Asking About Skull & Shackles Rules PDF, and a Question of Previous Scenarios

[Firedale2002]

Is there any clue how soon the S&S Rules PDF will be put on-site? I'm assuming it'll be after the release at GenCon so it's not complete spoilers, but any clue how soon after?

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An additional question: will there be an actual official set of rules for replaying previous scenarios? I know it's possible, but I've not been able to find any direct mention of it in the rulebook of the FAQ, so am now starting to second guess myself and any responses I give when people ask about how to deal with it.

The only partially indirect rule concerning it seems to be the "No character may gain a reward from a given scenario, adventure, or Adventure Path more than once." that is mentioned.

I'm assuming that cards from the *party's* current adventures remain in the box and thus can make the location decks and blessing deck, since there's no rules that say to remove or not use later cards if you play previous adventures. There's only rules that say you add cards from the next adventure when the party finishes an adventure. With that, I also assume that a new character playing a previous adventure would end up possibly having to deal with higher-level boons and banes.

I've started seeing people answering questions concerning previous scenarios, and some of them are saying that location decks shouldn't include any cards from later scenarios. So, I'm wondering if I just missed something somewhere where this is mentioned, or if they're wrong, or partially right, or if it's something else entirely.

[Hawkmoon269]

The idea of not encountering cards higher than the adventure deck number of the scenario is sort of implied in this discussion here. Though that discussion isn't really about replaying.

[csouth154]

I think there is no official rule for the simple reason that it is sort of obvious that cards higher than the scenario currently being played do not belong in the mix. You shouldn't stand to gain higher level boons from a scenario whose villains, henchman, and special rules do not pose high enough risk to justify the rewards.

[Vic Wertz]

We'll be posting the rulebook before Gen Con.

There's no official rule for replaying old scenarios because that's essentially out-of-spec for the game—it's not something we've spent time testing; you're on your own.

[Erixian]

Also, on this topic, will the character PDFs be available before GenCon? I am picking S&S up, and assume that I will be playing it at night, so the character sheets will be extremely useful.

[Vic Wertz]

They should be available by then, yes.

[Firedale2002]

Thank you muchly for the responses!