Paizo Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles Base Set

If you were tempted to play Pathfinder (or Dungeons and Dragons) but were intimidated by the massive library of massive books that contain massive quantities of massive rules,... then your massive solution has arrived! This great story based RPG is easy to learn, the rulebook is little more than a pamphlet, and the game mechanism is fun and very unique. What is massive is the amount of cards included in the core pack! Literally hundreds of items, spells, monsters, etc... fill out the universe of this card-based game. Pathfinder Adventure Card Game also has the advantage of not requiring a Game Master; the cards dictate the events in the game. All you have to do is lay it out properly, and the story unfolds. So, everyone at the table can just play. To get started, just pick one of the Iconic characters, and set out the cards called for in the scenario, and you are rolling dice in minutes, and having all the RPG fun without the Massive headache. Be sure to read everything on the cards, including all of the color and descriptive text, because it really informs the game play, and gives you a feeling for the story, and sometimes makes a critical difference in game play. OTHER ITEMS TO CONSIDER: One set of dice is included (d4,d6,d8,d10x2,d12), but every player at the table needs a full set of dice. Typically we play with individual dice sets, and use the game set to supplement those! The Character Add-On decks are great, and if you are playing with more that four characters in the game, you actually need those extra cards. The class decks are also a good to have, and ultimately, if you like this game you will start to buy the story expansions 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (expansion st 1 is included in the core set). THINGS TO NOT CONSIDER: The Pawns are fun, but the S&S Pawn set DOES NOT include the Iconics (those are the characters), and to collect them you need to buy the Inner Sea Pawn set and the NPC Codex Pawn box, and even then, the Pawns from the S&S set do not reflect all of the bosses from the ACG! So, it may be easiest to leave those out of the process. If you cannot live without a few pawns, you may want to consider buying the PDFs from Paizo publishing, and making them yourself.

Organizing the cards I noted that the scenario cards listed on the base adventure are missing

Full game great for groups of ppl to gather and have fun

Received this today but the box was very badly damaged. Was planning on giving this as a gift but I'm unable to now

Hard to find game so pretty pricey. The storyline is a little lacking, but the theming is great. We will want to house rules the levelling up system next time we play though.