DROP / OPEN PLAYTEST / R01
One more?
Find out.
Build your deck. Weigh the risk. Claim legends. Get to know DROP online or bring the 100 cards to your table.
Target ages 12+ · Target duration 30–40 minutes · both remain unvalidated.
01 / GET STARTED
Four steps.
Your own plan.
Music, dance, skating, gaming and street art: your crews grow with every purchase. This is an introduction; the full rules explain setup, effects and edge cases.
01One card. Then another.
Each crew starts with eight cards. Reveal one at a time into your set. Resolve immediate effects, then check the risk. There is no hand of cards.
- 02
One more? Or stop.
Decide after each card you survive. Three counting warning signs make your turn flop: no purchase and no legend. You still get a small consolation choice.
03Put Hype into your crew.
Stop safely and resolve finale effects and active combos. Two cards of one style can unlock combos. Spend Hype on new cards from five face-up scene slots.
04Make a legendary entrance.
If your set meets an open legend’s condition, you may claim at most one. At game end, add Fame stars on your cards and legends. Each actual Cringe card scores −1.
Read more: Complete R01 rules, print revision 2 · Teaching script & table test. All PDFs and the current online prototype are in German.
Setup, protection and game end at a glance
Setup: each player gets three Basic, three Stage Fright, one Buddy and their crew talent. Leave unused starting decks out. Reveal five scene cards, three legends and one trend; keep the remaining stocks and Cringe supply separate.
Protection: turn a protected risk card sideways. Its warning signs count as zero, including both on the 900. It keeps its Hype, style and effects. Starting Stage Fright cards cannot be permanently removed.
End: three legends of your own trigger the final round; in a two-player game, four. It is also triggered when legends or the scene cannot be fully refilled at turn end. Finish the current round through the player to the starting player’s right.
02 / PHYSICAL CARDS
From your screen
to your table.
Start with the illustrated cards and teaching script. The handling sheets show the actual size before printing the whole deck. All files are free test materials in German.
All 100 cards.
The complete illustrated edition with matching backs. Twelve A4 duplex sheets to cut out.
24 pages · PDF · German · 20.5 MB↓02 / TRY THE ACTUAL SIZEGet a feel for the cards.
Two sheets at 1:1 scale: try the reading edge, overlapping set and a sideways, protected 900.
2 pages · PDF · German · 3.7 MB↓03 / THE COMPLETE REFERENCEConcept & full rules.
R01, print revision 2: the complete tabletop rules with examples and every card’s text.
20 pages · PDF · German↓04 / TEACH & OBSERVEStart your first game.
A teaching script, observation sheet and test plan. Use the same rules version throughout each game.
3 pages · PDF · German↓Check one sheet first.
Print pages 1 and 2 of the card PDF first: A4, 100% / actual size, duplex on the long edge. Do not fit to page. Check 63 × 88 mm and hold the sheet against the light to check the back. Then print and cut all twelve duplex sheets. Empty spaces are not cards.
One set. Three backs.
87 playing cards share one back; ten legends and three trends have their own backs. Make all playing cards from the same opaque material. Print the separate handling sheets on landscape A4 at 100%.
Plain test deck and complete working kit
Plain 100-card test deck without illustrations · R01 print-revision-2 working kit as ZIP. This ZIP contains the plain test deck, not the illustrated cards. The illustrated edition above uses the same card text and values.
R01 / Artwork V01 / print revision 2. Screen and home-print prototype, not production approval. Paper, colours, shuffling and reading at the table still need testing.
OR JUMP STRAIGHT IN
Your crew.
Online too.
Use one device per player for private card previews. One person opens the table; the others join by link or QR code. Software helps shuffle and count; this is a separate testing format.
03 / YOUR OBSERVATIONS
What stayed
with you?
One specific moment helps more than a flattering score. One report per group and game. “Not recorded” is completely fine.
Observe first, ask afterwards. Note whether anyone spontaneously wanted another game before asking about it. Please leave out names, email addresses, room codes and photographs of children. Stephan handles your feedback.
NOT SENT YET
Your draft. Your choice.
Check the text. Save a CSV or open your email app. You still need to send the email yourself.
If the email draft appears incomplete, send the CSV yourself as an attachment to hello@malino.games.
Prefer to write freely? hello@malino.games ↗ · Download the paper report
Rules version: DROP-R01-2026-11-01. Fun, balance, age and duration are development questions; this page makes no claims of validated player results. Physical play and software-assisted online games are considered separately.