Gen Con, Baby!

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

This week is just a quick data dump ahead of Gen Con's event registration on Sunday to let you know what we've got on tap for the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game at the show. I am both excited and terrified to let you in on some secrets today.

Pathfinder Adventure Card Guild

We've got tons of material on tap for organized play fans at this year's show. First, the known info: Season of the Runelords, our third season of the Adventure Card Guild, wraps up in August 2016, and avid players will be able to triumphantly complete the season in the Sagamore ballroom. You'll be able to play any or all of the scenarios in SotRu at the show, and we'll even keep a copy or two of Season of the Righteous and Season of the Shackles tucked away for folks who want to catch up or try some new adventures.

We'll also be debuting a mini-season, affectionately known in-house as WE BE CARD GOBLINS! This two-adventure "seasonlet" will take players through a PACG adaptation of the events of the Free RPG Day adventures We Be Goblins and We Be Goblins Too!. Birds will be crunched, toads will be licked, and many, many things will be exploded. This mini-season will bridge the gap between Season of the Runelords and Season of the Mummy, which will launch in October when we release the Mummy's Mask Base Set. I didn't get the We Be Card Goblins event listing to Gen Con on time (Bad Tanis!), so it's not listed in their event system—just buy a Season of the Runelords event ticket and we'll form parties on the fly. (This seems like a good time to mention that the Goblins Fight! and Goblins Burn! decks will be available for purchase at the show.)

To bury the lede, I should mention that our promo goblins, Ranzak, Ekkie, and Tup, will be PFACG-legal starting in August!

To further bury the lede, I am thrilled to elaborate on a little nugget that Pathfinder Society OPC Tonya Woldridge dropped in her blog yesterday:

This year's special, titled #8-00: The Cosmic Captive and authored by Matt Duval, starts at 8:00 PM on Friday night. In past years, we ran 160 Roleplaying Guild tables, spanning levels 1 through 11. This year, we are keeping 160 Roleplaying Guild tables and adding 20 Adventure Card Guild tables. All 180 tables will work together to achieve common goals, and the actions of one effect the outcomes of others.

You read that right: ACG and RPG tables working together to [redacted] [redacted] the [redacted]! I could not be more excited for this event. Working from Matt Duval's excellent adventure, the whole PFS team will be coming together to craft an exciting interactive for the whole PFS community. The Cosmic Captive will feature a mix of custom cards and cards from various base sets, and the deck will (eventually) be available for download or purchase if you want to run the event at your local convention.

ACG Open 2: Son of ACG Open

In case that wasn't enough work for me fun for you, we've also got a new Adventure Card Game Open in store. See if team "On the Dot" can continue its reign, or maybe the upstart team "Don't Trust Tanis" will take them out! Or maybe YOUR team of four will be the victors! The ACG Open is a team vs. team advancement tournament played in 3 rounds. Quarterfinal matches will happen Thursday and Friday, the semifinal rounds on Saturday, and a final on Sunday. Last year's final was attended by most of the ACG design team and was quite exciting, and the winners each got a full Adventure Card Game Base Set, Character Add-On Deck, and Adventure Decks signed by the designers.

But Wait! There's More!

Even though Mummy's Mask won't be out until October, we will be running continuous MM demos at the Paizo booth during floor hours. Just show up, take a seat, and try not to get cursed too badly. And don't miss the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game seminar on Thursday at 2:00 PM—even we have no idea what secrets we might reveal!

Our friends at Obsidian will also be on hand to show off Pathfinder Adventures. I'm going to assume that if you're reading this blog and you have an iPad or an Android tablet, you're already playing this digital edition of the PACG, so all I need to tell you is that you'll have the opportunity to ask the Obsidian crew what's coming up next. You'll also want to check out the seminar "Pathfinder & Obsidian" on Friday at 1:00 PM.

Come join us at Gen Con for the Best Four Days in Gaming!

Tanis O'Connor
Adventure Card Game Designer