Extras and Miscellaneous
Bonus Classes
There are actually several more classes in Derbalan Shuffle than you might think. The default is for each Derbalan Shuffle game to come out with 4 unique classes, but there are also some others you can play if you wish.
Rich Guy: Too classy for classes? Be a rich guy. With the narrator's permision, move some or all of your levels into wealth. As a starter class, you're level 0 with wealth 6 and a race. Any time you would draw class cards, draw loot instead.
Summoner: Whenever you would draw class cards as a summoner, pull random monster cards from the deck and play them in front of you as minion cards. You can use the same method but change the flavor to be shapeshifter or circus tamer instead.
Adventurer: If you have a promotional adventurer card or two, you can play as a generic adventurer, using only adventurer cards.
There are actually several more classes in Derbalan Shuffle than you might think. The default is for each Derbalan Shuffle game to come out with 4 unique classes, but there are also some others you can play if you wish.
Rich Guy: Too classy for classes? Be a rich guy. With the narrator's permision, move some or all of your levels into wealth. As a starter class, you're level 0 with wealth 6 and a race. Any time you would draw class cards, draw loot instead.
Summoner: Whenever you would draw class cards as a summoner, pull random monster cards from the deck and play them in front of you as minion cards. You can use the same method but change the flavor to be shapeshifter or circus tamer instead.
Adventurer: If you have a promotional adventurer card or two, you can play as a generic adventurer, using only adventurer cards.
Questions
Can I remove class cards from a deck when preparing a character deck?
No. You can't unbalance a deck by removing the less useful cards to get only the most useful ones. If you don't like a card as not fitting what your character would do, don't play that card and instead expend it when you take a smack.
Can I trade race or class cards with other players during a game?
No. Those cards represent who you are. And barring special cards that allow otherwise, you can't trade them. Monster and loot cards in your hand represent what you have, and those can be traded.
How do I get promotional cards?
We put out promo cards for a variety of reasons, always adventurer cards and usually face or ace cards.
Anytime we do a Kickstarter we'll give away a special backer promo that's always an ace.
We're also willing to create a custom deck of promotional cards for any friendly local game store that is a unique handout that the store can give away as it sees fit. Any store can order a 54 pack of these promo cards from us, complete with that store's name, location, and picture if they want. We hand customize each store's cards. These cards are by default jacks although kings and queens are available upon request. You can talk to your game store owner about it if you want. A pack of promo cards only costs $5-8 depending on shipping and what else is ordered.
Playtester rewards are a jack, and convention handouts are queens. The owner of Puppycat Productions has a business card that is also playable in game as a king of adventurers. Who knows what other crazy hijinks we'll use to promote our game in the future?
If none of those sound good to you, try the E-card. You can find the print files for the cards here. Once per session a player may pull that card image up on an electronic screen and then discard any card from their hand and draw a new class card. Instead, you can print it of on ordinary printer paper and cut it out with scissors and draw 2 class cards instead of the 1 the image was worth. If you go to all the trouble of printing it on card stock, carefully trimming it, and overall make something that looks like a real card, it allows you to draw 3 new class cards. But is it really worth all that effort? Absolutely.
Can I remove class cards from a deck when preparing a character deck?
No. You can't unbalance a deck by removing the less useful cards to get only the most useful ones. If you don't like a card as not fitting what your character would do, don't play that card and instead expend it when you take a smack.
Can I trade race or class cards with other players during a game?
No. Those cards represent who you are. And barring special cards that allow otherwise, you can't trade them. Monster and loot cards in your hand represent what you have, and those can be traded.
How do I get promotional cards?
We put out promo cards for a variety of reasons, always adventurer cards and usually face or ace cards.
Anytime we do a Kickstarter we'll give away a special backer promo that's always an ace.
We're also willing to create a custom deck of promotional cards for any friendly local game store that is a unique handout that the store can give away as it sees fit. Any store can order a 54 pack of these promo cards from us, complete with that store's name, location, and picture if they want. We hand customize each store's cards. These cards are by default jacks although kings and queens are available upon request. You can talk to your game store owner about it if you want. A pack of promo cards only costs $5-8 depending on shipping and what else is ordered.
Playtester rewards are a jack, and convention handouts are queens. The owner of Puppycat Productions has a business card that is also playable in game as a king of adventurers. Who knows what other crazy hijinks we'll use to promote our game in the future?
If none of those sound good to you, try the E-card. You can find the print files for the cards here. Once per session a player may pull that card image up on an electronic screen and then discard any card from their hand and draw a new class card. Instead, you can print it of on ordinary printer paper and cut it out with scissors and draw 2 class cards instead of the 1 the image was worth. If you go to all the trouble of printing it on card stock, carefully trimming it, and overall make something that looks like a real card, it allows you to draw 3 new class cards. But is it really worth all that effort? Absolutely.