Pathfinder Society at PaizoCon 2016

Monday, April 18, 2016

PaizoCon 2016 is fast approaching, and we're expecting the sign-ups and lottery to go up in the near future. I know a bunch of you are wondering how to allot your lottery priorities, so let me help by tempting you with even more fun options. After all, we love making PaizoCon special by running unique games and providing other great content to make your trip to Seattle as fun as possible.

Illustration by Damien Mammoliti

Adventure Card Game Open Playtest (Lottery Event): Last year, Adventure Card Game Designer Tanis O'Conner masterminded a way to play the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game competitively, working as a team to outclass the other groups playing the same adventure. She'll be running playtests of this year's adventure (set to debut at Gen Con 2016), and this is your chance to be her nefarious guinea pigs. Your infernal insights disqualify you from participating in the Open at Gen Con, but you will have the diabolical satisfaction of watching the competitors brave the challenges you helped shape.

Adventure Card Game: We Be Goblins! (Lottery Event): ACG enthusiast Tyler Beck has worked with Tanis to create a three-part adaptation of the wildly popular We Be Goblins! series of adventures, complete with new characters and custom cards printed through DriveThruCards. There will be several rounds of this 4-hour PaizoCon exclusive, but seats are sure to go quickly!

Pathfinder Society Special #7-98: Serpents' Ire (Lottery Event with 35 tables): At PaizoCon 2015 players portrayed Aspis agents bent on wrecking the Grand Lodge. This year we're getting half the team back together—and adding some devious new faces—in order to infiltrate and destroy a new target: the Korholm Agenda. Step into the role of an 8th-level pregenerated scoundrel on Sunday evening.

PaizoCon Banquet (Ticketed Event): Following PaizoCon tradition, Paizo employees join fans for a great meal, and then we gather ‘round to hear what products are coming up over the next year. Expect some big news from the Pathfinder Society team, including the announcement of the next Roleplaying Guild season.

Pathfinder Society Q&A Seminar (Open Event): No doubt you have burning questions from the banquet, so the following day Tonya, Linda, and I will take your questions during the Pathfinder Society Q&A panel.

Out of Retirement / Season 0 Reborn (Lottery Events): The Out of Retirement tradition continues, giving a select group of players the chance to experience one of the retired Season 0 adventure renovated with full Pathfinder RPG stats and updated Chronicle sheets for full organized play credit. This year I'm running a slight variation on this event called Season 0 Reborn, in which I update one of the other Season 0 scenarios with all the extra goodies. As an added benefit, you can get organized play credit for these revised scenarios at PaizoCon, even if you already played the original versions.

We also know that GMs appreciate as much warning as possible about what maps to expect—especially when preparing for big events like PaizoCon. I've provided a list below of the published maps expected to appear in the April and May scenarios. As a note, the map list for Pathfinder Society Special: #7-98: Serpents' Ire is still being finalized, and I'll post that information in its product page once that's settled.

Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-20: All for Immortality, Part 1: First Taste of Eternity

• Flip-Mat: Desert Ruins
• Map Pack: Extradimensional Spaces

Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-21: The Sun Orchid Scheme

• Flip-Mat: Desert Ruins
• Flip-Mat Classic: Prison

Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-22: Bid for Alabastrine

• This adventure uses only custom maps.

Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-23: Abducted in Aether

• Map Pack: Evil Ruins

We'd also like to thank everyone who voted in our best Pathfinder Adventure Card Guild Accessory contest! The winner of the Best Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Accessory contest is...

Drumroll please...

Calthaer! His excellent revolving game board has won first place, and he will receive $30 credit to paizo.com. The two runners up, lackoffocus and Hawkmoon269, each receive $10 paizo.com credit for their fine work!

For our next contest, we want to see your sketches of your Pathfinder Society characters! More details and submission information will be available on May 17th—until then, get sketching!

John Compton
Pathfinder Society Lead Developer