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Hey Everyone - I am trying to play Season of Wrath, but instead of organized play, its with my wife and we are looking to just play it normally.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to pass out things like skill feats, power feats, card feats, and roles?

Soooo
COVID19 has paused my campaign, but I am REALLY wanting to play again. Has anyone done a remote play of PACG, or is there anything like roll20 for it?

And yes, I know of the App version from a few years ago. But I have played that into the ground. I really want something new

So, I am starting to read through the new rules book (ok, skim may be the better phrase), while I was also setting up for playing the first scenario of Dragon's Demand. I haven't played with Rivani, and I REALLY want to, so I am adding the Occult Adventures stuff as well as the Core for DD.

However, I noticed the following line in the Core Set Rulebook

"Powers that also determine the type of check may not be played freely"

That would seem to kill one of Rivani's powers

"For your Perception or Ranged check, you may recharge a card to use your Knowledge skill instead"

I know this could affect other things as well - for example, would that kill the Emerald of Dexterity? Or am I being overly harsh?

So, as I’ve mentioned in a few other threads, I have had a few home homebrew ideas floating around. I am posting them in a public google drive.

Here is the link to that drive

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1s-szTkZDcwVL6B62f-pExfivyUkBu10E

My first big unveil - The Plunder Island Adventure. This started as just a single scenario idea I had floating around in my head. Then I thought of a 2nd scenario, and so forth. Now, this is still pretty rough, so I would LOVE some real feedback on it. I would like to make the story a little more robust, I am not sure about the locations, and so forth. So, please share any comments you have.

Other projects I am working on

Holy Gunslinger - a character that is somewhere between a cleric and a gunslinger (I’ve changed it a lot since the first iteration. This is my next unveil)

Arcane Gunslinger - If you are going to have a Divine gunslinger, you should have an arcane caster that also uses guns :D. This is still in the early concept stages,

Arcadia Adventure path - I have an idea for an adventure path that is built around a group of adventures going to Arcadia, and getting caught in between some local natives and a Chelix invasion.

If anyone wants to help, please let me know. I would love to collaborate on some of these ideas

So, I had an idea a while ago for trying to create a firearms/gunslinger who could also heal (http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2tabw?Working-on-a-new-character-Holy-Gunsling er for the idea). If you have any ideas/suggestions on it, please let me know (I still don’t think the primary power is overpowered). I want to do some work on it again, to try and finish it, (because like the 1 shot adventure I created, it’s only partially done).

However, I had a few other ideas develop, and I am trying to tease out how best to use them

1) If you are going to have a divine caster who uses firearms, shouldn’t you have an arcane caster who uses firearms? My idea was to incorporate the firearm into using/gaining the arcane skill (ie something like “reveal a weapon with the firearm trait to gain the skill arcane....”
2) I like the idea of using a firearm to “shoot” a spell to someone. Most likely it could be some form of when playing a spell, reveal a firearm to replace “at your location” with “at any location.” But should this be built around a weapon, or built as a power feat for a character?

So I am looking to play a new adventure path, but I kind of have some limitations on it.

I have all of the current published paths, but they are either in use (and some of the players are unavailable for a few months - grumble grumble) or I've loaned em to a friend who wanted to try them. So I have no easily accessible adventure paths. However, I do have a BUNCH of unused character decks. So, I was wondering - is there a completed adventure path with custom banes out there, that can be printed vis-a-vie drivethru cards?

So, I just recently got the Thousand stings whip. And I have a question, based on the text

It says "When you encounter a monster, reveal this card to ignore any powers on a non-villain, non-henchman monster that happen before you act, then for your combat check, use your Strength or Melee skill +1d8+1...."

Does this mean that it can only be used on non-henchmen/non-villain monsters? Or that the the ignore powers only applies to non-henchman/non-villain monsters, but you can still use the other weapons abilities against henchman and villians?

Hey everyone - having just got the Hell's Vengeance deck, I am really excited to try it out. However, I don't have any open games I could play it with. I do have 2 friends interested in doing a one shot, but we all want to try the characters at higher levels. Does anyone have any suggested options for setting up a one shot, and being able to use more advanced characters? The one idea we talked about was playing like an adventure 3-4 scenario, and then rolling a D6 for each card type, and taking that many non-basic cards randomly for the group
(example - for weapons, we roll a d6, get a 5, and randomly choose 5 non-basic weapons that we could use)

Any ideas?

Hey everyone,

Was starting a new play of S&S this evening, and one of my regulars wanted to play Rooboo, and so we set up, and started to play.

She and I both thought Rooboo seems to play incredibly weak, at least when it comes to combat, and we were wondering if we were missing something.

I know she has the
"For your combat check, you may reveal a weapon to use your Dexterity skill + 1d6 (□ 1d8) plus the weapon’s adventure deck number; you may additionally discard that weapon to add another 1d6 and the weapon’s traits."
ability, but if you use that, you can't use weapons as well, can you?

Are we missing something, or is that actually balanced enough so the power grows? Otherwise, it seems like you are very limited with her when it comes to fighting.

Ok, this comes up in the context of Pathfinder Adventures, but it would also apply to card version.

Was playing Sajan, and he was fighting a plague zombie, and using amulets of mighty fists. Unfortunately, he rolled ****, and lost (come on Sajan, you can do better), and so has to take damage. Now, he also had the bracers of protection, so I planned to use those to absorb some of the damage, but the game wouldn't let me, and someone claimed that this was because you are playing 2 items on a single check. But I always thought the act of the roll was the actual "check"

So, could you not use bracers of protection to absorb damage if you used amulet of mighty fist?

I've got an idea for a new adventure path, but as I think through it, it might require pulling cards from multiple decks. The basic idea of the the path is based around the idea of a clash of cultures between an aboriginal culture, and some invading cultures (maybe the Cheliax, and an indigounous culture of Arcadia, and a 3rd group).

Anyway, has anyone ever made an adventure path that mixes a few different decks? How did it work out for you? Or can someone point me towards a path that has done that?

I ask this knowing that my group is only through adventure 2 of Mummy's Mask, and we are just beginning to look at organized play (ok, it'll be slightly modified, but anyway), and a small group REALLY wants to get into the goblin game (trying to figure out how to plan/schedule that).

The class deck's aren't restarting till August, and there isn't currently any new base decks known.

When do people think we might see something new, and what would people like to see? I've not been paying too close attention to the forums or the blog, so it's possible I missed something

If I were picking, I'd be interested in seeing Shattered Star, something with an Asian theme (I wanna use the Ninja character), or something that sets up a clash of cultures, maybe between the Inner Sea region and Arcadia.

Anyway, other thoughts? Or maybe some news?

So, my group has been wanting to try the organized play adventures, and people have their various class decks, but for a variety of reasons, we have all struggled with the unique rules of organized play. We are considering trying to play the organized play adventure, but not using the specialized organized play rules.

Has anyone looked at how you could do that? The big question in my mind is the various rewards, because otherwise it should just play like a normal adventure path.

Hey Everyone

My group is going to do another run through, probably of S&S, but we have to make our own characters, and they need to be a little weird (one of them is going to be a goblin paladin...)

Anyway, my character is going to be a half-orc holy gunslinger. I want someone who has healing ability, but is built around ranged combat, preferably firearms.

Here is what I have so far - I am struggling very much with the role cards (I feel like I should do something with blessings). I welcome feedback and suggestions.

Skills
Strength D10 [] [] [] Ranged +2
Dexterity D6 [] []
Constitution d8 [] [] [] [] Fort +2
Intelligence d6 []
Wisdom d8 [] [] [] [] Divine +2
Charisma d4

Powers
Hand size 4-5 or 5-6
Proficent with weapons light armor

When you play a weapon that has the Firearm trait, if you would bury it or shuffle it into your deck, you may keep it and instead perform the required action with another card

Recharge ([]or reveal) a weapon with the firearm trait ([]or ranged) and recharge a blessing to allow 1 character at another location to recharge 2 ([]3) cards from their discard

After you play a spell that has the Attack trait, banish it

Card list - Favored Card type : weapon or blessing
weapon 4 []5 []6
spells 2 []3 []4
armor 2 []3
Item 2 []3 []4
ally - 0
Blessing 5 []6 []7 []8

Role - Righteous Bulletstormer ("It's quantity that will win in the end")

When you play a weapon that has the Firearm trait, if you would bury it or shuffle it into your deck, you may keep it and instead perform the required action with another card

After you play a spell that has the Attack trait, banish it

Recharge ([]or reveal) a weapon with the firearm trait ([]or ranged) and recharge a blessing to allow 1 character at another location to recharge 2 ([]3) cards from their discard([]reveal another weapon card to allow another character at another location to recharge 2 cards)

[]you may play 2 weapons during a combat if they both are a 1-handed weapon

Role - Sanctified Sniper (“One bullet can mean the difference between winning or losing a war”)
When you play a weapon that has the Firearm trait, if you would bury it or shuffle it into your deck, you may keep it and instead perform the required action with another card

Recharge ([]or reveal) a weapon with the firearm trait ([]or ranged) and recharge a blessing to allow 1 character at another location to recharge 2 ([]3) cards from their discard

After you play a spell that has the Attack trait, banish it

[]Recharge a weapon to add 1D4 to a check against a bane by another character at another location

[]If you bury a card with the firearm trait, recharge 1d4 cards from your discard pile

[]If your combat check has the 2 handed trait, you may add Poison or Fire or acid or cold or electriccity or mental trait

If wall of blades is displayed at a location, can the character who played wall of blades play a seperate spell card during an encounter, and wall of blades still gets used?

For example - suppose Lini displays wall of blades at her location. She explores and encounters a monster. Can she then play a seperate attack spell and also recharge 2 cards for the 2D8? Or has she already "played her spell" that is allowed during the encounter?

Had to share this.

Tonight, our group of Lini, Daimel, and Alahazra were playing Red Rum (I think it was Red Rum - we also played Feast of Spoils), which of course has Shark Island in it. Through careful use of potion of flying, and Dimension Leap, I would go to Shark Island, and then leave before I actually began my turn there. So I never ended up fighting a Hammerhead shark. Of course, this started the comments about "I don't see why this really isn't more of a tourist attraction" and other comments. I'd say I burned through 3-6 cards.

Anyway, then Lini was forced to move, and Shark island was the best choice. And someone made the comment "I wonder if we won't "find" any sharks at shark island." We basically said no, so unlikely....

And the card she pulled was the villain. We dispatched the villain with due haste, and thus closed shark island without finding any sharks.

And then we started emptying the deck, and, and our Alahazra player stated “well, now we know why there weren’t any sharks”, and proceeded to hold up one of the enemy cards that remained in the deck……

The shark-eating crab.

Invasive species have come to the Shackles......

Am playing S&S last night, and I mentioned to my fellow shashbucklers that I would be interested in playing Arueshalae in S&S if we were to play again when we finish.

One of my fellow players argued that she was significantly overpowered, particularly with her cohort, Arueshalae's gift. We went back and forth on this, with me agreeing that removing the gift would probably be needed, but that she wouldn't be overpowered (until we got a thrown a cyclops giant which we really weren't ready for).

Anyway, I am interested in other people's comments - is Arueshalae too powerful to play in either S&S or RotR?

Ekkie's card says "For your check that has or is against a card that has the Animal or Basic trait, add 1d4 to your check"

So, if Ekkie is playing a weapon with the Basic trait, against a monster that is non-Basic, does she get to roll an additional 1d4? Or would she only get to roll that if the monster itself was Basic?

So, I broke down and started buying the Iconic Heroes miniatures, to use instead of the cards, and I can tell that they will be way cool when my groups start up in Jan (holiday break and all that). However, I have a problem, well actually 3 – Ekkie, Raznak, and Arueshalae. All my other characters will be available by Jan sometime (Oloch is the last of the iconic heroes I formally need). But I have an Ekkie and Arueshalae for WotR (and I want a Raznak, as I intend to have a Raznak in my next playthrough).

I know they aren’t iconics, so we won’t see them in that set. I hope we see a future set, but no data on whether that will happen. Given that, does anyone have any suggestions on what to use in place, besides the cards? I know there are some goblin miniatures, and I think I might be able to modify one without too much difficulty for Raznak (although I’ve NEVER worked with minis before, so this may be a recipe for disaster). But I’d welcome other suggestions or ideas….

So, I've started to develop a series of scenarios that may grow into a full adventure (if I can come up with 3 more scenarios). So far, we have 2 scenarios - Hunt on Plunder Island, and Escape from Plunder Island

(Yea, yea, I know - it's cliche. I am spending my creativity points on a good scenario)

Escape from Plunder island
(Before I begin - we have playtested this 2 times, with only slightly changed rules, but fairly different outcomes. So there may be some balance issues that need to be resolved - I do want this scenario to feel like a "high risk/high rewards scenario")

Concept - you are attempting to recover treasure from a mysterious island, during a hurricane. Should you succeed, you will have your choice of treasure. But the hurricane is strong, and will test your ability to survive. And you aren't alone in trying to recover the treasure

Locations
(I have not decided which locations make sense for 1 character vs 6 characters)
Beach
Coastline
Fog Bank
Jungle
Mangrove Swamp
Raker Shoals
Rocky Cliff
Sea Caves

For this scenario, locations cannot be closed until there are no cards in the location deck. All locations close automatically when they are empty.

Villain and Henchman
No villian
Henchmen - Enemy ships
When you defeat an enemy ship card, set it next to the scenario card.

Blessing deck modification
Shuffle all Hurricane Winds henchmen into the blessing deck (you'll have 36 turns, in effect).

Rules

When a Hurricane Winds henchman appears in the blessing discard pile, remove it and create a pile next to the scenario card. Count the number of Hurricane wind cards and the number Enemy ship cards. Roll the dice that corresponds with 2*(# of Hurricane winds cards), and then subtract the total number of enemy ship henchmen cards that you have defeated. Banish that amount of plunder cards. If you would banish more cards than are in the plunder deck, banish the remaining cards from any players hand.

(Example - on your turn, you draw a Hurricane winds card. Prior to this turn, you've draw 2 other Hurricane winds cards, and have defeated 2 enemy ship henchmen cards. You then role a D6, which rolls a 6. You then would then banish 4 plunder cards. However, there are only 2 cards in the plunder deck. Your team then has to banish an addition 2 cards, from someone's hand)

When you defeat a monster, examine the location deck until you find a boon - instantly encounter and succeed at aquiring that boon.

When you aquire a boon, you can either place the boon in your hand, or you can place the card in your plunder deck.

Rewards
All the plunder cards you have recieved (just to stress - if you lose the scenario, you lose all your plunder cards). If you have 3 of a particular type of cards (3 items, 3 weapons, etc), you can exchange that for 1 card of that type of your choice (IE you turn in 3 random plunder weapons, and you get to choose a weapon from the box as your reward).

Comments

We've play tested this 2 times, with some slight modifications between the 2 play throughs. Originally, you would remove a number of plunder cards equal to the total number of Hurricane winds cards you have, but it was suggested that adding a random element would be useful. Also, instead of defeating a monster, we added in Buccaneers to each location (so each location had 2 henchmen), and when you defeated the Buccaneers, the 2 cards under that card would be considered a successful encounter.

Our first play through, we used Valeros, Feiya, and Damiel. We ended up with 6-8 cards in the plunder deck, and were able to do the exchange with weapons cards.

Our second play through we used Oloch, Lini, Alahazra, and Damiel. We ended up with like 20+ cards in the plunder deck (although I will hasten to add that we had a number of get treasure barriers, and had VERY good rolls for losing plunders [we rolled a 2 on the D12]) so that may just be a very lucky run, and not a balance issue.

Each time, we almost always ran out of turns (5 turns on the first playthrough, 3 turns on second)

On the Sandara Quinn card it says "If you fail a combat check, you may reveal this card to immediately recharge a card"

I don't quite get the point of this - Is she suppose to act as a damage modifier (for example, if you take 3 damage, you can use her power, and you negate the damage), or is there something else going on that I don't understand?