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revised November, 20102008-10 by P.D. Magnus.
Some rights reserved.$BY:CC
The website also has information aboutprofessionally printed
copies of the deck,the iconoclastic Deco Decktet, and theDecktet
Book.
The Decktet is offered for free under anopen license, thanks in
part to support fromthe Decktet community.
This is a deck of cards with suits, ranks, andnamed images. It
is, perhaps, the kind oftarot deck they use in the
alternateuniverse where Charlemagne was a badger.Since it is
structurally unlike earthly playingcard and tarot decks, you can do
different
things with it.
There are ten ranks of cards in the basicdeck: Aces are rank
one, 2s are rank two,3s and so on up through 9s, and Crowns+are
rank ten.
There are dozens of different games thatcan be played with the
Decktet. To findrules and more, visit
Http://www.DEcktEt.com
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The thirty-six card basic deck, with tenranks of cards, is the
core of the Decktet.There are nine further cards that add on tomake
the extended deck.
Many games have default rules for the basicdeck and optional
rules for the extendeddeck cards. If you think of game design
as
cooking, then the extended deck cards arelike adding cream.
Adding them makes somegames richer, but it just adds fat to
others.And in some games, it goes wrong andcurdles.
One of the extended deck cards is theExcuse (below). It has no
suits and no rank.
The Pawns $ and Courts // (next page)are two additional ranks.
Pawns and Courtshave three suits each. With Pawns andCourts in
play, the order of ranks typicallybecomes:
Ace, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, $, //, +
