Not enough cards for character decks

[Wruin]

Is there a rule or guideline for how to handle not having enough copies of cards? Some cards are unique. Suppose I play games with different people and more than one player acquires a unique card. We then decide to play a game together. Who gets the unique card?

My inclination is to roll for it, and the loser has to select a card from the box. Should that card be basic or the same level as the card they replaced?

[cartmanbeck]

Hmm that's a good question. I would say they would probably roll off, then for that game the losing player would have to choose a Basic card. Then after the game, if the group "splits up" again, that losing player could have the item back to rebuild with.

This basically just goes to show that the game is really meant to be played by a single group of players that continue to play together, or by different groups who are willing to split their decks up between scenarios so that the other players can build their own decks.

[DrSnooze]

Fight to the death.

[Cosmo]

The game, by design, only has enough cards for 4 character decks to be built at a time (6 if you have the Character Add-On Deck). However, if you want to play multiple groups out of one box, you can use the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Character Sheets to record the character decks, then deconstruct them for use with another group. The sheets are a free PDF download.

[Kevin Fernandes]

Cosmo wrote:

The game, by design, only has enough cards for 4 character decks to be built at a time (6 if you have the Character Add-On Deck). However, if you want to play multiple groups out of one box, you can use the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Character Sheets to record the character decks, then deconstruct them for use with another group. The sheets are a free PDF download.

So out of curiosity, if I wanted to build out all the characters (the base set and the character add-on characters) to have them "on hand" would I be able to to this with additional Character add-on packs or are some of the cards only available in the base set?

My copy should be arriving today so I might be able to answer this question later myself :)

[Pershon]

There is a rule within the rule book that addresses this. I can't remember it off hand, but I think it was basically a, "decide amongst yourselves who needs it more" or something to that effect. I think there is a digital copy of the rules on here somewhere.

I played the through first adventure solo and then with another person on the rogue. I kept my gear and skill feat form my solo adventure and then after completing the first scenario of the second time through the adventure I was able to do some trading with the other player who chose Valeros. It adds a completely new dimension to the game when you have items that others want and they have items you want. You get to be creative on trades and deals.

On another note, I am a pawns collector and the NPC Codex has Pawns of all the players from the card game. I use the pawns instead of the cards now!

[cartmanbeck]

Kevin Fernandes wrote:

Cosmo wrote:

The game, by design, only has enough cards for 4 character decks to be built at a time (6 if you have the Character Add-On Deck). However, if you want to play multiple groups out of one box, you can use the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Character Sheets to record the character decks, then deconstruct them for use with another group. The sheets are a free PDF download.

So out of curiosity, if I wanted to build out all the characters (the base set and the character add-on characters) to have them "on hand" would I be able to to this with additional Character add-on packs or are some of the cards only available in the base set?

My copy should be arriving today so I might be able to answer this question later myself :)

No, you definitely won't have enough cards available to build all of the character decks and still have a decent number of cards of each type to put in location decks. You should only build out the characters you are currently using, and then use the downloadable PDF to track which cards go in those decks when you need to break them down.

[TClifford]

If you don't want to download the PDFs, you can always write the cards down like I am doing. You only have to keep track of about 15 cards per character.

[Kevin Fernandes]

Thanks guys, I was assuming (hoping) that buying multiple Character add-on packs would alleviate the card shortage issue.

[Matthew Trent]

It's less of an issue than a self inflicted difficulty.