Venture-Captain, Germany—Bavaria
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Thanks for reply. I was hoping to play female dwarf Kinetiscist/Oracle of earth named Toph. Can't wait to do so when book is released.
Well let me guess what oracle curse you will take ^^ And the best thing is, just never have to learn names, just call them "moron" or "twinkletoes^^"
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Lol. Toph was actually my favorite character from the Show. Hmm. I seriously doubt I will play anything in that direction, even if the Book comes out. There are still some ideas I have.
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There was a very short window of opportunity, but it's gone now. Now we need to wait till the book's out.
I feel your pain. I had a half-elven Harry Dresdenesque occultist prepped and ready, but no games to play in.
The "very short window" was about a month. Long enough for most. It may not have worked for your schedule, but that is by no means "very short".
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Compared to the playtest for the ACG classes, the Occult playtest was very short. ACG playtest was months long - long enough that many people had characters retire before the book came out. As someone who plays PFS often, I found the window to be extremely short for the boons that were included in the playtest chronicle. 9 games with a minimum of two played at level 7. This meant that you had to have a level 5+ GM blob and play at least 9 games in a month to get the boon. I personally got the 6 line boon on my Harry Dresden Occultist, and love the roleplay I can do with him.
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Compared to the playtest for the ACG classes, the Occult playtest was very short. ACG playtest was months long - long enough that many people had characters retire before the book came out. As someone who plays PFS often, I found the window to be extremely short for the boons that were included in the playtest chronicle. 9 games with a minimum of two played at level 7. This meant that you had to have a level 5+ GM blob and play at least 9 games in a month to get the boon. I personally got the 6 line boon on my Harry Dresden Occultist, and love the roleplay I can do with him.
Sure, if we compare something longer to something shorter then it's easy to say that. If we compare a month to a day it's not as easy. I agree getting in enough plays to get the big boons on the sheet was too short, but getting enough plays to continue playing the character was very doable.
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The "very short window" was about a month. Long enough for most. It may not have worked for your schedule, but that is by no means "very short".There was a very short window of opportunity, but it's gone now. Now we need to wait till the book's out.
I feel your pain. I had a half-elven Harry Dresdenesque occultist prepped and ready, but no games to play in.
All depends on where you are. Locally, we have a game every other week. A one month window was *very* short.
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I raised that question immediately following the end of the playtest period as well. Locally, I did not see one playtest character in the 6 or so sessions I played that month (I personally had zero interest). However they said they were happy with the information they gathered, so I guess there must have been some places churning out Mediums with their 'tertiary spirits' or whatever. I'm really not sure how they got anything resembling a useful sample of information at any levels beyond 1, but hey, if they're happy that's all that matters.
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they said they were happy with the information they gathered, so I guess there must have been some places churning out Mediums with their 'tertiary spirits' or whatever. I'm really not sure how they got anything resembling a useful sample of information at any levels beyond 1, but hey, if they're happy that's all that matters.
A month may seem short when you're looking at the local level, but internationally that can add up to a lot of data. There are almost 200,000 registered PFS ID numbers. Even if 1% of that population made a single Occultist, that's 2,000 reports to filter through.
If you weren't active on the playtest forums at the time, I can tell you that each section was brimming with comments for the entire month.
Locally we had players get all the way to 7th or 8th level, IIRC. I played with a Telekineticist at the table that was 6th level. I made an Aerokineticist (this profile) that played every single session (no GM credit) and ended the playtest at 4th level.
Just in my local scene we had one of each elemental Kineticist, a Spiritualist, a Psychic, and a Medium.
Northern California sees a lot of play.