Characters used between different seasons


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Can you play characters between different seasons, as long as they are in the right tier?

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Yup!


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I have a few addendums to this question.

1. If I complete all of Season 0-1 and all of Season 1-1, am i forced into tier 3?

2. If I play between Seasons, do I gain skill and power feats if I only play 2 adventures?

3. When getting a scenario reward, such as "Draw a random blessing from the box", do we get to add that card to our deck, in addition to receiving a deck upgrade? I noticed that later adventures mention using this as an additional deck upgrade.


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Blascowisz wrote:
1. If I complete all of Season 0-1 and all of Season 1-1, am i forced into tier 3?

I think you mean Adventure 0-1 and Adventure 1-1. If so, the answer is yes. When you complete an adventure, you go up a tier. This is mandatory.

Blascowisz wrote:
2. If I play between Seasons, do I gain skill and power feats if I only play 2 adventures?

I think you mean, if you play 2 scenarios. I'm not clear on this answer. My understanding is accrue feats for scenarios you complete within the same adventure.

Blascowisz wrote:
3. When getting a scenario reward, such as "Draw a random blessing from the box", do we get to add that card to our deck, in addition to receiving a deck upgrade? I noticed that later adventures mention using this as an additional deck upgrade.

When a reward instructs you to draw from your class deck box, the card you draw can be used as a bonus upgrade. Season 2 introduced a new kind of reward, which consists of adding a card from the game box to the cards available for the standard upgrade. These do not provide a bonus upgrade unless explicitly stated.

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In response to 2, as part of the tier system, you get feats for unique scenarios you succeed at, regardless of season. So if you succeed at 0-1A, you get a skill feat. If you then win 1-2C, you still advance on the tiering scheme. If you next succeed at 2-1B, you don't get a feat, but you gain progress toward your card feat, which you get if you win any adventure 1 or 2 scenario from any season other than 0-1A, 1-2C, and 2-1B, you gain a card feat and may go up a tier.

Of course, it is recommended that you play an entire adventure in order. But in organized play, order does not always win the day.

EDIT: Corrected, per elcoderdude's fix


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Eliandra Giltessan wrote:

In response to 2, as part of the tier system, you get feats for unique scenarios you succeed at, regardless of season. So if you succeed at 0-1A, you get a skill feat. If you then win 1-2C, you still advance on the tiering scheme. If you next succeed at 2-1B, you don't get a feat, but you gain progress toward your card feat, which you get if you win any adventure 1 or 2 scenario from any season other than 0-1A, 1-2C, and 2-1B, you gain a card feat and may go up a tier.

Of course, it is recommended that you play an entire adventure in order. But in organized play, order does not always win the day.

Thanks for clarifying this. I tweaked your response above.

I confused myself wondering what happens if you played these:
0-1A
1-1A
0-1B
1-1B
0-1C
1-1C
etc.

You answered this. If you choose to tier up after four scenarios, you start getting feats again (a skill feat after your next scenario, a power feat after the one after that, etc). If you do not choose to tier up after four scenarios, you do not get any more feats until after you tier up by completing an adventure.

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Thanks for edit. I fixed my post.

I have always wondered if you may go up a tier at any point after completing 4 or more scenarios. As written I don't think you can. My poor Merisiel has about 7 scenarios on her, but she's never completed an adventure. I was going to play her for SotS and SotR but ended up playing clerics instead for the heals. She might like to tier up.


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Eliandra Giltessan wrote:

Thanks for edit. I fixed my post.

I have always wondered if you may go up a tier at any point after completing 4 or more scenarios. As written I don't think you can. My poor Merisiel has about 7 scenarios on her, but she's never completed an adventure. I was going to play her for SotS and SotR but ended up playing clerics instead for the heals. She might like to tier up.

Isn't this what you are searching for:

Current Card Guild Rules wrote:

A character advances to the next tier in one of two ways:
either after completing an adventure and gaining its adventure reward, or by choosing to do so after gaining the card feat of his tier.

Example: Advancing a Tier
Alex is playing the character Lem, and she’s ready to start playing in the Adventure Card Guild. Lem completes Scenario 1A from Season of the Righteous and gains a skill feat, then completes Scenario 1B and gains a power feat.
Alex misses a week at her local game store, so she does not play Scenario 1C, but comes back to complete Scenario 1D. Her fellow players have completed Adventure 1, so their characters are now Tier 2. Alex, whose character is still Tier 1, can play Adventure 2 scenarios with her weekly group, but she can only get deck upgrades that have an adventure deck number of 1 or lower. She can choose to advance Lem to Tier 2 when he completes a fourth scenario and gains a card feat, or Lem will automatically advance a tier when he completes either Adventure 1 (by playing Scenario 1C) or Adventure 2.


It's an old discussion, but I think Eliandra's point is the rules you quote don't indicate a character can tier up after completing 5 or more scenarios, if the character didn't tier up after the fourth scenario and hasn't completed an adventure.

Which is a little strange.

Grand Lodge

Actually, elcoderdude, it doesn't have to do with the number of scenarios you play.

It has to do with the number of scenarios you play within a tier. It is always set that the first completed scenario, you gain a skill feat. Second is the power feat. Fourth is the card feat. It is gaining the card feat within a tier that is the key to leveling up.

The reason completing five or more scenarios doesn't level a character up is that after the card feat, you no longer gain feats within a tier. So if you choose not to level after your fourth completed scenario, you have to wait until completing an Adventure.


With all due respect, your point seems moot.

Your first four scenarios are always within a tier.
If you didn't tier up after four scenarios, and you didn't complete an adventure, every scenario you play will be within that same tier.

It seems strange to say if you play 7 scenarios you can't tier up because you aren't gaining a card feat in that given scenario.

Grand Lodge

elcoderdude wrote:

With all due respect, your point seems moot.

Your first four scenarios are always within a tier.
If you didn't tier up after four scenarios, and you didn't complete an adventure, every scenario you play will be within that same tier.

Correct.

Quote:
It seems strange to say if you play 7 scenarios you can't tier up because you aren't gaining a card feat in that given scenario.

What I'm saying is that if you choose not to level up after gaining the card feat (after completing the fourth scenario within a tier), you have to wait until you complete an adventure in order to level up. And that completing the fifth, sixth and seventh scenarios within a tier without completing an adventure is a bit silly.

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I guess that's the way you get as close as possible to playing all 3 seasons (or more) with the same character.


Theryon Stormrune wrote:

... completing the fifth, sixth and seventh scenarios within a tier without completing an adventure is a bit silly.

Yeah, that's true.

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It's happened to me because I'd start a character to play for a season, then need to play somebody else for party balance. Then the same thing would happen next season. Or else I'd play scenarios from different seasons at a con. <shrug> Maybe that's silly.


Eliandra Giltessan wrote:
It's happened to me because I'd start a character to play for a season, then need to play somebody else for party balance. Then the same thing would happen next season. Or else I'd play scenarios from different seasons at a con. <shrug> Maybe that's silly.

Maybe we can spend some Girls' Nights evening out some of our lower characters. :) Wrathack would probably appreciate it.

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Rebel Song wrote:
Eliandra Giltessan wrote:
It's happened to me because I'd start a character to play for a season, then need to play somebody else for party balance. Then the same thing would happen next season. Or else I'd play scenarios from different seasons at a con. <shrug> Maybe that's silly.
Maybe we can spend some Girls' Nights evening out some of our lower characters. :) Wrathack would probably appreciate it.

Merisiel and Ramexes would like to finish an adventure...

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