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GameMastery Plot Twist Cards
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GameMastery Plot Twist Cards
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GameMastery Plot Twist Cards put fate into the hands of the players! Each randomly drawn card features a beautiful color illustration, improvisational cues, and in-game effects that allow players to control the reality of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. One card might represent a strike of inspiration, another a friendly contact who arrives just in the nick of time. With draws representing narrow escapes, unexpected boons, and heroic efforts, GameMastery Plot Twist Cards make perfect rewards for good players, generating unexpected results sure to fuel war stories for years to come! Included rules provide suggestions on how to use the 54-card deck in play.

ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-262-3


Note: This product is part of the GameMastery Cards Subscription.

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Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber),

Carlisle Pathfinder PZO 111 D avatar

Hey, how's this for an "out-of-the-box" idea? I'd be interested in trying it.

Andoran Dragnmoon (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; GameMastery Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber),

Dervish avatar

Any more details on how these work?

Osirion yoda8myhead (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber),

R 1-Rakshasa-Opener Redo 1 avatar

I can imagine these working well with action points or another expendable, earned resource. I'm eager to see how these work, especially given how essential the critical decks have become to my play experience.

Paizo Employee Lisa Stevens (CEO),

Lisa's avatar

This is my little baby. I am not quite ready to reveal the mechanics and such, but rest assurred we will preview this in the Paizo blogs before it releases. I am using a variant of these cards in my home campaign and they are a blast! Paizocon attendees will be able to use them in a very unique event that we are also not ready to unveil. :)

-Lisa

DaveMage (Paizo Charter Superscriber),

DR 325 Wizard Cover avatar

Excellent - push that envelope!!!!

Tigger_mk4 (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber),

Go L 51 Grick avatar

Sounds interesting - I always loved the Torg subplot cards (*like Nemesis, Contact,etc...) and if they have a similar mechanic to that, it should be well worth a look.

Taldor Kyle Baird (GameMastery Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Chronicles, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber),

Kullen avatar

Lisa Stevens wrote:
This is my little baby. I am not quite ready to reveal the mechanics and such, but rest assurred we will preview this in the Paizo blogs before it releases. I am using a variant of these cards in my home campaign and they are a blast! Paizocon attendees will be able to use them in a very unique event that we are also not ready to unveil. :)

-Lisa


tease!

Sharoth (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Planet Stories Subscriber),

3 Iron-Dragon avatar

Kyle Baird wrote:
Lisa Stevens wrote:
This is my little baby. I am not quite ready to reveal the mechanics and such, but rest assurred we will preview this in the Paizo blogs before it releases. I am using a variant of these cards in my home campaign and they are a blast! Paizocon attendees will be able to use them in a very unique event that we are also not ready to unveil. :)

-Lisa


tease!

+1 to that comment!

;-P

Cheliax Gear,

MOON-AND-SUN-FINA avatar

C.L.O.S.A.T. cards are great...illustrated ones are even better. :D Looking forward to this.

Taldor Andrew Phillips (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Planet Stories Subscriber),

Wing Clipper avatar

yoda8myhead wrote:
I can imagine these working well with action points or another expendable, earned resource. I'm eager to see how these work, especially given how essential the critical decks have become to my play experience.

That is my thought, there was an interesting thread about using Action Points or Whatever with Pathfinder over on the EN World Pathfinder board.

donnald johnson,

PJ 2-Orc avatar

please dont flame me, but could this be used in 4e?

i love the game mastery cards, so just wondering if i can use this? the mechanics cant be so different that they dont have some crossover. unless it affects the abilities.

i have a system where i hand out a card with a mechanic bonus for good role roleplaying, great ideas, sound planning, and making me laugh.

it has a +1, +2 or +3 to attacks, skills, etc. i have about 500 of them, all a little bit different. there are collection cards, if you collect 4 of the same kind, you get to raise an ability score. there are some that if you collect 3 you can recharge a daily power, and collect two to recharge a encounter power.

im sure that there are none for powers in the card set, but if the mechanics are like skills etc, then i should be able to use them.

Paizo Employee Lisa Stevens (CEO),

Lisa's avatar

donnald johnson wrote:
please dont flame me, but could this be used in 4e?

There will be a way to use these cards in any RPG system. There will also be a way that is more specifically tied to the Pathfinder RPG.

-Lisa

donnald johnson,

PJ 2-Orc avatar

thank you for responding to me lisa, now, get some sleep. every commander in the field needs to have an effective sleep plan.

Cheliax DM_aka_Dudemeister (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber),

Mask avatar

This is a long time away, but I still want it now. This is such a brilliant idea and I look forward to it.

Andoran Gorbacz (Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Chronicles, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber),

15-blue-dragon-FINAL 2 avatar

Will there be more decks like this one ? The idea opens up a whole can of possibilities !

Andoran Saint_Meerkat (Paizo Superscriber),

Eli-Sorizan avatar

At first blush, it reminds me a little of Jonathan Tweet's "whimsy cards." Didn't he eventually turn that into Everway?

Paizo Employee Lisa Stevens (CEO),

Lisa's avatar

Saint_Meerkat wrote:
At first blush, it reminds me a little of Jonathan Tweet's "whimsy cards." Didn't he eventually turn that into Everway?

It is indeed a homage to Whimsey Cards. Little known fact, Whimsey Cards were the first gaming product I ever had a hand working on. I was the editor if you happen to have the rules from one of those sets from way back in 1987. While a homage, Plot Twists will add some new ideas to the mix to bring it into a new century.

-Lisa

Paizo Employee Lisa Stevens (CEO),

Lisa's avatar

Gorbacz wrote:
Will there be more decks like this one ? The idea opens up a whole can of possibilities !

If sales do well, there will indeed be more decks in the future. So buy, me hearties, buy!

-Lisa

Beercifer,

Lisa Stevens wrote:
Gorbacz wrote:
Will there be more decks like this one ? The idea opens up a whole can of possibilities !

If sales do well, there will indeed be more decks in the future. So buy, me hearties, buy!

-Lisa


Lisa, and hell, everyone at Paizo...

I just purchased about every card set thingy that you have available at my local FLGS's. I would happily, HAPPILY, purchase these little puppies once they hit store shelves. This is not something that I would see a lot of use in something like your run of the mill AP (unless you could clue me in), but I could definitely see these in more organic games for home groups.

Lisa, can you please show us some pictures of this new baby of yours? Or get a youtube channel and some videos of it? Please?

Paizo Employee Vic Wertz (Technical Director),

Vic Wertz

Beercifer wrote:
This is not something that I would see a lot of use in something like your run of the mill AP (unless you could clue me in), but I could definitely see these in more organic games for home groups.

Lisa, can you please show us some pictures of this new baby of yours? Or get a youtube channel and some videos of it? Please?


We're a ways from having anything show-offable.

But I can assure you that they do work just fine with Adventure Paths and other published adventures—we've been using them to great effect in our Rise of the Runelords campaign.

Qadira Zuxius (Paizo Superscriber),

Riastlin avatar

Well, I do have a gamemastery card subscription. Can't miss it that way.

Freehold DM,

Drow Dancer avatar

I literally CANNOT WAIT! This looks AWESOME!

Mr Baron (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber),

Greyhawk-dragon-2 avatar

This looks really cool. Looking forward to seeing how this one turns out.

Beercifer,

Vic Wertz wrote:
Beercifer wrote:
This is not something that I would see a lot of use in something like your run of the mill AP (unless you could clue me in), but I could definitely see these in more organic games for home groups.

Lisa, can you please show us some pictures of this new baby of yours? Or get a youtube channel and some videos of it? Please?


We're a ways from having anything show-offable.

But I can assure you that they do work just fine with Adventure Paths and other published adventures—we've been using them to great effect in our Rise of the Runelords campaign.


So Vic, I'm not the only GM that is woefully behind on great campaigns.

Paizo Employee Lisa Stevens (CEO),

Lisa's avatar

Beercifer wrote:
Vic Wertz wrote:

We're a ways from having anything show-offable.

But I can assure you that they do work just fine with Adventure Paths and other published adventures—we've been using them to great effect in our Rise of the Runelords campaign.


So Vic, I'm not the only GM that is woefully behind on great campaigns.

Actually, I am the GM for our campaign and Vic is playing a very sexy Varisian sorceress. :) But, yeah, we are behind in our APs and always will be. I have a group of six that get together once a week for about 3 to 4 hours at a time. It takes us about a year and a half or so to get through an AP. The good news is that we have lots of options for the next one! Which looks like it will be Legacy of Fire.

-Lisa

Charles Evans 25,

Lisa Stevens wrote:
Beercifer wrote:
Vic Wertz wrote:

We're a ways from having anything show-offable.

But I can assure you that they do work just fine with Adventure Paths and other published adventures—we've been using them to great effect in our Rise of the Runelords campaign.


So Vic, I'm not the only GM that is woefully behind on great campaigns.

Actually, I am the GM for our campaign and Vic is playing a very sexy Varisian sorceress. :) But, yeah, we are behind in our APs and always will be. I have a group of six that get together once a week for about 3 to 4 hours at a time. It takes us about a year and a half or so to get through an AP. The good news is that we have lots of options for the next one! Which looks like it will be Legacy of Fire.

-Lisa


I would recommend that you at least look at running Skeletons of Scarwall (Pathfinder #11) as a stand-alone module before kicking on with another campaign.
It may need a bit of work to convert it to a stand-alone PFRPG situation, but the location and what's going on there is in my opinion one of the best mid level* adventures Paizo has published thus far.

*Recommendation on back cover is for four 12th level characters.

Prince That Howls (Pathfinder Chronicles Subscriber),

9 Hoaryn Muntjac avatar

I have to admit upon reading the title of this product I thought they were being co-produced by m night shyamalan. Pull the card at the end of your adventure for a unique plot twist. Such as “turns out the characters are actually in modern times!” or “the characters are ghosts who have yet to realize it!”

What a twist!

Yeah... I like your guy's idea better.

Beercifer,

Lisa Stevens wrote:
Beercifer wrote:
Vic Wertz wrote:

We're a ways from having anything show-offable.

But I can assure you that they do work just fine with Adventure Paths and other published adventures—we've been using them to great effect in our Rise of the Runelords campaign.


So Vic, I'm not the only GM that is woefully behind on great campaigns.

Actually, I am the GM for our campaign and Vic is playing a very sexy Varisian sorceress. :) But, yeah, we are behind in our APs and always will be. I have a group of six that get together once a week for about 3 to 4 hours at a time. It takes us about a year and a half or so to get through an AP. The good news is that we have lots of options for the next one! Which looks like it will be Legacy of Fire.

-Lisa


I just made the calls today, I'm trying to get a new group started on every other week for CotCT. It will be slower getting through it, but I'm running through RotRL at the moment as much as my job allows me to have Monday nights off.

That Monday group isn't as RP heavy as the people that I was thinking would be great for your second epic. But I'm making efforts to start going through the AP's instead of reading them and sighing heavily.

Paizo Employee Lisa Stevens (CEO),

Lisa's avatar

I turned over the text for the cards yesterday, so we are THAT much closer to getting these out the door! Now Sarah gets to weave her artistic magic on them to make the beautiful! What's that Wes, I need to write up the rules? Sigh, never done. Never done. :)

-Lisa

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