A Wild PaizoCon Appears!

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

I hope you're making the trek to the Emerald City this weekend for PaizoCon! (Current weather: 63 degrees and partly sunny. Rain Friday, sunny the rest of the weekend, highs around 65.) Below, a primer on Adventure Card Game goings-on at the show.

Season the Runelords Marchs (Mays?) Onward

PaizoCon attendees will get the opportunity to play Season of the Runelords all the way up through Adventure 3: Into the Mountain and will even get a sneak peek at Adventure 4: Abjurant Halls of Envy. I just wrote the mechanics for a scenario currently called "Look! A Monkey!" which I expect to be the start of a long and extended death-glare aimed in my direction by you, the fans. Just remember that you're the ones who went into something called the Abjurant Halls of Envy, and complaints can be delivered directly to me. I'm the one who looks like Mike Selinker.

While I'm on the subject of Adventure 4, I have more happy news. I've secured the talents of the brilliant Amanda Hamon Kunz to help with story design for the rest of Season of the Runelords. Amanda's design work has lately been featured in books including Ultimate Intrigue and Distant Shores, and her writing work shines in Cheliax: The Infernal Empire. I'm ecstatic to have a new story collaborator for this season, and if we're very nice to her she might join me again for later seasons. (Previous story collaborators have included Brian Campbell, Dave Gross, Keith Richmond, and Mike Selinker.)

Oh, and I'm bringing advance copies of June's Witch and August's Gunslinger Class Decks for folks to play with. Drop by the ACG section of the PFS ballroom and game with us!

Adventure Card Game Open Playtest

Those of you lucky enough to get into this lottery event will get to help me hone one of the quarterfinal rounds of this year's Adventure Card Game Open, which will take place at Gen Con. What you see there cannot be unseen, because if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also. But mostly because that's how human eyes work.

We Be Goblins! You Be Goblins! Everybody Be Goblins!

Another lottery event! This time, ACG players and forum rock stars cartmanbeck and Theryon Stormrune have put together a custom set of scenarios to play through inspired by the storylines of the We Be Goblins series of Free RPG Day adventures. Theryon and I will be running your tables, so I hope you bring your best goblin game faces. I also hope Theryon brings a certain culinary treat, but I don't know if those can travel cross-country or not.

Learn to Play Mummy's Mask

We've just received the happy news that our Mummy's Mask demo decks will be at the show! Stop by the ACG section of the PFS ballroom for a 30-45 minute demo. You can learn to play the game, get a sneak peek at the characters, and earn a free deck upgrade for a PFSACG character (one per player per season; this demo counts as Season of the Runelords).

Grand Convocation Scavenger Hunt

PaizoCon presents lots of great ways to play games and interact with Paizo fans and staff, but where does one begin? Why not participate in the Grand Convocation scavenger hunt, which rewards you with a special benefit in the Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild and Adventure Card Guild organized play programs for every highlight you hit? Play games, meet staff, and walk away with new ways to experience Golarion! Pick up your scavenger hunt sheet at the Pathfinder Society headquarters in the Grand Ballroom.

Something Punny About Seminars

The "What's New in the Adventure Card Game" panel is Saturday at 2 pm, and Mike, Vic and I—and perhaps some other Lone Sharks—will be there to answer your questions and make up wildly improbable stories about card design and development. We'll also have a little something to say about Mummy's Mask at the PaizoCon Preview Banquet Saturday night. And I'll try and sneak into the "Pathfinder Society Q&A" on Sunday at 2:00 PM in case anyone has questions about PFSACG matters. Finally, Obsidian Entertainment will be doing a "Pathfinder Adventures" panel Sunday at 11:00 AM that will be worth your time. (Everyone feel free to ask those panelists when Hook Mountain Massacre is coming out so that I stop getting that question in email.)

Recurring Art Thing

Hooray! It's time for more excellent art from the PACG archives! From the upcoming Goblins Fight! Deck, the Animalbane Crossbow +2.

Illustration by Litos Lopez Rodriguez

Until next time, Pathfinders—see you at the show!

Tanis O'Connor
Adventure Card Game Designer