Now, I'm not sure whether this has ever been suggested before, but I would like it if the promo optional survivors came with an added bonus... a unique item card. Imagine it. You buy Dakota for $10 and you get not only her Zombivor version and double-sided character card,
but the
Shiv weapon card (0 / 1 die / 4+ / 1 dmg, special: +1 free melee attack with Shiv). And that's just an example. I would imagine Tallahassee would ship with the card
Twinkie and Fred (i.e. Shaun) would ship with the card
Cricket Bat. It all makes perfect sense to me.
Then we could have these promo cards and shuffle them in with the other standard item cards and it wouldn't even impact the existing promo character skills (i.e. they wouldn't need to start with the new cards).