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I just got into Society play at last year's GenCon, and started investigating whether there was any PFS action around the Grand Rapids area. It seems like there used to be, years ago, at White Cap Comics in the Walker area, but it died out at some point. I've spoken to some of the employees there, who said that if there was a willing Venture Captain who wanted to organize Society play in the area, that the space would still be interested in hosting.
They've asked me if I'd be interested in filling in the VC role, but I'm not sure I'd have the time for it/am uncertain of how demanding it would be for my already full schedule. I do know at least one other player, potentially several others, in the area who have also expressed interest in attending, if there was anyone who might be willing to take the helm, so to speak.
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Stephanie Layfayette slafayette00@gmail.com is the local VL in Grand Rapids/Western Michigan. She organizes a healthy group out in Greenville, and as a matter of fact she's running a game tomorrow afternoon in Kentwood, at Out Of The Box. You should try and make it so you can at least get introduced :) Also, if you want to get something going at White Cap, make some invites with the pertinent details and give them to any players who show up for Stephanie's game.
You should join the Michigan PFS website and talk to the local players. Don't forget to come to GrandCon in September!
I've been approached by a few stores that ask me to get PFS started up for them. It takes a lot of work to get a regular game going at a store. The fact that there isn't a regular game in Grand Rapids speaks to that. As the organizer, you can't expect to run a single game and instantly attract 4-6 players. Sometimes it takes 3, 4 or 5 false starts in order to get a game off the ground. The best bet to succeed is to have a regular weekly game. Advertise on the store bulletin board, and make sure that you post the event here on Paizo, on michiganpfs.org and on the store's website if possible. That's a commitment, but if you can't make it every week for consecutive months you're going to do a lot of work for nothing. If a weekly game isn't in the cards, try a once-a-month Saturday game. Try and coordinate with Stephanie so you won't compete with her Greenville group and you may find some crossover players coming from her area.
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Thanks for the offer! But I think that's a little outside the range we were looking for. ;; We have a lot of active non-Society campaigns that keep us satisfied most of the time, but we did like the idea of developing our Society characters more than once a year at GenCon.
During the school year, I work six days a week (five at school and one at retail), including Saturdays, and that makes it hard to plan trips to anywhere too far out. Now that it's almost summer time and I can arrange for more free Saturdays, we were hoping to find something we could hit at least a couple of times. I'll keep an eye on the MIPFS website though.
