Greetings all,

I am currently enthralled with two things new to me. First is the software package maptools. I have begun using it to create detailed maps for the PbP games I run. It is magnificent. In learning the software, however, I have become ensorcelled with it's features. It honestly looks like a really awesome medium for playing RPG's online in real time.

At the same time, I have also been looking heavily into Pathfinder Organized Play. Having heard of living campaigns for years, it wasn't until PFS that I have taken the time to thoroughly check the concept out. With that said I am also quite impressed. It seems to be a really neat system of tying many campains together and as a 20+ year veteran of D&D I'd really like to try on this type of gaming experience.

Now ideally, I would like to find a group that is already playing PFS organized play via maptools that has room for one more weekly player. This would allow me to get acclimated to both organized play and the maptools format gradually without the responsibility of gamemastering. However, after scouring message boards for many a week now on the topic, I am finding it to be very elusive. So as with all means of online RPG play, game masters are exceedingly difficult to come by. I'd have to guess the ratio is somewhere around 50:1. Thus, like always, if you wanna play a game online you've got to run it yourself. (Sadly)

Now, I'm generally considered an experienced and competent DM. This sort of things happens when your first RP experience was being charmed by Bargle in 1988! This being said, I'm a bit apprehensive about starting both an organized play game and a maptools game for the first time without amazingly patient players, so this is what I'm proposing...

If any of you out there play on a regular basis via maptools, I am looking for an invite to WATCH a game or two. I think this will allow me to learn more of the subtle operations of maptools without overly frustrating my first time players to be. Better yet, if you have an organized play game going over rptools that has a slot open, send me an invite and I promise that I will give 110% and you will not be disappointed. Lastly, if any of you have advice on organized play in general, it would be much appreciated.

I'm not sure if this is something that you might know about already, but if not, this group organizes games regularly:
Pathfinder Society online collective

I think most games are on EST, which for now has prevented me from joining, but it sounds like games happen at least on a weekly basis. Good luck!