Ezren, Sajan, Amiri, and Merisiel just finished the Halls of Seduction. It was fantastic. Merisiel managed to use the Revelation Quill and Holy Candle twice thanks to the Shimmering Veils of Pride's When Permanently Closed power. It was also somewhat humorous to find imprisoned in the Iron Cages of Lust a Sacred Killer and a Cat. I'm of the opinion that the Sacred Killer was the cat's owner and that is how the ended up there together. Sadly, neither joined our party.
I noticed a couple of things tonight:
1. Magic Spyglass says add a die to a Perception check. Much like the Tome of Knowledge, playable on other characters. (I just noticed this since tonight was the first time I'd ever encounters the card.)
2. Harsk's bottom card examination power can have a whole lot of use, what with Revelation Quill and Wand of Treasure Finding. Throw Brodert Quink in there and you can easily get the bottom card to the top of a 7 card deck with Brodert and the Quill (not a bad name for a band either). Even without, the smaller the deck gets the more likely the Wand of Treasure Finding will encounter a boon on the bottom of the deck.
3. Merisiel should not have dropped the Crown of Charisma after last scenario. I don't usually look ahead too much, so we were in for a bit of a shock tonight, what with our all around d6 Charisma.
Can't wait for the last two scenarios, though thinking of waiting another month for deck 6 is already bringing me some sorrow.
Well, knowledge of a card is always useful. In my scenario last night, the villain was the bottom of a location deck. If I had known that (we don't have Harsk in that group), I would have hit that location more aggressively earlier. As it was, if we hadn't gotten to use Holy Candle twice we might not have won.
Early on, its possible Harsk might help others so much that he doesn't have a card in his hand to deal with the top card of his location, and he might already know what it was from the last turn. So he could at least examine the bottom card.
Or if Harsk gets stuck with a faceup barrier like collapsed ceiling, he can at least examine the bottom card.
Of if he sees the bottom card is a card you want higher up, have some evade a card at that location to reshuffle the deck.
And now, with Revelation Quill, there are some decent ways to get the bottom card to the top.
Granted, it might not seem super useful at first, but the frequency of use for lots of the powers varies.
There is an Adventure 5 location that, when closed, allows the closer to return all his/her buried cards to their deck.
That. We also got to use Revelation Quill twice since Merisiel had both buried by the time she closed that location.
I assume it's because you don't have to put all and they were trying to get around people assuming that you had to do all or none.
That still brings up the question of: why wouldn't you want too?
There has not been an option to recover buried cards at this point, so why the vagueness?
Amiri may have buried a lot of "junk" cards and not want to get them all back, just the useful ones.
I played this like you could choose any amount of your buried cards. If it mean one, I feel it would have say "a buried card". If it mean all it would have said "all your buried cards."
I think that is the consequence. Think of this:
Universe A
Amirir is sitting there with Holy Candle, Emerald Codex, Revelation Quill, 3 Blessings of Lamashtu and 10 Leather Armors buried (or the equivalent since there aren't really 10). Since she is closing the location, she can't explore anymore. Before she "unburies" them, she's only 1 card below her hand size. She'll be able to use Holy Candle, Emerald Codex, and Revelation Quill, but the Blessings and Armors she's probably have to discard. She says, "Well, if I discard some of them Kyra (or insert other healer here) can come heal me and I'll have those blessings back in my deck. But I don't want 10 armors in my deck keeping me from getting to those blessings quickly enough. So I'll just choose to leave the armors buried."
She's made a choice. She'll have access to the more powerful cards more quickly, but like you said, she could have also picked up a lot more health or some more "rage" cards. Later she might die and think "If only I had more cards in my deck!" or she might need to make multiple Strength checks and will think "If only I had something I didn't care about burying!" But that will be the consequence of her choice.
Universe B
Just like Universe A above but Amiri unburies everything. Kyra healers her, but keeps healing back in mostly those Leather Armors. And later, when Amiri could really use a blessing, the next 4 cards in her deck are all Leather Armor in addition to the two in her hand. She fails a check for lack of blessings.
One way or another, the choice could have a serious consequence.
For the record, in our group Merisiel picked up everything. Also, I use the term "junk" in the most loving of tones. I only mean a card that someone isn't likely to be able to use. Obviously another character might find it useful or a character at a different point in the adventure path or a different situation.
It's intentional.
When he gets nothing but blessings in his deck, Sajan doesn't want all of his buried cards back.
Hmm, an overly extreme example... if you had that many cards buried though, you'd only have like 5 or so cards left period (my count deck size is about 20 right now). You'd still want most, if not all, those cards JUST to prevent dying. Or at least having them available to rebuild your deck (through healing) since some of the new monsters are attacking the deck directly now.
I see where you're going with this, but it just seems that in most cases; there isn't a good reason NOT to get all your cards back. The wording just bothers me, feels like that was some limit that somehow missed getting put on the card.
And for the record, the effect never came into play thus far (the closer didn't have anything buried at that point, sigh).
Just would like some official word, saying that this was indeed what they meant and it wasn't some kind of typo. For piece of mind really.
I think my wife (who plays Amiri) has easily buried 10+ cards, all via her rage power. She is quite good at acquiring cards and so will often bury them. (Though quite bad a rolling when being healed.) My example was a bit extreme though.