Funkards (Items, Zappies, Feats), Omens and Snares are all formatted the same way on a card for ease of use, although they are all used slightly differently in the game -

 

• Funkards are all shuffled together to form the basic deck in the Easy-Peasy Game,

• Omens are shuffled in with the Funkards in the Meh-I'm-Watching-You Game, 

•  Snares are left separately, unless you are playing a Total-Party-Death level of the game where you also shuffle Snares into the deck. This is the reason Snares are formatted the same as the other cards. 

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Each card has a colour to differentiate its basic type -

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• Zappies are GREEN. Rules for casting Zappies are here. 

• Feats are RED. Rules here. 

• Items are BLACK with a cool blue lightning bolt. And again ...

• Omens are sinister PUUUURPLE. They have their own section.

• Snares are dull, boring GREY until they thwack you. So do they. 

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Each card has a natty little picture artistically devised by the 8-year-old, a title and some fluff. This much is self-evident, as you can see to the right. 

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Each card has up to four gemstones, 3 at the top-right and 1 at the bottom-left - sapphire, emerald, amber and opal.

 

SAPPHIRE GEMSTONES

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The top-right sapphire gemstone designates how this thing IMPACTS everyone when the card is used, with the options -

 

• S for Shooty - the card shoots or is used to affect Shooty Combat. These Funkards may only be used to affect Shooty Combat, even if they manipulate DuckFighter dice which can be used for both types of combat. 

• C for Choppy - the card attacks or is used to affect Choppy Combat. These Funkards may only be used to affect Choppy Combat, even if they manipulate DuckFighter dice which can be used for both types of combat. 

• A for Area - the card affects everyone in a range, friends, foes or both, as designated by the Funkard. 

• M for MEEEE!!! - the card affects one character, or a character in an adjacent square. Generally the Funkard will indicate whether you nominate a Duckventurer (or Beastie), or whether it is the next character that gains the effect of the Funkard. The adjacent square rule simulates you using your Delicious Mollusc Dinner  Item to save a dying fellow. 

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Sapphires are such a S.C.A.M ... geddit? See what I did there?

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EMERALD GEMSTONES

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The emerald gemstone designates how this card is USED. Some cards go off automatically when they are drawn, some can be saved and used by Duckventurers (or Beasties) later. Emerald gemstones have  the options -

 

• P for Passive - the effect of this card is constantly in play.

• A for Activated -  the effects of the card go off when a player decides to activate it. 

• T for Triggered - the card goes off as soon as it is drawn. Most Omens and Snares are Triggered, as they are outside player control. 

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Soon you will have the code for emeralds down P.A.T. You are right, of course, the jokes and mnemonics are getting worse ...

 

AMBER GEMSTONES

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The funky amber gemstone designates ultra-cool blow-your-socks-off SPECIAL effects. Note that not all cards have a Special effect, so the amber gemstone is not always present. Amber gemstones have  the options -

 

• G for Gobbly - Funkards with the Gobbly special effect have a suspiciously dice-shaped box, as you can see in the TWAANGGG! Feat example on the right. A DuckDice may be gobbled up by the player and stored on the Funkard - some Funkards allow any colour DuckDice to be stored, some are specific to certain dice. 
  
  When the Funkard is activated, the DuckDice may be added to a die roll, or used for other effects as specified by the Funkard. You still have to roll the stored DuckDice. In the example Funkard on the right, only a DuckFighter DuckDice may be stored, and would add to a Shooty combat roll when activated. 
   

• B for Boosty -  Funkards with the Boosty special effect have a line of little gold icons along the base of the card,  as you can see in the Staff of Stuff Item example on the right. Boosty Funkards power up-up-UP the more DuckDice they are fed.
  
  Each time a Duckventurer spends a DuckDice, one token is added to the Boosty. The DuckDice is discarded. When the Funkard is activated, the number of filled, BOOSTED tokens is added to whatever effect the Funkard has. In the example, if a Duckventurer had Boosted the power of the Staff of Stuff Item with 6 DuckDice, the Loot roll will be +6! 
  
  Max Boosty is 10. If you can't kill something with +10, you're not DOING IT RIGHT!
   

• T for Take-Off - Funkards with the Take-Off special effect have multiple effects,  as you can see in the Power of Duckskull! Zappy example on the right. Beginning Duckventurers struggle to fly, but as they go up in Ranks, their Take-Off and soaring high in the sky ability becomes much easier. 
  
  When the Funkard is activated, the effects are different dependent on the Rank of the affected Duckventurer. In the Zappy example, all Duckventurers Ranked 1-3 gain +1 Quack; 4-6 Ranked Duckventurers gain +1Q +1P, while superhero Ranked 7-10 Duckventurers gain 2 STAT increases and get to choose, as is always indicated by the question mark - ?. 

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• F for Flip-Flap - Funkards with the Flip-Flap special effect take time and energy to prepare and use. Funkards with the big F and spinny card icon at bottom right next to the opal gemstone, are flipped over when activated, regardless of whether they have an effect or are Resisted. 
  
  The flipped Funkard can only be flipped back over by expending a DuckDice. This can be any DuckDice, it doesn't matter, and you don't roll it, you just discard it, like activating a Funkard without a cost. You spend a FunkyDuck to activate the Funkard, any colour die to flip it back, then more FunkyDucks to keep activating. Not a biggie, but that extra die can sometimes be crucial in a tight battle.

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• 1 for 1 Use - Funkards with the 1 Use special effect are fairly self-explanatory. When you eat your dinner, it is gone, when you drink a potion, it stays drunk. When a Funkard is 1 Use it is discarded when activated, even if the effect fails to work (for whatever reason - Resist Rolls and such). 

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Soon you will have the code for amber down .. um ...  dunno. I think it's pretty easy to memorize amber because everybody wants Funkards featuring them. See below what each of these do, because they are powerful and snazzy. 

 

OPAL GEMSTONES

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The opal gemstone on the bottom left of the card is exceedingly clever, for it operates both as the ACTIVATION COST of the Funkard, and the card's STAT.  The full rules for casting Zappies, using Feats and Items can be found in the Intro-DUCK-tion.

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