PACG for the special at Gencon

[Doc76]

Have the rules for characters been listed/posted yet for the special at gencon? Interested to see them to try and determine which character would be best.

Just curious ;)

[Theryon Stormrune]

There will be two tiers: 1-3 and 4-6. (Characters that have completed an AP are tier 7 and not eligible for play.) Any character is allowed. Obviously since we're not in an AP, don't expect to be able to use any loot cards that we've been using as we build our characters. Same with Mythic Paths; we aren't in SotRi so don't expect to have your path available.

That's what we know. I'd not expect a lot more than that.

That said, I plan on having 2-3 character ready to play.

The other piece of information that I would like to know it whether they are going to limit our number of feats. Characters that play through most of Season of the Righteous have more Skill feats (and more feats overall).

[Keith Richmond]

As far as I know (I am not a representative of Organized Play), the above is correct. T1-3 or 4-6, no set-specific cards.

No restrictions around number of feats.

I haven't seen any guidance around use of pregenerated characters. I could see things going either way on allowing AD3/AD6 pregens, since you don't want to discourage people from playing their actual characters in order to maximize success.

I believe group size is intended to be 4 characters at most for sanity reasons. Speaking of sanity, don't expect the scenarios to be sane.

Good luck! On the slim chance my schedule is free then, I plan to bring by a couple characters so I can join in.

[Doc76]

Thanks for the feedback.
a little disappointed wont be able to play my top tier character. She finished wrath.
will make do though have plenty of options.

[Theryon Stormrune]

Doc76 wrote:

Thanks for the feedback.

a little disappointed wont be able to play my top tier character. She finished wrath.
will make do though have plenty of options.

You and me both. But there are plenty of options and characters available. You can easily level characters to any tier needed.

[Tanis O'Connor]

Theryon Stormrune wrote:

The other piece of information that I would like to know it whether they are going to limit our number of feats. Characters that play through most of Season of the Righteous have more Skill feats (and more feats overall).

If your character is legal for ACGuild play at Tier 1-Tier 6, you can play it. The Base Set for this adventure is Runelords, so there will be no mythic paths. Just bring some characters and play one; I don't understand why knickers seem to be in a twist.

[Vic Wertz]

Keith Richmond wrote:

I believe group size is intended to be 4 characters at most for sanity reasons.

Yep—the max is 4 characters per table. (And that's a hard limit: There aren't locations spec'ed above 4 players, and there wouldn't be enough henchmen either.)

[Vic Wertz]

It also has a hard minimum of 2 players per table—1 player playing 2 characters won't work.

[Theryon Stormrune]

Tanis O'Connor wrote:

Theryon Stormrune wrote:

The other piece of information that I would like to know it whether they are going to limit our number of feats. Characters that play through most of Season of the Righteous have more Skill feats (and more feats overall).

If your character is legal for ACGuild play at Tier 1-Tier 6, you can play it. The Base Set for this adventure is Runelords, so there will be no mythic paths. Just bring some characters and play one; I don't understand why knickers seem to be in a twist.

No real knickers twisting … just making sure we don't have a lot of guidelines. As long as we know:

1) Tier 1 through 6
2) PFS ACG legal (includes Iconic Heroes promos, seasonal rewards, con rewards, etc.)
3) No loot or abilities based on a base set
4) Keith can play

[Mundane61]

Will the open use pre-generated characters like last year or do we need to bring a character deck.

[Vic Wertz]

We'll provide the characters for the Open.

Note that this thread up until now has been about the Special, not the Open, so for clarity:

For the Special, bring a PFS-legal character deck.
For the Open, we will provide character decks.

[Doc76]

I hope that nobody got offended by this post. Just wanted some direction. I am relatively new to the pathfinder genre and did not know how the rules for the special worked. I am looking forward to playing in both the special and the open.

Thanks to all that answered.

:)

[Theryon Stormrune]

Doc76, I had similar questions (obviously) and as a VO, people ask me. I'd rather we ask and be told "it's all good " than have issues when we go to sit down that night.

[JDragon_ITTS]

Great information to have, thanks for asking and all the answers.

[DarkOrk20]

The hard rule about 4 per table is a myth. I think I had 6 players at almost every table I played.

On a side note, I did get to play with the new gunslinger deck. I look forward to getting it once it comes out.

[Theryon Stormrune]

The hard rule of 4 per table was for the Open.

They try to make it 4 per table at other events but I agree, most times it was 5 or more. We only had 3 tables that were Goblified so we had to pack the tables at times.

[Dan Glading]

I was able to participate in the Cosmic Captive special event (which seemed to be 4 per table from what I could see), and had a blast. Am I correct in understanding that I need to wait for Paizo to update my (newly created at the event and newly registered today) character to reflect my participation in that event? There's nothing I should be doing to update that information?

[Eliandra Giltessan]

danglading wrote:

I was able to participate in the Cosmic Captive special event (which seemed to be 4 per table from what I could see), and had a blast. Am I correct in understanding that I need to wait for Paizo to update my (newly created at the event and newly registered today) character to reflect my participation in that event? There's nothing I should be doing to update that information?

Nope, you don't have to do anything. The event organizers do all the reporting, so I imagine some people associated with Paizo have a huge data entry backlog.

[Vic Wertz]

Theryon Stormrune wrote:

The hard rule of 4 per table was for the Open.

They try to make it 4 per table at other events but I agree, most times it was 5 or more. We only had 3 tables that were Goblified so we had to pack the tables at times.

The Special is hard-limited to 2 to 4 players per table.

[Malafar]

I played in the special and it was really fun. We took the ice route.

Spoiler:

Although I didn't understand the part were someone at each table had to move to a random table every 5-10 minutes during one scenario. Lots of confusion and lost game time in my eyes. I didn't find out why we did this either.

[Vic Wertz]

I added spoiler tags to your comment above.

Spoiler:

If you mean you didn't understand the story reasons why you were doing that: There are several teams making their way across large floating rocks that serve as your approach platforms to the fortress, and people are occasionally flung from one platform to another during their transit. (That was explained in the read-aloud text for that part of the scenario.)

If you mean you didn't understand the design goals for it, it was to do something unexpected, more interactive than usual, and (hopefully) fun.

[Malafar]

Sorry about the spoiler thing, I thought this was a one time event and everyone knew about it.

Thanks for the answers

[Theryon Stormrune]

The (interactive) special may be run at other Cons and Events after approval is received from above. It does require multiple tables to participate.