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.

Upcoming Streams

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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Stars of Akarios

Stars of Akarios, just for a brief overview is going to be an exploration game in two parts. It’s set in space so in one part you are flying around, battling enemy ships and going between planets. Then you came down to a planet level view and go on adventures there.

This is done with some cool looking minis, dice rolling, and a modifier deck. I think the giant book of scenarios, the modifier deck, and people are comparing it to Gloomhaven for those things. But the rest of the game feels quite different. Obviously, Gloomhaven has no die rolling.

What drew me to this game, besides it being a big campaign game, is that you can upgrade your characters and there seems to be a lot of story there. As I flipped through the rule book and scenario book, I wish there was more or better art in those books. But the whole of the game and the story seems to be bigger than the artwork in those books. And the artwork on the planets looks nice.

My hope with Stars of Akarios is to start streaming a play through of at least a few chapters of this coming up soon. I feel like it’d be something different than the fantasy that I’ve been streaming recently. And it is also a game that looks big but should be able to fit, barely, onto the table for streaming.

Upcoming Streaming

So, like I just said, I want to stream Stars of Akarios once I finish up the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. I should wrap that one up in the next couple of weeks, but we’ll see for sure. So I’d think that Stars of Akarios will likely get started post GenCon at the start of August.

But this Wednesday, and it’s already up, we have Pathfinder Adventure Card game for tomorrow. How will Seoni and Amiri fair this time?

And then, next Monday, I want to bounce between doing an unboxing or chat and a Top 10 List. I will eventually start to do some lists about specific games, like gateway games or stuff like that. But I think it might be 10 things to know before going to GenCon or something like that? I also want to do a list of GenCon games again to buy or demo there that have caught my eye.

Is Stars of Akarios on the list of games you’d want to buy? Or would you like to see a game play of it?

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