in a way that speaks cleverly to a classic campaign scenario. If you sit with the deck for a minute and have some knowledge of DnD and tarot, I think you’ll find it has many little surprises of this kind, and that many aspects of the RWS system are alive and kicking within the deck. Also, if you start thinking in terms of the deck’s suits, which are attributes (strength, intelligence, charisma, and wisdom), that will help with visual recognition too—in the above example, the two of “cups” has a lot of coins on it which could be confusing, but instead think of a what comes into play when you consider hatching a dragon… The clues pointing to a “wisdom” card become more obvious, yes? All of this, though, probably takes a fair bit of background knowledge, and if I didn’t have the benefit of running a few DnD campaigns in my day and also knowing tarot inside out, I would probably have to mod this deck by adding the suits to make it readable without the booklet. On that front, the companion booklet only has a quick, bare bones sentence to interpret each card with, some of which are a bit bland and don’t really do justice to the art or scenario depicted, so I wouldn’t try to learn tarot with it or rely heavily on it for readings. It’s a functional key, but not an elaborate guide. In terms of production quality, though: amazing. The art is gorgeous, the card stock is a nice linen one that’s easy to shuffle, and it comes in a solid little box. The card backs are also reversible (or very, very close to), so they’re well suited to people who read with reversals. All in all, I’d recommend this for niche audiences: advanced tarot readers who are also big on DnD, very intuitive card readers who don’t care about associations and just read scenes, collectors, or casual readers/players who don’t mind writing in the suits. For me, it’s an immediate favorite and really fun and engaging reading deck. It’s voice is well-rounded, surprisingly insightful, and generally upbeat and familiar. It would probably be great for overcoming writer’s block too. If you’re an RWS reader looking for a cool fantasy deck that you can throw down and read right out of the box, however, something like the Spellcaster’s tarot might be a better match.