The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game has gone through a lot of changes since the Rise of the Runelords Base Set first came out, but there's still a lot of fun in those cards. I created Shield of Rannick as my first full variant Adventure Path back in 2014, and I went on to produce variants of other sets since. Pathfinder Infinite has given me a chance to put Shield of Rannick back in front of everyone another time. Shield of Rannick combines the hundreds of cards of the Rise of the Runelords Base Set in new ways, emphasizing some elements (Fort Rannick plays a large role here, as does the deadly Heptaric Locus), downplaying others (you’ll fight fewer goblins and giants), and providing some new rules. It also uses material from the entire set right out of the gate—for example, you have to gain an ally from adventure deck 6 right in the first adventure.
Since the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game first came out, fans have been creating their own characters, scenarios, and adventures (I made the first fan-created scenario for the game, and it’s included here as scenario 4-E). Paizo has been generous in providing card templates for people to create their own entirely new villains, monsters, characters, and so on; these can be printed out and played alongside the cards you already have. Shield of Rannick is different from a lot of those endeavors because it doesn’t require any new cards, or require you to print anything at all. You can play the entire Shield of Rannick adventure path with cards you already have. Pick characters you haven’t used before to start anew—and welcome back to a different adventure path with Shield of Rannick!
