Subscription + Skull & Shackle questions

[Ironvein]

Not quite sure this is the right place to ask these, but they are about the card game more or less.

Your website subscription only allow to start at decks 4 and 6 only, where I already have 4 and want to start at deck 5.

I noticed that the 'Skulls and Shackle set' is going to be another box... does that mean it is not compatible with the first set? Is the entire set of new box cards different from the first box? If not, could we just get the new adventure deck 1 instead?

Also, is the next adventure path geared for starting characters only, or is there going to be some scalar rules for those bringing in characters that finished the first path? I'd figure if it's for starters then it'd be even easier with those that completed the first adventure path and kept those decks.

I'm only asking because I don't really want to be bogged down with a lot of different boxes (one seems sufficient to me).

[Hawkmoon269]

Deck 5 was up until a few days ago for purchase and subscription. They just started shipping, so I suspect they are out of stock and will be offered again shortly (the same thing happened with deck 4). You could contact customer service for a more official answer and help on setting up your subscription.

Skull and Shackles is a different adventure path than Rise of the Runelords and is intended to be played with fresh characters (i.e. no skill feats, power feats or card feats and only basic cards). So it is not a continuation of the Rise of the Runelords adventure path. They are intended to be compatible in the sense that the cards of each deck level are roughly the same and that a blank character from Rise of the Runelords can be played through Skull and Shackles, and vice versa, though with varying degrees of success.

Here is some more official comments than what I say:

http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qddl?Next-Adventure-Path-is-Skull-and-Shackles #15
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qddl?Next-Adventure-Path-is-Skull-and-Shackles #19
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qddl?Next-Adventure-Path-is-Skull-and-Shackles #26
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qddl?Next-Adventure-Path-is-Skull-and-Shackles #43

[Vic Wertz]

As usual, Hawkmoon269 is correct on all counts. The second printing of Adventure Deck 5 should be arriving in the next week or two.

[Andrew K]

Vic Wertz wrote:

As usual, Hawkmoon269 is correct on all counts

That's it, I'm convinced. Hawkmoon is a bot with psychic links to your and Mike's minds...

[Hawkmoon269]

FYI: It looks like Deck 5 might already be available again both for purchase and subscription.

[Erixian]

To me, it just looked like it was removed so that they could shift the website around. It is now in the Available Now section, instead of the preorder section, and the subscription page has been updated as well. You can now start the subscription on either A5 or A6. So it was most likely in a limbo state while everything was being updated.

[Vic Wertz]

Just rejiggering quantities. (It's all still first printing for the moment.)

[Hawkmoon269]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Just rejiggering quantities. (It's all still first printing for the moment.)

On that note, I'm not taking my chances on missing out on the first printing. So I'm now subscribing.

[Bidmaron]

Yea, Hawkmoon!

[Erixian]

Wow, look at that.