You could just buy the game. Just a thought.
Simplest method: Have your friends pull the cards in your deck and take a picture of them, then send it you.
I've been sort of waiting for someone to make an online database of the sets with card images and such... but its also kind of good that no one has, as not having one stops people from just printing off the cards and not supporting Paizo/Mike/etc. by purchasing the game.
Still though, to play over skype, you really only need to know the text on the cards, not the images... so your friends could just type the wording on each to you, (or take a picture and send it to you as per Mike's suggestion).
This is sort of unrelated, but I've often been curious about this... There have been a variety of computer games in the past based around lore and rules of D&D (some were extremely popular, Baldur's Gate, etc.) and yet, to my knowledge this has yet to be done with the pathfinder system. ANy reason why? I know there's a discussion about this in another thread, so maybe I should just go there, but are there plans to release a computer game version of PACG ever?
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D&D games like Baldur's Gate were fully licensed from Wizards of the Coast (or TSR before them).
"Pathfinder," in the sense that I think most people would assume you're using it, includes intellectual property owned by Paizo as well as intellectual property owned by Wizards of the Coast. We use the latter via Wizards' Open Gaming License. Some of our intellectual property is available to anyone under the Open Game License, but some is not. (To oversimplify, our mechanics generally are, but our setting, trademarks, and artwork are generally not.)
So if you want to use *all* that stuff in a Pathfinder computer game, you need permission from us, and permission from Wizards. You *can* theoretically use the OGL as your permission from Wizards, but there are clauses in there that make applying it to video games tricky.
The solution we're using for Pathfinder Online is to use *only* content created by Paizo, or that's in the public domain, and avoid anything that was entirely created by Wizards/TSR. We use the same solution for the PACG, Pathfinder Battles miniatures, Pathfinder Tales fiction, Pathfinder Comics, the upcoming Pathfinder Legends audio dramas, and pretty much everything else with the name Pathfinder that isn't an RPG product. (And if there is ever an electronic version of the PACG, it will do the same.)
Thanks for the info Vic, good to know. I'm always astounded by how complicated these things get with intellectual property and patent law, but I suppose the system needs to be that way for plenty of good reasons.
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Okay, where did I miss reading about the upcoming Pathfinder Legends audio dramas? Dang, I try to read all the weekly e-mails too.
The announcement is here.
We generally only put stuff in the weekly emails when it's actually available for sale, and these aren't due until January.
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We do announce when new products are *actually* available—we just don't generally announce that they're going to be "available at some later date." We've found that our customers just don't tend to preorder stuff so much.
You might want to add our Paizo blog to your surfing schedule—that's one place we do often talk about things a little bit in advance.
When the first volume of Pathfinder Legends is ready to ship, we will most certainly feature it in our weekly emails.
Will the subscription be advertised a little before that?
What, like the tech team have had something else to do in the last couple of months? :p