Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online
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I think I can speak for all of the Online Venture Officers in saying that we are super excited and very appreciative for this opportunity to serve the Online community in this new expanded capacity. And we all want to thank Paizo for their continued support for the Online Community - you guys have always been amazing.
And many thanks to the Online Community for being an Amazing Community to serve and support - you guys make our jobs a lot of fun.
VC-ACG: Tyler Beck (CartmanBeck) [email]
VL-ACG: Andrew Warner (Hawkmoon) [email]
VC-PbP: Hilary Moon-Murphy (Hmm) [email]
VL-PbP: Gerard vanKonijnenburg (Magabeus) [email]
VA-PbP, Paizo (Flaxseed): Christine Bussman (Redelia) [email]
VA-PbP, MythWeavers: Michael Hallet (MichaelHallet) [email]
VA-PbP, RPGGeek: Phillip Wood (Woodenman) [email]
VA-PbP, Pathfinder-FR: Sylvain Corbaz (Zinou) [email]
VC-VTT: James Bartlett (Imhrail) [email]
VL-VTT: Helen Yau (Hels) [email]
VL-VTT: Richard Lowe (Suthainn) [email]
VA-VTT, German Language: Hannes Schunk (Bakamono) [email]
I could not be happier with the team assembled for the New Online Region - we are very, very fortunate to have such an amazing team of VOs and I look forward to the days ahead.
- Jesse
Jesse R. Davis [IronHelixx]
Regional Venture Coordinator, Online Play
IronHelixx@OrgPlayOnline.com
Discord Chat: PFSChat.com / SFSChat.com / AdventureCardGameChat.com
Our Mission: To Champion, Serve, Support, and Build the Online Community.
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"Starting at 10:00 AM Saturday and running through 10:00 AM Sunday, you can watch Paizo staffers and a few guests roll their dice, move their mice, and hope no one gets hurt. Organized play events start at 2:00 AM Pacific standard time with a PFS scenario brought to us by the local Seattle Venture-Officers and GMs. From 6:00-10:00 AM Pacific standard time, John Compton takes the helm to run a Starfinder Scenario. Tune in to watch our scenarios and help with the hijinks. Visit our Twitch stream to watch the event and qualify for the chance to earn special prizes, such as limited edition boons, Paizo books, a Gen Con badge, and more...when an organized play team member appears on a podcast, streamed charity event, or other online public appearance, they'll bring a few boons with them. Which boons, you ask? How about Ghorans (for Pathfinder Society) and Skittermanders (for Starfinder Society)! To whet your interest in these boons, please note that Ultimate Wilderness (releasing in November) features new options for Ghorans. I encourage you to join John, Thurston, myself, and a few other staffers from 6:00-10:00 AM Pacific standard time this Sunday when we're giving away the first of these via raffle."
Can you clarify this a little bit? The stream starts at 10 AM Saturday but the first OP event isn't until 2 AM Sunday morning? The first boons are being given out the last 4 hours of the event? I guess I'm not really sure when I should be tuning in for these raffles and limited edition boons.
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Tyler and Hawkmoon have been positively invaluable playtesters and have done tremendous work getting PbP PACG working. Great Venture Officer choices!
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♪ I am a brand new Captain specialized in PBP
— A region of creative folk and jocularity
Haunting Paizo’s campaign fora with regularity!
Now Tonya says ’Online’s a region in parity
United with Face-to-Face regions in Solidarity
With Texan Jesse Davis as our fearless RVC!’
So come join me in roleplay across the endless internet
As we raise our standards ever higher and higher yet! ♪
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Wholeheartedly support the new region! Congrats to everyone involved!
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I'm really excited about the online PACG. And I'm looking forward to the things we are working on rolling out. Fun times ahead.
RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16
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Hi everyone! Tyler Beck here, your new Adventure Card Game Online VC!
Thanks so much for the well-wishes. I'm super excited about all the new stuff we're going to be working on.
I've already gotten several inquiries into how people can start playing PACG Org Play online for credit, and I just wanted to let you all know that we're working on that. This will be a several-month process at the least, and I appreciate your patience between now and when we roll stuff out. I'll be giving updates as we move forward with that process. In the meantime, I'll probably start a thread over in the PACG org play forum area asking for feedback on what you all would like to see come out of this.
Also, I'm going to start running a few games on the boards myself, which will be PFSACG games for org play credit! I'll put up recruitment threads with detailed instructions on what you'll need to do as players in the Play-by-post recruitment area, and will cross-post them in the ACG area as well. That recruitment will probably start next week or so.
Stay tuned for more information!!
Tyler
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U-Con is missing from the convention list. It is November 17-19, 2017 at
Marriott Ann Arbor Ypsilanti at Eagle Crest in Ypsilanti, MI.
There will be multiple Pathfinder Society, Starfinder Society and Adventure Card Game events throughout the weekend. For more information you can see https://www.ucon-gaming.org/.
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Congrats to all of the new V-C's in onlineland! I'm a big fan of the play-by-post format, for character interaction and story development. yes, it's slower, but it makes up for that by being awesome!
And congrats to all of the new five-star GMs. Thanks for making PFS awesome in your area.
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Are the race boons only available by raffle chance? No chance of donating more to the charity to guarantee get it? I like Extra Life a lot and have no problem doing it. I'd just like to know if I can skip the random factor of the raffle.
If there is then I will beyond pissed. I hate the whole concept of raffles, pay to win. I hate how booms are distributed this way. A lot of people can’t afford to do that. Myself being one.
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If there is then I will beyond pissed. I hate the whole concept of raffles, pay to win. I hate how booms are distributed this way. A lot of people can’t afford to do that. Myself being one.
But the point of the boon is to say "Thank you" to those who donate to the charity. Are you saying everyone should get the boon whether or not they donate? Not that I am saying I agree with them being distributed using a raffle or not, but wondering how to reconcile that someone who cannot afford to buy a raffle ticket and therefore cannot afford to donate to the charity should get the incentive for doing so.
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Venture-Lieutenant, Virginia—Fairfax
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If there is then I will beyond pissed. I hate the whole concept of raffles, pay to win. I hate how booms are distributed this way. A lot of people can’t afford to do that. Myself being one.But the point of the boon is to say "Thank you" to those who donate to the charity. Are you saying everyone should get the boon whether or not they donate? Not that I am saying I agree with them being distributed using a raffle or not, but wondering how to reconcile that someone who cannot afford to buy a raffle ticket and therefore cannot afford to donate to the charity should get the incentive for doing so.
I'd really like to see both options be viable. Regardless of what the reward is, it helps a good cause and both ways could help generate more funds than just one.
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...if only there were some way to get a 'raffle' boon and a 'participation' boon, so that everyone participating could come away with a positive feeling even if it weren't necessarily a race or the like...
...something that *builds* community rather than divides it sharply into 'those who have' and 'those who have not'...
...okay, I'm stumped, but I'll keep thinking about it see if there's any ideas I can suggest?
EDIT: Truth In Text: I gave up any hope of participating and or seeing any of this when I saw how my work and sleep schedules overlap with the time it is going on.
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Venture-Captain, California—San Diego
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If there is then I will beyond pissed. I hate the whole concept of raffles, pay to win. I hate how booms are distributed this way. A lot of people can’t afford to do that. Myself being one.But the point of the boon is to say "Thank you" to those who donate to the charity. Are you saying everyone should get the boon whether or not they donate? Not that I am saying I agree with them being distributed using a raffle or not, but wondering how to reconcile that someone who cannot afford to buy a raffle ticket and therefore cannot afford to donate to the charity should get the incentive for doing so.
I think the frustration this player is trying to express is that Paizo has chosen to take a race, Skittermanders, that immediately drew players interest and created a gated method of obtaining it that seems extremely limiting. I don't think anyone wants to do away with charity boons and similarly structured rewards for players who support Paizo's chosen benefactors. The perception among many of my local players is that Paizo purposefully chose a race they knew would be popular and created a system where you have to log in at a specific time and donate a specified amount to even have a chance of getting the racial boon. I know the raffle is a way to avoid the pay-to-play perception but that's exactly what it feels like to many.
Starfinder Society Developer
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I think the frustration this player is trying to express is that Paizo has chosen to take a race, Skittermanders, that immediately drew players interest and created a gated method of obtaining it that seems extremely limiting. I don't think anyone wants to do away with charity boons and similarly structured rewards for players who support Paizo's chosen benefactors. The perception among many of my local players is that Paizo purposefully chose a race they knew would be popular and created a system where you have to log in at a specific time and donate a specified amount to even have a chance of getting the racial boon. I know the raffle is a way to avoid the pay-to-play perception but that's exactly what it feels like to many.
I want to address the concerns about this being some kind of "master plan" to get a whole bunch of extra money from us (even if it is for an awesome charity). It really isn't.
When we started work on sanctioning Alien Archive we recognized how popular skittermanders were. Since the book started coming to light, we also recognized a very divided player/GM reaction skittermanders. While much of it is positive, I've recorded and received numerous concerns about "All Skittermander Tables" and preconceptions about skittermander culture and how they should/will be played at a table. So, it was obvious from Day 0 that we needed to have a controlled and reliable way of getting these adorable pastel furballs into the wild.
First off , yes, currently we're looking at a donation being a CHANCE to win a skittermander boon. Opening it up to "donate to get" easily has a reek of "pay to play" and not something we want to promote. As the blog states, the donation isn't even 100% locked in yet, but it's looking like a direction we'll go (to help promote an amazing cause).
Second, until otherwise announced, this promotional online media boon will be the primary vector for getting skittermanders out in the wild. The idea is to help our media friends get potential new viewers, while also giving Organized Play something cool to offer when we go on those shows—seriously, a lot of our "cool material" is scenario spoilers and stuff that's difficult to divulge in interviews, which makes it harder for Organized Play to even get invited onto certain shows. That being said, the Organized Play team (myself, John, Tonya, and Linda) look forward to taking part in various online streams/podcasts/interviews, where we can talk about the numerous Organized Play initiatives, and get more and more skittermanders into the wild!
Finally, as I stated above, skittermanders are tremendously popular. We're just "opening the flood gates a small bit" to start getting them into the community, but also trying to avoid a situation where EVERYONE gets a skittermander and then we end up with a situation of tables of skittermanders. This is especially true because there's very little lore on the skittermanders (a temporary problem, I realize). As I write this, I have no expectation that this boon will be our only vector of getting skittermanders out to the masses.
And as a final tidbit to all the Starfinder Society players out there... be sure to watch upcoming scenarios for possible new ways to get access to uncommon/rare races in the campaign!
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So my biggest issue is some people have a lot of money and get the bigger chance to win. It has happen locally. Some people can't barely afford the initial amount so their chance is SEVERELY limited. I do agree everyone should get a participation boon. I would love to donate but I am in limited funds and already have another charity I am looking to try an support at the same time.
I really could careless about the Skittermander. While I would like one I have other interests. I always hated raffles. Then i feel like people only donate to get the boon and really don't care for the charity as much. They only are donating to get a boon. I really think this would have been a great opportunity to give the Skittermanders out to everyone who donated then had a more exotic/rare race.
While I do find in low they choose what was the most popular race and basically saying oh donate if you want it and oh it will be limited amount. I think they could have picked a better race. Again donating just to win a boon is really low. I don't ever see, I could be wrong and if so I apologize ahead of time, charities being advertised just to donate, there is always some sort of boon associated with it. If I came one day to the sight and saw hey we would like you to donate to this charity just to donate then it would be different.
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Starfinder Society Developer
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I also want to emphasize, that the release of ghoran/skittermander promotional boons is NOT just tied to this event. Future online media events attended by Organized Play staff will not require any kind of donation incentive.
For example, if we were invited onto a play podcast like Glass Cannon or an interview on Know Direction, our plan would be to give away a set number of boons during those events as well. These would not require any kind of donation to those organizations. So while I can understand the frustration for this event, please don't misconstrue it as being "skittermanders and ghorans can only ever be received via paying for a chance to win them", that is NOT the case.
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Venture-Captain, Minnesota
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I also want to emphasize, that the release of ghoran/skittermander promotional boons is NOT just tied to this event. Future online media events attended by Organized Play staff will not require any kind of donation incentive.
For example, if we were invited onto a play podcast like Glass Cannon or an interview on Know Direction, our plan would be to give away a set number of boons during those events as well. These would not require any kind of donation to those organizations. So while I can understand the frustration for this event, please don't misconstrue it as being "skittermanders and ghorans can only ever be received via paying for a chance to win them", that is NOT the case.
A thought, Thurston... Will you be participating in online events in different timezones? It’s a worldwide campaign, and being logged online in different timezones is tough. With my odd work schedule, I am frequently listening to interviews with you guys days after the fact, in bits and pieces when I have time. And I’m in the US. I’m just hoping that there will be ways for those in Asia to also participate and get these great boons.
I for one look forward to GMing for my first skittermander. It’ll be fun seeing what the little guys do.
Hmm
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...Paizo purposefully chose a race they knew would be popular
I think they could have picked a better race
It is these parts that I do not understand. Should they select a race no one wants? What other race choice would be "better?" Isn't the point of an incentive to be something people want and to encourage those to donate more? Sure, in a perfect world everyone is altruistic and gives the maximum they can simply out of the goodness of their heart. Some do, but the reality is there are soo many charities that they have to compete against one another for desperately needed funds and for many, their donation is often directly tied to "what do I get out of it." How much more will this effort raise if their is a rare race boon attached? How much less would it be if we simply asked people to donate for nothing? How much less would it be if the incentive was marginal?
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Starfinder Society Developer
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Quite aware of time zones, which is why we're starting our first Extra Life event at something a bit more accessible to people in other time zones.
Otherwise, I assume that online media events like podcasts, which often times aren't listened to "live", will have some different raffle methods. Likely a "listen in and hear the keyword" similar to what some radio shows do!
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Organized Play Lead Developer
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I also want to emphasize, that the release of ghoran/skittermander promotional boons is NOT just tied to this event. Future online media events attended by Organized Play staff will not require any kind of donation incentive.
For example, if we were invited onto a play podcast like Glass Cannon or an interview on Know Direction, our plan would be to give away a set number of boons during those events as well. These would not require any kind of donation to those organizations. So while I can understand the frustration for this event, please don't misconstrue it as being "skittermanders and ghorans can only ever be received via paying for a chance to win them", that is NOT the case.
A thought, Thurston... Will you be participating in online events in different timezones? It’s a worldwide campaign, and being logged online in different timezones is tough. With my odd work schedule, I am frequently listening to interviews with you guys days after the fact, in bits and pieces when I have time. And I’m in the US. I’m just hoping that there will be ways for those in Asia to also participate and get these great boons.
I for one look forward to GMing for my first skittermander. It’ll be fun seeing what the little guys do.
Hmm
Although most (all?) of our online appearances so far have involved podcasts, companies, and the like in North America time zones, we're looking at ways to become more involved with online appearances beyond that region. If you know of any that would be a good fit, we'd be interested to hear from and about them.
Not all online appearances are live, either, and we have a few thoughts on how we could provide boon opportunities to listeners who check out those events after they're edited and made available.
Organized Play Manager
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Just to clarify, to possibly get a skittermander or ghoran boon, a person should donate something and watch the Twitch Stream from 6:00-10:00 AM Pacific standard time this Sunday?
Probably a good way to raise awareness of the event. Hope i can make it^^
That is it! Watch our Live Feed and keep an eye on the chat. When you see the boon announced, follow this link and hit the donate button. Make your donation per the chat directions and you will be entered to win the boon.
See you all in a few hours!
If your interested, VC Louis Manko Levite is currently running some Seattle-based players through PFS Scenario 4-11: The Disappeared!
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Congrats, our new online Venture Officers!
Venture-Captain, California—San Francisco Bay Area South & West
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Hi! How do I sign up for Online Play for the card game?
A timely question!
If you take a look at this thread, Tyler is currently recruiting for an online run.
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Hi! How do I sign up for Online Play for the card game?A timely question!
If you take a look at this thread, Tyler is currently recruiting for an online run.
Thanks for the link!
