Adventurer releases for Gencon

KRBourgoine · Post by **KRBourgoine** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 2:09 pm

Here is what Shadowcircle Press has in store for Gencon:

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The Adventurer Card Game
Gary Gygax Guest Designer Card #1
James M. Ward Guest Designer Card #2
Chris Clark Guest Designer Card #3

NEW RELEASES:

* Tom Wham Guest Designer Card #4, a new hero called Slooch the Cleric.

* Extra Count Lodrac Card, add some of these to your deck to speed up your game.

* Lodrac's Twin card, a new hero that's as powerful as Count Lodrac himself

* A very limited, very special, Portals Expansion: Gencon Edition -Includes free Extra Count Lodrac card

* A very limited, very special, Chaos Expansion: Gencon Edition -Includes free Extra Count Lodrac card

(Even with having to change printers we found a way to get the expansions to the show. The differences between the Gencon Editions of the expansions and the regular editions that come out in September and October is that the boxes will be slightly different and these come with a free bonus Count Lodrac card, and of course you get to have these Gencon editions now! Again, we only have a limited amount of these, so when they are gone, they are gone.)

Also bring a friend by to purchase the game and receive the free Refer a Friend thank you card, the Crown of the Immortals.

Lastly, and while not for sale yet, we will be testing the very first Adventurer Card Game Module. This paper booklet will introduce 10 or so new ways to play Adventurer, including a Mini-RPG-Scenario where the heroes battle against the deadly Orc King. Let me know if you are interested in playing

We are in Booth 502 with Inner City Games

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About Portals:

Include these 45 new cards in your deck and add many new levels of player interaction to your quest to defeat the vampire, Count Lodrac:

* Trade and do battle with your opponents

* Hire thieves to pilfer treasure

* Take advantage of magical random effect cards

* Escape deadly new traps

* Acquire powerful treasures -- the Scroll of Life Stealing and the Divine Statue await!
Portals also includes 1 new hero--designed by a player like you!

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About Chaos

Include these 45 new cards in your deck and give your hero the power to create new strategies in your quest to defeat the vampire, Count Lodrac:

* Choose what your hero encounters--and whether the risk is worth the reward!

* Change the way you win the game

* Hire henchmen to create strategic options

* Explore new magical obstacles, traps, and random event cards

* Discover powerful treasures
Chaos also includes 1 new hero--Made by Serleran!

Thanks,

KR
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KRBourgoine · Post by **KRBourgoine** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 2:16 pm

Because of the interest in the expansions and the fact that not everybody can make it to Gencon I am going to put the Gencon Editions up for sale on the website in a couple days so you can get them now and you dont have to wait until September and October to get them.

I would rather all the current players have first dibs on them.
(of course, I wont be able to mail them till after Gencon, because I wont get them until the show)

Please pass the word around to anybody who might want them before they are gone.

Kerry
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KRBourgoine · Post by **KRBourgoine** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 3:34 pm

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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:21 am

Excellent!!!

Glad to see this thread back.

I'm ready to BUY!!!

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KRBourgoine · Post by **KRBourgoine** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:35 am

hmm. seems I am still the master of the typo.

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magehammer · Post by **magehammer** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:46 pm

I can't wait!! I have the core game, and we play it at least once a month on off game weeks or before a session.

It is a blast. I am psyched to see the expansions on their way!!!!

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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:26 am

Woot!! "Get the all"!!! Dam right!!
Looks like Kerry's got the website updated . . so I'll be ordering shortly!!

Check it here for anyone looking to order:
http://adventurergame.com/purchase/

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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:10 am

Got it done!

KRBourgoine · Post by **KRBourgoine** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:38 pm

Rhuvein wrote:
Woot!! "Get the all"!!! Dam right!!
Looks like Kerry's got the website updated . . so I'll be ordering shortly!!

Check it here for anyone looking to order:
http://adventurergame.com/purchase/

Thanks for the support, sir.

The "Get the all" sale price will only be available at that price till Gencon.

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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:00 pm

Another "got it done" - yeah!

Double woots!!

Chaos and portals.

Lodrac's twin and Slooch the Cleric!

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Stuie · Post by **Stuie** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:09 pm

More of my money is on its way to you Kerry.
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:55 pm

Woot!

I got my Adventurer expansion sets and they are absolutely fantastic. They will bring more fun and depth to the game. Heh, some strategy too, methinks!!

Well done, KR.

Where did all the great ideas come from in the card sets, if I might ask. Were they yours and/or were some suggestions from fans and players of the game?

My nephews are going to love these expansions!!

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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:50 pm

Hmm, what is with everyone getting all their orders way before me? This is not fair!

Stuie · Post by **Stuie** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:08 pm

Rhuvein wrote:
Woot!

I got my Adventurer expansion sets and they are absolutely fantastic. They will bring more fun and depth to the game. Heh, some strategy too, methinks!!

Well done, KR.

Where did all the great ideas come from in the card sets, if I might ask. Were they yours and/or were some suggestions from fans and players of the game?

My nephews are going to love these expansions!!

Ditto all that!! Me and my three boys played our first game with all three decks combined last night - wow!!! Just WOW!! And now that I have more heroes, I could even include my wife and daughter if they are ever so inclined (doubtful for the wife, and daughter needs to grow up a little more).

Great stuff Kerry!! Keep it coming!
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:39 pm

Ahh, je vois maintenant. I received a little box in the mail with my new Adventurer stuff inside. Did not expect what I did get, but I'm not complaining.

Thanks Kerry!

Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:28 am

Yabadabadoo!! Sorry, haven't said that one in a long time.

Ah for a picnic basket and Cindy at my side. Booboo, fetch me some water.

*Shakes head* and snaps out of daydream . . .

Excellent hero, serleran.

Kanira the Unliving. Good to have some more heros as Stuie mentions.

I think there are four new ones, no?

Kanira

Dusty

Slooch

Lordrac's twin

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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:01 am

Yeah, 4 new ones, if you have Shade. That puts the total # of heroes at 4 base game + Shade + 4 new ones = 9. Pretty big game.

dachda · Post by **dachda** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:13 am

Is this a good game for a wife, who likes games in general, but not RPGs? She likes Settlers of Catan for example, and things like pictionary and monopoly?
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KRBourgoine · Post by **KRBourgoine** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:44 am

Dachda,

Its a casual game like the ones you mentioned with an extremly easy learning curve. Normally by the time everybody takes a round or two everybody knows how to play, and the turns take less than a minute or so each.

Its a good entry game into RPGs or a substitute for those who are not inclined to get into games of such complexity.

My response might be a bit biased, but somebody else here might chime in as well.

Kerry
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KRBourgoine · Post by **KRBourgoine** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:54 am

Rhuvein wrote:
Woot!

I got my Adventurer expansion sets and they are absolutely fantastic. They will bring more fun and depth to the game. Heh, some strategy too, methinks!!

Well done, KR.

Where did all the great ideas come from in the card sets, if I might ask. Were they yours and/or were some suggestions from fans and players of the game?

My nephews are going to love these expansions!!

Rhuv,

When the game was first made I made the Castle Deck and the Expansions at the same time, they were kinda built together. I would say about 90% of the cards from that original expansion are in the final sets you have.

The other 10% that I changed out was based upon suggestions from players. It probably would have been more but what I thought the game would benifit from and what the players thought the game would need were pretty much in sync the whole time. The trading, stealing from others players, more player strategies and choices, new way to win the game, ways to stop other players from winning, ect...

One of the things I like most about the expansions is that I have to see the deck run out of cards and need to be re-shuffled before there is a winner, this is especially true is you have about 4 Crypts in your deck.

Cheers, sir.

Kerry

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magehammer · Post by **magehammer** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:54 am

Dachda,

It has an RPG flavor. So, if it is the flavor of RPGs that bother your wife, then you won't be able to get her to play more than one game. I can't get my wife to play it. She likes Scrabble and her Nintendo DS, but not my games.

It kind of reminds me of War (the classic card game) only your character card is the card that the card from the deck compares against every turn. And in the basic game, you are not comparing your card directly against your opponent's character card. So, I describe it as War on steroids to the non-gamer game players I know. There are, of course, variations as the game progresses, but essentially, if you were to describe it to a non-gamer, I would go the War on steroids route (if she has heard of War. I am assuming everyone played it as a child, of course.).
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KRBourgoine · Post by **KRBourgoine** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:05 pm

Stuie wrote:
Ditto all that!! Me and my three boys played our first game with all three decks combined last night - wow!!! Just WOW!! And now that I have more heroes, I could even include my wife and daughter if they are ever so inclined (doubtful for the wife, and daughter needs to grow up a little more).

Great stuff Kerry!! Keep it coming!

Thank you very much for the kind words, sir. I am very pleased that you like it.

Let me know how your bigger games go, the most I have seen play is 7 so far. Not rushing to use the Divine Statues or Mystical Mirrors and saving them for most strategic time definately can help you win.

Kerry
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