It means roll a 4 sided die and randomly select that many weapons from the box.
Say you roll a 3, shuffle the weapons deck and draw 3 cards from it
The large chest instructs you to draw 1d4 random weapons from the box. It means you first roll a 4-sided die, then draw the corresponding number of weapons from the box. In other words, you will either draw 1, 2, 3, or 4 random weapon cards.
EDIT: I was out-ninja'ed!
Oh ok now it makes sense thank you and I also have a question about the blessings deck I know it says they are there just for turns do you need to do any of the stuff on them, cause the rule book says you have to see if any of the text affects your players and the FAQ on here says no I am a little confused on it
Generally, the blessings deck just serves as a "clock" that counts down the number of turns you have left to beat the scenario.
The blessings you flip generally have no direct impact on the game-play by themselves.
However, sometimes *other* cards will interact with the most recently revealed blessing from the blessing deck.
For example, a Blessing of the Gods played from your hand can match the effect of the most recently revealed blessing from the blessings deck. As another example, some monsters you encounter can have their difficulty increased if the most recently revealed blessing is a certain kind. This kind of thing is always made clear on the cards themselves.
I seen in a video if you dont kill the main villan and he runs i seen that you add another 2 henchman if you playing with 3 locations and you shuffle them into the 3 decks when you dont defeat the villain escapes no matter what
You add blessings, not henchmen. When you defeat the Villain you may immediately close that current location for free, if there are any other locations remaining the villain will escape to one of those randomly.
When you defeat the villain and he escapes then you draw one blessing from the box for every remaining open location -1, so if there's 3 open locations remaining, you would draw 2 blessings from the box and shuffle the villain and the blessings together, then place each card on the remaining location decks. Afterwards, shuffle each of the location decks.
If the Villain defeated you, you may not close the current location and instead of drawing blessings from the box you will draw them from the Blessings Deck. Shuffle the villain and the blessings together, then place each card on the remaining location decks. Afterwards, shuffle each of the location decks.
I got to say for me buying this game and learning its already a challenge but very fun and thanks to all you guys that have helped me so far it has made it alot easier for me does anyone else think the rule book does not explain stuff like it should
I highly recommend you read through the updated Rulebook PDF instead of the one that comes in the box
Link: http://paizo.com/download/pathfinder/PZO6000-Rulebook.zip
Just unzip the file using an unzipping program such as Winrar or 7zip, then open the .pdf file using a PDF reader such as Foxit
Once you read that a lot of questions will be cleared up.
Also when you have a chance, reading through the FAQs can never hurt!
Link: http://paizo.com/paizo/faq/v5748nruor1gk
They are working on clarifying some things in the rulebook. There is an updated copy out from November, and like I said they are working on updating it again right now.
Remember, this is new ground be broken (at least for me) so some of the problem is the sheer volume of rules that have to be learned and remembered. But no one (well at least me) is willing to sit there and read the rulebook multiple times and pass a test before beginning to play it.
The best thing to do is play multiple times with the rulebook right there and for every step of every turn read the rulebook. Like this (this was basically me the fist time playing):
"Ok, its my turn. What do I get to do? Ah, here we are page 8. Advance the blessing deck. Ok. And there are still cards in the deck, so now I can give a card. I'm playing solo, so now need to do that. And I can move? Well I just started here so no need to do that. Ah, I can explore. So it says I flip over the card. A Great Sword? What the heck am I supposed to do with that? Attempt a check to acquire it? What does that mean? Oh, it says to go to page 10. Alrighty...."
And then later in the game: "You know, I think I've got this down. So its my turn again, I'm going to advance the deck, no need to give a card or move, so I'll just flip this card over and...A villain? What the heck am I supposed to do with that? Oh look there is a section on encountering the villain on page 17. Lets have a look. Attempt to temporarily close any open locations. Well like I said I'm going solo this time, so that ain't happening. Encounter the Villain and attempt the check to defeat him. Well how does that work? Oh, just like other checks with banes. Back to page 10!!....
"Man that was epic. I smoked him. Did I just win? Lets see...Close his location. Ok. Check to see whether the villain escapes. How does he escape? Oh, if there are other locations open. Well yeah there are two others. Lets see I defeated him, so I subtract 1, so that equals 1. So I get one blessing from the box and shuffle it with this guy and put 1 on each open location and then shuffle them. Ok. So here we go again..."
Yeah its slow and maybe a bit tedious the first few times, but its worth it. Because this game is awesome.
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When you say empty out the deck do you mean banish all the cards back to the boxIf you fail to close a location after defeating the henchman, usually you have to empty out the rest of the cards before you can try to close it again.
There are situations where there might be a second henchman or a villain in the location deck, however.
Just to be clear, if you defeat a henchman but fail to close the location, the location deck stays put with whatever cards are remaining. The other standard way to close location happens when the location deck is empty, so you'd have to explore your way through the rest of the deck until it is empty, one explore per card, before making another attempt.
In solo play, the timer isn't too much of a threat, but once you start adding players the lost turns from a failed close attempt eat away at your time.
Correct. Harsk has the ranged skill which is related to his dexterity skill. Do you roll exactly what you posted.
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also can you play only 1 item, armor, blessing, spell, or ally once per turn or can you play 1 of each as long as there in your hand
From what I have read and heard you are only allowed to play one item at a time
You are allowed to play one card per type per player per check. E.g. In a 3 player game, if you encounter a monster, each player may play a blessing and/or a spell and/or a weapon, etc. If you explore again and encounter, say, a barrier, each player may, again, play a blessing and/or a spell and/or a weapon, etc. even if they played one in the previous check.
for light crossbow it says for your combat check, reveal this card to roll your Dexterity or ranged die + 1d8
Now harsk has dexterity d8 but under his dex it says ranged:dexterity +3
so my question is if i play that card i would roll a 1d8+1d8+3 for my combat check
Correct. Harsk has the ranged skill which is related to his dexterity skill. Do you roll exactly what you posted.
What? Wouldn't he roll 1d8+3 on a ranged roll?
He typed "1d8+1d8+3" which would be 2d8+3, I don't think that's right, unless I've been playing wrong D:
1d8+3 from ranged +1d8 from crossbow?
1d8+3 from ranged +1d8 from crossbow?
OH! I wasn't thinking about the crossbow at all xD
Nvm me, I'm not reading properly tonight D:
You are allowed to play one card per type per player per check. E.g. In a 3 player game, if you encounter a monster, each player may play a blessing and/or a spell and/or a weapon, etc. If you explore again and encounter, say, a barrier, each player may, again, play a blessing and/or a spell and/or a weapon, etc. even if they played one in the previous check.also can you play only 1 item, armor, blessing, spell, or ally once per turn or can you play 1 of each as long as there in your hand
From what I have read and heard you are only allowed to play one item at a time
Its actually 1 card of each type by each player per step in the encountering a card sequence, not specifically per check. The check is part of that sequence, so its true that the rule applies then, but the rule also applied to the other steps. They are
Evade the card (optional)
Apply any effects that happen before the encounter
Attempt the check
Attempt the next check, if necessary
Apply any effects that happen after the encounter
Resolve the encounter.
This FAQ entry has the details: http://paizo.com/paizo/faq/v5748nruor1gk#v5748eaic9ral
Your second question was about how to know when you get to help a friend. The cards will differiente whether they can help just you, just other players, or anybody. For instance, blessings say "Discard this card to add 1 die to a check." It doesn't specify who's check, so it can be anybody's check. A different card might say "Recharge this card to add 1 die your non-combat dexterity check." Notice it says "your" so it can only help you when you play it. Valeros has a power to add 1d4 to "another character's" combat check at his location. That can't help himself because it says another character.
In general, card will tell you when you can play them as well. You can only use Valeros' power during another character's combat check. You can't use it while they are exploring. The blessing can be played on any check at any point in the turn. A card that effected a non-combat dexterity check could only be played when there was a non-combat dexterity check.
There are two restricted points in each turn when you have to follow the rules about which cards you can play. Besides these points may may freely play cards between the different steps in your turn. The first is during the "encountering a card" portion of your turn. Once you are in that step the 1 card per type per person rule applies as mentioned above. The second is after you begin resetting your hand. You can only play cards and use powers after you reset your hand if they say "at the end of the turn". Other than that, if the card applies to the situation you can play it. So cure can be played after you discard a blessing from the blessing timer, but before you explore, after you explore, but before you explore again, or after you decide to stop exploring but before resetting your hand.
There is a document here that many have said has been helpful: http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/95118/turn-sequence-breakdown. Though be aware it needs to be updated regarding the end of the turn limit.
Post back if you have any more questions.
Can you evade a boon?
Yep.