Playing card as these 52 cards, commercial packs often include between one and six jokers, most often two. Decks with less than 52 cards are known as stripped decks. The piquet pack has all values from 2 through 6 in each suit removed for a total of 32 cards. It is popular in France, the Low Countries, Central Europe and Russia and is used to play piquet, belote, bezique and skat. It is also used in the Sri Lankan, whist-based game known as "omi". Forty-card French suited packs are common in northwest Italy; these remove the 8s through 10s like Latin suited
Curse of the Shadowmage Palmer concluded his review by stating: "As well as these failings, the writer's descriptive skills managed to lose me once or twice in this slow-paced book. It's a reasonably good read, but I wouldn't go out of my way to lend it to you." Curse of the Shadowmage Curse of the Shadowmage is a fantasy novel by Mark Anthony, set in the world of the Forgotten Realms, and based on the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game. It is the 11th novel published in the series "The Harpers". It was published in paperback, November 1995. "Curse of the Shadowmage" concentrates on