[b]ANNOUNCING PLAY-BY-POST Outpost VII: The Allies We Made Along the Way ![ / b]

ANNOUNCING PLAY-BY-POST Outpost VII: The Allies We Made Along the Way !

PbP Outpost VII Event # 2715266
When: March 04, 2024 - May 13, 2024

Secondary HQ location: Our channel on the Organized Play Discord at PFSchat.com #pbp_outpost_vii

Reporting Links
We will be using RPG Chronicles for signup management and reporting. If you have an RPG Chronicles account, you can manage signups and chronicle generation (including emailing chronicles to your players) simply by logging into your existing RPG Chronicles account and using the Outpost VII event code.

If you do not have an RPG Chronicles account or don’t wish to create one, no problem. Simply click the link below to report as a “guest GM”.

https://bit.ly/OutpostVII-Reporting

For more information about using RPG Chronicles for reporting, please check out this link

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Greetings Pathfinder and Starfinder enthusiasts!

We’re all very excited to announce the upcoming PbP Outpost VII! I will try to keep this as brief as possible so that folks can find all the information quickly. The theme for this will be The Allies We Made Along the Way. When choosing your scenarios to run, try to choose ones with some sort of focus on allies, friends and collaborators the Society meets and befriends in their adventures!

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Important dates:

The form for Specials GMs says it is no longer accepting responses. Is something wrong with the form, or are submissions already full?

The form for Specials GMs says it is no longer accepting responses. Is something wrong with the form, or are submissions already full?

It says it's for OutPost VI, so I'm guessing an old link.

This post may have launched a bit early, as there's another thread HERE that seems to indicate they're still determining whihc specials will be run
Though that poll itself has a currently nonfunctional link

Specials registration form will be up today. sorry for the confusion

Hello everyone, sorry for the confusion, but the GM Special Registration Form is now available!

Specials GM Registration Form

During Outpost VII, we will be offering the following specials:
Pathfinder 1e 6-97 Siege of Serpents
Pathfinder 2e 3-99 Fate in the Future
Starfinder 2-00 Fate of the Scoured God

Starfinder 2-00 Fate of the Scoured God

*laughs in Jinsul*

Greetings Outpost VII Participants!
You can now view the offerings for Outpost VII, as well as GMs and their respective locations!
GM Early access to signups will occur on February 5, while players signup will occur on February 12.
Outpost VII Spreadsheet

There are not many PFS1 games offered so far - and no CORE at all...

Will there be PFS1 CORE tables as well?
Maybe also for the special?

Thanks Watery Soup for posting this in the lodge!

I see an error in a listing.
Pathfinder 2e 3-29 Equal Exchanges, the Hidden Current
3-19 is actually Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-19: Mean Streets of Shadow Absalom. Which one is it suppose to be?

There are not many PFS1 games offered so far - and no CORE at all...

Will there be PFS1 CORE tables as well?
Maybe also for the special?

I've noticed the same thing. You can also GM and change that.

Someone has to step up, in order to offer those tables. Who is it gonna be?

I see an error in a listing.

Pathfinder 2e 3-29 Equal Exchanges, the Hidden Current
3-19 is actually Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-19: Mean Streets of Shadow Absalom. Which one is it suppose to be?

There was an error while copying information, I've fixed it. Should be 3-19 - Mean Streets of Shadow Absalom

We have more GMs for Siege of Serpents than we did for Year of the Shadow Lodge at this last GameDay, and that's a good thing.

Someone has to step up, in order to offer those tables. Who is it gonna be?

How offended would players be if the GM (me in this example) need to ask them for technical information?

I'm all for helping the GM when they are not sure on a rules or tech item. I don't mind some correction when I get something wrong, there's more info than any GM can reasonably remember at all times in this game.

Definitely. It's not surprising when a player knows more than the GM about the rules covering their PC.

Also, if you're running a special you can always ask the other GMs.

Less rules content but more, "Uh hey I messed up the map on Google Slides, any ideas how to fix it?"

Less rules content but more, "Uh hey I messed up the map on Google Slides, any ideas how to fix it?"

If you do it, you can use Undo. There's also a way to restore an earlier version, but since I'm posting from my phone I can't look it up.

Shadow Dragon wrote:

Less rules content but more, "Uh hey I messed up the map on Google Slides, any ideas how to fix it?"

If you do it, you can use Undo. There's also a way to restore an earlier version, but since I'm posting from my phone I can't look it up.

I was thinking if someone else does it or if I'm trying to prevent mess ups. I'll give an example. So there's a dungeon map, PC tokens are on it, NPC tokens are on it, and an AoE template is placed on the map. Unfortunately that can 'trap' the tokens under it so I need a way to always keep the tokens on top. In certain 'document software' you could make something a watermark to keep it in the background. So something like that or some way to navigate/manage multiple 'layers' created by certain effects.

John Woodford wrote:

Shadow Dragon wrote:

Less rules content but more, "Uh hey I messed up the map on Google Slides, any ideas how to fix it?"

If you do it, you can use Undo. There's also a way to restore an earlier version, but since I'm posting from my phone I can't look it up.

I was thinking if someone else does it or if I'm trying to prevent mess ups. I'll give an example. So there's a dungeon map, PC tokens are on it, NPC tokens are on it, and an AoE template is placed on the map. Unfortunately that can 'trap' the tokens under it so I need a way to always keep the tokens on top. In certain 'document software' you could make something a watermark to keep it in the background. So something like that or some way to navigate/manage multiple 'layers' created by certain effects.

Hopefully I didn't confuse everyone.

You can set an image to be the background of a slide. That'll keep it permanently on the bottom. Google Slides does weird things with aspect ratios if they don't match the slide. IIRC the easiest way to do this is to paste the image into slides and then take a screen shot of that cropped to the slide and then select that image to be the backround.

There's no way to force to tokens to be on top but when you add a template you can right click and "send to back" and that'll put it on the bottom layer, but still above the background.

I frequently don't go through the extra steps of making the map the background and just right click send template to back and then right click send map to back to get things in the order I want.

Sometimes I've used a map that's just a copy/pasted image, and then hidden things that the players don't know about yet or can't see under the map. That way I can keep track of the position but the players can't see them.

Same trick, really.

When I need to see those hidden tokens, send the background to the back. If they're still supposed to be hidden after I checked on them, send them to the back again.

@all: I apologize if my previous post sounded demanding/entitled, that wasn't my intention at all. I was just surprised because last Gameday there were way more PFS1 (and also some CORE) tables...

kaervek78 wrote:

There are not many PFS1 games offered so far - and no CORE at all...

Will there be PFS1 CORE tables as well?
Maybe also for the special?

I've noticed the same thing. You can also GM and change that.

I am currently attending GM school to be able to step up in the future. :-)

You can set an image to be the background of a slide. That'll keep it permanently on the bottom. Google Slides does weird things with aspect ratios if they don't match the slide. IIRC the easiest way to do this is to paste the image into slides and then take a screen shot of that cropped to the slide and then select that image to be the backround.

Yes - this, 100%. If there is any one single piece of advice I would give to GMs that use Slides, it's this. Please - learn how to set an image as a slide background. Here is the Google how-to for that. It is a huge quality of life improvement for everyone, both players and GMs - especially for people accessing the map from a mobile device.

I often turn the map to the side to help with the aspect ratio. It doesn't always work perfectly and messes with directions (north-south), but allows my maps to be used as the background for a slide.

Pirate Rob wrote:

You can set an image to be the background of a slide. That'll keep it permanently on the bottom. Google Slides does weird things with aspect ratios if they don't match the slide. IIRC the easiest way to do this is to paste the image into slides and then take a screen shot of that cropped to the slide and then select that image to be the backround.

Yes - this, 100%. If there is any one single piece of advice I would give to GMs that use Slides, it's this. Please - learn how to set an image as a slide background. Here is the Google how-to for that. It is a huge quality of life improvement for everyone, both players and GMs - especially for people accessing the map from a mobile device.

Thank you and also Pirate Rob and Super Zero for the help. Putting it as a background is great unless there's more than one template in play. Say for example a Magic Circle vs. Evil and an Entangle. But I think I can set one (longer duration and/or not moving one) as the background and then 'Move to Back' on something that's of a shorter duration or that might move - like the Magic Circle.

The templates don't need to be set to background, just the map image.

Use templates with semi transparent interiors but solid borders, works fine to have multiples.

GM Early Signups now open!

Early signups for FCFS and Specials tables are now open for our GMs (and ONLY our GMs) as a special thank you for running games for Outpost VII. Please remember to limit your signups to 1 special table and 1 regular table for now. When general seating opens on the 12th, you can sign up for more tables.

Note: Anyone that jumped the gun and signed up for a table seat before this announcement will need to sign up again as all fields were cleared.

Outpost VII Spreadsheet

Argh! I forgot that PbP runs on GMT and I just submitted a GM request a few minutes ago.

I'll buy the scenario if I need to, but can I get a grace period since it's still before Paizo's workday begins today?

Today's the deadline anyway, right?

So, usually "Feb 5" means "the end of the day on Feb 5" but in the past, PbP conventions have meant "when Feb 5 begins in Grenwich."

I, too, thought I had until EOB in Seattle (2.5 hours from this post), and was only reminded about the PbP quirk when GM signups were opened 21 hours ago.

There are not many PFS1 games offered so far - and no CORE at all...

Will there be PFS1 CORE tables as well?
Maybe also for the special?

If you want to play the special in core, then when signups open, put your core character on the wait-list, making sure to include CORE in the tier. If there is enough demand, we will see what we can do.

If you were picked as a GM for Siege of Serpents, please dot into the GM thread HERE.

I am willing to GM for the Outpost but I see the time for scenario support has already past. Is that a hard limit or can we still get support? I am considering to run #4-01 - Rise of the Goblin Guild, Core or Standard, whatever gets more interest, or perhaps another season 4 scenario.

I only discovered about the Outpost today when I started to see threads popping in the Recruitment forum. And I guess many recurrent GMs and players had similar issues to find out about this event.

As a way to improve awareness, it might be positive to have the option to receive an email with the announcement of such events for everyone who has participated on them in the past, specially GMs, as not all of us keep track of the Online Play forum.

@Tonatiuh Ramírez,

Sent you a PM last week. I haven't heard anything back yet.

@Tonatiuh Ramírez,

Sent you a PM last week. I haven't heard anything back yet.

Thank you for reminding me. DM sent.

General Seating now open!

General seating is now open for all players. While there is no limit to the number of games you can sign up for, we do ask that everyone do their best not to overcommit. We also would ask that you not sign up for tons of games at the very beginning, to give everyone the chance to find a seat at a table. Sign up for a few, then wait a day or two to give others the chance.

Remember that the 1 game per character rule still applies to Play By Forum/Play by Discord games, so no signing up to play in multiple games with the same character.

Outpost VII Event Listing

For more information, read the full announcement at the Paizo Forums

All Outpost GMs
Dear GMs, if you do NOT have a legal table you have two options:

1) If you want to run it, please advertise it not only in this lodge, but in all lodges so it gets as many eyeballs as possible.

2) Request to either Bigrin, ogrenoah or myself that it get closed.

Outpost GM Choice GMs
Please update the event listening sheet if you still have seats by typing in Yes (#), where #= number of available seats.

My non-repeatable didn't fill.

I added to the form for a repeatable to GM.

I assume it'll auto-add to the spreadsheet?

Thanks!

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

As of now 00:00 GMT+0 March 4th Outpost VII is live! Players and GMs alike, have fun!

@Tonatiuh Ramírez --- Sent you a PM about an issue with my game.

I have either reported a game a million times or not at all. I can't tell whether the form isn't being submitted due to an error, or whether there is no confirmation screen. When I click the submit button, nothing seems to happen. I have not received an automated confirmation E-mail, which I have received in the past.

If it isn't being submitted due to an error, it may be because there are no Time Slots in the drop down menu, but the Time Slot field is required, so nobody can fill it out.

Game Date and Time Zone?

They don't really apply to pbp, but that'll be the date it's reported at. So just set it to around the time the game wrapped up and use your own time zone.

Am I on the wrong page? There's no Game Date or Time Zone pull-down menu. Just "Time Slot" with a blank pull-down menu.

Alright, it looks like I am able to sign in and create a game, and then populate the player fields myself. The guest login page is the one that appears to be broken.

The game has appeared on my screen. There has been no confirmation about which of my submissions went through, and there has been no reply here, both of which are annoying.

The game has been reported without the replay from one character, and I don't know whether I had forgotten to check the box (possible), or whether the inputter forgot to check the box. This has to be remedied, but there are no instructions on how to do so. Should I submit a new RPG Chronicle? Which way - the Guest link or the Create a New Game? PM someone? Who?

Normally, I'd just find someone and PM, but I'm posting the complaint publicly, because in general, I've found all the communication about this convention to be lacking, all the way from "let's open registration and not announce it in the Lodges" to now.

I'm not going to check this thread any more.

First, let me apologize for not keeping up with this page. For some reason it got moved off of my list of active threads to watch.

Waterysoup, if you are still having issues reporting games, please PM me either here or on discord. There was an issue with guest GM reporting requiring a starting time slot, and not having one available. We've addressed that now, but I understand it was aggravating.

That said, it would be nice if you dm'd somebody either here or on discord to get your answer quicker. I understand that it can be frustrating when you are posting on the announcement thread and no one is reading what you have to say, but if you want a solution, the easiest way is always to go directly to somebody the idea.

If you had dm'd somebody, I could have had the issue fixed for you in 5 minutes or less.

So again, sorry you got frustrated with no one responding to you. I imagine the other event coordinators probably had this thread fall off of their watch list for The same reason it fell off of mine. Let's get this addressed and move on