Official Map Terrains for Pathfinder Card Game?

[MarsStraub]

I noticed this for the miniatures on the box: "Each Iconic Heroes Set also includes EXCLUSIVE Boon Cards (one for each miniature) for use in the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game! These special Boon Cards are only available in this Pathfinder Battles product!"

Meaning, the miniatures can actually be used for the card game, but I'm not sure how this can be achieved without a dungeon tile/map other than just placing the minis on the location cards. So far, I'm guessing custom maps can work, but I just wonder if there are any OFFICIAL ones?

[skizzerz]

PACG has no notion of a map. You just use the minis in place of the token card, and place them on top of / next to the location card whenever they move.

[VigorBird]

skizzerz wrote:

PACG has no notion of a map. You just use the minis in place of the token card, and place them on top of / next to the location card whenever they move.

But aren't miniatures more for board games rather than cards? If that's so, why would they go to all the trouble to add cards to a miniature box when they can just put the cards in the booster packs instead?

[skizzerz]

Cross-promotion. Entice RPG players to try out the card game or card game players to try out the RPG (mainly the former, as the minis line is aimed at RPG players).

[Hawkmoon269]

I'm not sure how familiar you are with the card game, so if some of this is overly basic, I apologize.

In the card game, locations consist of a location card and a stack of cards for a location deck. Players mark the location for their character by placing a token card with their character's image on it next to the location.

Since the original characters were the iconic characters from the Pathfinder RPG, early in the history of the card game players began to use other objects in place of the token card. Many people used pawns of the iconic characters from the various pawn products Paizo has released. Some people had miniatures from Pathfinder Battles or Reaper products. All this did was "dress up" the game a bit. Such things are fairly common in the hobby board game and card game worked.

In fact, the first people to do this for PACG seem to have been the designers/Paizo themselves. When the game was first publicly tested at Paizo con, instead of tokens, pawns were used.

And very early on people were asking about using pawns or miniatures.

Requests for a way to get prepainted miniatures for the characters even appeared fairly early.

Now, at this point I am just speculating, but Rise of the Runelords was surprisingly popular. I don't say that to mean Paizo or anyone thought it wasn't a good game, but by their own admission the way out sold their own estimates before the product line was even fully released. Other companies that had licensing agreements with Paizo seemed to have want to take advantage of that popularity and things such as the Ultra Pro playmats and the Iconic Heroes line eventually emerged. And as skizzerz said, the Iconic Heroes presented an opportunity for cross promotion. RPG players that wanted only the miniatures got some cards too. Maybe the thought, "I should check out this card game." Card game players who got it might think, "These miniatures are really nice looking. I wish I could use them in more things. Oh, hey, I wonder what that RPG is like since I could use them there."

And that is a brief history of PACG and miniatures.