Come Together—Adventure Card Guild and Summer Conventions

Oh man, that sweet hat further reinforces my desire to play Balazar.
Time to go back and read the article.

Edit: Whoa, that hat is an *Ally*?

Edit: Whoa, that hat is an *Ally*?

/me looks innocent

Looks pretty sweet. That GenCon tournament prize in particular looks nice. Can't wait to see more about the Open format.

I saw that on the event list yesterday. I'm going to have to find a team!

I have updated the blog with a new opening paragraph about the Season of the Shackles decks, now available at DriveThru!

Okay, so I was thinking the hat looked pretty cool, an item that lets you explore.

But an ally? None of it makes any sense anymore...

Also, if I'm understanding things right, this card is better on almost any Int-based arcane caster than on Balazar, because Balazar doesn't do attack spells and Padrig adds to strength checks, meaning Balazar will pretty much never get to use this to help his combat.

Still. Hilarious. :D

Hat... ally... I don't... what...

I really hope I can get to GenCon, I really want to go in for the Open. Unfortunately a coworker was just let go and unless he's replaced in time I won't be getting time off for the foreseeable future... Stupid work not wanting bad employees

The hat provides just a D6 ... I thought we started the Season of the D20? :)

I have updated the blog with a new opening paragraph about the Season of the Shackles decks, now available at DriveThru!

Awesome! And the Councilor's Ring is in time for Season of the Righteous.

Would Tanis & company be willing to reveal their favorite Jeni's flavors? ;)

The hat provides just a D6 ... I thought we started the Season of the D20? :)

The hat is in the Pathfinder Battle Iconic Heroes set, not Wrath.

Would Tanis & company be willing to reveal their favorite Jeni's flavors? ;)

From her first cookbook, Sweet Corn and Black Raspberry is a big winner, as is Goat Cheese with Roasted Red Cherries.

During a previous Origins visit, I had a lavender and honey ice cream that had one more flavor I've forgotten....

Alas, my poor incorrect coast-ness. I'll get to see folks at Gen Con at least :)

Would Tanis & company be willing to reveal their favorite Jeni's flavors? ;)

Brambleberry Crisp and Wildberry Lavender are both ridiculous.

Would Tanis & company be willing to reveal their favorite Jeni's flavors? ;)

Queen City Cayenne is fantastic.

About the hat. It's not like Link talks to his hat in one incarnation :)

Excited for PaizoCon. Maybe I'll use Jirelle :)

Orbis: Balazar does have the Knowledge skill +2, and it seems that there's an emphasis on Knowledge (X) checks in WotR.

Also, the tags on this blog seem to be missing.

About the hat. It's not like Link talks to his hat in one incarnation :)

Excited for PaizoCon. Maybe I'll use Jirelle :)

...more like the hat talks to Link. Link doesn't actually talk in most incarnations including that one. Also, the hat is a powerful gnomish wizard.

Okay, so I was thinking the hat looked pretty cool, an item that lets you explore.

But an ally? None of it makes any sense anymore...

Also, if I'm understanding things right, this card is better on almost any Int-based arcane caster than on Balazar, because Balazar doesn't do attack spells and Padrig adds to strength checks, meaning Balazar will pretty much never get to use this to help his combat.

Still. Hilarious. :D

Maybe Balazar and Enora need to host a clothing swap.

Also, if I'm understanding things right, this card is better on almost any Int-based arcane caster than on Balazar, because Balazar doesn't do attack spells and Padrig adds to strength checks, meaning Balazar will pretty much never get to use this to help his combat.

All you guys think about is fighting!

Maybe Balazar and Enora need to host a clothing swap.

Well, they both are Small sized...

Are there any plans to release revised Skull & Shackles cards like what was done for Rise of the Runelords? That would be a good thing to combine with my Seasons of the Shackles order, so for the moment, I'm going to hold off on the DriveThruCards.

Orbis Orboros wrote:

Also, if I'm understanding things right, this card is better on almost any Int-based arcane caster than on Balazar, because Balazar doesn't do attack spells and Padrig adds to strength checks, meaning Balazar will pretty much never get to use this to help his combat.

All you guys think about is fighting!

Why be educated or diplomatic when I can just impale it upon my blade? The only proper way to deal with books is to backstab it.

You mean PFS isn't about murder hobos? :P

All you guys think about is fighting!

Taratata, we are currently replaying the full RotR with only Alahazar, Siwar, Merisiel, Kyra and Ranzak trying to get to the end with fighting only villains and those henchmen that you must defeat in order to win.

More seriously,

1) Can we have the details of the content of the "Season of the Shackles Cards" set? How many cards altogether?

From my PDF I count 6 rings, 7 ships, 7 locations, 4 villains, plus 4*6 henchmen (total 48). Is it so? Missing something?

2) Speaking of those 7 ships. As they are printed in the SotS, you cannot seize/sail them... what a pity. Did you (would you) upgrade them for the Drivethru version so they fit the general pattern (having a clss, a "when commanding", and so on...)? Would be so cool (for replayability).

My $0.02...

Just realized that the Diplomacy bit shouldn't ever bother Balazar; he'd just choose to make a Charisma check instead of a Diplomacy check in 99% of those situations.

Orbis Orboros wrote:

Also, if I'm understanding things right, this card is better on almost any Int-based arcane caster than on Balazar, because Balazar doesn't do attack spells and Padrig adds to strength checks, meaning Balazar will pretty much never get to use this to help his combat.

All you guys think about is fighting!

That's not fair (although perhaps true). They can all use it on non-combat equally, but Balazar pretty much never makes intelligence combat checks, so he gets half the use of it that most other int/arcane characters get. Meaning, yes, it's cool for non-combat, but for non-combat AND combat, it's cooler for other characters.

Are there any plans to release revised Skull & Shackles cards like what was done for Rise of the Runelords? That would be a good thing to combine with my Seasons of the Shackles order, so for the moment, I'm going to hold off on the DriveThruCards.

Working on it.

More seriously,

1) Can we have the details of the content of the "Season of the Shackles Cards" set? How many cards altogether?

From my PDF I count 6 rings, 7 ships, 7 locations, 4 villains, plus 4*6 henchmen (total 48). Is it so? Missing something?

Vic gave the list here.

Gonna have to see if the fiancé is interested in doing the card game open at Gen Con. I presume having played through both Runelords and Skull&Shackles as well as having done several guild scenarios is enough experience with the game to not make fools of ourselves.

You'd hope, wouldn't ya?

I'm interested in finding a few of us here on the forum to team up and see how we do in this.

I know Tanis likes making fools of people, but I'm pretty sure you'll be safe.

I make no promises about how hard winning the whole thing will be. Pre-assembling a team who can work together is definitely a good plan there.

Also, roll well.

Do we need class decks for the Open or is it played with normal AP characters? The Gen Con event listing makes it look like we don't need class decks but thought I'd double check.

That'd be cool, but I don't have time to go to GenCon. I'll be at PaizoCon at least - I'll be running PACG!

Do we need class decks for the Open or is it played with normal AP characters? The Gen Con event listing makes it look like we don't need class decks but thought I'd double check.

You need nothing but your brains and a weepin' handkerchief.

Speaking of those 7 ships. As they are printed in the SotS, you cannot seize/sail them...

Same as in the season: they have standard cardbacks. As far as replayabilty goes, you could always add them as random ships to fight in situations where you know you won't be seizing the ship if you beat it...

Speaking of conventions, Tanis, I want to talk to you about Card Game organization for the Evergreen Tabletop Expo on June 20-21. I sent an IM about that already.

ryric wrote:

Do we need class decks for the Open or is it played with normal AP characters? The Gen Con event listing makes it look like we don't need class decks but thought I'd double check.

You need nothing but your brains and a weepin' handkerchief.

All we think about is fighting Tanis. Sword instead of brains, and if a fight goes in a way that has you weepin', you're dead anyways and have no use for a handkerchief.

Tanis O'Connor wrote:

ryric wrote:

Do we need class decks for the Open or is it played with normal AP characters? The Gen Con event listing makes it look like we don't need class decks but thought I'd double check.

You need nothing but your brains and a weepin' handkerchief.

All we think about is fighting Tanis. Sword instead of brains, and if a fight goes in a way that has you weepin', you're dead anyways and have no use for a handkerchief.

No wait I understand...the handkerchief is for the scenario, who will be crying home to mommy after we're done with it.

Frencois wrote:

Speaking of those 7 ships. As they are printed in the SotS, you cannot seize/sail them...

Same as in the season: they have standard cardbacks. As far as replayabilty goes, you could always add them as random ships to fight in situations where you know you won't be seizing the ship if you beat it...

Thanks Vic. Will do of course. However if I may pass a little idea for next PACG guild seasons, woul be good if cards have complete templates so we can reuse them, even if not the whols template id used in seasons' scenarios.

Joyous news! https://jenis.com/blog/514-update/

Now I can have my two favorite Origins things: ACG and Jeni's ice cream!

Joyous news! https://jenis.com/blog/514-update/

Now I can have my two favorite Origins things: ACG and Jeni's ice cream!

Yesssssss. Rogue with the W!

I had to place an order. No more proxies.