Someone found and/or posted a list of changes between prior and core rules. Some of these may still be in a state of flux and/or contrary to what is posted in the player's guide. 6, 15, 20, and 34 are the key ones to read.
1.) When a scenario doesn’t have a villain, the default way to win is to close all locations.
2.) Each adventure has directions for building and upgrading the vault.
3.) These directions are typically based on card level, not on the Basic or Elite traits, which are no longer used.
4.) Characters build starting decks using level 0 cards (instead of Basic) - unsure if this change holds for legacy decks.
5.) You can trade cards before drawing starting hands. Not for PACS games.
6.)The top card of the hourglass discards is the hour, and new blessings have powers that happen when they are the hour.
7.) Displaying a card and activating a power on it counts as playing it.
8.) Characters add their traits to their checks.
9.) You can now be proficient with traits in addition to card types.
10.) Checks can be blessed by deities, adding the deity’s name as a trait.
11.) Cards can be vulnerable to a trait, giving you a +4 bonus if your check has that trait, or resistant to a trait, giving you a -4 penalty.
12.) We’ve changed the way you handle checks to recharge some cards you play by introducing recovery and adjusting the meaning of banish.
13.) Locations are no longer temporarily closed—they’re guarded, and this now happens after you have the opportunity to evade the villain.
14.) If you fail to defeat a bane, a local character can avenge the encounter by burying a card to encounter it.
15.) When encountering a card or suffering damage, the party collectively may play no more than one of each type of boon. Powers that can be played freely do not count toward this limit.
16.) When you encounter a boon, you must attempt to acquire it.
17.) You may choose to fail a check; if you do, your result is 0.
18.) If you summon a boon and acquire it, put it in your hand.
19.) When you must get a new card, take it from the vault.
20.) When you close a location, you don’t flip it over; you banish it, and all characters at that location immediately move. If a location is closed during your explore step, you may no longer explore.
21.) If your role is banished, you get it back for the next scenario.
22.) Rewards no longer include feats, but they usually give you hero points, which can be spent to gain feats, reroll dice, or return from death.
23.) Loot is no longer a card type, but a trait. Loot cards the party doesn’t keep are organized in the vault with other cards of their type, so they can easily be encountered in locations, and now have checks to acquire.
24.) Scourges are back, though they work a bit differently.
25.) When you gain a feat, you choose the type; for each type, the maximum number of feats you may check is the # of the last scenario you completed.
26.) We’ve provided options (including wildcards) for making the game easier or harder, or shorter or longer, and you can play scenarios in Normal, Heroic, and Legendary modes.
27.) If an older card’s level is B, C, or P, treat it as 0.
28.) When effects refer to cards that have the Basic trait, treat them as referring to level 0 cards; when they refer to cards that have the Elite trait, treat them as referring to level 1, 2, or 3 cards.
29.) On weapons and spells from previous sets, any power that adds to or subtracts from a check, or that rerolls dice, may be played freely. Powers that also determine the type of check may not be played freely.
30.) If a card you banish to play has a check that can allow you to do something other than banish it, put it in a recovery pile and attempt that check at the end of the turn.
31.) If an effect on an older card references a check or other requirement to close a location, treat it as referencing guarding as well as closing.
32.) Since closed locations are banished, ignore effects that involve interacting with closed locations, and treat the term “open location” as referring to any location on the table.
33.) If a card tells you to shuffle your token into a location deck, shuffle in a proxy instead.
34.) Treat characters that have the Arcane or Divine skill as proficient with the corresponding trait, and treat characters that are proficient with Heavy Armors as proficient with armor. If a boon requires proficiency with Light Armors, all characters are considered proficient with it.
35.) When playing an older Adventure Path, continue to use the feat rewards as listed on the cards; limits on feats don’t apply in those APs. At the end of each adventure, each character gets a hero point that cannot be used to gain a feat.
5-1A: Tide of Bones
Reward
For the rest of the Adventure Path, when setting up each scenario, each character may temporarily replace 1 blessing in his deck with the blessing Blessing of Besmara. At the end of each scenario, return that card to the game box.
Acquired Cards (* = Plunder)
Cut-Throat Grok (Ally 1)
Deckhand (Ally B)
Benevolent Buckler (Armor 1)
Leather Armor (Armor C)
Leather Armor (Armor B)
Blessing of Erastil (Blessing B)
Noxious Bomb (Item C)
Onyx of Constitution (Item B)
Conch Shell (Item B)
Masterwork Tools (Item B)
Phantasmal Minion (Spell B)*
Strength (Spell B)
Sphere of Fire (Spell 1)
Rage (Spell 1)
Arcane Armor (Spell B)
Speed (Spell B)*
Magic Weapon (Spell B)*
Acolyte (Ally B)*
Shortbow (Weapon B)
Harpoon (Weapon C)*
Repelling Pike +1 (Weapon 1)*
Weapon 001
Spell 0011000
Armor 100
Item 0000
Ally 01
Blessing 0
Spell 1: (Sphere of Fire instead of Lightning Touch)
No tier upgrade this time, as it is a replay, so I think I'm still sitting at 2.2.
Shock Glaive +1
Gorum
Spelldagger +1
Take Spell for card feat. Fill 2 deck holes with Strength and Burning Snot.
I'm interested in the loot blessing:
Pretty sure each char can take the loot blessing?
You are correct. I will do so, replacing a BotG
Blessing of Erastil
Returning Throwing Axe +1
Spell for Card Feat (Cure).
Card Feat: Ally
Not sure why I thought there was a blessing 1...
Spelldagger replaces Walking stick.
5-1E To Seal the Dead
Reward
Scenario :
For the rest of the Adventure Path, you may add 1d4 to your checks against banes that have the Undead trait, and you may bury a boon to banish a Pirate Shade Haunt displayed next to your character.
Adventure :
Each player chooses 1 of her Pathfinder Society Adventure Card Guild characters. That character may treat the loot Dragon Emissary as if it is in her Class Deck box.
Acquired Cards (* = Plunder)
Parrot (Ally B)
Spyglass (Item B)
Thieves' Tools (Item B)
Phantasmal Armor (Spell B)*
Weapon
Spell 0
Armor
Item 00
Ally 0
Blessing
Tier Rewards
-Each of you gain a die bump for succeeding adventure
-Let me know if you are tiering up.
-Characters will need to convert to core rules.
For those characters that started as brand new characters, you would convert as follows:
Have 1 skill, power, and card feat each (no change to character)
Depending on whether or not you tier up, you either have 5 xp or 0 xp (for tiering up)
Possess 1 Hero Point
If you have a character that was created using a previous
edition of this guide, you’ll need to do a quick conversion
before you continue playing. (If your character has only
ever played Season 0 scenarios, instead see Appendix 4 on
page 15.)
Adhere to Feat Maximums. If your character has more
feats of any one type than their Tier, the maximum number
of feats of that type is permanently increased to their Tier +
1. If your character has any feats in excess of that, uncheck
the excess feats and get a hero point for each feat unchecked.
Calculate Experience Points. Determine the number of
experience points (XP) your character has by counting the
number of different scenarios they have completed since
tiering up. For example, if your Tier 4 character has completed
2 different scenarios since starting Tier 4, you have 2 XP. If
you have at least 3 XP, you may spend them all to advance to
the next tier. If you have at least 6 XP, you must spend them
all to advance to the next tier.
Convert Die Bumps to Hero Points. If your character had
any die bumps, they now have the same number of hero
points. You cannot spend these hero points to gain feats.
Mother Myrtle remains at Tier 2. (Tier 2.3)
(I think the Dragon Emissary is actually the Adventure Path reward, alas. :) )
If there are no 1's, MM will pass on upgrades.
Upgrades!
I actually acquired 2 spell 0s as well. I don't think they were added to the list.
Apprentice
Acid Splash (rolled a 1, so if literally anybody else is interested, they can have it.)
Will fill spell holes with Burning snot, and then Strength if I don't win Acid splash.
Will also tier up and convert to Core. Flenta was one of the lucky ones who really benefitted from the conversion guide. I've updated powers on my char sheet, and will actually move to a newer version of the sheet....sometime.
Harsk will upgrade to Tier 2 as well.
No deck upgrades this time, thanks!
If I got the conversion rules correctly, there's nothing to change on Harsk. Is that correct?
Plus: I'm on holidays until 4th of August. I try to check the thread every day, but just on my mobile. Please bot me if you think it's necessary.
Harsk will upgrade to Tier 2 as well.
No deck upgrades this time, thanks!
If I got the conversion rules correctly, there's nothing to change on Harsk. Is that correct?
Plus: I'm on holidays until 4th of August. I try to check the thread every day, but just on my mobile. Please bot me if you think it's necessary.
Only change is you have a hero point.
I will try and post next one this weekend.
Since harsk goes last you have time but if you can post starting hand that could help but likely not required.
Name Tier.XP / Deck Upgrade / Feat Choice / Hero Points
Zova 2.0 / None / None / 1
Mother Myrtle 2.2 / None (or not specified) / None / TBD (1?)
Harsk 2.0 / None / None / 1
Flenta 2.0 / Ally 0 / None / 1
Apprentice replaces Magical child. Strength and Burning snot picked back up.
MM is at 2.3 now, nothing/nothing on deck upgrade, and has 1 Hero Point.
Again camping, please bot me as needed!
5-2A: The Devil's and the Dragon Wrapup
Reward
For the rest of the Adventure Path, 1 character may temporarily replace 1 item in her deck with the loot Totem Necklace and 1 character may temporarily replace 1 armor in his deck with the armor Shark Skin Armor.
At the end of each scenario, return these cards to the game box.
Acquired Cards (* = Plunder)
Acolyte (Ally B)
Mogmurch (Ally P)
Shark Skin Armor (Armor 2)
Cloth Armor (Armor B)
Potion of Healing* (Item B)
Blessing of Gorum (Blessing B)
Frostbite (Spell B)
Fireblade (Spell B)
Strength (Spell B)
Fear (Spell B)
Dragon Pistol +1 (Weapon 2)
Rapier (Weapon B)
Toxic Blunderbuss +1 (Weapon 2)
Shortbow (Weapon B)
Weapon 2B2B
Spell BBBB
Armor 2B
Item B
Ally BP
Blessing B
Tier Rewards
Each character gains 1 XP and 1 hero point.
There is a Blessing 1, too. Besmara.
Flenta is casually interested in either loot, but only in the case that nobody else wants them.
Will take a look at upgrades later tonight or tomorrow morning.
Will spend Hero Point on Card Feat: Spell [x] 5.
Warhammer +2
Gorum
Prophesize
Fill Spell holes with Basics (as many as needed, in order): Steal Book, Burning Snot, Phantom Shield, Mind Thrust.
Mother Myrtle goes to 2.4.
If the party doesn't want both Weapon 2's (HAH!), I could grab a deck upgrade + Javelin of Lightning.
Not a high-priority upgrade, however. If Harsk wants the Weapon 2, please take it!
If I'm not taking the Weapon 2, I'll stash the Hero Point.
Zova will take a Skill feat: Wis [X]+2
Jawbreaker Shield
Looking ahead to the next scenario, I propose that we use one of my seized Wormwoods to be our vessel for the next scenario?
If no-one else is carrying the Totem necklace, I'd like to use it. But again, if someone else would like to use that loot instead, please fill yer boots! :)
I'll second the Wormwood, and MM is a go for the Necklace!
Look's like we're just waiting on Harsk for upgrades?
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Harsk wants Weapon 2 :)
Looks like Harsk and Flenta both get Weapon 2s.
Flenta will take the Warhammer +2 in for her Longsword.
Name Tier.XP / Deck Upgrade / Feat Choice / Hero Points
Zova 2.1 / Armor 2 / Skill Feat(Wis) / 1
Mother Myrtle 2.4 / None / None / 2
Harsk 2.1 / Weapon 2 / TBD / 1 (or 2)
Flenta 2.1 / Weapon 2 / Card Feat (Spell) / 1
Swapping Longsword for Deathbane Light Crossbow +1.
Skill Feat Wisdom +1
Not taking the Loot Totem this time (sorely missed my Potion!)
Reward
For the rest of the Adventure Path, 1 character may temporarily replace 1 ally in his deck with the loot Rekkish and 1 character may temporarily replace 1 ally with the loot Rickety Hake. At the end of each scenario, return these cards to the game box.
Acquired Cards (* = Plunder)
Weapon 0000
Spell 212000
Armor 0
Item 00201
Ally 0
Blessing 0000000
Tier Rewards
Each character gains 1 XP and 1 hero point (if Not a replay).
First time playing.
Spend Hero point on power feat: Hand size to 6.
Upgrades:
Fly
Locate Object
Binder's Tome
Gorum
Loot Roll-off!
I only have 1 Ally slot, so I'm happy to take either one, so somebody else should grab the other.
First time playing.
Spend Hero Point to take Power Feat: You may discard a card to move after your exploration ([X] or to evade your encounter).
Upgrades:
Angelstep
Aspect of the Bat
Not replaying. Banking hero point.
Upgrades: Spell 2
I'll take Rikety Hake if no-one else wants him (swapping for the Stained Glass Elemental), but it's not a super-strong preference.
No replay, saving Hero Point.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Name Tier.XP / Deck Upgrade / Feat Choice / Hero Points / Loot
Zova 2.2 / Item 2 / Power Feat(Evade) / 1 / None
Mother Myrtle 2.5 / Spell 2 / None / 3 / Rickety Hake
Harsk 2.2 / Item 1 / TBD / 1 (or 2) / None
Flenta 2.2 / Spell 1 / Power Feat (Hand size) / 1 / Rekkish
Locate Object fills Spell hole.
Currently swamped in work, I will post tonight!
2 HP
swapping Caltrops for Archer's Bracers
As discussed in chat, we are going to end this scenario to initiate a reboot and/or possibly other steps.
Development
You decide to take a respite from the devils to come up with a different way to deal with the thread. You have collected som notes on the Hao Jin Tapestry to discover where you are. You feel close but need a little bit more information to piece it together.
Reward
None
Acquired Cards (* = Plunder)
Main-Gauche (Weapon B)
Harpoon (Weapon B)
Blunderbuss (Weapon B)
Weapon 0000
Spell
Armor
Item
Ally
Blessing
Tier Rewards
None
pass upgrades