Paizo,
You guys have one of the best organizations, hands-down. Hence, I'm asking for your assistance and/or advice!
You have someone using Pathfinder - specifically Kingmaker - to help teach "Changemakers" in Uganda.
While you can read about this sort of thing - and it was even on the Paizo blog! - the gist is that future leaders of Uganda are being trained in various critical thinking skills. One of those helping make that happen is this guy.
However, they have run into a snag: he only has the first two entries into that AP... an AP that is very hard to come by!
Thus, I'm asking - as instructed by James Jacobs - you guys: what can we - either we as a community, or you guys as a company (I lack the legal know-how to suggest a particular course of action) - do about that? I'd be all for some sort of drive to ship it to them!
I'd really like to see this project continued for their sake, one way or another! So what can I do (other than make this post) to make this happen? I know Kingmaker is especially hard to come by... hence I'm uncertain about simple shipping.
Regardless, thank you guys. God bless and guide you all in all you do, and I pray for the success of Ben Parkinson, and the Changemakers in general!
~ TL
I'm not entirely sure of the amount of free space/internet access he has to hold all of those. Nonetheless, it's a good point!
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Everyone here is very kind and I will pass on your good wishes to all of the kids here. At the moment we are running this in a slum area in Kampala and thus we have good internet access and actually we are using PDFs right now, so it would be not necessary to have the hard copies. I can print out key pages, like the city building parts.
Mike Brock has been really helpful and has made some of the PFS modules available for us, so we are trying to do these, though some are very complex for the kids here and also they are generally too long for one evening. I mention this, as Mike might be prepared to make access available for Kingmaker modules, if they are purchased on someone else's account. mike.brock@paizo.com
Alternatively, the money for the PDFs could be donated at http://www.justgiving.com/cyen and they can then be acquired directly by me.
In time, we intend to take the Kingmaker campaign into the village areas and this will bring more difficulties, as net will not likely be available, at least in my experience on our rural site to date, but we can still take charged laptops there and run sessions. Our young kingmakers are also being trained as GMs and it will not be longbefore they can go out into these places and run the games using local language for children.
Shipping is possible and the address to send anything would be Ben Parkinson/Alex Obeni, Chrysalis Centre, c/o Life in Africa, P O Box 28825, Kireka, Kampala, UGANDA.
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Call me crazy but I just placed an order for all 4 (non-mint). Hopefully, I didn't screw up the address. If someone at Paizo could confirm that would be great. The order number is 3205227.
Now if others want to also purchase the PDFs that would be great.
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Following Uncle Teddy, I am about to gift the pdf's for the Kingmaker parts 3-6 to Ben Parkinson. I hope that those 4 volumes are all that are needed.
[EDIT] Done. Order # 3206141 on my side. Ben Parkinson should have the pdf's in his downloads, if the system does as it should.
Thanks ever so much, Uncle Teddy and Franz Lunzer. I can confirm that the PDFs are in my account.
Anyway, just fantastic news and I will let the kids know that we can continue this Thursday and I will continue to blog on their progress on the other thread.
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Call me crazy but I just placed an order for all 4 (non-mint). Hopefully, I didn't screw up the address. If someone at Paizo could confirm that would be great. The order number is 3205227.
Now if others want to also purchase the PDFs that would be great.
The address looks fine, and the order should be shipping soon :D
Also, you guys are awesome!
Thanks!
Sharaya
YOU GUYS ROCK SO HARD!
I was just gathering the last funds needed for the PDFs this week... and you beat me to it! Thank you! :D
EDIT: I even had left this tab open for a few days, but forgot to refresh it, so it looked like there wasn't anything here... then I post something mild, and BAM! Suddenly there's awesome! Thank you all so much! :D