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Can someone point to a link(s) or posts or reply laying out this terminology in the most simplest of terms. I have zero background on card games so something that is basic terminology to others is foreign to me. Think, "the sky is blue" and I ask "what is sky?" "what is blue"? So I'm asking please explain a new term if you're replying (or point to a reference). Thanks.
Scenarios: when I buy the monthly Adventure Path decks to play how does this term factor into it?
(a post from Vic) "...including the first scenario to use Adventure Deck 2": what is an adventure deck compared to scenarios? what is adventure deck 1? adventure deck X?
(a post from Vic) "...releasing a brand-new scenario to stores that can be played with just the Skull & Shackles Base Set": Am I reading only retail stores get them? I can't? I need the store to register and download something?
scenario, adventures and Adventure Path: what are the differences?
Much appreciated.
A scenario is a single "session" of the game. When you say, "Hey, let's play PACG." You are saying "Let's play a scenario of PACG." It has a goal, and you win or lose based on whether you complete that goal or not.
An adventure is a sequence of scenarios. Usually 5 in a group. They are thematically linked in story.
An adventure path is a sequence of adventures. 6 of them in a group.
An adventure deck is the expansion box you buy for the game. It contains one adventure for the adventure path, and therefore contains 5 scenarios. Plus lots of cards to add more locations, boons and banes to the game.
Adventure deck 1 of the skull and shackles adventure path comes in the skull shackles base set box. Then you buy adventure deck 2 to continue the story. Then adventure deck 3 and so on.
The last quote you have from Vic is about organized play. That is a storage adventure path that reuses the cards from Skull and Shackles but with characters from the class decks to people play together with people they don't really know. It has new scenarios. The scenarios are given to retailers at first, but the following month will be made available for purchase online at a low price.
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Ok thanks. A couple of follow up questions.
When I buy the monthly adventure path deck (I'm thinking of the 6 decks released for Rise of the Runelords), is that the adventure deck with 5 scenarios?
If the adventure (path) deck has 5 scenarios what does it mean, per Vic, that Paizo is sending scenarios to the store? Per above, they're in the adventure (path) deck??
How do I instruct my store to get these scenarios if they're not in the adventure (path) deck?
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If you're familiar with Pathfinder Role Playing Game, the Rise of the Runelords set relates to the Adventure Path in the RPG. That Adventure Path was broken up into 6 chapters.
So the card game has a base set and then 6 adventure decks that follow a similar progression to the 6 chapters of the RPG Adventure Path.
Skull & Shackles is the same thing that is patterned after the Skull & Shackles Adventure Path of the RPG. (Next one this coming year is Wrath of the Righteous.)
So like Hawkmoon said, you have your Adventure Paths which are made up of Adventures (decks) and broken up into 5 scenarios per Adventure. The base set from RotR contained an Adventure made up of 3 scenarios. The base set of S&S had 5 scenarios in it's base Adventure.
Like the RPG, there is an Organized Play format just being introduced. You'll be able to choose from 7 different classes and there are 4 characters available in each Class Deck. Paizo will be releasing weekly scenarios to be run at these retailers (and venture officers) that have applied to run the organized play (Pathfinder Society Adventure Card Guild). However, at the end of each month, Paizo will bundle up these scenarios to be purchased by the end users. So you will be able to play them if you don't play at one of the weekly sessions.
However, you cannot play the same character in the Adventure Path AND the organized play scenarios. You need to choose one or the other or run two different characters.
I just edited my post to add a bit more. You retail store can sign up on the retailer directory to get the scenarios. Back in a second with a link.
Your local sure can sign up here. When signing up there should be a check box to indicate interest in PACG organized play (aka card guild).
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That cleared up a lot, guys. Thanks. With these mental roadblocks gone I'll get reading the Guide. I could have more follow up questions but not tonight.
Oh, one more, so when Vic said "scenarios to be used for Adventure Deck 2" that meant the first deck released separate from the base set because the base set has Adventure Deck 1?
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Yes. The base set is sold with the first Adventure Deck (1). The base set has 7 characters in it. You can then purchase an Add-On deck which has more cards but also 4 more characters.
Then each of the following months, they'll make a new Adventure deck available for purchase separately. (RotR was every 2 months.)
So Adventure Deck 2 will be coming out in September for S&S.