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It's reduce by half, not to a half. So it should reduce the damage by 1.
Armors reduce damage either by some number X, i.e. damage := damage - X, or to some number Y, almost always zero, i.e. damage := Y.
Probably language misunderstanding rather than rules isuue.

When does this level 7 card come into play? It's considered a Loot item but there's no scenario or adventure reward in CotCT that awards it. The Vault also doesn't get rebuilt for Adventure 7 so it wouldn't show up in normal play.

Is it intended to be a Year of Rotting Ruin reward?

https://pacg.fandom.com/wiki/Yzahnum_the_Efreeti

Interesting question. I honestly don't have an idea what would be the "correct" answer. My opinion is - this check does not have any skill (the rulebook's rule about blessing such a check is needed to tell us what die to add), so I would say that part must be ignored.
No skill = do not add anything. It is slightly different from not having any Arcane skill when doing an Arcane check (thus, use 1d4) - here there is no skill at all.

To summarize: The first part of Marriage adds 1d6 (per rulebook), the second part about other local character's skill should not add anything.

I have doubts regarding these 2 spells, especially regarding Animated Weapon. Damiel's skill is active only "WHILE you play a spell", and "while" is not the same as "while and after". So, as soon as you resolve the spell by playing a weapon, you finish playing the spell and your Arcane and Divine skills are back to normal d4.

I believe that under Core rules, you play the cards in the "Determine Which Skill You're Using" step and the check becomes Intelligence-based Craft check that gains the weapon's traits. It does not matter if you do not have Arcane or Divine skills later, as it is a Craft check now and forwver.

skizzerz wrote:

For example, no playing Cure on yourself when you have no cards in your discards and no scourges that can be removed in place of healing.

Can you please refer to the exact page and paragraph of the rulebook that state this?

I believe the "You may not use a power that doesn’t apply to your current situation. For example, you may not play a card to reduce damage when damage isn’t being suffered" on page 8 of the Core rulebook is the one you seek. If you have no cards in discards, no scourges that could be removed by healing (or if that applies to other local characters), then you may not use the Cure spell. Of course, you might argue that you want to heal yourself for no effect. In that case, do whatever floats your boat and just do it - it's your game; but you are again not allowed to play it during an encounter or check, as it in no way relates to your situation. And, because it goes to a recovery pile first, you can't argue about you needing cards in your discards or deck for other effects.

Whipstitch wrote:

The Core Rulebook added the following to its definition of Display: "Displaying a card and immediately activating a power on it counts as playing it once, not twice." So, you can display a card and immediately activate one of its powers any time it's appropriate. It doesn't have to be displayed before you want to use it.

I think that the exact quoted text can have more interpretations than the one you provided.

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But Anchor card says:
"Display this card next to your character. When you would shuffle a non-villain monster into your location, you may place it on top of that location instead. At the start of each turn, roll 1d6; on a 1, bury this card. If you move, discard this card."
In case of Anchor, displaying is listed like a separate action you could do with a card. I have doubts that you can display Anchor during an encounter, because you shuffle an undefeated monster into location during Resolve the Encounter step of the encounter. And you are only allowed to play card powers that directly affect that step. Simply displaying Anchor does not directly affect this step.

The text in the Anchor card parallels the armors, for which this new rule was created. If you look at any armor, it says "Display. While displayed: When you suffer ... damage, recharge ". You can play any armor whenever it relates to a current situation (Display+Recharge to reduce damage), or when it is outside encounters or checks (there is no condition to Display - if it said "When you encounter a monster, you may display. While displayed:", then you could not display it unless the condition applied). I fail to see the reason why Anchor would need to be already displayed for you to use its power. Acceptable plays are:

Probably yes - generally, cards that heal for their power are excluded from the healing, but this is adventure power + works with only a single card for a given character, so why not.

Semicolons join the parts that should go together, periods separate powers that should be checked, well, separately. :)

Sawtooth Saber:
If you are proficient, you can play it on
First combat check: reveal S/A/M+1d6+2, discard S/A/M+1d6+1d8+#+2
Another combat check: reveal S/A/M+1d6+1d8+2, discard S/A/M+1d6+2d8+#+2
If you are not proficient, you cannot discard it and only the reveal part applies.

Horrorbane Heavy Pick:
Reveal uses S/M+1d6+3
Reveal against Aberration uses S/M+1d6+1d8+3
If proficient, you may discard (regardless of bane type) for 1d8.
If any die shows 1 (regardless of bane type), it counts as 6.

(It's consistency with other similar weapons and powers - see Scythe and Vicious Scythe that both transform 10s into 12s: would you think that because this weapon is good against Aberrations makes it less capable than a non-magical weapon? Granted, Heavy Pick is pre-Core - that's why I mentioned scythes)

Hello HexZyle, my opinions that may or may not be valid are shown below:

Would I be able to play an Ambrosia to heal a character Drained during that combat check? Provided no other items had been played during that check?

During an encounter, you should not be able to heal or remove scourges at all, unless some power specifies it by its timing. For example, Ruan Mirukova allows you to do that. If you wanted to get rid of Drained, then between / before encounters. TTRPG-wise - when you encounter a monster and it is attacking you, it's probably hard to eat some Ambrosia ;).

The Desert wrote:

Discard to move another character to your location

Would I be able to play The Desert in order to bring another character to me so they could assist me with ally cards for the check? (But no blessings because I have just played one)

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Many cards that allow you to move, examine, or explore explicitly say that you cannot do so during an encounter. The fact that these two do not made me start to wonder if they could be played during one, and that I have been ruling this incorrectly.

Almost all powers that allow you to move (unless allowed by timing) explicitly state that you cannot use them during an encounter, as you mentioned. There has been no FAQ entry about The Desert, so you may probably use it during an encounter? I would probably rule out that it's a mistake on the card, but RAW you can. Nevertheless, it cannot be played on your character so in solo-game (or when everyone else is dead) this power cannot work.

The Lady of Mysteries wrote:

Discard to draw 3 cards, then recharge 3 cards. Then you may explore

Would I be able to play The Lady of Mysteries in order to get a more appropriate hand for the combat check? (I am assuming he rules say you cannot explore during an encounter somewhere)

I am beginning to think that the rule specifically means that you can't play The Lady of Mysteries if you have no cards in your deck and there are no cards in your location

OK. Many different issues here. First, can you play this blessing during an encounter? RAW you probably can, similarly to Pharasma's Knowing; I would probably forbid it anyway. Second, any power that allows you to explore, unless it is in your turn, will fizzle out and is ignored. An interpretation that by playing this during an encounter you get an extra explore (like when defeated barrier says "You may explore") would be also wrong, in my opinion. Third, if you wanted to play this power and you had only 2 or fewer cards in your deck, it would mean death - first you need to draw 3 cards. If you don't have that many, your character is dead. No arguments here. In other order (recharge 3, then draw 3) it would be OK.

Again, all these are my interpretations. Feel free to disagree with them and play in whatever way you want :).

Edit: Stannis Baratheon would approve?

While it's not quite what I'm working towards, it will definitely be very helpful if I move forward.

At this point, I'm doing two basic things:

1. Transferring the various APs from cards to a printed file.
2. Adjusting the Society APs to regular play.

OK, understood! My conversion spreadsheet contained also the original powers (pre-Core) that I removed before I shared it with you. If you need that list with some erratas incorporated, I can send it to you as well. But you probably have all of that already.

Where Society play makes it necessary for adventures and scenarios to be played in any order (because you never know who is going to be at the table and where their characters are in APs), de-Societifying everything means that adventures and scenarios are played in order.

A counterpoint, perhaps - a "complete these scenarios in any order" instruction is actually present in a non-Society adventure. Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure 5 (with the different undead). Thus it may be acceptable to have some adventures playable in any order, if the scenarios don't really weave a story.

Hello, Tyler.
I have never played according to the Society rules, so I can't provide you with any help regarding how it is played. However, I wanted to one day play the PFACG sets our gaming group has with the additional adventure paths (Season, Year of). And when I converted all the PFACG cards to the Core terminology, I also had to adapt the adventure path, adventure, scenario, and Society rules at the same time. I am not sure what are the terms I can make them available under, so I did not upload the xls spreadsheet with conversion. There might be some change you disagree with, but maybe there are some hidden gems that you can use.
My conversion is aimed at playing at a table with the same group, using the original adventure path cards maybe with some few thematical class decks added inside the vault. Therefore, I ignored the deck upgrades altogether, but your idea of having the class decks sounds reasonable. I just don't have the experience with it to provide you any feedback

I've made a smaller version of my master conversion spreadsheet, which I will send you by Private Message on BGG, along with the password to open it. There are all story banes, support cards, adventure rules etc., an automated sheet with adventure selection that displays everything needed for the setup, but I've excised the pre-conversion wording.

If you decide to use any of this, I will be content; if you found errors, some issue or opportunity for improvement, I would be very happy - please let me know.

I would also love to see this game to continue, even just by fans using their time, effort and resources (provided there is some approval from Paizo and/or Long Shark, of course - it's their IP). Drive Thru Cards or whatever printer company with official approval would be great. Disclaimer: I've never used DTC and don't even know if they ship to Europe and at what costs; I have no experience with marketing or bussiness and no game development besides fan-made stuff. But let me add a few comments of mine.

Core versus pre-Core
The wording of Core is a strict improvement over the original one. There is a tremendous difficulty of converting everything from the older wording into the Core one. However, I've done that for all the cards and adventure paths and Seasons in the game. Even though everyone's fallible and my interpretation of some interactions might be wrong, it'd be a great boost if it were used as a basis. Of course, assuming the community would want the Core wording. There might be some who prefer the original, but they can use the older sets if available. If there was an official or just Paizo-approved effort to create sets with Core terminology and the issue is financial cost, I can provide my database free-of-charge (or possibly in exchange for some of the created card sets).

Season Sets
Most of the Seasons' cards in original form are available within the PDF files of particular adventures, so one can extract them and easily print them as a proxy. Many of them are, however, of poorer resolution so I would wholeheartedly agree that having them available as printed card would be great. I think they can be easily made available by Paizo as they should have the higher-res images of the cards in the production files. ;)
I would love to have official pretty cards available instead of inserting a piece of paper into a sleeve with extra PACG cards just for their back.

One thing I noticed, but didn't do anything about, was that Nok-Nok (Tha Fith Gawd) has a hand size 5 □6 □7 □9. I didn't see any discussion on the forums about it. It just seems to me that the 9 should be an 8. Like I said, though, I didn't change the 9. I'm just bringing it up in case anyone knows why the progression skips the 8.

I've found just this forum post about Reta (Goblins Fight - so not a promo, I mistook her for the promo Ally Reta Bigbad).

One thing I noticed, but didn't do anything about, was that Nok-Nok (Tha Fith Gawd) has a hand size 5 □6 □7 □9. I didn't see any discussion on the forums about it. It just seems to me that the 9 should be an 8. Like I said, though, I didn't change the 9. I'm just bringing it up in case anyone knows why the progression skips the 8.

Reta Runaway Bride has the same thing? Possibly some of the silly promo goblin oddities, I believe.

Hell's Vengeance 1 CD Linxia (Enforcer): The second core power starts as "When you play a boon that has the Corrupted or Shield ([] or Heavy Armor) trait for its power, shuffle a random card..." This is different from the basic power and the corresponding power on the Knight of the Rack role, which reads (using the basic power wording) "When you play a boon that has the Corrupted or Shield trait for its power, you may shuffle a random card" (emphasis added).

Hello Tyler, I've just checked my Linxia role card and you are right that there is the "you may" omitted in the Enforcer role card. Seeing as the cards often have errors and other 2 instances are "you may", I agree that it is most probably a typo. Only very few characters have their base power changed in similar way, if any.

There are some location cards required to play the Curse, as well as level 0 cards to fill the characters' initial decks. You would also need the proxy cards for henchmen, some generic story banes + the scourges. The remaining cards are not really needed. You could get by without the Core - barely and with a lot of proxying or looking at the cards in https://pacg.fandom.com/wiki/Core_Set - but it's much simpler to use the Core set.

The Amulet of Fortitude came long before there was even a possibility of having a combat Fortitude check. As it is now, it could indeed be used on combat Fortitude checks, including the OA2 Yoon's first power. The MM Yoon does not use Fortitude, she just adds her Fortitude skill (and not the corresponding trait).
As for the recharge to succeed part, that power is much too powerful even on its own. However, if you use the Core terminology, you can look for similarities with other items. I do not believe there is a single level 0 or 1 card in Core / Curse that allows one to succeed at any check.

Based on the changes in some fundamental items in Core, the Amulet of Fortitude would state something like this in Core terminology.

On your Fortitude check, reveal to add 1d8.

On your Fortitude check, recharge to add 2d8.

However, play it in any way you believe it should be played. If you think it should be used on non-combat checks only, go for it.

P.S.: For completeness, my revised powers in question:

On your combat check, you may recharge (□ or shuffle into your deck) a blessing to add your Fortitude and the Fire trait. You may additionally discard any number of cards; for each card discarded, add 1d6 (□ 1d8).

For your combat check, you may reveal a spell (□ or a blessing) to use Fortitude + 1d8 and add the Attack, Fire and Magic traits; you may additionally discard it to add another 1d6 (□ plus its level).

My point when talking about playing both powers relates to my experience with players. They may think "Oh, I failed an Arcane combat check to defeat a monster, so I reveal the Robes to shuffle two cards into my deck. And I'll also reveal it and discard an item to search for my Sihedron ring in my deck so I can reveal it to prevent the damage."
Maybe I was not specific enough in my comments, sorry for that.

These are two separate powers and thus, it would be playing the card twice on the same check, which is not allowed. Core cards and some specific pre-Core cards specify that you cannot play those cards to draw / search cards during an encounter (Restoration spell, Errata-ed in FAQ). You should not be playing this card "twice" for the same check.
Pathfinder Adventures is buggy, unfortunately, and some weird or corner-case interactions are often misrepresented.

Timing should be - first reduce the damage by armor, items, whatever, and only when the damage is decided, play Robes of Xin-Shalast. As worded here, it would not be possible to play it together with another item (unless it has You may use another item on this check or "freely").
In my rewording into Core, I made this thing semi-armor like and allowed this to be played freely. There is similar (Grounded) Studded Leather Armor in Curse that works mechanically similar to the Robes, which inspired me to this.
Seeing as this is a AD-6 Loot item, it should be quite powerful, so I would allow another item to be played, but RAW it should not be allowed.

Well, timewise you suffer both damage types in any order (there is no "then"). There is some discussion of what it means to suffer two damage types at once (there is one monster in Mummy's Mask that does multiple elemental damage) - do you reveal cards sequentially for them? Does playing armor for 1 Cold damage prevent you from playing armor for the other? Still ambiguous even in Core set rules.
However, you can look at the Core cards for inspiration. In that way, Sihedron Ring would be "freely reveal" so that it does not care about order. It just says "when you play me, do not count me as an item". So I would allow both cards to be played, in any order you choose ;)

When playing pre-Core, try to stick to the latest available rulebook, that is: Mummy's Mask + for things specific to the adventure path, refer to the rulebook. I do not believe there is anything special about RotR gameplay-wise, apart from a single card Runeforged Weapons (at least mechanically).

I have not uploaded my translation of pre-Core into Core wording anywhere, especially because I am not sure if there are no possible copyright issues. The original wording is in PACG wiki, but not in an easily searchable database (like e.g. my XLS file). Additionally, it was a tremendous amount of work with possibility of omitting / misinterpreting some interactions - once I publish it anywhere, any mistakes are going to stay ;) I'll think about it.

I would like to add that the "Cloud"-type spells are somewhat simplified in the Core wording. They no longer have a restriction when they can be played, so you can play the Incendiary Cloud whenever you like - provided you stick with Core wording.
https://pacg.fandom.com/wiki/Corrosive_Storm

Freely display. While displayed:

On combat checks, add 2d6 and the Acid trait.
...

vs.

Display this card when a character encounters a monster. While displayed, add 2d6 and the Acid trait to combat checks to defeat monsters.

I've converted all of the original cards (from all campaigns and expansions, 3291 boons and banes in total) into self-consistent Core wording, so the Cloud spells have the same template. If you need a RotR excerpt, just let me know ;)

Does anyone know where official maps of these can be found? All the maps I've found on my own via google have been wildly inconsistent, and don't site a source (leading me to think many of them are labors of love by fans, rather than official material). Any help on this is appreciated.

Some maps of Casmaron and other parts of Golarion can be found here:

3. Fetch Fire Gecko out of your deck and recharge it instead of discarding it per Zova’s Weretouched power.

Note that step 3 is only relevant if you’ve recharged other cards or shuffled your deck since recharging Fire Gecko in step 2

I'd like to add that it's also relevant if, and only if, you chose the Weretouched role and checked the power feat box in "When you would banish a spell that has the Animal trait (□ or discard an ally that has the Animal trait) for its power, you may instead recharge it." Base Zova does not have this druidic ability.

I used the cost / trigger just as a convenient shorthand (inspired by MtG) that was meant to convey that these two things happen in different steps of an encounter. "Cost" = when you play the card or power, "trigger" = the power on the card that becomes (in this case) active after the final reroll. Maybe I should have said so? :)
Zova's power does not wait until something else might happen later in turn.

Friend at the table thinks this is different as the power is on the gecko. Since the Fire Gecko power is waiting to see the end of the check, its locked in a limbo and cant be used for anything else. I disagree.

OK, I believe you may be talking about two different issues, but maybe I did not understand correctly.

Could I play a card that buries cards from my hand or like the teamster, that recharges a card from my hand to prevent damage when applied in a matchup?

Generally, you can play cards for any power only when some condition/timing occurs, or at any time outside of an encounter when it does not specify timing.

An addition to your 3 questions:
Some character powers (such as Quinn's) allow you to replace one skill for another. These should be all written as "On your XYZ check, ...", but sometimes have an incorrect "For your XYZ check" wording.

For[sic] your check that invokes Finesse, you may recharge (☐ or reload) a card to use Knowledge instead of Acrobatics or Stealth, and add the card's level.

This means Quinn plays a Finesse card (weapon) "for your combat check", the check becomes an Acrobatics/Stealth check (Quinn does not have either, so 1d4) and gains the traits from the weapon. He then uses his power and the check becomes an Intelligence Knowledge check, i.e. base die between 1d10+2 to 1d10+6 based on Int skill feats. I am not sure if it retains the Acrobatics/Stealth trait, but I would say that it loses it, as it is "instead of it". Cards that benefit Intelligence checks would have an effect on this check, cards that benefit Strength or Dexterity would not.

All those are described in some parts of the rulebook, but it can be frustrating to try to find them on your own, so:

The only time the traits are added to the check is when you are determining the skill used or when some power says to add a trait or replace a skill.
1) Adding Knowledge or Knowledge skill (note: Core set is sometimes inconsistent in this wording) adds her whole 1d8+1, adding Knowledge die would add just the 1d8, adding Knowledge modifier would add just the +1. Neither of these adds the Knowledge or Intelligence or any other trait. So this skill does not "become" an Intelligence-based skill.
2) That depends on the traits the check has. If your skill is Melee = Strength, then Torag's Power has the effect you cited. There are characters that have Melee = Dexterity or Melee = Intelligence or even something else. Those would not benefit from Torag's Power, as the Melee check won't be a Strength- or Constitution-based check. If you do not have Fortitude skill, then your Fortitude check would be 1d4 and would not get the Constitution trait. Torag's Power's second option (Constitution check) would thus be useful only for characters with Fortitude skill.
3) Gem of Physical Prowess (or Topaz of Strength) replaces just the die you are rolling. The check remains the same, but instead of let's say 1d6 you can roll your Str/Dex/Con die. You do not add the modifier; if your Strength is 1d12+4, you just replace the die you would roll with 1d12 and that's it. It does not gain the traits, so it is not a Strength check now. Also, you can use it on a skill you do not have, such as e.g. non-combat Arcane - in this case, your Arcane is 1d4 (no skill trait added); playing the gem would make it a plain "1d12 die" Arcane check.

These spells say (in Core terminology) "Display. While displayed: For your combat check, ..."
Thus, you can either play them at any time during any step outside of an encounter (if you, for example, believe you are about to fight something), or whenever you are about to make a combat check. The rules say that you can display and use a power of the displayed card at the same time.
Example 1: It is the start of your turn and you decide that you might need the attack spell sometime later, so you play it. Until the end of the turn or until you decide to discard (Core:banish=put into recovery pile) the spell, you can just use Arcane/Divine/whatever the spell says for your combat checks. Thus, at the start of your turn, a Hammerhead Shark says hi at the Shark Island and you have an answer for his greetings.
Example 2: You encounter a barrier that lists Combat in its check to defeat. You can display Aqueous Orb and use its power for the combat check.
Example 3: You explore and flip over Tsadok Goldtooth - now it is too late to cast the spell "when encountered or before acting", so you first take his damage before acting (possibly losing the spell card from hand as damage) and only then attempt the check to defeat = Combat. At that time, you can play Aqueous Orb. If you played the spell before even exploring, it would be ready. For the first check to defeat, you would automatically have Combat = Arcane / Divine + 1d6. If you do not discard (Core:banish) it for the extra dice, it is available again for the second check.

Displaying these spells outside of an encounter is great as you can evade losing them as damage, but at the cost of possibly not needing them in that turn. At the end of the turn, it will be discarded (Core:banished=put into recovery pile) anyway.

If I were going to convert this card to Core Set language, it would look something like:

Banish this card to draw 3 Divine spells from the vault. You may instead bury this card to display the spells; you may banish any of these cards for its effect as though you had played it, ignoring its During Recovery power; banish any such displayed cards at the end of the scenario.

If I may add something, wording that I used in my own list of converted cards into Core terminology is:

This card is also a part of the Pathfinder Adventures app, where the wording of some cards is improved / modified when compared to the original RotR. There is no "banish to draw" in that version, probably for better understanding.

Bury this card to display three new spells that have the Divine trait. You may play each of these cards as if it is in your hand; after you do, banish it. At the end of the scenario, banish any that remain."

But the magus is limited as well by these rules too. As it doesn't really matter if you are a true spell caster vs a hybrid you still can only use one card that says for your combat check so what is the point in making a hybrid class?

Well, they have powers that allow them some stuff with both spells and weapons. It's what differentiates them from classes that just use whatever they fancy. Some magi in PACG use both weapons and spells at the same time (or one of those, of course):

Choose a weapon that doesn't have the 2-Handed trait and a spell that has the Attack trait. When you play one for your combat check, you may recharge the other (□ or shuffle it into your deck) to add 1d6 (□ 2d6) and that card's traits to the check.

Other powers just take advantage of the spells / weapons they have:

You may recharge a weapon (□ or any boon) to succeed at your check to recharge a spell (□ then you may shuffle the recharged spell into your deck instead).

PACG is based on Pathfinder, an evolved D&D 3.5, not on some MMORPGs, so characters usually use magic or weapons to their full potential and some classes use any combination to a much lower degree of power.

Correction: Sacred Weapon lets you use 1d8+# instead of Melee or Ranged. Sorry, I must have mistaken its power with some character's power (probably some caster/fighter type ;) ).

Well, Grazzle is a pure spellcaster (that 1 weapon is mostly a support, so you can't expect him to be useful with weapons, just like most video game pure casters). Especially if you look at Combat 40 check. However, note that there ARE spell that can add quite a lot to a character's combat check, such as spells that say "On your combat check" / "On a local combat check". And to be clear - you may use only a single power that says "For your combat check", but it does not limit the number of "On <...> check," powers.
See for example the Core spell Aid (adds 1d4+#, i.e. 1d4+6 in AD6) etc. Combine with Blessing of Shax or Pharasma to great results.
Funny spells are those that let you play a weapon and use your spell-casting skill, in WotR he can use the Sacred Weapon, which is rather good, actually.

Speaking of Combat 40 checks, that is the WotR insanity-level difficulty combined with mythic roles coming into play. If you have a mythic role that can boost your Strength, then you get +number_of_mythic_charges on the check and you can turn some dice into d20s by expending them.

And lastly, if you want to see how a spellcasting and martial character can fight, look at the Magus class (Seltiyel, Ahmotep, other characters from Magus class decks). Generally, as a spellcaster, you need to look at the secondary powers of the weapon you can add to your deck. Core weapon Wyrmsmite is a shield as well, MM weapon Torch lets you explore and so on. Light crossbows and slings or daggers (appropriate to casters in PF) can assist you and other characters freely.

Additionally, if you would love some class / character deck to add into the Core set (for example, Occult Adventures or Ultimate Intrique or whatever you desire), I have converted every single card in those "older" decks as well as the original four adventure paths AND the Seasons 0-5 into Core wording. I have overlay texts that can be printed out on an adhesive tape and thus glued to the original cards.
Currently, my collection covers Skull & Shackles, Wrath of the Righteous, Hell's Vengeance decks (for WotR), Pathfinder Tales and Gunslinger (for S&S) - all with converted texts and sometimes checks. My friend has Mummy's Mask (converted). The non-converted decks (i.e. without the text pasted over the original cards) I have are Occult Adventures and all Ultimate decks save the Ultimate Combat - I do not intend to acquire more :)
If you wish some of those character decks available converted into Core terminology, I can help you with that ;) - but I can't make the old cards into the new layout, obviously.

Need to do some more reading on these "traits" it seems....

some references to help you in that reading:

Also, you can learn the basics for the slightly outdated "pre-Core" PACG edition in a very buggy and unsupported/abandoned app Pathfinder Adventures (Android, iPhone, Steam). It has a good tutorial and the first free adventure; however, do not bother buying other stuff in there, it is not worth it due to bugs (and I am speaking as one who plays the app relatively often).

Great overview from Whipstitch.
Once you select the skill you are using for that check, you can add dice through other cards, such as the Poison Blast mentioned above, the Aid spell etc., but also some weapons - slings and daggers, mostly.

Suppose Valeros has a Longsword, a Dagger, and Poison Blast in his hand. For his combat check, he can use either of these to set the skill for the combat check, replacing the standard "combat = Strength or Melee". If he plays the Longsword, he can actually use all 3 cards for one check:
a) Longsword says "combat = Melee + 1d8; reload = +1d4". So by just revealing it, Valeros can roll 1d10+2+1d8.
b) Dagger says "On a local combat check, freely recharge to add 1d4." Valeros can play it, even though any character may play only a single card of any given boon type on the check. The keyword freely says that this card does not count for that limit. So, Valeros adds 1d4.
c) Valeros plays Poison Blast (the "On a local combat check" power) - he cannot play it for the "For your combat check," power, as that was already decided. So, Valeros adds 2d8, Attack, Magic, and Poison traits.

The final combat roll would be: 1d10+2+3d8+1d4 and it would have the Melee, Sword, Slashing traits (from Longsword), Strength trait (Valeros' Melee skill is Strength-based) as well as Attack, Magic, and Poison traits (from Poison Blast).
During recovery, the Poison Blast would be returned to the vault, as Valeros is not proficient with its traits.

So my character VALEROS as combat d10 +2 for Melee...OK?

He wants to use this spell 0 Acid Flask...
(1) Can he?
(2) and if so...under the spell's powers one can "Banish to
use Arcane +2d4" so while Valeros doesn't have ARCANE
the card does.. so those powers could be used for the combat??

Am I right or wrong....?

Valeros has several options for combat - first, each character can use Strength or Melee for the combat check. Thus, you can roll 1d10 + 2 (assuming Valeros does not have any skill feat in strength).

I love your answers and clarity in response ...so I'm going with that for awhile....Is 2019 edition the latest for PF Card Game?

Yes, it is - the Core Set has the full campaign Curse of the Crimson Throne available, which was published the same year. There are some PF Society adventures available (PDF through Paizo shop) that are mainly intended for Organized Play, but nothing in them prevents you from using those in your play at home or with friends. A campaign Year of Rotting Ruin, a half-sized campaign Year of Reborn Strife, and several smaller stand-alone adventures like We Be Heroes! Fangwood Thieves, A night at Bloodthorne Manor.

There are 4 long, full-blown PACG campaigns in the "previous edition (pre-Core)", but these are slightly different in some ways and require some conversion for you to enjoy it in Core rulings (or a little bit of switch for you to learn the older rules). Plus there are 6.5 "Season" campaigns for Organized Play. :) So a lot of content.

I noticed that the dice provided with the core set are unorthodox.

What the? You are right, I did not notice that. My universe just collapsed! It seems that Paizo is at least consistent, as my Skull&Shackles dice (from 2014) have the same arrangement as Core dice, which you just described. Maybe they have some reason for it, but I have no clue what reason it would be other than affecting the value distribution across the faces.

I would use (preferrably) the Sum=(n+1) convention, so either avoid the original dice and use the "normal ones", or switch any Paizo die with a normal die when resolving the Carnival. Due to many many dice required in some rolls, I have PACG dice mixed up with standard dice to beef up their amount - and replacing normal dice with PACG dice does not seem very easy ;)

In Curse of the Crimson Throne scenario 4D, the storybook contains the following powers:

Storybook wrote:

When a bane from a location is undefeated, banish a boon from that location's totem pile.

and

Storybook wrote:

At the end of your turn, banish a boon from each unoccupied location's totem pile; if you cannot, you lose.

and it just strikes me that that final clause—"if you cannot, you lose"—seems like it might have been intended to be on both these powers? Especially since there's no other reason to care about totem piles after you can occupy all the locations.

Hello fox, if you want to play it that way, perhaps in a difficult setting (H or L), no one can stop you. :-D

I would not go as far as saying there is no other reason to care about totem pile at your location, if all locations are occupied. The barrier Treacherous Tunnels can move you anywhere at random - and if you happen to examine the Pack Landshark in another location, you have to move to it. Oops - if you did not care about your location's totem or have no way of moving back, you have to scramble to save the day.

That's completely fine, Pyrocat. You can do whatever you want with your game :)

We solved the "referring to a sheet" by printing the converted powers onto adhesive paper and pasting it over the cards' power box. It took a LOT of manual work, but we have both S&S and MM "converted" into Core terminology.
Honestly, translation into Core terminology helped my friends to understand and parse out the overly complicated wordings of some cards. Neither of us is a native speaker ;)

No, reveal powers turned into "draw this card" on displayed armors. Compare e.g. the Magic Full Plate in Core and RotR:
https://pacg.fandom.com/wiki/Magic_Full_Plate
They made some fundamental changes for many armor types and many of the "display to reduce damage" ones became "draw this (displayed) card" or in some lesser armors, "recharge (this displayed card)".
Note that in many cases the amount of damage protected is not the same in post-Core world (full plate again), and some armors now protect against other damage types as well (i.e. Cold for leather and hide armors).

Hello pyrocat, my own conversion rule when converting pre-Core armors into Core terminology was:
Each armor (apart from shields and helmets), including shield-clothing, gets "Display. While displayed:", while its properties are derived from Core armor of the same type.
It's a breastplate? Unless it is a lightweight Elven Breastplate, it will be "When you suffer Combat damage, you may recharge to reduce it by X." instead of drawing the card. This way, there is some consistency with Core armors - and a small decrease in power for some, when it used to be reveal to reduce by X, is offset by the increase in versatility.
If you are interested, I'll try to compile the "type => function" list from my converted armors.

Recharge a card to display is an interesting approach, but changes the functionality too much, if you e.g. have a pre-Core chainmail and Core chainmail...

After some detailed reading of both Mummy's Mask rules and Core rules, I believe Skizzers is right, even though there was no explanation given. The rule is one card / power per check or step, but the "Determine the skill you are using" is described in both current rules as an "action", not a "step" of a check.
This distinction is definitely intentional; otherwise, one could play e.g. an item to determine the skill for the check and then play another item to add to it. Similarly with weapons or spells.

TLDR, RAW: You can either change the skill to Stealth, or add 1d6, not both. I would probably allow to use both in this instance, but RAW you cannot do it.

Zetha is from the Summoner CD and has the following powers:

My question is are the following actions legal.
1. Can she banish 2 monsters when facing a barrier to use stealth skill instead of the listed skill as well as add 1d6? Or perhaps just add 2d6?

2. When she takes damage, can she banish 2 monsters to reduce damage by 4 plus their adv#s?

2. I believe you can only get reduction by 2+adv# by banishing a single monster, as character and card powers can activate only once. If the power allowed banishing multiple monsters, the wording would be different ~ "any number of monsters; for each banished monster, reduce it by 2 plus their adventure deck number, if any"

1. Ok, so these are three powers bundled up in one. You can use this power once during each step or check. Say you encounter a barrier that does not list Stealth in its check to defeat and have 2 monsters in hand + all power boxes checked. One of the steps is ~ determine the skill of the check. Here, you can use this power to say "this barrier can be defeated by Stealth". Later, another step is ~ attempt the check. It is a different step, so you should be able to use Zetha's power again - and only once. So you banish another monster to add 1d6 to the Stealth check => the check to defeat is Stealth + 1d6.
Or you can say "I am fine with the skill in the check to defeat (e.g. Arcane)", so I will banish a monster to add 1d6 to it. Even if you have 2 monsters, you can add only 1d6, not 2d6.

Is it understandable? Resident rules experts, please correct me if I am wrong. :)

My experience with the simple boxes, dividers and foam blocks in Core box was much much better than trying to fit all of the S&S into the S&S insert when it is sleeved, even with very thin KMC PafuekutoSaizu :) sleeves. Accordingly, I made a few extra boxes for my S&S.
Surprisingly, you can fit the whole Curse of the Crimson Throne into its box, which is just a small box for storage. Of course, you can fit the whole Core set, Curse set, and maybe a better part of earlier expansions like RotR or S&S into the Core box. It is not as pretty, but much more functional to my taste.

Тhat's *exactly* why you do NOT check backwards - if you lose your role, you lose all the feats you gained after acquiring the role.

I stand corrected - I remembered it completely wrong. Sorry about it ;) I just checked all 5 rulebooks and there is no mention of backward checking, so it isn't possible that I remembered a rule from some previous rulebook. Not that it mattered for our single WotR playthrough even though the scary Umbral Dragon stole our role cards.