A New Face, Stars, Conventions, and More!

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

I know time flies quickly, but when our new developer, Michael Sayre, noted that he started 7 weeks ago, it caught me by surprise. Then I realized while I've gotten to know Michael, we hadn't introduced him to our organized play family. So I asked him to describe himself in a few sentences and encourage those of you attending PaizoCon or Gen Con to come by and say hi to the newest person behind organized play!

From Michael...

"Hello! I'm Michael Sayre, the newest member of the organized play team. My work with Pathfinder includes designing and developing products for several third-party publishers, including Amora Games, Dreamscarred Press, Drop Dead Studios, and Rogue Genius Games, as well as doing editing work for the Wayfinder fanzine. Since joining the team I've been tackling sanctioning on some of the more recent adventure paths and doing development on several scenarios, starting with the recently released #9–16: Fallen Family, Broken Name. It's been an exciting (and busy!) run so far and I'm looking forward to continuing to help the OP team produce and sanction great new content for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game."

Pathfinder Society GM Stars

A cornerstone of the Pathfinder Society is the Game Masters who To achieve this milestone, GMs facilitate 150 games, of which at least 50 must be unique scenarios and 10 are special scenarios, as well as run a game for a venture-captain. A conservative estimate of time needed to reach 5-stars is 650 hours! To the GM listed below, thank you very much for the time and energy you devote to running Pathfinder Society games! Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

• David Breuning
• Steven Johnson
• Curtis Jones
• Nigel Loh
• James Martin
• Amanda Plageman
• Scott Romanowski

Congratulations! Once again, thank you for spending hours running games for your community!

Conventions

Convention season started in earnest on 1 March, when the number of requests for event support doubled. Which is wonderful news for our gaming community, as there are even more places to play Pathfinder and Starfinder Society! We encourage you to check out the list and see if any conventions appeal to you. All of the conventions on the list maintain some type of web presence, be it website, social media page, or Warhorn listing, so if you are interested in attending in either capacity, check out their websites or contact the local venture-officer for more information! If you know of a convention running Society games that is not on this list, encourage the organizer to contact me at organizedplay@paizo.com to discuss their event.

Convention Name	Location	Start Date
1D4 Con 2018	Martinsburg, WV	4/13/2018
CODCON 2018	Glen Ellyn, IL	4/13/2018
Pathcon 4.5 (2018)	Salt Lake City, UT	4/13/2018
Springfest 2018	Tri Cities, WA	4/13/2018
GameOn-Icon 2018	Plymouth, NH	4/14/2018
TriCon 3: The TriCon Rises (2018)	High Point, NC	4/14/2018
Kingdom Con 2018	San Diego, CA	4/19/2018
Cape Comic Con 2018	Cape Girardeau, MO	4/20/2018
Lexicon Gaming Convention 2018	Lexington, KY	4/20/2018
Main Würfel Convention 2018	Germany	4/20/2018
Gaming for Conservation 2018	Newington, NH	4/21/2018
HMGS-South Recon 2018	Kissimmee, FL	4/26/2018
Farmageddon V (2018)	Farmer City, IL	4/27/2018
Gaming Hoopla 2018	Mundelein, IL	4/27/2018
Konocti-Con 2018	Lakeport, CA	4/27/2018
Mepacon Spring 2018	Scranton, PA	4/27/2018
Pretzcon 2018	Omaha, NE	4/27/2018
QC Gamefest 2018	Quad Cities, IA	4/27/2018
2018 D8 Summit	Utica, IL	4/28/2018
GameCon X (2018)	Colorado Springs, CO	4/28/2018
NRVcon 2018 (2018)	Blacksburg, VA	4/28/2018
Chupacabracon V (2018)	Unknown	5/4/2018
ConTRAPtion 2018	Worthing, UK	5/4/2018
Demicon 29	Urbandale, Iowa	5/4/2018
Heroicon 2018	Decatur, IL	5/4/2018
David Setty Memorial Game Day (2018)	Cincinnati, OH	5/6/2018
BLFC 2018	Reno, NV	5/11/2018
Microcon 2018	Turku Finland	5/11/2018
KoboldCon 2018	Colorado Springs, CO	5/12/2018
RusCon 2018	Moscow, Russia	5/12/2018
Tri Con 2018	Bay City, MI	5/12/2018
BeholderCon	Boise, Idaho	5/18/2018
Mallicon 2018	Cincinnati, OH	5/18/2018
Cherry Capital Comic Con (2018)	ACME, MI	5/25/2018
Comicpalooza 2018	Houston, TX	5/25/2018
KublaCon 2018	Burlingame, CA	5/25/2018
Seekerpalooza 2 (2018)	Montreat, NC	5/25/2018
Summer Wolfcon 2018	Chicago, IL	5/26/2018
Nexus Game Fair 2018	Milwaukee, WI	5/31/2018
Die Con 18 (2018)	Collinsville, IL	6/8/2018
RAGECON 2018	Reno, NV	6/22/2018
InConJunction 2018	Indianapolis, IN	7/6/2018
MidSummer ConQuest	Sacramento,CA	7/20/2018
1D4 Con 2018	Martinsburg, WV	4/13/2018
CODCON 2018	Glen Ellyn, IL	4/13/2018
Pathcon 4.5 (2018)	Salt Lake City, UT	4/13/2018
Springfest 2018	Tri Cities, WA	4/13/2018
GameOn-Icon 2018	Plymouth, NH	4/14/2018
Konocti-Con 2018	Lakeport, CA	4/27/2018

Volunteer Opportunities

We still need volunteers for Gen Con 2018! If you want the chance to run Pathfinder Society Playtest adventures, see the launch of Pathfinder Society Season Ten, or experience the Starfinder Society interactive scenario in a room with 1,154 other people, this is the convention for you. Follow this link for more information on how to volunteer.

PaizoCon schedules are going out tomorrow. Check your email if you filled in the questionnaire!

2018 Organized Play Staff Travel

With the addition of Michael to the team and the announcement of Pathfinder Playtest/Pathfinder 2nd edition, I've updated the staff travel roster to reflect where you can find Paizo staff and potentially a playtest opportunity (or two!).

If you are an event organizer and want to invite us out at your event in 2019, drop an email to organizedplay@paizo.com before next summer. We review our schedule in the fall and try to get all decisions wrapped by the end of the year.

Convention Name	Location	Start Date	Org Play Staff
Quad Cities Game Fest	Quad Cities, IA	4/27/2018	Tonya
PaizoCon	Sea-Tac, WA	5/25/2018	Tonya, John, Linda, Michael
UK Games Expo	Birmingham, England	6/1/2018	Tonya (+Paizo staffers)
Origins	Columbus, OH	6/13/2018	Tonya, John (+ Paizo staffers)
PaizoCon UK	Birmingham, England	7/20/2018	Tonya (+ Paizo staffer)
Gen Con	Indianapolis, IN	8/2/2018	Tonya, John, Linda, Michael
DragonCon	Atlanta, GA	8/30/2018	John (+Paizo staffer)
Fan Expo	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	8/31/2018	TBD
SkalCon	Minnaepolis-St. Paul, MN	9/14/2018	Tonya
Hurricon	Tampa, FL	9/27/2018	Tonya
PaizoCon OZ	Melbourne, Australia	10/19/2018	Tonya
U-Con	Ann Arbor, MI	11/16/2018	Tonya
PAX Unplugged	Philadelphia, PA	11/30/2018	Tonya (+Paizo staffers)

Pathfiner Society Playtest Discussion

After the announcement of the Pathfinder Playtest, the team opened up a new forum for Playtest discussion. Thank you to everyone who is expressing their opinions! If you aren't familiar with these topics, you can read the basics here While we aren't actively posting in the threads, the team spends some time each week reviewing the posts and compiling the feedback for discussion at our weekly meetings. Knowing the thoughts of our community helps us shape policy. Please keep up the discussions!

Next week, we will preview event offerings at PaizoCon & Origins!

Until next time—Explore, Report, Cooperate!

Tonya Woldridge


Organized Play Manager