| dark_incubus |
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Howdy! I see there is already a thread for this so I will put my 2 cents in. I called Paizo customer support when I opened up my CotCT and the card backs were all a much different shade than the core set. They were kind enough to send me another copy (yay!).
However all of the cards in the second copy of CotCT were a third completely different shade of the reddish/maroon back. When I followed up on this I was told the following:
"I spoke to our Chief Technical Officer, who is leading the ACG project, and he let me know that each plastic wrapped deck is made from a single sheet that could have the wrong coloring on it. He said it should not affect play..."
And then when I asked to speak with him directly I was told to post here, hence my post.
I want to address two major things:
1. This 100% affects gameplay. Anyone who says otherwise has never played the game. I will give one major example and then, if needbe, am happy to give more. In the event that the villain is defeated in a location then we take his card, shuffle it in with blessings so the total number of cards equals the number of still open locations. My blessings were mostly from the Core set where the villain, if I am playing CotCT are not, and thus is very distinguishable when distributing them onto the location decks. Sure I can close my eyes and try to slip them under or whatever, but this is a major impact in gameplay.
2. I don't know what Paizo's process for manufacturing or QA is, but I do not specifically believe this is Paizo's fault per se. I do believe that it is Paizo's opportunity to work with their printer to ensure that there is consistency to the shade on the card backs. That being said, prior to this I have not had any issue, and I own and have played through all of the other adventure card games when some scenarios came out much later and yet were able to be printed with the same shade on the card back.
I am happy to give more examples of how this affects gameplay. My hope is that Paizo works with their printer/QA to remediate and prevent this error.