Not sure if this was somehow leaked like another post I saw on here where this may have happened before, but I have not heard anything about this card and just happened to see it while searching ebay. Is this the promo that's set to come with Wrath Deck 5?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Improvised-Dinosaur-Pathfinder-Adventure-Card-Game- Promo-Weapon-/321870402045?hash=item4af0f891fd
Got mine, but how do I get five? After all, you have to bury them after use.
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Hey, if you can chase the dinosaur down again and pick it back up, you get to recharge the card :)
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Did this come with Adventure Deck 5? Hmmm. Didn't receive a promo with this shipment. Will have to contact customer service.
You probably had the same thing that happened to me (and I'm guessing every person subscribing to both PACG and the Class Decks). The promo cards got bundled with the class decks instead of the adventure decks. Unfortunately, when I asked Customer Support, they said there was no way to prevent it from happening in the future.
You probably had the same thing that happened to me (and I'm guessing every person subscribing to both PACG and the Class Decks). The promo cards got bundled with the class decks instead of the adventure decks. Unfortunately, when I asked Customer Support, they said there was no way to prevent it from happening in the future.
Why care? At the end you get them anyway.
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I care because I got my adventure deck on the 22nd and my boyfriend and I have already run through it (we mythic charged Baphomet to death; it was great). It would have been fun to have a dinosaur in there. Now we have to wait until adventure 6 to run with the dinosaur.
No matter, we'll get it in the end. We're already planning to play a home version of Season of the Righteous with class decks while we wait for adventure 6. :D
Frencois, because by the time I get my promos I'll be a good chunk through the adventure, or I can wait and sit here not playing a game I just got. It could be a couple days, or a couple weeks. Obviously I'd rather have the promo at the start.
I rest my case.
Like a donkey riding a female dragon with the voice of a movie comic guy, I just want to add :
"Let's stop arguing : I have a fully loaded dinosaur here and I'm not afraid to recharge it"
You guys are subscribed to both, but they ship separately? Any reason why? I get both of mine at the same time. I didn't take note of which deck the promos came in.
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Dave, it depends on your chosen shipping method. I choose Cheapest Option, so that results in two separate shipments (though they still can't tell me how two $5 shipments is cheaper than a single $5 flat rate, that has to be the only problem I have with my subscription)
Like a donkey riding a female dragon with the voice of a movie comic guy, I just want to add
When I first read this I forgot that was actually part of a movie, and I had nothing through my head besides "I... what... that's... what?!?!"
if you're outside of the US, two smaller shipments are A LOT cheaper - one of the reasons I cancelled my subscription was because things got combined without warning, and I then got hammered with customs charges (and additional handling charges from the post office for processing the customs charge!)
Dave, it depends on your chosen shipping method. I choose Cheapest Option, so that results in two separate shipments (though they still can't tell me how two $5 shipments is cheaper than a single $5 flat rate, that has to be the only problem I have with my subscription)
Shipping USPS First Class in those small boxes the decks arrive in has a weight limit of 1 pound if the contents aren't primarily "bound printed matter" (aka books). The decks weigh in at slightly above 0.5 pounds each, meaning they cannot ship two of them in that little box at the First Class rate even though physically they'd fit. That means if you want it in a single shipment, it would need to ship Priority, which is more expensive than shipping 2 things individually with First Class by a small amount (probably like $0.50 to $1.00 difference, but I don't know the exact amount). If getting a single package is worth the small extra charge, contact Customer Service and they'll be more than happy to modify the shipping method for you.
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Dave, it depends on your chosen shipping method. I choose Cheapest Option, so that results in two separate shipments (though they still can't tell me how two $5 shipments is cheaper than a single $5 flat rate, that has to be the only problem I have with my subscription)Shipping USPS First Class in those small boxes the decks arrive in has a weight limit of 1 pound if the contents aren't primarily "bound printed matter" (aka books). The decks weigh in at slightly above 0.5 pounds each, meaning they cannot ship two of them in that little box at the First Class rate even though physically they'd fit. That means if you want it in a single shipment, it would need to ship Priority, which is more expensive than shipping 2 things individually with First Class by a small amount (probably like $0.50 to $1.00 difference, but I don't know the exact amount). If getting a single package is worth the small extra charge, contact Customer Service and they'll be more than happy to modify the shipping method for you.
I learned something today! Thanks!
Yeah, I guess I should've figured it was something like that. We bumped ours up to priority because it always took 6 days to get all the way across the country from NYC to Seattle, which meant we'd spend the weekend being like "gee it'd be cool to play Pathfinder now," and it only ended up being a couple bucks more.
That just makes me ask: man, when I was only getting one deck a month, why was my shipment always UPS Ground instead a first-rate mail box, which probably wouldn't have taken 6 days!
But I feel for you guys. That sucks. D: For me, promo cards are usually too specialized to actually make it into any of my decks, so I guess I wouldn't have felt a great loss about Improvised Dinosaur coming it late (Ankylosauruses are heavy! All that shipping weight!), but the promo cohort is amazing. I'd probably sub her out for just about any scenario's cohorts in the game thus far.
Otherwise... Adowyn kept the Sweet Dragon Costume she got in the last scenario of AP5 because, come on, Sweet Dragon Costume, but other that that, there aren't many promo cards I'm really thirsting for since the originals like Blessing of Zarongel (depending on the character) and Poog (all characters like Poog, that's why they call him "Poog"). None of the S&S promos sung to me the same way. Mogmurch was nice to have around, but he usually got replaced, Mistmourn's a great ship, Goblin Lockpick isn't bad when your "all d4 Intelligence, no Knowledge" party runs into it during that OP scenario with Cryptic Runes, but I'd never keep it in my deck. Of the S&S, the only all-purpose, permanent-deck-slot promo was Vomit Twin, I think; which is amazing, no doubt, but since it came with AP6, we've never actually seen it in play. :(
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If getting a single package is worth the small extra charge, contact Customer Service and they'll be more than happy to modify the shipping method for you.
My point is that getting it in one package is cheaper. I pay $5 per box for a total of $10, and that's with the system automatically picking the cheapest available option. For $5.95 a small flat rate box is available. Two boxes could fit in there surely. It'd be tight, but I know that's not an issue because before I switched to Cheapest Option my subscriptions came crammed in a small box with no packing or empty space whatsoever, the box was pressed against on all sides.
If they can't fit, then that's fine, but being told that would have been nice. I received responses on the boards and emails where I gave that specific example, but wasn't told "well that wouldn't fit because X", I was basically told "Nah, it's cheaper, just trust us".
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If they can't fit, then that's fine, but being told that would have been nice. I received responses on the boards and emails where I gave that specific example, but wasn't told "well that wouldn't fit because X", I was basically told "Nah, it's cheaper, just trust us".
That pretty much is the answer, because our system does all the work. It knows the rules for what can ship in what packages via which shipping methods for any given address, and when we prepare a shipment, it tries *everything*—sometimes dozens of different configurations—to determine what's cheapest for your particular case. Unfortunately, it's not easy to tell you the exact details of why it didn't choose a specific configuration, but the answer is always one of three things: that configuration is not allowable by postal rules, is not the cheapest, or is not desirable based on Paizo's packaging standards. (In your case, I'm going to guess the "crammed tightly in a small box" option is probably hitting the "not desirable" wall—when stuff gets to you damaged in transit, we're the ones who have to pay to replace it, and what you describe sounds like a recipe for damaged goods.)
If getting a single package is worth the small extra charge, contact Customer Service and they'll be more than happy to modify the shipping method for you.My point is that getting it in one package is cheaper. I pay $5 per box for a total of $10, and that's with the system automatically picking the cheapest available option. For $5.95 a small flat rate box is available. Two boxes could fit in there surely. It'd be tight, but I know that's not an issue because before I switched to Cheapest Option my subscriptions came crammed in a small box with no packing or empty space whatsoever, the box was pressed against on all sides.
If they can't fit, then that's fine, but being told that would have been nice. I received responses on the boards and emails where I gave that specific example, but wasn't told "well that wouldn't fit because X", I was basically told "Nah, it's cheaper, just trust us".
Ah, I wouldn't know about the flat-rate box (may pick one up for experimentation myself to see how tight the fit is). I was mostly parroting the response given by the CS reps for why it ships in two boxes even though the box each deck is packed in is large enough to hold 2 of them.
(Yes I know Vic replied with a reason for why that flat rate box you mentioned is likely not being used, but I'd still like to see for myself how bad it might be. Will post results and maybe also pictures when I have them).
So, deck 5 shows as out for sale, not a pre-order, but every non-paizo site I see shows it as not available until 10/28, is this listed as available incorrectly? Or is it just available a month early here on this site?
So, deck 5 shows as out for sale, not a pre-order, but every non-paizo site I see shows it as not available until 10/28, is this listed as available incorrectly? Or is it just available a month early here on this site?
Streen date is September 30th. I can't tell you why other sites are padding that date. Perhaps just to be cautious. But not ever site is saying 10/28. CSI has it as September.. Miniature Market has it as September as well. And Amazon has it as 10/15/15. I've often seen Amazon give a street date, then notify pre-orders that the product is available early.
Where are you seeing it as 10/28?
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If they can't fit, then that's fine, but being told that would have been nice. I received responses on the boards and emails where I gave that specific example, but wasn't told "well that wouldn't fit because X", I was basically told "Nah, it's cheaper, just trust us".That pretty much is the answer, because our system does all the work. It knows the rules for what can ship in what packages via which shipping methods for any given address, and when we prepare a shipment, it tries *everything*—sometimes dozens of different configurations—to determine what's cheapest for your particular case. Unfortunately, it's not easy to tell you the exact details of why it didn't choose a specific configuration, but the answer is always one of three things: that configuration is not allowable by postal rules, is not the cheapest, or is not desirable based on Paizo's packaging standards. (In your case, I'm going to guess the "crammed tightly in a small box" option is probably hitting the "not desirable" wall—when stuff gets to you damaged in transit, we're the ones who have to pay to replace it, and what you describe sounds like a recipe for damaged goods.)
That's good enough for me. "The system does all the figuring" at least tells me that people aren't directly involved so they don't have specifics, I work enough with automated systems that I'll take that response any day of the week. As for that "non-desirable" wall, sure I wouldn't want it damaged. I only mentioned that as being a possibility because that's what I got when I wasn't using Cheapest Option.
Thanks for the post Vic.
So, subscribers are supposed to get the promos, right? They show up in the order. I have 2 subscriptions. Last month I only got one promo card, and this month I didn't get any of the 4 listed with the order.
It's not a huge deal I guess, but I was really looking forward to this month's promos... :/
Contact customer service. I don't get a promo, I notified Paizo and they put it in the next shipment.
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So, subscribers are supposed to get the promos, right? They show up in the order. I have 2 subscriptions. Last month I only got one promo card, and this month I didn't get any of the 4 listed with the order.
It's not a huge deal I guess, but I was really looking forward to this month's promos... :/
Did you also order the monk deck? I ended up getting my promo cards in my monk class deck rather than the Adv deck 5.
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Nope, no class decks, I already have five :)
It's funny, since last year I've been getting both decks in one box. Last month I added a mini to my order and I got the adventure decks in separate boxes. Now the subscription is still pending even though I've gotten both decks so it seems to be waiting on the promo cards? :) The whole situation seems weird.
So, deck 5 shows as out for sale, not a pre-order, but every non-paizo site I see shows it as not available until 10/28, is this listed as available incorrectly? Or is it just available a month early here on this site?
Streen date is September 30th. I can't tell you why other sites are padding that date. Perhaps just to be cautious. But not ever site is saying 10/28. CSI has it as September.. Miniature Market has it as September as well. And Amazon has it as 10/15/15. I've often seen Amazon give a street date, then notify pre-orders that the product is available early.
Where are you seeing it as 10/28?
It was from a separate distributor, probably just padding the date they gave me. I probably shouldn't have said "every non-Paizo site" since I was aware of the Sept (no specific date) showing on CSI & MM. Thanks for the clarification Hawkmoon. Do subscribers get it a little earlier than the street date? And do you know the street date for deck 6?
Sometimes subscribers get it before street date, but that isn't a guarantee. It varies from month to month. I haven't seen a street date for deck 6 yet.