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A few years ago I decided I wanted to play at an occassional Convention. But I sure as heck didn't want to go to a Con to play a pregenerated 1st level PC! So I'd have to grind out a PC or two through the RPGA.
The local RPGA was active but extremely boring D&D. I'd been spoiled with 25+ years of creative Homebrew.
So I sat through months of banal RPGA games and built up a PC to 7th level (just short of 8th) and two 3rd level PCs. I figured I could take my almost 8th Lvl PC and run him once or twice a year at the big Cons and for quite a few years just play the best levels at Conventions.
And three weeks after I felt I had a perfect PC for Cons, the bastids at WoTC cancelled the mags and a few months later killed D&D.
The months I spent playing the worst D&D of my life all went down the toilet. I no longer had a "perfect level" PC for Conventions; WoTC had officially, irrevocably, pissed in my cheerios.
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So now that Paizo has resurrected D&D I want to try again.
I wanna start going to the occassional "Big Con" and play D&D in the Pathfinder Society. But I wanna play in the fun levels. So I have to become -- no, I get to become a Society Member.
But there's nothing here locally.
Please help.
What is the first step?
What "Big Cons" will Paizo run scenarios?
When are these Cons?
If I create a PC with Society Guidelines can I play "official" on-line scenarios and gain "Certs"?
What are the Society guidelines for PC creation?
Who shot JR?
Is Tensor male or female?
Wait, don't worry about the "JR" thing.
-W. E. Ray
Great to hear your interested Molech! If you go to the Pathfinder Society portal, that will provide you with most of the info you requested. You can sign up for a PFS number either on your My Account page or on the PFS page. All the specific rules of play, character creation, leveling, etc. are in the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play available for free from the PFS portal. And yes, you can play online. There's an active group doing just that at the Pathfinder Society Online Collective. In general, I believe the "Big Cons" Paizo attends and runs PFS at are PaizoCon, GenCon and Origins, though there's now a large contingent at NeonCon, so that list may be growing. Generally Paizo's presence at a convention is announced pretty thoroughly on these messageboards and the Paizo Blog.
A lot of your questions are answered in the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play. Read that as your first starting point. :-)
Bradenton Florida -- been here 3 months now. Still no D&D.
There's some up a little in Tampa but my schedule is tight; can't really make it to Tampa on a weekly basis. On the Gamer Connection category I only got one response from someone in Bradenton -- he hasn't played D&D in awhile but sounded interested. Then he disappeared.
Maybe I should move to Missouri, eh.
