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I wanted to share our tabletop setup for PACG. I found that the decks would get kind of messy when we had four people playing - 6 locations. I bought some cheap plastic playing card trays and cubicle clips. Here's the layout without cards and with cards. I scrunched the player decks together to fit in the picture, but otherwise we spread out a bit more. We've found it easiest to sit on one side of the table as we can reach all the locations that way. If I had a smaller, square card table it might be fine to put them in a circle. Thoughts, comments, trolls welcome.

What is the protocol for start at the beginning if the cards from the 1st adventure pack are already shuffled into the decks (items, spells, monsters, etc)? Should a beginning character running through brigandoon encounter any cards from pack #1? Do we just take them out prior to starting that game? I apologize if this has already been answered or is in the FAQ. I honestly couldn't find it.

EDIT: also, what about when all 6 add-on decks have been shuffled in? It seems like it'd be a tough haul for a new player if they encounter a monster from deck 6!

Is there ever a time that the blessings pile will not be advanced? Somewhat related... When a character moves, can they explore on that same turn or do they have to spend an Ally or Blessings card of their own to explore?

Most of my games are 2 or 3 players so we often don't get to use the 4, 5, and 6 player locations from scenarios. If I'm playing a 2 player game that requires 4 locations can I just choose from the other available scenario locations to spice it up a bit?

Black Fang's Dungeon:
1. 1 - Desecrated Vault
2. 1 - Temple
3. 1 - Shrine To Lamashtu
4. 2 - Throne Room
5. 3 - Thassilonian Dungeon
6. 4 - Warrens
7. 5 - Deeper Dungeons
8. 6 - Mountain Peak

A 2 player game only gets to use locations 1-4. Would I be compromising the game if I chose to use locations 5-8?

I build and shuffle the deck for Seoni. I draw her 6 cards from the top of her deck to populate her hand. Are those the cards she has to start with? If not, what's the procedure for picking a good starting hand?

Related: When Ezren or Seoni want to "attack" do they just roll their arcane + modifier for damage or do they specifically have to play an offensive spell card such as Force Missile?

I've just started playing Pathfinder after a 10 year hiatus from table top RPGs. I'm going to run my first adventure for a small group soon. I've got all the maps and tokens setup in RPTool's MapTool, an overhead projector, plenty of dice and pencils.

The one recommendation I'm looking for is a good electronic (spreadsheet, java app, local app) character sheet specifically for Pathfinder which includes all the skills, feats, spells, etc. There's a lot of recommendations in the forums over the years and I found a treasure trove of options. I'd like some guidance on which is most widely used these days, best supported, and perhaps integrated with MapTool/CharTool. Unfortunately, I found the CharTool pathfinder v6 config was incomplete or buggy.

Please educate me!