Building location decks - card levels.

[JaedenRuiner]

As i first played this at a relatives house i very much enjoyed it and so proceeded to buy the base set, and adventure decks 2 & 3 and character expansion as well.
as per simplification, i have shuffled all the card types together and placed in the base set box according to the manual map. i just played with two new characters the initial adventure/scenario, during which (it cost me at the time) i encountered a very powerful monster from the 3rd adventure deck.
i was curious if there was some form of stated or inferred rule, for say playing a B scenario, or Adventure 1,2,3 etc scenario, where the location decks should/should not be built with advanced cards from later adventures?
after brigandoom!, i made my own house rule that no card could be greater than +/- 1 from the scenario: e.g. scenario from B could have B and 1, scenario from 1 could have B, 1, & 2. 2 could have 1,2 & 3 etc. this would seem to balance challenge and ease better, so a newbie character is not facing a monster with a 16 check, nor would i have access to super powerful items/weapons etc, while characters making it to adventure 3 would not find it super easy by fighting monsters from the base set. However, i was wondering if there is already an existing rule regarding this situation.
thanks,
Jaeden "Sifo Dyas" al'Raec Ruiner

[Drunkenping]

You are only suppose to add Adventure Decks as you progress that far into the Adventure Path. See "Setting Up" on page 4 of the rulebook. If you are playing Brigandoom! use only Base cards [B]. Character Add-on Deck [C] or Promo cards [P] if you have them can be added anytime as well. Once you start Adventure 1, add the respective Adventure Deck cards, so on and so forth. You should never have cards from a higher Adventure Deck than the Adventure you are playing.

[J Scot Shady]

Drunkenping wrote:

You are only suppose to add Adventure Decks as you progress that far into the Adventure Path. See "Setting Up" on page 4 of the rulebook. If you are playing Brigandoom! use only Base cards [B]. Character Add-on Deck [C] or Promo cards [P] if you have them can be added anytime as well. Once you start Adventure 1, add the respective Adventure Deck cards, so on and so forth. You should never have cards from a higher Adventure Deck than the Adventure you are playing.

I believe both Mike and Vic have said that the Promos should be added with the first adventure pack.