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Santa Clara Marriott
The Warhorn site is now open for sign-ups We are offering two organized play campaigns: Pathfinder Society
Starfinder Society (the Bay Area debut)
The Pathfinder Society functions because of its great volunteers. We needs GMs and a especially some willing volunteers to work at the HQ table. Volunteer for at least 1 session and you will receive a GM boon
Sign up today, volunteer today See you there!!
The Bay Area Pathfinder Society is offering PFS @ Pacificon at the Santa Clara Marriott in the sunny San Francisco Bay Area. We will be offering the new multi-table interactive special, 8-00 Cosmic Captive (15 tables). If that isn’t enough for you we have also scheduled some tables of the 2 new exclusives, 7-99 Through the Maelstrom Rift and 7-98 Serpent’s Ire and the first three season 8 scenarios 8-01 Portent's Peril, 8-02 Ward Asunder and 8-03 Captives of Toil. Didn’t manage to play during the last half of season 7? We have that for you as well! Not enough? Look at module Sunday. We have spaces at Broken Chains, The Harrowing and an Emerald Spire dive. Signup for games at the Pacificon PFS Warhorn site
With KublaCon and Free RPG Day in the past it is time to resume our travelling Monthly Game Day. July’s offering will be on July 23rd at Heretic Games in San Bruno from 11am until 8pm. Sign up for games at Heretic Games Warhorn Site We will be offering the final episode in the Citadel of Flame/Masks of the Living God/City of Golden Death trilogy. Also on the schedule are Returned to Sky, The Stranger Within, The Night March of Kalkamedes and The God’s Market Gamble. Heretic does charge players $5, but are making that the charge for the whole day rather than for just one session (and you get store credit to buy snacks etc…)so come for the whole day. Come join us for a fun day and support PFS at one of our newest stores. For those of you who can’t make it to a weekday evening game this is your opportunity to play.
A successful Dundracon 40 is now in our past (Thanks to Pirate Rob and his team) and Kublacon is only 3 months away. John and I will be running Kublacon this year but we are looking for help and input to make this a terrific event for the Bay Area Pathfinder Society. We have just been told that the Hyatt are doing some construction in our usual home (and the restaurant next door) which should give us a space that will not be divided into small rooms. We are looking for volunteers to help us pull this event off. If you can help us with any of following, or just want more information please email us. Graphic Design - we'd like to have some posters to spread out in the stores to encourage people to come and try us out
If you can help before the con with any of these tasks let us know. The next thing John and I need to do is create a schedule. If you have any requests for particular scenarios, modules or specials let us know. We don't guarantee to be able offer everything you want but we will do our best. Help us make this year's Kublacon the best yet Wendy-Ann & John Francis
Now that everyone has recovered from Kublacon, it is time to start thinking about our next Bay Area con. Pacificon Game Expo is on September 4th - 7th at the Santa Clara Marriott in Santa Clara (Northern California). The warhorn site is now available for GMs to sign up for GM and player slots at https://www.warhorn.net/events/pacificon-pfs Please read the front page before you start as it gives you important information that will keep your sign up running smoothly. Remember - 3 GM slots get you a free badge - DO NOT BUY A TICKET IF YOU INTEND TO GM 3 SESSIONS. As always we will be offering 10 slots of PFS fun and both the RPG (regular and CORE) and the Adventure Card Guild are featured this year. We have a special guest joining in the PFS room - Stephen Radney-MacFarland, one of Paizo's game designers, will be with us for the weekend. This year's Pacificon will have not only 2 specials featuring levels 1-11 but also two exclusive scenarios (one which can only be run by 4&5 star GMs, and one which only 5 star GMs can run). We will also be offering the last half of season 6, the first scenarios in season 7 and a refresher course in what the Aspis Consortium have tried to do to the society in the past so that you will be prepared (perhaps) for "Season 7: The Year of the Serpent". There will of course be much fun had by the Pacificon Goblin.
Pathfinders and Scurvy Pirates, Kublacon is beginning to appear on the horizon (Memorial Day weekend, May 22-25), and Pirate Rob and his crew invite you to a weekend of nostalgia and newness, Core and Normal, scurvy pirates plying their nefarious trade in an Italian restaurant (hmm!) and 3, yes count them, 3 specials. For those who want to test their mettle there will be Bonekeep 3 and for those who like a long story there will of course be modules. Fangwood Keep
There will be sessions of the adventure card game organized play being offered in Scalini’s, next door to our tree rooms so beware of pirates as you come to play an RPG session.
We will be offering a trip back in time to when the Shadow Lodge emerged as a force in the Pathfinder Society. Some foreshadowing with early appearances of Grandmaster Torch; a trip to Kaer Maga, and the special “Year of the Shadow Lodge’ Friday night for those of you who can make it to Burlingame after work (or just take the whole day off and join us at 2pm).
Silent Tide (Core)
We will be presenting almost all of Season 6 including the special ‘Legacy of the Stonelords’ which is featured on Sunday evening and of course the new releases that are coming out in March and April. Both of the season specials will have Core tables. Legacy of the Stonelords
There are of course some opportunities for new players and those of us who want to start a new character. Mists of Mwangi (Core)
As always, GM three slots and a free badge is yours. So give us some feedback and the warhorn site will be available for sign-ups before you can say 'Shiver me timbers arrrrgggggg' Wendy-Ann & John
Our fearless PACG event coordinators (Roy and Dan) are now offering the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game at Game Kastle Santa Clara on Tuesday evenings at 7:30pm Last week we successfully defeated the Ghosts of the Deep and are going on to hopefully not get eaten by "The Lone Shark" this week. We'd like to invite all you Pirates (and we know there must be many of you out there) to join us 'Lost at Sea' this Tuesday. If we can make a second table we could start that table at the first Adventure 'Ghosts in the Deep'. We have set up the PFS Warhorn site to include PFS ACG signups https://www.warhorn.net/events/gamekastle/schedule/2014/11 Signup or just come on down. You will need a character deck and a $2 table fee to help cover the costs of the adventure pack we are using.
The Adventure Card Guild will be starting at Game Kastle, Santa Clara CA on Tuesday 11/4/14 at 7:30pm. Bring yourself and your friends and join us on the high seas for the start of the Lost at Sea adventure. The beginning of the 'Season of the Shackles" If you are going to be a regular player you will need to have your own character deck. If you'd like to know more or you have any questions, come and join us.
Well another Pacificon is over and PFS@Pacificon was amazing. We ran 111 tables of scenarios and modules over the 4 day weekend This included 13 tables of the amazing (the player's words not mine) special - Legacy of the Stonelords where we achieved an 'Impressive Performance'. There were three tables of sub-tier 10-11, where two characters reached seeker level. 11 tables worth of characters found out what was going on with their factions in 5-99 The Paths We Choose and many young players burned a lot of things, found an ancient horn and defeated a gorilla in 5 tables of young player games organized by Adam Grancell (thank you) Also, thanks must go to Brent Holtsberry for coming down from Sacramento to run the special for us and to all the GMs for the whole event for giving everyone a great experience. We could not do this without you The Northern California PFS community's next convention is ConQuest Avalon November 7-9 in Sacramento. Join us there.
PFS@Pacificon (August 29th - Sept 1st in Santa Clara, CA) is offering ~120 tables this year and we still have space for you to join us. So don't delay! We will be closing PFS@Pacificon warhorn sign-ups on Tuesday evening to allow us to muster tables. After that you will be at the mercy of the walk-in sign up system. First Come First Served. There are still a few games looking for GMs so if you feel you could step up for us please take a look at the schedule and sign up GMs needed Sat am - We Be Goblins for kids
Sat Eve - Legacy of the Stonelords (2 needed) Sun am - The Confirmation for Kids Sun Eve - The Sealed Gate Mon am - Fingerprints of the Fiend
Mon aft - Trial by Machine Whatever you decide to do, Play or GM, sign up soon, time is running out . Much fun will be had, don't miss out!
So - just come back from an amazing Gencon, but getting withdrawal symptoms? We have the solution for that! Didn’t get to go to Gencon, and getting jealous of all the returning gamer’s stories? We have the solution for that, too! Sign up to play in PFS@Pacificon which can be found at the Pacificon Game Expo in Santa Clara CA from August 29th – September 1st. We have a terrific group of GMs waiting to give you a terrific experience.
We also have 5-99 so you can find out what on earth is happening with the factions. We round out the package with late season 5 and early season 6 So come on sign up at https://www.warhorn.net/events/pacificon-2014-pfs
The Bay Area Pathfinder Society presents PFS @ Pacificon 2014 August 29 - Sept 1, 2014 at the Santa Clara Marriott The warhorn site for 2014 Pacificon PFS is now available for GM’s to sign up at https://www.warhorn.net/events/pacificon-2014-pfs (sorry, no idea how to make it a link). We will open it up for everyone else in a few days. As usual, you can earn a free badge if you GM 3 sessions We will also be looking for volunteers to help at HQ (slots for this will be added shortly) The schedule this year includes:
Come and join us - we'd love to see you. John and Wendy-Ann Francis
I received a couple of boons at Pacificon recently that mention a term that I can find no definition for. I am hoping that you can help me so that I can use the boons I earned. 'You gain a +1 attack bonus to attack rolls against creatures of the giant subtype and either become specialized in Survival or learn the Shoanti for free' 'You gain a +1 bonus on saving throws against writing-based traps, spells and abiliaties (including glyphs, runes, sigils and sybols), and you become specialized in Liguistics As you can see both of these use 'specialized' a term I cannot find anywhere. |
