| Juan Sombrero |
With the success of the game, we've been able to move card printing to the US instead of China. The US cards are about half a millimeter shorter than the Chinese cards, though they're the same width. The difference in length is slight enough that you can't spot them on a stack unless you're trying really hard—that is, you've squared up the deck and are actively looking for a difference. Since this is a cooperative game, not a competitive one, that should not be an issue in play.
As for shuffling, if you square up the cards first and put the squared-up ends together, they should interleave just fine.
The US printer should hopefully be able to deliver more consistent color as well—there was a fair amount of color variance in the Chinese cards.
When we're shipping the US printing of a product, it means we have sold out of the Chinese printing of that product.
I absolutely love the game, but buying the character add-on deck was a big disappointment for me. I can still live with the different sizes, since they vary very little. Buy the different colour scheme on the back is inacceptable to me. Basically your deck gets 'marked'. Let's say a C card is on top of a location. You know then for a fact that card is not the Villain. Or any fancy card from the more advanced adventure packs. Same story with my character decks, where I have a few C cards only in each deck, therefore knowing pretty sure what card will turn up when you see your next card has the lighter background. This seems like a missprint and really disturbs me while playing. I feel like they should be replaced by decent copies. Any initiatives from Paizo to this regard?
What will happen when I buy future adventure decks, printed in US? Will the also have lighter backgrounds? In the end, half my deck will be dark, the other light. Not acceptable for a game you invest a significant amount of money in.
The solution is sleeving, using sleeves with non-transparant backs. Another investment of X $.
I hate to drag on about this matter, but I can hardly imagine being the only one bothered by this.
Gr
Juan