paizo.com Favorited Posts by ShannonApaizo.com Favorited Posts by ShannonA2024-01-28T07:35:52Z2024-01-28T07:35:52ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: General Discussion: Paizo Blog: Core Design: ValerosShannonAhttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sh4m?Core-Design-Valeros#52020-03-26T03:21:11Z2020-03-20T08:13:27Z<p>I've just been reminded that I was writing strategy articles before I moved at the start of the year, so I'm hoping to knock out Valeros and maybe the next-one this weekend.</p>I've just been reminded that I was writing strategy articles before I moved at the start of the year, so I'm hoping to knock out Valeros and maybe the next-one this weekend.ShannonA2020-03-20T08:13:27ZForums: Rules Questions and Gameplay Discussion: Paizo Blog: PACG Core Set Class Strategy #4: Amiri the BarbarianShannonAhttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sh2r?PACG-Core-Set-Class-Strategy-4-Amiri-the#12020-03-29T23:37:26Z2020-03-20T08:03:05Z<p>Wow. It's been a crazy few months. I moved out to Hawaii at the start of the year, and then of course COVID-19 hit.</p>
<p>Your comments are always welcome, and I just realized that I should be writing about Valeros!</p>Wow. It's been a crazy few months. I moved out to Hawaii at the start of the year, and then of course COVID-19 hit.
Your comments are always welcome, and I just realized that I should be writing about Valeros!ShannonA2020-03-20T08:03:05ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: General Discussion: Paizo Blog: PACG Core Set Class Strategy #2: Lini the DruidShannonAhttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6sgz5?PACG-Core-Set-Class-Strategy-2-Lini-the-Druid#112019-10-27T18:00:18Z2019-10-24T05:55:38Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">wjsilver wrote:</div><blockquote> From the perspective of Lini how do you feel about the number of animal (not to be confused with vermin) allies in The Curse of the Crimson Throne? </blockquote><p>At the moment, I'm writing these articles solely from the point-of-view of the Core Set, so that if someone has just the Core Set, it'll be entirely applicable. I'll obviously expand out to Curse when I talk about the four Curse characters, and afterward ... I dunno, maybe there's a way to do a few articles talking about using the original characters in Curse.
<p>I actually have barely looked at Curse, except to gawk over all the beautiful Harrow blessings. We're hoping to start it in November.</p>wjsilver wrote:From the perspective of Lini how do you feel about the number of animal (not to be confused with vermin) allies in The Curse of the Crimson Throne?
At the moment, I'm writing these articles solely from the point-of-view of the Core Set, so that if someone has just the Core Set, it'll be entirely applicable. I'll obviously expand out to Curse when I talk about the four Curse characters, and afterward ... I dunno, maybe there's a way to do a few articles talking about using the...ShannonA2019-10-24T05:55:38ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: General Discussion: Paizo Blog: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Strategy #14--Improving Your Character: Strategy & TacticsShannonAhttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lkhw?Pathfinder-Adventure-Card-Game-Strategy#132018-02-25T04:58:00Z2018-02-24T05:31:07Z<p>Thanks for the very kind words, folks.</p>
<p>I •do• know what the next articles would be: they'd be specific strategy articles on characters, starting with the 11 from Rise of the Runelords. I have notes and ideas for all of them. It's just a question of time. I wrote the first 10 articles in this series in a very tight bout of creativity, and that's been hard to replicate, so the more recent five have all eaten up a lot more writing time.</p>Thanks for the very kind words, folks.
I *do* know what the next articles would be: they'd be specific strategy articles on characters, starting with the 11 from Rise of the Runelords. I have notes and ideas for all of them. It's just a question of time. I wrote the first 10 articles in this series in a very tight bout of creativity, and that's been hard to replicate, so the more recent five have all eaten up a lot more writing time.ShannonA2018-02-24T05:31:07ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: General Discussion: Paizo Blog: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Strategy #13--Building a Party: Other ConsiderationsShannonAhttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lk3v?Pathfinder-Adventure-Card-Game-Strategy#102018-02-24T05:02:59Z2017-09-23T02:56:24Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Cyrad wrote:</div><blockquote> Abandon characters? But by the rules, you have to grind the characters to level them up! </blockquote><p>Obviously an early abandonment, before the end of the preliminary arc, can work under any circumstances.
<p>I didn't want to go beyond that in a semi-official strategy posting, but personally, we don't require characters to play missing scenarios. Over in the roleplaying world, one of the concepts that really opened my eyes in the early '90s grew out of the RuneQuest community: it was the idea of MGF. Maximum Game Fun.</p>
<p>Given that Fun is the purpose of entertainment, you do what you can to maximize it, at least in a way that doesn't defeat the competitive core of the game. So adapting that to PACG, we just let anyone accrue any checkboxes that their character had missed. Everyone else was still happy because they had better cards thanks to their play, and the previously absentee players were happy because they had the otherwise unobtainable thing and stayed at par with the rest of the group.</p>
<p>Obviously, personal house rule: YGWV (to use another term that grew out of that same gaming community).</p>Cyrad wrote:Abandon characters? But by the rules, you have to grind the characters to level them up!
Obviously an early abandonment, before the end of the preliminary arc, can work under any circumstances. I didn't want to go beyond that in a semi-official strategy posting, but personally, we don't require characters to play missing scenarios. Over in the roleplaying world, one of the concepts that really opened my eyes in the early '90s grew out of the RuneQuest community: it was the idea...ShannonA2017-09-23T02:56:24ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: General Discussion: Paizo Blog: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Strategy #5--Moving to New LocationsShannonAhttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5ljf8?Pathfinder-Adventure-Card-Game-Strategy#82018-02-24T05:05:11Z2017-01-10T23:21:14Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Frencois wrote:</div><blockquote><p> In case you are, like us, playing with a large group, you may also add "Move in group to a location that has a painful start of turn effect" as a paragraph.
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</blockquote><p>Yep, I've done that on occasion and it's a good point to have (probably in the discussion of initial choices). Personally, I just prefer to have Amiri deal with those, though.Frencois wrote:In case you are, like us, playing with a large group, you may also add "Move in group to a location that has a painful start of turn effect" as a paragraph.
Yep, I've done that on occasion and it's a good point to have (probably in the discussion of initial choices). Personally, I just prefer to have Amiri deal with those, though.ShannonA2017-01-10T23:21:14Z