For those who have played the RotRL AP

[Martin Sheaffer]

How much does the card game spoil the AP? We haven't played the AP yet but are talking about it as a future game. Just wondering how much playing the card game will spoil it for us.

Martin

[Scribbling Rambler]

Names of villainous NPC's, and general descriptions, come up in the game. Also, monsters are appropriately seeded in the Adventures (ex lots of goblins in Burnt Offerings). Similarly, you will see locations which are used in the adventures prominently featured in the card game.

That said, most of the spoilers are things which you would see in the Players' Guide for the AP (like the monster types). And this is, after all, based on a story which came out 6 years ago... so there are a lot of spoilers all over the place.

I think the adventures will still have their appeal, mostly because they are well-written (especially the first 3 books, IMO), but also because the random nature of the card game is extremely unlikely to duplicate the RPG experience. Especially if your GM is willing to make minor plot changes.

[Draco Bahamut]

The greatest spoilers would be whoever commited the skinsaw murders in part 2, thats a pretty big spoiler as this one is a investigation adventure.

[|Arch|]

There's a lot of spoilers. If you're considering running it in the near future, I'd wait until then. RotRL is a fantastic AP, it would be a shame to spoil some of that.

I think the players would find it really cool to play through Book 1 after doing that book in the AP.

[Reptilian]

I think the biggest spoilers are probably the text at the back of the scenario, adventure and adventure path cards. If you want to avoid spoilers, you probably don't want to read those. At the same time, it's those texts that can give the game a bit of context, so do what you have to do.

[Phasics]

That said its really cool if you've played RoTR before and are taking a trip down memory lane with the card game :D