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Hi!
I haven't posted much, but I'm an avid player of the ACG and I am stuck in Chicago for five hours. I thought I'd drop in to shout the praises of Paizo's ACG volunteers at GenCon, and rave about how much fun the Open was. If you aren't familiar, the Open @ GenCon is basically a "tournament," made up of new (and usually really hard) scenarios. There were qualifying rounds on Thursday and Friday, from which the top few teams advance. They play again in semi-finals on Saturday, and cut to the finals on Sunday. The scenarios come with a point system which is used to decide who advances, and who wins.
I'm not going to get into details or spoilers, because I hope they release it for download because it was fun. If your an PFS player (I'm not), it was based on the Bone Keep (I think), which we were told was infamous for it's difficulty. Making it even more challenging, we had to build our characters and decks as part of our play time, and didn't get much choice in which class and ultimate decks we used.
Each time of four could choose from five options:
Valeros from the Fighter Deck w/ Ultimate Combat
Kyra from the Cleric Deck w/ Ultimate Magic
Lini from the Druid Deck w/ Ultimate Wilderness
Merisel from the Rogue Deck w/ Ultimate Equipment
Lem from the Bard Deck w/ Ultimate Intrigue
Each class deck came with the B and 1 cards; the ultimate decks had B, 1, 2, and 3. (We were making Tier 3 characters at the start, no roles.) After building our decks, over the three rounds, we dealt with varying challenges like extra locations, being unable to move, and needing to rig the top cards of decks. It was a ton of fun!
In particular, I wanted to give a shout out to Jen (sorry, I didn't get her last name) who was running the ACG area and who wrote the Open scenarios. Our GM, Matt (again, sorry, no last name!) was fun, entertaining, and knowledgeable. Outside of the Open, my friends and I hung out and played a lot of ACG (5-1 is pretty cool) and it was great to see so many people also playing this awesome game.
The Open was really cool, and I'm really happy I was able to play. Thank you so much to everyone involved.
-crp
PS: Bonus shout out to player Cat (I'm really not good at getting last names) who played ALL FOUR characters in the qualifier and the semi-finals. She was awesome.