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Jduteau- I'm glad you think the barriers are easy in S&S. They tried really hard to kill our characters many times. We dreaded any location with more than 1 barrier.

What if it is the other way around? If it is a divine check? Can we use the Knights bonus to wisdom for a divine check?

We are having trouble figuring out when to use this card. We understand there are some henchmen in AP2 that are barriers with the army trait, but all of the checks besides combat are more specific than wis, int, str, dex, con, and char. They have checks like melee, divine, stealth, fortitude, etc. So when can we add a d6?

I fell in love with Ooloch as soon as he was announced. Even though he isn't the best to start out with, he's my first pick in a party of more than 2 people. I haven't loved a character this much since Seoni (who I could never keep alive).

Oh. Okay. We didn't realize that. We played both RotR and S&S as you must attempt a check to acquire a boon. The rules state (pg 10) that you may attempt to acquire a boon, but you must attempt the check to defeat a bane. The card text on the wishing well states "At this location, you automatically succeed at your checks to acquire a boon, summon and encounter the henchman Pirate Shade Haunt, which may not be evaded." That should help quite a bit.

The other issue we were having is that the villian requires another random character at another location to encounter Gholdako, which for Lirianne, is a bad thing considering all of her good weapons have ranged and with the ranged attack, he increases to a 32. However, we did manage to get around this by staying together. That just means Lini can't use her d4+2 (currently) power for combat checks, since we would be at the same location.

Not to mention, 2 of the henchmen (one of them being Gholdako which can appear either from the villian or from the Ruined Ampitheater location) require you to draw 3 cards off of your deck and bury one, discard one, and recharge one. That, coupled with increased checks due to pirate shade haunts or the Ghol-Gan Ruins location (increase all banes by 3), have made this a very difficult scenario for our two characters after just one hand wipe.

We have been using the Truewind ship which allows us to recharge cards from our discard pile if we discard cards from the blessings deck, but it has only kept us from dying. It has not helped us win.

I've got a 2 party (Lini & Lirianne) game going. We've been doing pretty good until this scenario. We've attempted this scenario at least 4 times. Once we got close, but every time we have almost died. We've tried clearing the wishing well location with one character, but it's backfired a lot with the henchman or villain being at the very bottom. Any tips on anything we could do to get through this scenario? I've changed 4 cards from my deck just to suit this scenario (something I rarely do, because it screws me over for quite a while after that scenario). I thought perhaps others were having issues too, but I could only find two discussions on it.

Thanks so much! I'll check it out.

I'm so sad to hear that Oloch is at the bottom of the list. I fell in love with this character and his backstory as soon as I looked at the characters in the rulebook and on the character sheets. I may have to reconsider. I am planning on playing him with a 4 person group though. Any thoughts on whether that would make him worth it? I really like almost everything this character has to offer. However, if combat checks are going to be as rare as constitution checks were in RotR, I may have to change characters.

The fact that only those who had their credit card charged with no shipment got compensation makes me wish I was in that group. I'm still trying to decide if keeping the subscription is worth the frustration.

I guess that is where my confusion is. Don't send this email out to customers LET ALONE charge their credit card for items that are not ready to ship out. Also, I just happened upon a post on boardgamegeek that discussed the shipping issues that they were having. I was under the assumption that I would be receiving everything I was charged for until this morning.

I think they thought it was ready to ship out. That was the impression I got from Vic's comment. They thought everything was okay up until close of business on Aug. 22nd when they still had no Add-On deck even though it was promised to them.

Good luck and hope September is a calmer, happier month for you and your staff.

I will second this. Even though I have expressed some annoyance at how all of this has gone down, I definitely, whole-heartedly hope September is a calmer, happier month for Paizo and everyone involved in this fiasco. You all deserve it.

Ilpalazo wrote:

So subscriptions:

1. Cost more than retail price
2. Usually arrive later than retail street date (less often in the U.S, but literally always later in Canada where I am)
3. Give you promos that the FLGS's also get.

Got it.

1) You get a 20% discounted price that you don't get at full retail. Not talking Amazon or other online stores.

2) Depends on the shipping method you choose and whether you choose to combine with other subscriptions (which I do for my comic subscription). Otherwise it should arrive about the same time. It just isn't a guarantee.
3) None of the local game stores in my area get the promos when they get the product. My friend bought a couple decks through Amazon ... no promos. It really depends on if the distributor gets the promos to pass on to the retailer.

Get it?

1) I'm not saving 20% by the time shipping cost is factored in. More like 1% (and that is with the cheapest shipping option. Without it, it would be more than paying at my FLGS).

2) Since the street date was almost 2 weeks ago, and my order still hasn't been shipped yet, I'm not holding out hope that I'll have my stuff before my FLGS. Having said that, I haven't looked at my FLGS, since I've already ordered. I'm not planning on doing ANYTHING to this subscription this month or next given the problems that have already happened. I would hate to have even more problems occur.

3) My FLGS does give out at least 1 promo with each adventure pack if not more. I keep the subscription to gaurantee I get ALL promos. That's it.

I do think free shipping on either the base set or the character add-on or credit would be nice. So far, I have received no official e-mail that was rumored to be sent yesterday and nothing has been offered to the customers. I'm finding out everything through the message boards, which I find a little odd in the first place.

I get that the printing company screwed up. I get that it's their fault. A promise was made to Paizo that was not fulfilled so Paizo and its customers who have not had items shipped yet by the gaurantee should get some restitution for that.

I just got off the phone with customer service, and finally it looks like we have some information about what's been going on. Apparently, there was an issue with the Character Add-On decks, which they were trying to get resolved but were unable to before the shipping deadline. The base sets are supposed to be shipped today, and the Character add-ons will be sent next month with Adventure deck 2.

I made it clear in my discussion with the representative, but I want to repeat it here to make it clear: this was the wrong way to handle this. The lack of information, and silence right up until the deadline did nothing but create confusion and frustration for the customers. As soon as there was an issue, it should have been publicly announced. At the very least, when it looked like it would be right up to the deadline, an explanation should have been made available. I hope in the future, if there is ever an event like this again, we will have greater transparency regarding issues such as these.

I wouldn't hold my breath. I'm one of the few people who isn't happy with Paizo's customer service, but it's not worth it for me to cancel due to the promo cards. If they had not included the 4 promo cards with this shipment, I would have cancelled. I've decided that the best way to not be disappointed is to add on two "time periods" to whatever the release date is. So in this case, it said early August, so I have been expecting to receive it in late August. My hope has always been that I would recieve it by August 30th, but I'm not sure that will happen with this set. I got nothing for complaining last time, and I'm sure I won't get anything this time. I'll just keep hoping one day they come through for me.

My bf bought our first base set and the second AP. I bought the 3rd AP in stores and then had the subscription for 4th-6th AP. I also bought every promo card in the secondary market (paying $15-20 a piece) we missed not having a subscription. Then some friends wanted to play. I bought another base set of ROTR along with AP 1-4. I also buy the Pathfinder Legend CDs while waiting for my next shipment to come in. I'm very much addicted. I think that will end my buying of ROTR though, because it is not a problem to move AP 5 and AP 6 over to the other base set along with the promo cards, since he and I are done playing that one.

I bought at least 4 of mine on ebay.com and paid anywhere from $15-$20 a piece. I'm a little obsessed and came to the party late though. Honestly, the 4 promos included in the S&S base set are the only reason I didn't cancel my subscription for the base set (I'm not making it to GenCon this year).