After receiving my game materials, I was delighted with the attention to detail and character information. I am hosting a Murder at the Four Deuces party this saturday and had a question so I thought the quickest way to get a direct response would be to fill out the contact form. After sending a lengthy paragraph with several questions, I was disappointed to receive a one sentence reply with misspelled words that did not fully answer my question. After replying to this correspondence asking for further explanation, I received yet another one sentence reply with another misspelled word. Maybe I am being picky but it just puts a bad taste in my mouth as far as professionalism when I receive replies like "I am sorry but that is the why the game is written. What does "that is the why the game" mean? That doesnt help me at all. The first reply used the phrase "I now" in place of "I know". The real issue here is that my questions have not sufficiently been answered. It is too late for me but hopefully someone can answer them for future users.
Here is my original email:
Hi there I am doing Four Deuces at my dinner party this saturday. I have two questions- First, I wanted to email each person attending the pdf that is included with their character description. I opened the one assigned to my character and I see that the character list on the pdf that describes my character/actions to do when I arrive only includes the first 20 players. I read on the forum that the expansion pack includes a character list that includes all the characters but the "guest list" pdf in my expansion pack only shows the extra ten characters (not the full 30). And even if it showed them all I would be confused if i got one of the character packs from the main 20 and it only had 20 characters and then I got an additional list that had 30. What should I do? Are there alternative character packs for the first 20 characters that include expansion pack characters on the list in the event that you are playing with both the original 20 plus an expansion pack? Also I have already had an evite for the party for several weeks and everyone has responded. I dont want them to have to rsvp again through the system since the party is this weekend. Is there a way for me to send character info through the system by typing in email addresses or do they have to go through the rsvp step? I saw on the website rsvp portal that that character list also only includes the first 20 characters. How would I send character info to the people assigned a character from the expansion pack? Finally since not everyone coming to my party knows each other and there are quite a few guests (25), should I send a list of who is what character ahead of time, (ex donna wannabee-carlea, al capone-alex)? Thanks so much!
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Since sending this email/not getting a useful solution, I took matters into my own hands and combined each character pdf with the "guest list" from the expansion pack in adobe acrobat. I still think the average intelligent person will notice that something is fishy when there are 10 more characters on the last page in a different font. I think this is something that the creators could easily fix buy sending alternative character packets that include all 30 characters when someone purchases the expansion pack. It also doesnt make sense to me that when you open a character description from the expansion pack, for instance Color Pencille, the character list in her character description doesnt even include her or the other expansion pack characters! As for sending expansion pack characters their info through the rsvp site, I am not sure of a solution since that part of my question was not answered with the reply "I now it only shows the extra ten characters but you put them in everyones character background which has the description of the first 20."