Unintensional gamebreaking error in the rulebook?


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Owner - Brætspilland

In the section "Draw starting hands" on p. 7 it says:

"...If you didn't draw at least 1 card of that type, discard that hand and draw again, repeating as needed until you hand contains at least 1 card of the specified type.
If you discard so many cards that you can't draw up to your full hand size, draw all of the remaining cards, then shuffle your discard pile into your deck, draw the rest of your hand, and shuffle any discarded cards back into your character deck."

Lets say I draw my first two hands without a weapon as Valeros.

I read the above rules this way:
I should start the scenario with 10 cards in my discard and none in my deck (nowhere does it tell me to shuffle the discard back into the deck. Only if I use MORE cards than my current decksize).
This is not the intension right????
For new players this is a serious error!


Hmm...Yeah, looks like a period was changed to a comma between RotR and S&S.

RotR Rulebook p7 wrote:
If you discard so many cards that you can’t draw up to your full hand size, draw all of the remaining cards, then shuffle your discard pile into your deck and draw the rest of your hand. Shuffle any discarded cards back into your character deck.
S&S Rulebook p7 wrote:
If you discard so many cards that you can’t draw up to your full hand size, draw all of the remaining cards, then shuffle your discard pile into your deck, draw the rest of your hand, and shuffle any discarded cards back into your character deck.

I'm 99.9999% sure that isn't intended to mean you start with cards in your discard pile if you didn't draw a valid hand on the first try. So, when drawing your starting hand if you don't draw a valid hand first try, after you finally do draw a valid hand shuffle your discard pile back into your deck. I'm sure Mike or Vic will confirm that as true.


Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

It has to be - the second "shuffle any discarded cards back into your character deck" would not do anything, if you had to draw so many cards that you exhausted your deck on the first pass (you've already shuffled your discards back in, in that case).

Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Designer

Uh, yeah. Will address.

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