Hi everyone.
Some of our home group has recently gotten into the PACG scene at a local store but missed out on Season of the Shackles. So after many much time re-familiarizing myself with the rules, the Guide, and this board, I am trying out GMing for our home group. We are reporting.
Last night during 0-1B we realized my wife had some Sorceror cards mixed in with her Rogue deck. She stores them in the separate slots of the official deck box (which we both love now, thanks!). Somehow in reviewing the Sorceror deck she was going to start last week at our local store for another game she crossed slots when placing the cards back in the box. So her deck for last nights' game was illegal. Played Merisiel with some Rogue and some Sorceror cards. I didn't notice until the end of the game because most of the cards she had played were familiar from the actual Rogue cards. There may have been a weapon that she used that wasn't supposed to be there but I can't be 100% certain. What do we do in a case like that? I don't see any illegal deck rebuild/retraining threads like on the Society forum for RPG characters so after searching, I'm posing my question.
How do we resolve this, officially, when we are reporting and it is discovered after the end of a session?
This is what I would do, opinions of others may differ:
If they were the same cards (just with a different class deck icon), then I'd let it slide and report it normally as success or failure (whichever it was).
If they were different cards (like she was playing with a 17 card deck or something due to extra cards mixed in), then what I would do is not report the scenario for that particular character. She can replay the scenario with the proper deck if she wants, or she can continue and just forego the reward for completing Adventure 1 (due to not having completed 0-1B -- if you're playing by the new OP rules that'd mean losing out on the die bump, if playing by the old rules then that's a card feat which is significantly more painful to miss out on).
Since this wasn't blatant cheating, I don't feel the need to punish the entire group and have everyone replay 0-1B (in fact, I don't think you really need to punish anyone here, just do something that you and your wife feels is fair), but you can do that if you want. If it was blatant cheating or the different/extra cards had a significant impact on the outcome of the game, then I wouldn't count the scenario for anyone in the group and would have everyone replay it.
We were going to go back with her but that makes some sense. My wife just reminded me that regardless of deck makeup, the only cards she pulled for her hand that were Sorceror cards were the basic Allies at which point a lightbulb clicked on and I remembered she only explored with them ;-)
There is nothing official about this. I'd say go back to the last valid deck she had that you can be sure about (whether that is the deck after 0-1A or the starting deck). Then give her the reward and the upgrade she took from completing 0-1B. Then continue to have fun and don't worry too much about these things. Accidents happen.
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Unofficially, just fix the deck up and move on with life. Nature of the beast that sometimes cards get swapped around and screwed up.
I feel that we've got a great community that is just having fun together. We're not playing for cash prizes or even recognition. Just to have fun. My answer would be quite different for someone with the wrong cards in a tournament :)
