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Derek, in a region crowded with amazing GMs, you rise to the top. Your quick wit, your energy, your character voices, and your famous sculpted-at-the-table minis all make it a joy to play with you. I'm so glad I got to play in your tenth special that finalized your fifth star, and I look forward to many more games with you (after you've had a well-deserved break, of course!).
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Just to be clear - other PAX shows are usually just demos and not actual scenarios being run. I've GM'd at PAX East for the past two years, and both times have been demos. It has to do with how the convention is organized and what kinds of people are there. The demos provide an opportunity for people who didn't come to play Pathfinder to sit down and try a session. That's the majority of the traffic.
There are more conventional PFS conventions in the area - Philly just had Unseelie Court and will continue to have conventions in the future. And perhaps Unplugged is different - it is after all more focused on board gaming and therefore may justify the expense to Paizo to have a more formal PFS experience. However, given previous experiences with PAX, demos only is a reasonable setup.
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Unfortunately no, there will not be any organized play component for Pathfinder or Starfinder at PAX Unplugged this year. With it being the show's first year and our first time in their facility, we decided to come in small, get our feet under ourselves and get to know the facility, and decide how best to grow our presence for future years.Well that is extremely unfortunate. :(Traditionally the PAX shows aren't set up to offer free space to run OP events and the pay-to-play space they tend to have is quite expensive. Plus the show wasn't even advertised until way after (like months and months after) we had closed our budget cycle for 2017 so it made it very difficult for us to have OP. That and without really seeing the space first, there's no way for us to know which available spaces are best for us to use for OP.
Believe me that we understand how disappointed our fans are that we aren't able to offer OP at this show this year...we are as well. But we will be scouting it out and budgeting for space for future years (if possible)
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I'm surprised at the local VOs didnt step up. I mean, I hear these PAX cons are pretty big deals.
I'm not sure why it's surprising that Volunteers didn't spend thousands of dollars out of their own pocket to get the space from PAX, especially without being allowed to charge fees for the games. Hell even Adventurer's League needed permission from PAX to be able to use Kickstarter to afford to run events there, and that almost didn't fund.
But PAX Unplugged did say they'll have space for open gaming so I wouldn't be suprised to see tables of PFS in the open play area.
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It sounds silly, but PAX is closer to Comic Cons than GenCon - most of the emphasis is on the main floor and panels rather than individual gaming sessions. Now there will be plenty of demos on the floor, so there's plenty to do if you just want to walk around, but it's not GenCon or Origins.
And yeah, hopefully there'll be even more Open Gaming Tables than there was at the other PAXs, so hopefully there will be some PFS happening spontaneously there. And perhaps PAX Unplugged will evolve next year if enough people say that it's what they want out of a gaming convention.
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Hello! I'll go ahead and announce that I am the creator of Karisa Starsight for the Leaders in Liberty contest.
I have dreams of writing but don't often find the time. I figured I could handle 300 words. After generating my idea and trimming down from about 350 words, I submitted Karisa.
It was very surprising and gratifying to see Karisa as a finalist! All the finalists' entries had unique strengths. I suspected one would carry the prize, but this post declared Karisa the winner! Thank you voters!
Congratulations are in order for the finalists and all those who took the time to craft and submit an entry. And thanks to Paizo for running the contest.
I can't wait to see Karisa's appearances in future scenarios. As a bonus, my primary character right now is Liberty's Edge.
Thanks again everyone!
Sam
