Heya :)
First off, just wanted to thank you SOOO much for Pathfinder! I'm relatively new to everything here and I discovered the ACG as a solo play option through The Dice Tower (Eric Summerer specifically mentioned that it was good for solo sessions) and WOW - cannot emphasize how amazing my experience has been so far! Being a working parent it's difficult to find time to hang with a gaming group, so being able to run and control 2 characters through these adventures has really been quite engaging. I've even started to bring up some Alts! I could go on...but that's not the purpose for this missive today.
I just signed up for the both the Adventure deck and Class deck subscriptions (yay!) and since I'm just launching into the sub now, I will be starting with the 5th Adventure Deck I believe. I had already purchased the Base Set and Adventure 2 at my local GameShop (well, at ONE of them - we're spoiled here in ATX!) and wanted to gather up the remaining Adventure Decks that I will be missing because of my late start with the Paizo sub. Purchased Deck 3 today, but my local did not have Deck 4 in stock, so I did some quick online recon to check availability at Paizo and AMZ, etc.. During that search, I noticed that different outlets were offering the Adventure packs (as well as the Wrath Base Set) with what seems to be alternate box art/variants. For instance, on the Paizo site the Adventure decks have that wonderful dark red action going on, but the boxes shipped from AMZ are mostly grey. Also, the Wrath Base Set box has a different cover as well (Paizo - iconic hero squad! / AMZ - Dragon/Demon deathmatch!).
Anyhoo, just wanted to find out whassadeal and perhaps get some insight into whether these are just variants based on the product cycle, or if these are even legit, or... ??
Thanks again for everything and keep rocking hard with this game system - I'm a believer ;)