Adventure Card Game Card Colours

[Jon-Factor]

When Rise of the Runlords Adventure card game was released I purchased the first printing. I recently bought Wrath of the Righteous ACG and some of the class decks. As you are aware the card colours were changed when you moved printing from China to the US so I am unable to use my class decks with my original Rise of the runelords ACG. I forgot all about the differences in colour until I went to use the class decks which means I would have to spend a fortune on card sleeves. Is there any option to swap my set for a set printed with the correct colours. I have a picture at http://www.i82.co.uk/cards1.jpg showing the differences.

Thank you for reading.

[Sharaya]

Hi Jon,

Unfortunately, we are not able to offer exchanges for sets from different printings.

Because it is a cooperative game, not a competitive one, the card game team does not feel that that differences in printings should affect game play.

If we can help with anything else, please let us know.

Thanks!
~Sharaya

[Jon-Factor]

Thanks for the reply. I have to disagree if you see a light colour card next on the deck you know for a fact it's not the villian, henchman or a monster this takes away from the gameplay immensely. Thanks anyway.

[skizzerz]

You don't need to spend a "fortune" on sleeves if you're willing to put in some extra work. At most, you will have 8 locations, and each location has 10 cards. In that case, you will also have 6 characters, each with decks of no more than 25 cards (assuming you max out on card feats, which to my knowledge is impossible). That is 80 cards for the location decks and 150 cards for character decks at most, or 230 cards. As such, purchasing 250-300 sleeves should be sufficient to sleeve every card you currently care about. It requires more work than just sleeving everything since you need to sleeve/unsleeve the location decks every scenario (your character decks can just remain sleeved), but doable. For a 4-player game, you'll have 6 locations and 4 decks, so you can get by with 200 sleeves. Note that I'm including extra because sleeves typically come in packs of 50 or 100, but even then you want a couple of extras in case you draw cards from the box that need to be sleeved, and in case sleeves break or rip. 300 sleeves shouldn't cost you more than $30 or so, so it's a lot less of an investment than sleeving everything.

Alternatively, don't worry about sleeving the location decks at all, and at the same time don't bother mixing the Class Deck cards into the box. At the end of the scenario look over all of your boons that were acquired during the scenario and draw a random boon of the same type from the class decks for each of them. Then when rebuilding your deck you can either use the ones you acquired or the random one you drew (but not both). You may still want to sleeve your character decks, but that will require 150 sleeves or less (so around $15-20 depending on pack size). In the same vein, you can also play the Class Decks using a modification of the Organized Play rules where your character deck is made exclusively out of class deck cards, and the class decks are never shuffled in the box.