Hooked On Class Decks

Vic probably wished I said something like "None of this should imply final product names or art or even punctuation." So let's all just agree that I said that.

Favorite : Zelhara

Thanks for the awesome preview Mike.

A Magus and villainous class decks, outstanding! Finally, we get to play as Varian and Radovan, fantastic!

No idea when I'd get around to playing them, but I'm buying the Hell's Vengeance decks!

And although I'm just dipping my toes into Mummy's Mask, I'm hoping an upcoming preview shows what the next path will be.

Yes please. And I love Necromancy, even though I hate zombies... My second favorite would be the Cleric.

Great news everyone!

This is super cool, I'm excited for all of these. I'll definitely set up a subscription once I know where I'll live when they release.

This also motivates me to double my efforts with the evil homebrew campaign I am working on. It's high time we finish WotR so that I can playtest what I came up with so far.

Also, thanks for making Crowe available, and thanks for pointing out Salims second novel, I somehow missed that completely!

It's about time we get a magus deck.

Here's hoping Seltyiel gets much needed tweaking. It depresses me that my favorite PF class is one of the worst characters in PFACG.

Magus is good. The Tales and Hell's Vengeance decks don't do anything for me, but I might pick them up if the characters are interesting mechanically.

I'm super stoked about this. Varian and Radovan have been my 2 most wanted characters for a long time.

Am I hearing this correct. We can play as Villains?

I'd love to play an assassin or a Torturer. Oh, what powers could they get? Oh, what mystery is their to their play? Oh, I can't wait to make puny Henchmen scream!

Wait... does this mean we will get an OP Adventure Path where we fight Heroes instead of Villains.....?

A Villans class deck sounds interesting especially if they get interesting new powers you can use in any base game.

I vote Nyctessa as my favorite, no question. I would LOVE to see a good necomancer character, as I was a bit disappointed with the necromancer in the Wizard deck.

Thumbs up!

I really hope that we will see hells vengeance adventure path along the road!
It has been so fun to be mighty Goblin! Who says that we Are not mighty? I will be back when I find some friends with whom we will teach you manners! We Are mighty when we have huge adwantage in Numbers, you will see, you will see! But don't hit me now, I am so small and lonely and miserable.... noooooooo.....

Wait... does this mean we will get an OP Adventure Path where we fight Heroes instead of Villains.....?

Wait... does this mean we will get an OP Adventure Path where we can play Goblins all the way.....? :-)

Donny Schuijers wrote:

Wait... does this mean we will get an OP Adventure Path where we fight Heroes instead of Villains.....?

Wait... does this mean we will get an OP Adventure Path where we can play Goblins all the way.....? :-)

Well, we actually can...

Am I hearing this correct. We can play as Villains?

We are careful about not referring to these blighters as "villains," because that means something different in PACG. But basically, yes.

I can't wait to play a Zelhara x Merisiel merry jaunt through the boneyard.

Any swashbuckler or slayer decks on the horizon?

Nyctessa is definitely my favorite, her backstory just oozes flavor. Technical nit though, Urgraz is a duergar, not a dwarf.

I got a fever and the only cure is more class decks.

Any swashbuckler or slayer decks on the horizon?

Recently (can't remember when) Mike said in the comments of a blog post that while they'd like to do a swashbuckler deck, they wouldn't want to release a swashbuckler deck without putting several ships in there. As far as I remember, the problem is that it would mess with the progression of SnS and wouldn't make much sense for the other APs, so they were left unsure what to do.

I'm also in favor of Nyctessa for the first deck! Linxia also looks very cool. But I guess it would make the most sense to split them into weapon and spell based classes?
So Hellknight / Assassin / Torturer and Cleric / Antipaladin / Necromancer? I don't know about Assassin and Torturer, but at least I know that the last three can use spells in the RPG.

@Skizzers
While you are right, I don't think PACG makes a distinction between duergar and dwarves, or drow and elves for that matter.

Garrett Guillotte wrote:

Any swashbuckler or slayer decks on the horizon?

Recently (can't remember when) Mike said in the comments of a blog post that while they'd like to do a swashbuckler deck, they wouldn't want to release a swashbuckler deck without putting several ships in there. As far as I remember, the problem is that it would mess with the progression of SnS and wouldn't make much sense for the other APs, so they were left unsure what to do.

Bummer. I had no idea swashbucklers were so tied to ships.

Technical nit though, Urgraz is a duergar, not a dwarf.

In our game, Urgraz gets the Dwarf trait so that (for example) the Flayed Man from Wrath 6 can hurt him.

I'm interested to see how they group the iconic villains for those two class decks. The divine casters and partial casters together? The castiest together? I hope for at least one divine caster each in the Pathfinder Tales and Iconic Villains decks, so I can get excited about them.

I'm interested to see how they group the iconic villains for those two class decks. The divine casters and partial casters together? The castiest together? I hope for at least one divine caster each in the Pathfinder Tales and Iconic Villains decks, so I can get excited about them.

A Cleric of Lamashtu would probably still be a Divine Cleric, right? Hm...

I thought seeing the Magus Class Deck was exciting. The other pending class decks sound awesome!!

The castiest together?

I like the concept of "castiest." (Sorry, low-level bards—you're just not casty enough. Come back when you get castier.)

I vote Nyctessa as my favorite, no question. I would LOVE to see a good necomancer character, as I was a bit disappointed with the necromancer in the Wizard deck.

+1

But then again, Dodge Durango had the added burden of establishing the whole toolbox of -Mancerdom that led to the Summoners and Flesh Poppet-carrying Gravewalkers we have today. Now that the concept is well established, really looking forward to seeing all the -Mancer tech that's been spun off of the original Necromancer return to its origins with loads of added flavor and crunchy bits (e.g CD Balthazar / Mother Myrtle's "we don't even have to do the killing" trick) as well as a whatever new spins on Necromancy a half-vampire brings to the table.

Personally, I'd love for her or one of her role cards to let her convert a defeated Henchman or Villain into something like a Cohort to carry with her into the next Adventure Path, but I suspect that's beyond the ability to fit on a character or role card. Hmmm... maybe a Cohort card which describes the "Undead Thrall" Template and which has some variable powers based on the bane you attach to it?

I think my vote is for Zelhara. Inquisitors rock, and I would love to see a Blessing of Zon-Kuthon. If Nyctessa nets us a Blessing of Urgathoa, I will also be happy.

I think my vote is for Zelhara. Inquisitors rock, and I would love to see a Blessing of Zon-Kuthon. If Nyctessa nets us a Blessing of Urgathoa, I will also be happy.

One thing I can say about the badguys set: It is really hard to narrow down which new evil blessings we're going to make.

The humble Mr. Gross points out that I erroneously gave him credit for creating Alase. Wes Schneider created Alase in Lost Kingdoms, and gave her to Dave for her star turn in Dave's novel King of Chaos.

The humble Mr. Gross points out that I erroneously gave him credit for creating Alase. Wes Schneider created Alase in Lost Kingdoms, and gave her to Dave for her star turn in Dave's novel King of Chaos.

YOU ARE BAD AND SHOULD FEEL BAD!

:-P

Eliandra Giltessan wrote:

I think my vote is for Zelhara. Inquisitors rock, and I would love to see a Blessing of Zon-Kuthon. If Nyctessa nets us a Blessing of Urgathoa, I will also be happy.

One thing I can say about the badguys set: It is really hard to narrow down which new evil blessings we're going to make.

I hope within my lifetime to see a blessing for each of the core 20.

I like this - a lot. All of it. The only thing that could possibly have made this announcement even better would be a class deck focused solely on grabbing boons.

Is Radovan really that much shorter than Count Jeggare or is that just the difference in artwork?

Also, a Pathfinder Tales deck? Does this mean Keren, Zae, and Appleslayer will get cards? ^_^

Regarding the third character from the Tales Deck. I really hope the two words you mentioned were either, "Death's Heretic" or "Salim Ghadafar".

EDIT: And now I see that he was in the Inquisitor Class Deck.

D'oh!

Is Radovan really that much shorter than Count Jeggare or is that just the difference in artwork?

The two images were not presented in relative scale. While I can't swear that they are scaled identically now, we did at least make the issue much less obvious.

Berselius wrote:

Is Radovan really that much shorter than Count Jeggare or is that just the difference in artwork?

The two images were not presented in relative scale. While I can't swear that they are scaled identically now, we did at least make the issue much less obvious.

For those interested, Varian is as tall as Tom Hiddleston, while Radovan is the same height as Tom Cruise or Christian Kane.

Tom Hiddleston is 6'2", Christian Kane is 5'9", Tom Cruise is 5'7". Which last gave rise to "Tom Cruise ain't no Jack Reacher" (Reacher is 6'5"). Having said that, I have to admit I liked both "Reacher" movies.

Tom Hiddleston is 6'2", Christian Kane is 5'9", Tom Cruise is 5'7". Which last gave rise to "Tom Cruise ain't no Jack Reacher" (Reacher is 6'5"). Having said that, I have to admit I liked both "Reacher" movies.

I'd been led to believe Kane is also 5'7" and that Hiddleston was closer to 6'1", but even then I was fudging because I've always thought of Varian as around 6', but I tend to visualize him as Hiddleston.

yay Varian and Radovan and necromancers!

Necromancers?! How did that happen?

@Dave G.: eh, what's an inch or two anyway? (But Tom Cruise is still too short to be Reacher.) :-)

(Reacher is 6'5").

Which is presumably how he got his name.

On topic...

Salim has been my favourite character to play so far, and I never knew he was a character from an existing story. Pretty cool to learn. (Although yesterday Angban picked up his "Living Cannon" role card and is now mounting a strong challenge for the position.)

Ed Reppert wrote:

Tom Hiddleston is 6'2", Christian Kane is 5'9", Tom Cruise is 5'7". Which last gave rise to "Tom Cruise ain't no Jack Reacher" (Reacher is 6'5"). Having said that, I have to admit I liked both "Reacher" movies.

I'd been led to believe Kane is also 5'7" and that Hiddleston was closer to 6'1", but even then I was fudging because I've always thought of Varian as around 6', but I tend to visualize him as Hiddleston.

Speaking of Varian and Radovan -- Are any more stories about them planned or in the works? I am really curious to see the later ramifications of a certain development that Varian arranged for Radovan at the end of your last book.

It would be nice to see shield and one arm weapon specialist class deck. One hand weapon and shield has always been inferior to two hand weapon armor combination.

It would be nice to see a fighter deck that woult totally utilise shieds and one hand weapon. Maybe focusin manouweribility, shield bash, using shields agains long range weapons etc. Where shield Are good and usefull!

Then maybe two weapons combination specialist deck. Sword in both hands. Sai and Sword combination eastern style.

And ofcourse ninjas! :)

It would be nice to see shield and one arm weapon specialist class deck. One hand weapon and shield has always been inferior to two hand weapon armor combination.

TBH, it would be nice if Shields get some love, period. It's really obvious the effort Lone Shark put post-RotR into making Armors not suck, but in my playing circles Shield are always doomed to be an armor's ugly step-sister. The advantage of Armor being able to suck up ALL the damage from a failed Combat is just too great, and the Shields requiring one-handed weapons only doesn't help any. Supposedly, the Shields' "thing" is that they generally Reveal, instead of Recharge for their effect, but that's not much, considering you're likely to recharge them at hand reset to cycle your hand.

I'm not sure how Lone Shark could fix this issue, short of putting some sort of reveal-value bonuses to shields ("Reveal this card to add 1/2/etc. to your Melee Combat check"), but I'd sure love to see some effort in that direction.

Shields have gotten a little bit of love. Some that do "non-armor" kinds of things:

Buckler Gun
Burglar's Buckler
Clawhand Shield
Crocodile Skin Madu
Scizore

And that is just to name a few. But I also wholeheartedly support the idea of more armors doing "non-armor" things.

New shields: Hold that thought.

By the way, I feel like no one has yet given me the props I deserve for the title of this blog.

By the way, I feel like no one has yet given me the props I deserve for the title of this blog.

Yes, that seems to be a chronic problem.

Perhaps it's because the blog itself is so full of good news that none of us has had time to figure out if the blog title is an homage to "Hooked on a Feeling" (the impression I get whenever I see anything with "hooked on" in it) or if it is a Hooked on Phonics (derived from Hooked on Chronic, apparently) thing. Personally, I'm still reeling from the announcement of the class deck I've been waiting for most.

Every time I see the title for this blog post, I think, "Hooked on Class Decks worked for me!"