The New Wave of Character Decks

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Hey Paizonians, Lone Shark has just turned over the files for the sixth wave of class decks—which are sometimes called character decks now, because we're having fun experimenting with new class-agnostic formats, but we can't stop calling them class decks, and this is a really long sentence now. Anyway, the Magus Class Deck, the Pathfinder Tales Character Deck, and Hell's Vengeance Character Deck 1 are all in Vic and Sonja's hands. Suffice it to say, we went a bit nuts on the new cards in these sets. Maybe a lot nuts.

We've also started work on the wave after that. Hell's Vengeance Character Deck 2 concludes our trip to Evil Land. This November deck features the pitborn assassin Emil, the dhampir necromancer Nyctessa, and the human torturer Zelhara. There's a whole lot of bad news in store for the allies in this set. If you want more backstabbing, backbiting, and backbreaking than you can reasonably imagine, this is the deck for you.

Where my wolf at?

In December, we're going to get a deck together for someone we've wanted to feature for a long time. Adowyn, the hunter we introduced in Wrath of the Righteous, is going to get her own spotlight in the Hunter Class Deck, and of course her wolf Leryn is coming along for the chase. People have been asking us to make Adowyn available in the Pathfinder Society Adventure Card Guild for a year or more, but we never thought we had the right deck. Now we will.

And then, this mic drop.

The brainy bunch.

The new year will kick off with Occult Adventures Character Deck 1. Between it and its sequel, we'll be releasing all six mental masters. You'll find new versions of three Mummy's Mask stalwarts—the occultist Mavaro, the spiritualist Estra, and the adorable kineticist Yoon—alongside three all-new characters: the psychic Rivani, the mesmerist Meligaster, and the medium Erasmus. Which three will be in which set? We don't know yet! We're actually engaged in a Lockhorns-level imbroglio over who gets to design what with whom here. We don't know what will happen!

If only we had a way to predict the future. Ah well.

When we get done with these, we'll have made one hundred thirty-six characters for the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, with no end in sight. It's been quite the creative process. And we'll keep it up as long as you let us.

So those are some upcoming decks of characters for you to play with. We'll preview all of these when we get closer to the release dates. Thanks for playing!

Mike Selinker
Adventure Card Game Lead Designer