Pathfinder Adventure Card Society
The Pathfinder Adventure Card Society (PACS), formerly known as Pathfinder Society Adventure Card Guild (PFSACG), is a worldwide program of sanctioned, organized Pathfinder Adventure Card Game play for retail stores, conventions, and home play. The guild debuted on October 1, 2014.12
Organization
The guild is part of Paizo Organized Play and requires a Pathfinder Society registration number.3
Seasons
Season 0: Season of the Shackles
"Season of the Shackles" debuted October 1, 2014, and provides new gameplay scenarios and stories for organizers who own the Skull & Shackles Base Set and players who own a class deck. New chapters will be released on the same day as each new Skull & Shackles adventure deck, and new scenarios will be featured each week until the Wrath of the Righteous Base Set is released in 2015.1 Guild content will released for home play a month after it is provided to retailers.4
Paizo released a Guide to Pathfinder Society Adventure Card Guild Organized Play on August 11, 2014, to support Season 0.5
Pathfinder Society players "can gain rewards that cross over into RPG play," but those rewards have not yet been revealed.1
Season 1: Season of the Righteous
Paizo announced "Season of the Righteous" on April 14, 2015, and launched it on May 27, 2015. The season includes 29 scenarios in six adventures, and the compiled adventures being published from June 24, 2015, to December 23, 2015.6
Season 2: Season of the Runelords
Paizo announced "Season of the Runelords" on October 21, 2015, and it launched in March 2016.7
Season 2B: Season of the Goblins!
The mini season, "Season of the Goblins!", was announced on May 10, 2016 and debuted at Gen Con 2016 in August of that year.8
Season 3: Season of Plundered Tombs
The fourth full season in the ongoing Pathfinder Society Adventure Card Guild storyline, "Season of Plundered Tombs", was announced in conjunction with the Mummy's Mask Base Set announcement, and the season debuted in November 2016.9
Season 4: Season of Factions' Favor
The fifth full season of the Pathfinder Society Adventure Card Guild campaign, "Season of Factions' Favor", was the first to coincide in theme and title with the concurrent season of the Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild, "Year of Factions' Favor".
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Paizo Staff. (July 3, 2014). Paizo Launches Worldwide Organized Play Program for the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Paizo News.
- ↑ . Secrets (and Setbacks) Revealed: Adventure Card Guild and Iconic Heroes Miniatures. Paizo blog, 2014
- ↑ Vic Wertz. (May 12, 2014). Comment on "Pathfinder Society Adventure Card Guild launches at Gen Con!", Paizo Blog.
- ↑ Vic Wertz. (April 21, 2014). Comment on "Want More Adventure Card Game? We've Got That.", Paizo Blog.
- ↑ . IT'S ALIIIIIIIIVE!. Paizo blog, 2014
- ↑ . Announcing the Season of the Righteous. Paizo blog, 2015
- ↑ . We're Not Staying Mum(my) Any Longer. Paizo blog, 2015
- ↑ . Gen Con, Baby!. Paizo blog, 2016
- ↑ . 'Tis the Season of Plundered Tombs. Paizo blog, 2016