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This is a deck of cards with suits, ranks, and

named images. It is, perhaps, the kind of
tarot deck they use in the alternate
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universe where Charlemagne was a badger.
Since it is structurally unlike earthly playing
card and tarot decks, you can do different
things with it.
There are ten ranks of cards in the basic
deck: 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 that
can be played with the Decktet. To find
rules and more, visit
Http://www.DEcktEt.com

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The website also has information about
professionally printed copies of the deck,
the iconoclastic Deco Decktet, and the
Decktet Book.
The Decktet is offered for free under an
open license, thanks in part to support from
the Decktet community.

revised November, 2010

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2008-10 by P.D. Magnus.
Some rights reserved. CC BY: $
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^the BATTLE the SAILOR

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^the BATTLE the SAILOR

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the SAVAGE ^the JOURNEY
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the SAVAGE ^the JOURNEY
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|^the ORIGIN the PAINTER
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|^the ORIGIN the PAINTER
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the AUTHOR |the DESERT
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the AUTHOR |the DESERT

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|^the MARKET |the CASTLE

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|^the MARKET |the CASTLE

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the PENITENT the LUNATIC
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the PENITENT the LUNATIC
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the SOLDIER |the FOREST
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the SOLDIER |the FOREST

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|the MOUNTAIN ^the DISCOVERY
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|the MOUNTAIN ^the DISCOVERY

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the MERCHANT |the DARKNESS

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the MERCHANT |the DARKNESS

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|the MILL ^the PACT

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|the MILL ^the PACT

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^the BETRAYAL the DIPLOMAT
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^the BETRAYAL the DIPLOMAT

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^the CHANCE MEETING |the CAVE
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^the CHANCE MEETING |the CAVE

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 The thirty-six card basic deck, with ten

* * * ranks of cards, is the core of the Decktet.

There are nine further cards that add on to
make the extended deck.

the BARD
the HUNTRESS

^the WINDFALL
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f Many games have default rules for the basic
deck and optional rules for the extended
deck cards. If you think of game design as
cooking, then the extended deck cards are
like adding cream. Adding them makes some
games richer, but it just adds fat to others.
And in some games, it goes wrong and
curdles.
One of the extended deck cards is the

^the WINDFALL
Excuse (below). It has no suits and no rank.
the HUNTRESS

The Pawns $ and Courts // (next page)

the BARD are two additional ranks. Pawns and Courts
have three suits each. With Pawns and
a
A b
B f
F Courts in play, the order of ranks typically
becomes:
* * * Ace, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, $, //, +

* * *
|^the END

|the SEA
^the CALAMITY
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the EXCUSE
^the CALAMITY

the EXCUSE
|^the END

|the SEA

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|the WINDOW |the ISLAND

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|the WINDOW |the ISLAND

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the CONSUL ^the RITE

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the CONSUL ^the RITE

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^the HARVEST the LIGHT KEEPER
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^the HARVEST the LIGHT KEEPER
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the WATCHMAN |the BORDERLAND
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the WATCHMAN |the BORDERLAND