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I think you're missing the point. Being a BGG fan is a spontaneous reflection of enthusiasm. The declining numbers tell a message that Paizo will undoubtedly see in its sales figures:

RorR: Fantastic, epic fun, character development, must buy.
SS: Somewhat disappointed, ships implemented poorly, recycled characters, too difficult, may or may not buy.
WotR: Mythic powers implemented poorly, recycled characters, even more difficult: will not buy, move on to other games.

Calling WotR owners in the Paizo forum (hardly a representative cross-section of game buyers) to become a BGG fan may increase the fan numbers, but it will not increase sales.

If you want the successor of WotR to become more popular you need to fix the things that people in this forum seem to like, but is off-putting to the casual gamer.

Wow, I can't believe I've missed this RotRL post. I'm halfway through S&S but when I'm done I'll try your work; it looks very impressive!

If you made any other adventures please do post them, it would be great if this ended up as a full adventure path.

As much as I enjoy playing RotRL and S&S I must say I'm a bit disappointed by the USP of S&S: the ships. I had expected ship to ship battles, where your own ship would fight other ships, with anybody on the ship as crew to help. But no. I had expected more fire arms, and canons on the ships that you can fire in battle, and gunpowderrooms that you drop a spark in to accidentally blow up and sink your own ship. Again, no. So before I sink yet another 180 euro in WotR I would like to know much more about the game, other than the very limited stuff I've seen so far, which makes me believe that WotR is RotRL with different art-work.

My questions to the Paizo crew that I think more potential buyers would like to know:

1. What makes WotR quite different from the other two sets; what is the USP?
2. What is this mystic feature, how does it work, and how does it influence gameplay?
3. Will the characters (including the expansion set) be new or will some of them be recycled like in S&S?
4. Can we see cards, get an overview of special cards, game mechanisms, is there a demo video?
5. What is the excitement about a d20 about, and how does this change the game?

I have 180 euro in my pocket. Make me spend it.

I own a mixture of first and second print cards, and I must say that in my humble opinion the whole issue is blown out of proportion. The colordifferences are minimal, and I have not experienced any difficulties shuffling.

I totally agree with MightyJim's post; I feel exactly the same way.

In "The Secret of the Mancatcher Cove" you find a villain, which leads to another villain which leads... etc. The flavor text on the back of the card talks about a treasure that we are apparently hunting down. What is this treasure, and what does the string of villains have to do with it?

Thanks for the update Vic, sounds like excellent service to me. Very impressed.

Oh boy. I get my stuff from amazon.de (I live in the Netherlands). Very late (we just got AP3 two days ago) and never ever a promo card (even though I pre-ordered the entire series). So, I'm worried I'll never see the correction deck. I hope there will be other ways for lgitimate buyers to get the deck free of charge.

I've uploaded a new version of Shield of Rannick

Spectacular, thanks!

I'm at the end of advanture pack 1 of Skull and Shackles so it'll be a while before I have time to play this, but it sure looks great! Very creative, and no new cards needed.