It is my distinct pleasure and honor to award the last four Campaign Service Awards of my tenure. Included are two VOs and two non-VOs. VC Chris Hays and VC Andrew Hoskins both are awarded a Campaign Service Awards for not only their awesome duties as VOs organizing and coordinating local and regional game days and conventions, but also for the tremendous talent to create memorable 3d terrain for games they run. I saw examples of both of their works at Gen Con in the last 24 hours and the added care and attention they provide to immerse players at their tables is remarkable. These dioramas and rooms and maps they build into 3d also attracts quite a bit of interest from passerbys that sometimes decide to stay and try quests and the like, thus bringing new players into the fold. If you haven't had a chance to see their amazing skills at terrain building, I encourage you to do a google search. Hopefully someone can post some links to some of these photos. The other two awards I presented tonight are for two people who are not VOs, but that have been instrumental in making 4-5 years of Gen Cons and PaizoCons run smoothly and successfully. Both Tersha Choy and Angus Maclennan work tirelessly behind the scenes and most of the time unnoticed by the player base at large. However, they have been two of my most valuable and appreciated HQ staff at both large conventions, and without them, Gen Con and PaizoCon would not have been as awesome as it has these past few years. Both of these awesome volunteers have given up every minute of their time at Gen Con and PaizoCon the last 4-5 years to devote solely to PFS HQ to make sure all attendees have the best experience possible. I am going to miss working with both tremendously. All four of the awesome volunteers above have taken steps to foster growth and community cohesion in their own ways. They make my job easier and I thank them for that from the bottom of my heart. They are pillars of the community and members of the community that people can look to as an outstanding PFS example. All four have my highest respect and most sincere thank you for all of their work. Without them, PFS would not be where it is today. Congratulations VC Chris Hays! You are now PFS number 747.
As my final official act as the Global Organized Play Coordinator, it is my honor and pleasure in congratulating the 11 newest campaign service award recipients. I was able to award nine of them at the Gen Con special tonight. Martin and Dan were not at the special and I will make sure they receive them before the end of the show. The recipients include: VC Brett Sweeney
These VOs have all served as a campaign volunteer for more than 1,000 days. Their efforts have fostered growth and community cohesion in their respective regions. They make my job easier and I thank them for that. Their PFS Work with large regional conventions and local charities places them as pillars of the community and members of the community that people can look to as an outstanding PFS example. All five have my highest respect and most sincere thank you for all of their work. Without them, PFS would not be where it is today. Congratulations VC Brett Sweeney. You are now PFS number 736!
As I sit here reading Rand's thread, it is a "quiet" moment, if such a thing exists at GenCon to peer out into the Sagamore and ponder how incredibly awesome our community is. This year we have over 300 volunteers help us with PFS from the marshals that seat the players, to the HQ staffers shuffling paperwork, reporting table results, etc to the GMs running games. It is exciting to know sooo many people are willing to give up their personal, most likely limited vacation time in order to make sure other people have a great GenCon. Thank you all for being awesome! From Tersha to Angus, Mildred, Sara, the four HQ leads Lucas, the Scarab folks, the Gipsons, Hayes, and Brummonds, the eastern WA crew, and all the new people added to HQ every year (Ali, Jenny, etc) they all make this show in particular run unbelievably smoothly and tirelessly give up their own show time so everyone else can have fun. I can't name everyone off the top of my head (we've literally had more than 100 people over the years) as I'm very tired right now and have some red ale running through me. But know, if you have now or have ever worn an orange shirt or worked HQ, you have my most heartfelt thank you. You made my job so much more easy and gave me fond memories to last a lifetime! I'm going to miss the chats and hangout times tremendously.
I was sent the list of confirmations about an hour ago. They are all on one spreadsheet. All names are placed with the Marriott. If you have a problem at check in, find me in the Sagamore Ballroom. I will have the list of all 65 confirmation numbers with me. However, all tier 1 and 2 volunteers appear on the sheet and should be set with their hotel rooms. Thanks again for all of your help and looking forward to seeing you all this weekend.
I believe he means if someone had played before Season 6 and not at all during, they can not make the free faction change now. Which seems a little odd.The factions didn't change, they remained the same. Therefore, there was no reason to offer a free faction change, Sorry I misread that then. As long as they haven't played the character at all since before last Gen Con, then yes, they can change from one of the nation based factions to one of the ideal based.
The factions didn't change, they remained the same. Therefore, there was no reason to offer a free faction change,
Is there any word on the hotel situation for Tier 1/2 volunteers? Hotel is at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, across the street from the ICC. Gen Con has all of your names. As soon as they send the confirmation numbers in emails, I will forward those to tier 1/2 volunteers straight away.
We will have copies of Chronicle sheets and tracking sheets that will be distributed to all GMs. We will also have copies of the pregenerated characters available. If you can't print your own, it would be appreciated but certainly not necessary. And you will be a super GM at Gen Con. I have every confidence in that!
Sounds good to me.
First level characters and their builds are fine since we have rebuild rules in place (BTW, good build there Nefreet). However, 4th and 7th-level versions of these cannot legally be played as official pregens and receive a chronicle sheet, either to be held and applied once your own character reaches that level, nor traded in for 500gp to a new character. A couple of points: 1) Be careful passing these as an official Paizo PDF. They should instead use a custom layout and design.
Please join me in congratulating the five newest campaign service award recipients. The recipients include: VC Karim Majeri
The first three have been VOs for more than 1,000 days. Their efforts have fostered growth and community cohesion in their respective regions. They make my job easier and I thank them for that. Their PFS Work with large regional conventions and local charities places them as pillars of the community and members of the community that people can look to as an outstanding PFS example. The latter two, I sought the advice of VCs David Harrison and Rob Silk as they know their areas better than I. The following are what they had to say about Chris and Gael: "A year ago we lost our Venture Officer, Tonya Woldridge, to Canada and we thought she would be impossible to replace. Chris Brockley-Blatt stepped up to the mark and since then she has developed the organization of events to an exquisite level. You may know that she is a Project Manager for a Space Programme and she bring that same level of perfection to her organization of Pathfinder events. Every detail is covered. It’s rare to have to ask someone to do LESS, but if we didn’t restrain her she would single handedly do the work of our entire Pathfinder Team. We hope that Pathfinder events in the UK appear smooth running, but here’s the secret. It’s only because Chris has fielded all the problems and patched them up so seamlessly that no one even knows the catastrophes have happened. Chris is an especially caring person and looks after her wonderful family as well as doing a very demanding job and running a figure painting business. It’s quite amazing that she finds time to look after our GMs and Players as though they are part of her family, too. Her cooking, baking and GM goodie bags have raised the morale of many a GM."
Without Gaël it couldn’t happen. He built the Bar and Café for the event, offers free camping and he supplies food and the organic mead he makes from local honey. He even roasts a sheep for the Feast on the Saturday Night. Gaël is born and bred Swiss and his mother tongue is French. He is a tireless GM. He puts Pathfinder Society adventures through a Google Translator, checks them, and then runs them in French. He doesn’t hesitate to run games in English and we are delighted to see him regularly GM’ing in the UK, at “Conception” and at “PaizoCon”. He has done wonders for the Entente Cordiale for European Pathfinders. He is a great guy and a very generous Pathfinder person." All five have my highest respect and most sincere thank you for all of their work. Without them, PFS would not be where it is today. Congratulations Karim Majeri. You are now PFS number 731!
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If anyone is looking for a home game in the New Orleans area, feel free to PM me. I would love to start recruiting for a home game I am GMing that will start in mid-August. It involves mythic monsters trapped in celestial prisons and why the constellations have the shapes they do. The PCs have to capture each and then figure out how to place them back in their prisons. Until they do so, births, deaths, tides, and other time related stuff is wonky and messed up. And it starts in Thuvia. Come on down. I will reserve a seat (and yes, I know Auckland is a bit far) :-)
Thanks to almost all of you for the well wishes. It is appreciated. If anyone is looking for a home game in the New Orleans area, feel free to PM me. I would love to start recruiting for a home game I am GMing that will start in mid-August.
It's been already brought up each year the weight increase is about 12lbs.Like 73% of statistics that was made up on the spot. No one is being discriminated against. As a matter of fact, my HQs at both PaizoCon and Gen Con do everything we can to accommodate physical handicaps by finding space on aisles or table ends or closer to the screen or whatever to make it easy as possible for them to participate. I have a cousin who is handicap and am very cognizant about being inclusive as possible. If someone wants to use 19 books to make a character, they always have the option of purchasing PDFs and placing them on a tablet that weighs 2-3 pounds (or subscribing and receiving free copies of PDFs). People can also choose to not use more than 2-4 books to create a character. It's always a choice and there ar options. Please stop advising that we discrimate. That is the fatherest thing from the truth.
Please join me in congratulating the two newest campaign service award recipients. The recipients include: VC June Soler
Their efforts have fostered growth and community cohesion in their respective regions. They make my job easier and I thank them for that. Their PFS Work with large regional conventions and local charities places them as pillars of the community and members of the community that people can look to as an outstanding PFS example. Both have served more than 1,000 days each as venture officers. They have my highest respect and most sincere thank you for all of their work. Without them, PFS would not be where it is today. Congratulations June Soler You are now PFS number 729!
What if nothing else is working. This is where I have a disconnect, lets say this cleric can't move away from the barbarian and rogue that have him flanked, can't hit either of them reliably, and doesn't have any spells to help rectify the situation. I understand that his tactics say he doesn't be at the same time doesn't it hurt verisimilitude to have him just sit and take a beating without using everything at his disposal. I mean i get if there is a reason like he is saving his channels to activate a item or door. But if he just isn't using them it seems odd to me. However, if the actions of the PCs before or during an encounter invalidate the provided tactics or starting locations, the GM should consider whether changing these would provide a more enjoyable play experience.
A VO simply needs to make the request to me and it happens a great many times more often than not.
Anytime I have been approached by someone who truly could not afford to purchase a scenario, I have assigned the requested PDF for free to their account and usually 5-6 additional.
Especially since I get them for free all the time. :) I estimate we give away somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000-20,000 free PDFs every year to both cons and game days as small as 3 tables.
I update Additional Resources every month. I will get this added within the next month, along with the other new releases, just like I do every month. The next update may be delayed a week or two due to PaizoCon and Origins back to back, but it will get done. Most likely timeframe will be a week or two after I get back from Origins.
"John Compton! We could really use that 'The Story So Far' writeup right about now!" Very soon
Please join me in congratulating the five newest campaign service award recipients. The recipients include: VC Andrew Christian
Their efforts have fostered growth and community cohesion in their respective regions. They make my job easier and I thank them for that. Their PFS Work with large regional conventions and local charities places them as pillars of the community and members of the community that people can look to as an outstanding PFS example. All five have served more than 1,000 days each as venture officers. They have my highest respect and most sincere thank you for all of their work. Without them, PFS would not be where it is today. Congratulations Andrew Christian. You are now PFS number 724!
You forgot the yellow submarine with Numerian technology.
A big thank you goes out to Jonathan Choy, aka...TetsujinOni, for coming to the Paizo office yesterday and helping me work on Guide 7.0 for 3-4 hours. Jon took notes from the message board posts, made a list, and we worked together on the new Guide. We eliminated some things (should be 7-8 pages shorter), rearranged some info to make it flow better, deleted some unnecessary text, clarified some confusing language, moved info to different parts of the Guide that made more since (for example, character retraining to After the Adventure section instead of in the character creation section), etc.... Overall, the Guide will be more concise, user friendly, and a better product, and a good amount of credit goes to Jon for that! Thanks!
Well, my original post was more referring to events that happen after Eyes, but for that instance there's definitely a middle ground between "Sits and waits for death" and "Makes the PCs unnecessary." She could've had defensive buffs to buy more time for the PCs. She could've laid a trap, not actually being there in the final room but making everyone think she was, to get [REDACTED] to show himself for the PCs to take down.Worse, the last one is a diviner with nothing but school spells prepped for the most part and she just stands there waiting. Maybe she divined it in the morning after she had already memorized spells. Who knows? It is what it is and why we are taking steps to do what we can to change not only the perception of the society throughout Golarion, but also from top to bottom in the organization.
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