Class deck characters are not consistently more or less powerful than base set characters - just different versions that you may like more or less.
If you have downloaded the Core Set character sheets, there should be a Wrath of the Righteous package available in your downloads. (On this site, go to My Account -> Digital Content; the character sheets should be in the Community Use section.) (The Class Deck characters also have a download, which you could use to preview them, or even play with the character sheet and no cards.)
It sounds like you haven't quite understood the rules about cards in character decks. Those go as follows:
*Before the first scenario, build a deck from all starting cards (level 0 cards in Core, B or C with the Basic trait for older base sets)
*(During a scenario, you have the opportunity to acquire new boons while exploring locations.)
*After the scenario, look at the cards you have (both the ones that were already in your deck, and the ones you've acquired during the scenario). For each type of card, you must return to the number of cards of that type listed on your character sheet, but you may choose from any of the cards you have currently - not just the ones that were already in your deck. By finding new cards and keeping them, you will be able to slowly improve your deck.
Characters can also trade cards at this time, so if (for example) the paladin has more weapons than she can use, the fighter can take some of those weapons.
*(If you happen to have fewer cards of a type than you need among the full party (usually because you banished some cards of that type during the scenario) you can take new starting cards of that type (of your choice) from the box. In later adventures, you will be able to take any card sufficiently lower level than the adventure, rather than only starting cards.)
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How many times are you going to repeat different variations of the same question?
Yes - ALL the cards (from all the base sets, adventure decks, class decks, character decks, add-on decks, promos ....) are the same size - the 2 1/2 inches x 3 1/2 inches of a regular playing card, a Magic card, a Pokemon card, a LOTR card, a baseball trading card, etc., etc.
That means all the other products made for the best-selling card games - deck boxes, card sleeves, binders, ... can be used with the Pathfinder Adventure Card game.
And all the PACG cards have the same design on the back (except for the two-sided cards, of course), so you can't tell by looking at the back of a card which set it came from. There is some colour variation between different print runs, especially in the earlier sets, but in theory all the cards are supposed to be the same colour.
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No skin off my nose if you want to post 100 questions but all of your answers can really be found by reading the rule book and looking at the entries for the game either here on the Paizo site or on Boardgamegeek. You really do need to read the rule book much more closely than you are.
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The rulebook is a resource. It's not meant to be read through once and then ignored - it's the first place you should go to to find an answer to any question you have about the game.
The first thing you should do, though, after looking through the rulebook is to play through the example of play in the rulebook (for the Core set it starts on page 24, and deck suggestions for the characters are on page 29). Follow along as each of the cards named in the example is played, and be sure that you understand exactly what is happening. If you don't understand something, then look for the section of the rulebook that deals with whatever is puzzling you; that should answer your question.
After running through the example you should understand how the turn-by-turn play actually works. At this point you can try running through an actual scenario (following the procedure spelled out in the rulebook from "Getting Started" and "Setting Up", and in the pages that follow).
And, again, if you come across something you don't understand, look for the section in the rulebook that spells out what you should be doing at that point.
Eventually you should get to the end of the scenario. So what should you do then? You should go to the section in the rulebook entitled "After the Scenario". That will tell you about earning rewards, how to rebuild your deck, etc.
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I am reading the rule book.
Question---if a character needs to fight a monster and she has to use her strength for her combat check and her strength is a d6 and she isn't proficient with weapons can a blessing double her check from d6 to a 2d6 even though she has no special melee skill or anything?
What does the blessing say?
Does it say you have to be proficient with weapons?Are you even using a weapon on the check?
There's a maxim in the card game:
"Cards mean what they say. They don't mean what they don't say."
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In Adowyn's card it says that before acting she could reduce damage to 1 (or 0 if you make the feat). When it says before acting does that mean I if I meet a monster and know I am going to lose then before attacking the monster I reduce the damage to 1? Or can I attack, lose and then use that feat?
(I assume this is the Adowyn from the Wrath of the Righteous set, not from the Hunter class deck)
You may recharge a card to reduce damage dealt to you before you act to 1
That's talking about damage dealt to you in the "Before Acting" phase of an encounter.
It says that if anything damages you during "Before Acting", the damage will be reduced to 1.If the monster you're fighting doesn't have a "Before Acting/Before You Act" power, then Adowyn's power does nothing.
(and, of course, you need to have earned your role card, and have chosen that power when you earned a power feat)
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QUOTE="JOHNATHAN FINFINIS"I am confused. What the heck is "before acting"?
Answered in the Core RuleBook, page 30.
(see also Core RuleBook, page 26 - "Replaced Game Terms")Before you act reduce damage to 1"
No, that's not what the card says. It says "reduce damage dealt to you before you act to 1"
You want to know what I think "before you act" means?
Not really. I've already told you what it actually means.
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The term "before you act" is right after you turn the hourglass card before you do anything right? Before you TAKE ANY ACTION after the hourglass is flipped over! Am I right?
No. That would be "at the start of your turn"
"before you act" is wording from the old pre-core cards; it has been replaced by "before acting",
as is explained on page 26 of the Core RuleBook
(and "before acting" is part of encountering a card,
as is explained on page 9 of the Core Rulebook)
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Then you're setting yourself an extremely tough challenge.
The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game is entirely built around the premise of playing a game by precisely following the instructions spelled out on the cards (be they character cards, role cards, location cards, boons, banes, or any other card types) according to the rules given in the rulebook.
There's not a lot of space for text on a single card, so the terminology relies heavily on a whole lot of terms ("Before Acting", "Heal", "Reload", "Local", ...) which each have a very specific meaning in the game (as spelled out in the core rulebook). Unfortunately a lot of those terms have a meaning in colloquial English which, while similar to that which the game requires, is not exactly the same.
It's hard enough to learn this game if you're doing it face-to-face with a group of other players; even if you're all novices, there's likely to be at least one player in the group who understands any particular concept. Trying to master all the complexities of the game by playing it solo isn't something I'd recommend to anybody.
If you have access to an iPad, an Android tablet, or to Steam on a Windows platform, you might want to take a look at Obsidian Entertainment's "Pathfinder Adventures". This is basically the Adventure Card Game "Rise of the Runelords" (with a couple of other smaller sidequests), and is intended to be played solo (though you can play a party of up to six characters). That's a really good way to learn the basic mechanics of the game.
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I'd say that for a single game session (one scenario of PACG, or one quest of LotR) LotR probably requires you to learn slightly less rules. But it also takes less time to play, and has more straightforward victory conditions, so I'd expect it to be somewhat simpler to learn.
To run through everything that's available, from every expansion or saga expansion, nightmare mode options, etc., etc.), LotR probably requires you to learn more rule variations in total, though for any single session you will only use a few of the variations. (It also requires a significant expenditure - you probably don't want to sit down and work out just how much buying every option for LotR would cost you. Suffice it to say that it's significantly more than you would need to buy everything that's ever been made available for the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game).
I've only played a few sessions of LotR - just enough to know that it's something I'll probably enjoy playing when I have a little more free time. Until then I've got a stack of boxes sitting on the shelf waiting for me to get round to them.