It’s been a bit of work, but we are making our way through the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game and leveling up our characters. Amiri and Seoni keep on putting up a good fight, but will they be able to get through the scenario? Or will the Kolbold get the better of them again?

Pathfinder Adventure Card Game

How much does game play change replaying a scenario? That’s the question that I want to tackle today. And you can see some of how much it does or doesn’t change. I’ve ran into the issue of, well, needing to replay the scenarios.

The downside to replaying is that scenarios don’t change a ton. The boss and the henchman are still going to be the same. Your characters don’t change up as you go. So most of the things feel the same as you play through it again. When you tackle the same scenario, you just know more, or a little bit more. You still don’t know a ton more because of where variability does come in.

Mainly, variability is in the cards added to the locations. It is a different set of cards each time you play. So the items, monsters, weapons, armor, barriers, allies, blessings, and spells. So that seems like a lot of things to change up the game. And I do think it does change up the game. But in terms of story in terms of what you really focus on, those tend to stay more static.

How do you beat the main villain and their henchmen? How do you close the locations? That is the core loop of the game. And you do that once, or twice and it starts to feel very similar. Why, because it really is. The main thing I feel like that changes is now, the second time through, I know how I want to tackle those things. Granted, I generally know that the first time around as well. Seoni is better at closing locations that don’t need strengh. Amiri is better with strength. So I wish it could change up more. And I think swapping locations could make a difference. But that isn’t rules as written.

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So Monday, I think I will be doing a Top 10 list. Though, that might change. We are getting close to GenCon and I think I want to do some more coverage on that leading into it. I want to cover the games going to be there. I want to talk about my experience from 2019 and what I learned. And I want to cover some things that I think maybe viewers would be interested in checking out.

And then next Wednesday, my hope is that I wrap up the third scenario in the first chapter of the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. When I do that, the next game that is going to be up is Stars of Akarios. You can see my unboxing of that here. But that is going to be starting after GenCon that I’ll start playing that, no matter what happens next week.

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