Sad News! Couple days ago (March 09, 21) Paizo casually, almost off-handedly, announced that Organized Play and support for the Card Game is Over. Season 7 will not be finished. There will be one last Special to close it all out at PaizoConOnline 2021, and then...that's it. No more Adventure Card Game. I'm very sad about it. So, buy up the older sets if you are wanting them before they go out of print, same with Class Decks. (Which reminds me, I should snag a few of the decks I've been meaning to pick up myself)
@Kamicosmos' Guitars and Games - Didn't want to 'like' that comment but I appreciate you passing that info along...seems odd to me that this news comes now when so many card games have been coming out in recent years. Maybe the pandemic isolation made a digital version more appealing?? I see they have a new digital one-shot available, so maybe they want to strengthen that path. Reading through the forum, lots of sad comments there, but some comments full of hope as well for continued support with the existing IP material..also, seems some folks have been creating and playing a digital edition of it for a while now...might be worth a look: warhorn.net/events/acs-mindscape-lodge-weekly-adventure-run
Thanks so much for this awesome video. With the game now being discontinued, it's so hard to find any info on this epic game. Just bought a bunch of sets and had to find some on ebay. My family is absolutely loving it, playing with the kids, it's the perfect game for us.
Glad my video could help! I've actually been playing a bit of the Mummy's Mask Society Scenarios with a society group recently. It's been great getting back into it.
First four sets are so much better than the "rebranded" one. They made the art more ugly, and half of the card doesn't even have a picture. Instead of allies standing visible in almost full size new art just shows their faces extremely upclose.
Awesome video and collection. We would love to have you on our podcast some time as we feel this format of play can be awesome 👏 especially for newcomers to rpgs
I’ve played all of the editions. The core/throne revisions really made it awkward to run. The use of a booklet you have to flip around, and proxy cards you constantly have to reference, just made it not fun to run compared to quickly referencing the scenario card on the table and the cards saying what they are. Granted there are great improvements in 2nd edition, but the 1st edition was already so good that my play group has no interest in playing 2nd edition due to the extra admin.
Good point, Ryan! Since I mostly play Society scenarios, having a 'storybook' and having to make/reference proxy cards in that, the 'conversion' to using them in the New Version was easy for me. I actually really like the literal Proxy cards they included, so that way you can keep the Villan out for all to see, or then just grab the story book to see the stats when you flip that proxy card. But, yes it does kind of take you out of the game for a moment. And it also does add a bit of 'clutter' on your table keeping the cards and storybook off to one side.
By society scenarios you mean fan made scenarios? If so where we can find those? Thanks. Just ordered the second edition but not sure if I should go about getting the older ones :(.
Hi. Thank you for the review! I have the Rise of the Runelords box and I want to continue playing after finishing the 6 adventures, but I'm unsure of a couple of things: - If I want to play in the Society system, I will need to purchase a character deck and since I only own Rise of Runelords, I will only be able to play season 2, right? - And going forward, if I decide to buy a new box, do I need to buy the new core set to play the Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path, or is it possible to play this adventure path with the Rise of Runelords box? I'm sorry to be asking you this, but I find that the information on Paizo's website is not very clear.
Society Play: If you just want to play the Season of the Runelords at home, no you don't need a character deck for that. Unless there is a particular character you want to play that is not included in the Runelords box, of course. If you want to track the character's progress and take it to conventions & game stores to play in other scenarios, then yeah you will need a character deck. Runelords box only supports season 2 of Organized Play, and it also supports Season of the Goblins. Technically the new and old games are backwards compatible, so in theory you can buy Crimson Throne and mix it in with any of the sets and it will work. Besides the visual differences in the cards, there are wording and rule changes that you would need to work out. The Core rules (along with all previous rules) are available on Paizos site, so you wouldn't need to buy the Core set just to get them. That said, I'd recommend getting Core and Curse if you plan on playing them, it would just be much easier and a much better playing experience.
And to further clarify (or muddy the waters) you can use a Character Deck in non-organized play. Say you want to add the Oracle to Runelords. Buy Character Deck, add the cards to the box. Or, you can keep the Deck seperate and play it like OP, where you keep it's cards all self-contained and don't mix them into the box. (Character Deck cards have icons on them to let you know what deck the belong to, so it's easy to seperate them later.)
@@kamicosmos thank you for taking the time to answer me. It makes a lot more sense now. 😊 I think I’ll just buy the new core set and go from there. Thanks again!
Thanks for this video, it is very helpful! I have tried the digital version and I like the game a lot! Lots of a variety! I'm thinking of getting the 2nd Core + CotCT because of the revised rules and I don't mind the visual changes. The 1st version is also available in my place also. Which one do you suggest?
Well, since the product is dead with nothing new coming, I would suggest getting which ever one you can find with all of it's 'stuff', be that an older addition with all the adventure decks and character add-on deck, or the New Core with the Crimson Throne adventure path. (that one should be the easiest and cheapest to acquire, currently.) Otherwise, if you have a source, or don't mind hunting the internet, go for the one with the theme you like best. For example, myself, I found Mummy's Mask with all it's stuff, so I snagged that up, cause I love Ancient Egypt stuff. The New Core and the Old Boxes are compatible, and I ran some Season of the Runelords games at a local con recently, using the New Core Rules, and it worked out well. Good luck on your hunt, and have fun playing whichever set you wind up with!
I just bought the Rise Of The Runelords box but don't have that poster layout for the cards. I only have an example layout in the manual...which set did you get that poster from? Can I order it online from Paizo? I checked but didn't see it.
You mean the playmat? It's probably long sold out. I was hoping they'd do a new one for the new card game. To be honest, setting up in a circle like that doesn't work all that great. We usually just put the locations in a line across the table, and put the Hour Deck near the Box runner who takes care of flipping it each turn.
Hi, I'm just wondering if I missed it. What are the differences?? I think you mentioned like 2 things and then started going on about the game and the society play and never finished covering the differences. Thank you!
I'll have to go back and watch it to see what specifically I mentioned. But, while not as dramatic as say Pathfinder 1 to Pathfinder 2 changes, there are just a lot of little rules changes, key word changes, and procedure changes in the new card game. Biggest one is you can only use one type of Boon per encounter. No more stacking 6 blessings on a fight, for example. There's also some changes in how the clean up stage works now, for when you attempt a recharge on a used spell, as one example. Another one that is pretty big is now when a location closes, it Goes Away, off the board. So no more being able to hang out in the library location and farm boons, or get healed at the apothecary. Stuff like that.
@@kamicosmos then what is your opinion on the fan created content on bgg files section? There's a necromancer, some other heroes, plus 3 fan created campaigns! Or are you against print and play?
Why do you think I'd be against print and play? I personally haven't messed with any fan created content. Although, I will definitely check out the Necromancer! I played Nytessa through two campaigns so far, will be interesting to see a different take on it. The campaigns would be interesting to take a look at as well. I think both versions of the game had rules on how to build your own scenarios, and the New Core has some ways to randomize them, along with the 'difficulty' changes you can make.
Sad News! Couple days ago (March 09, 21) Paizo casually, almost off-handedly, announced that Organized Play and support for the Card Game is Over. Season 7 will not be finished. There will be one last Special to close it all out at PaizoConOnline 2021, and then...that's it. No more Adventure Card Game. I'm very sad about it. So, buy up the older sets if you are wanting them before they go out of print, same with Class Decks. (Which reminds me, I should snag a few of the decks I've been meaning to pick up myself)
@Kamicosmos' Guitars and Games - Didn't want to 'like' that comment but I appreciate you passing that info along...seems odd to me that this news comes now when so many card games have been coming out in recent years. Maybe the pandemic isolation made a digital version more appealing?? I see they have a new digital one-shot available, so maybe they want to strengthen that path. Reading through the forum, lots of sad comments there, but some comments full of hope as well for continued support with the existing IP material..also, seems some folks have been creating and playing a digital edition of it for a while now...might be worth a look: warhorn.net/events/acs-mindscape-lodge-weekly-adventure-run
@@RonDudley I have some videos here on my channel of the TTS mod in action! (I even helped out a bit on the development of it last year.)
Sad to hear, i just get know abou that game and think about buying 2nd edition core.
Hope you can use them in games soon!
@@MrWerwoolfThe same situation
It's a pity that there are no more such boxes in my country 😢
It was amazing! I didn't know about such cool class decks! Thank you for your review! It's a pity that there won't be any new official path's sets 😢
Thanks so much for this awesome video. With the game now being discontinued, it's so hard to find any info on this epic game. Just bought a bunch of sets and had to find some on ebay. My family is absolutely loving it, playing with the kids, it's the perfect game for us.
Glad my video could help! I've actually been playing a bit of the Mummy's Mask Society Scenarios with a society group recently. It's been great getting back into it.
Sold! Ordering the new core set and Crimson throne right now. Great video!
Excellent, glad I could help! Enjoy it!
First four sets are so much better than the "rebranded" one. They made the art more ugly, and half of the card doesn't even have a picture. Instead of allies standing visible in almost full size new art just shows their faces extremely upclose.
Exactly what I had been trying to figure out.
Awesome video and collection. We would love to have you on our podcast some time as we feel this format of play can be awesome 👏 especially for newcomers to rpgs
I’ve played all of the editions. The core/throne revisions really made it awkward to run. The use of a booklet you have to flip around, and proxy cards you constantly have to reference, just made it not fun to run compared to quickly referencing the scenario card on the table and the cards saying what they are. Granted there are great improvements in 2nd edition, but the 1st edition was already so good that my play group has no interest in playing 2nd edition due to the extra admin.
Good point, Ryan! Since I mostly play Society scenarios, having a 'storybook' and having to make/reference proxy cards in that, the 'conversion' to using them in the New Version was easy for me. I actually really like the literal Proxy cards they included, so that way you can keep the Villan out for all to see, or then just grab the story book to see the stats when you flip that proxy card. But, yes it does kind of take you out of the game for a moment. And it also does add a bit of 'clutter' on your table keeping the cards and storybook off to one side.
By society scenarios you mean fan made scenarios? If so where we can find those? Thanks.
Just ordered the second edition but not sure if I should go about getting the older ones :(.
Nope. Actual made by Paizo scenarios. paizo.com/store/pacg/pacs
Hi. Thank you for the review!
I have the Rise of the Runelords box and I want to continue playing after finishing the 6 adventures, but I'm unsure of a couple of things:
- If I want to play in the Society system, I will need to purchase a character deck and since I only own Rise of Runelords, I will only be able to play season 2, right?
- And going forward, if I decide to buy a new box, do I need to buy the new core set to play the Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path, or is it possible to play this adventure path with the Rise of Runelords box?
I'm sorry to be asking you this, but I find that the information on Paizo's website is not very clear.
Society Play: If you just want to play the Season of the Runelords at home, no you don't need a character deck for that. Unless there is a particular character you want to play that is not included in the Runelords box, of course. If you want to track the character's progress and take it to conventions & game stores to play in other scenarios, then yeah you will need a character deck. Runelords box only supports season 2 of Organized Play, and it also supports Season of the Goblins.
Technically the new and old games are backwards compatible, so in theory you can buy Crimson Throne and mix it in with any of the sets and it will work. Besides the visual differences in the cards, there are wording and rule changes that you would need to work out. The Core rules (along with all previous rules) are available on Paizos site, so you wouldn't need to buy the Core set just to get them. That said, I'd recommend getting Core and Curse if you plan on playing them, it would just be much easier and a much better playing experience.
And to further clarify (or muddy the waters) you can use a Character Deck in non-organized play. Say you want to add the Oracle to Runelords. Buy Character Deck, add the cards to the box. Or, you can keep the Deck seperate and play it like OP, where you keep it's cards all self-contained and don't mix them into the box. (Character Deck cards have icons on them to let you know what deck the belong to, so it's easy to seperate them later.)
@@kamicosmos thank you for taking the time to answer me. It makes a lot more sense now. 😊 I think I’ll just buy the new core set and go from there. Thanks again!
Thanks for this video, it is very helpful!
I have tried the digital version and I like the game a lot! Lots of a variety!
I'm thinking of getting the 2nd Core + CotCT because of the revised rules and I don't mind the visual changes.
The 1st version is also available in my place also.
Which one do you suggest?
Well, since the product is dead with nothing new coming, I would suggest getting which ever one you can find with all of it's 'stuff', be that an older addition with all the adventure decks and character add-on deck, or the New Core with the Crimson Throne adventure path. (that one should be the easiest and cheapest to acquire, currently.) Otherwise, if you have a source, or don't mind hunting the internet, go for the one with the theme you like best. For example, myself, I found Mummy's Mask with all it's stuff, so I snagged that up, cause I love Ancient Egypt stuff. The New Core and the Old Boxes are compatible, and I ran some Season of the Runelords games at a local con recently, using the New Core Rules, and it worked out well. Good luck on your hunt, and have fun playing whichever set you wind up with!
I just bought the Rise Of The Runelords box but don't have that poster layout for the cards. I only have an example layout in the manual...which set did you get that poster from? Can I order it online from Paizo? I checked but didn't see it.
You mean the playmat? It's probably long sold out. I was hoping they'd do a new one for the new card game. To be honest, setting up in a circle like that doesn't work all that great. We usually just put the locations in a line across the table, and put the Hour Deck near the Box runner who takes care of flipping it each turn.
@@kamicosmos Thanks for the feedback. I'll try the layout suggested in the manual, which is different than the playmat layout.
Hi, I'm just wondering if I missed it. What are the differences?? I think you mentioned like 2 things and then started going on about the game and the society play and never finished covering the differences. Thank you!
I'll have to go back and watch it to see what specifically I mentioned. But, while not as dramatic as say Pathfinder 1 to Pathfinder 2 changes, there are just a lot of little rules changes, key word changes, and procedure changes in the new card game. Biggest one is you can only use one type of Boon per encounter. No more stacking 6 blessings on a fight, for example. There's also some changes in how the clean up stage works now, for when you attempt a recharge on a used spell, as one example. Another one that is pretty big is now when a location closes, it Goes Away, off the board. So no more being able to hang out in the library location and farm boons, or get healed at the apothecary. Stuff like that.
@@kamicosmos sweet! thanks! yeah sounds like im not gonna head back to it. I think I just dont like the system...
Thanks for posting.
~Fritz
Do you still have the sets?
Yes
@@kamicosmos then what is your opinion on the fan created content on bgg files section? There's a necromancer, some other heroes, plus 3 fan created campaigns!
Or are you against print and play?
Why do you think I'd be against print and play? I personally haven't messed with any fan created content. Although, I will definitely check out the Necromancer! I played Nytessa through two campaigns so far, will be interesting to see a different take on it. The campaigns would be interesting to take a look at as well. I think both versions of the game had rules on how to build your own scenarios, and the New Core has some ways to randomize them, along with the 'difficulty' changes you can make.
The Community was also going to finish Season 7. I'll have to check the Discords and see if that ever happened..
ooh there is a discord? @@kamicosmos