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Interesting idea. I may have to try it out sometime. You could also maybe give bonus points of some sort to the number of cards remaining in the blessing deck. Not sure how much. Maybe 100 gp per card? Maybe 100 x Adventure number (50 gp for starter scenarios). Time is money after all.

As far as the spell value, I think scroll price if fine for the most part. But if there is a living character in the party with the appropriate spell casting skill for the spell (arcane or divine), you should add the cost it takes to add a spell to a wizards spellbook in addition to the cost of a scroll of a spell since that is the only numerical value for learning a spell in Pathfinder. These are the amounts for each level:

0: 5 gp
1: 10 gp
2: 40 gp
3: 90 gp
4: 160 gp
5: 250 gp
6: 360 gp
7: 490 gp
8: 640 gp
9: 810 gp

I like this idea. I think I will bring it up to my group. Adds another way to track our progress. I posted on the Boardgamegeek boards too and one of their posts game me another great idea. I am working on it now and once I have more I will add it to this post. Thanks.

James

Hello all,

My friends and I are huge PACG fans. After replaying Burnt Offerings for the third time we started arguing about how well we did compared to our previous attempts. That's when inspiration struck.

Why do adventurers do what they do? Certainly some of them are just there to help out the poor and unfortunate, but the majority of adventures are there for one reason, TREASURE!

After some discussion on how to best keep track of how well we did on each run, we came up with the following system.

1. After each run, when we have finished remaking our decks, we gather all the items that are left over.

2. We input these items onto the below linked excel spreadsheet.

Boargamegeek.com_treasure_values.

3. The spreadsheet keeps a running total of how much Gold all our treasure was worth.

We don’t track items we keep in our hand, because those are not sold for Gold. We also don’t count Blessings or Allies. Every other Weapon, Armor, Scroll (spell), Item, and Loot Card we acquired is sold for Gold. All the Gold values come right out of the Pathfinder Role-playing Game Books, or at least as close as we could get. (We couldn’t find some items, and others were close but not exact.)

Now every run is not about just beating the Villains, any adventurer can do that. It’s about gathering as much treasure as we can to beat previous runs. This makes every card valuable. No more closing early just to win, we want to get rich!

The replay ability this has added to the game is amazing. We are keeping track of every mission and players are even asking to go back and run some of the starting areas just to try and beat our old scores. I will add a post later with some of our Gold values.

I hope this inspires others. Please feel free to leave a comment or suggest ways to improve our system. Also, if you end up using the sheet post the scenario and your total Gold and Gold per player values for others to try and beat. Thanks for reading and have a Happy Holiday season!

James

Thanks to everyone who helped get this game out to us. It is an incredible game that I hope continues on for years to come. Hope everyone had a great day with family and friends yesterday. And yes, we did breakout the PACG and even Grandma had some fun rolling the dice. Nothing like a 72 year old Seoni to rock the game up. :-)

Sorry, I should have done this to begin with but I was in a hurry with my first post. This should help those who have asked how to make a similar board.

Here is a list of everything I used to make the board.

1 16 inch Lazy Susan (link below)
1 22 inch Masonite Cake Board (link below)
1 can Gold Spray paint
1 jar Black Acrylic Paint
1 can Gloss Acrylic Sealer Paint
2 Lamination Sheets
1 tube Gorilla Glue Epoxy
1 8X10 Printout of the Pathfinder World Map
1 4X6 Picture of the Pathfinder Iconic Characters
4 felt rounds for bottom of lazy susan to keep it from sliding.

Process –
Spray painted the entire board Gold
Had my wife sketch the runes out around the board, then paint them.
Used a lighter to burn the edges of the Map
Laminated the map and photo, then glued it to the board
Sealed the entire board with Gloss Acrylic Sealer
Glued the board to the lazy susan
Put felt tabs on the bottom.

Cake Board

lazy susan

I got the info for the card holders, but only businesses can order directly. Looks like you need to order large amounts at a time. I will keep digging.

Card Holders

Sorry, for some reason that link didn't work. This one should be the correct link to the card holders.

card holder.

Also, here are the links to the photos of the full board again.

Boardgamegeek.com

Photobucket.com

Thanks for all the interest. If anyone has any other questions just give a shout.

James

I posted a link to the close up pic of the card holder below. I contacted my supplier but he is all out of them. They have to be created in batches of 100 so it may be a while until he has some for sale again.

If enough people are interested I can try and put together an order for them. They come in Small, Medium, and Large. I used 8 Medium and 11 Small for my board set up. That allowed for all 8 locations to have a stand up spot in front and back and 3 small stands for the Adventure path, Adventure and the scenario.

Go to Acrylic Card Holder Photo.

Could we perhaps trouble you for the stock number or close-up photo of the holders and where you obtained them?

I will post some pictures and more info on the holders when I get home today. I think you can get them for about $2-3 each, cheaper if you buy them in bulk.

What type of card holders are those? It looks like it has a spot in the center to lay the stack and a slot on either side to stand them. Is that correct? Do sleeved cards fit in them?

Thanks,
Tim

The card holders are made of acrylic. I used two at each deck location, a larger one in back for the location and a smaller one in front to place the encountered card. It also works well to keep all the cards in a nice pile. I decided not to glue the card holders down so I could adjust as needed for different size games and keep the board portable. I bring it to a game night every week, so while I love the board with the Stonehenge theme, its not overly portable.

All my cards are sleeved and they fit great, but I have also played it using a friends deck without sleeves and it worked great for that too.

All the players thought it worked out great and they loved being able to turn their own cards and read them right in front of there spot without having to get up from the table.

The map in the center is from the Rise of the Runelords Map Folio. I printed it on a nice piece of parchment paper then burned the edges to get the cool look on it. Then I laminated it and glued to the board. It's the Varisia Poster map, so it shows a lot of the locations from the scenarios like Sandpoint and Hook Mountain.

The other picture is just a collection of all the Iconic Characters printed out on a 4x6 photo.

I found a lot of ideas for the board in the Rise of the Runelords anniversary hardback campaign book.

If anyone is looking for more background info to make the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path even more fun I would suggest picking it up.

I also posted some of the pictures on Boardgamegeek.com if anyone wants to check them out there.

Board Game Geek Photos.

Vic,

Thanks for the great idea. My Wife and I decided to try the do-it-yourself method and came up with a pretty workable board. Anyone who wants to check it out I posted some pics on Photobucket

We made it in just a few days, with stuff from around the house. Only had to buy the lazy susan and some card holders. Total cost to us, $23.00. If you had to get all the stuff yourself I think you could make one for about $30-50 depending on how good a shopper you are.

Special thanks to my wife painting all the runes around the outer edges.

It works great so far, and is very portable.

James