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I'd like to propose something to make finding PFS groups easier. Currently if you live in between venture officers listed in the guide it can be a little tricky and possibly offputting to ask around to where the games are, as VC's tend to cover some pretty huge and and always intuitive swaths of territory.
When you report a game it comes with a location. That location gets saved somewhere . This part already happens.
What would be nice is if you can input your location and see where past games have taken place and how long ago they were to see where/how active the groups are and who's playing. If you see that there was a PFS at Bookend Comics last week there's a good chance of an active group. If you see there was a game played there last year you know there might be a group you can dust off.
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Good feedback guys, these are certainly things we can look into.
If you can't be bothered to make the effort of a simple email, what kind of player are you going to be?You must call or email both, but a lot of others won't.
These kinds of things really need to be as easy as possible.
The kind like me?
Hey.. wait.... :)
It's not like email is rocket science these days.
Its more than an email or two
Lets look at what the steps would be for a new player. You hear about this pathfinder society thing. You click the pathfinder society button
Get involved looks like a good button, the "Regional coordinators" page is a link to them.
I find my state: new york. In all likelyhood I look at it and say "nothing anywhere near me" and walk away from it. Nothing would suggest to me that the albany region goes as far south as it does.
If i was willing to try a game anyway , I'd have to email the New york, Albany, Connecticut, and new jersey VOs, who are going to have to break out a map to find my town and a map of their locations to figure out where I am, and email me back.
Emailing 4 completely random strangers is... more than a little offputting. I'd much rather input a town and see where games are going on.
I find my state: new york. In all likelyhood I look at it and say "nothing anywhere near me" and walk away from it. Nothing would suggest to me that the albany region goes as far south as it does.
If i was willing to try a game anyway , I'd have to email the New york, Albany, Connecticut, and new jersey VOs, who are going to have to break out a map to find my town and a map of their locations to figure out where I am, and email me back.
Emailing 4 completely random strangers is... more than a little offputting. I'd much rather input a town and see where games are going on.
And I am across the river from Big Norse Wolf, so I have the same issue. Email NYC, Albany, CT (actually the closest!) and NJ VOs is annoying. However, I have found out that a local place Dragon's Den in my town (Poughkeepsie) has a weekly PFS game going on, so it would have been much easier to input the town and find that then accidentally stumble across it.
-- david
We're also over in New Paltz at october country cards and comics about every other friday.
You should talk to the albany folks about putting yourselves up on The warhorn if you can get a regular game going.
If I lived exactly between to VO's I'd call or email both. VO's tend to gossp between each other a lot. Meetup is also a good site for checking on regular PFS groups. as is Yahoo.
Thats kinda the problem. Every PFS group has a brain somewhere. The problem is you don't know whether yours is an email list, a facebook, a message board, an email list, a meetup. warhorn... you're good once you find it but doing so can be a bit problematic. If every pfs group was on facebook, or on yahoo, or on google groups, or on meetup there would be only one place to look. As it stands now there are dozens.
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Have you ever tried to get more than two PFS groups to agree on a common way to list themselves?? We have NYC groups that use Meetup, Yahoo, or Facebook. They each like the way they operate and aren't going to switch.... and that's just one city!
Nope, I'd rather work on something easy, like getting matter and anti matter to play nicely.
The point isn't for people already in PFS to figure out how to communicate, its to try to get a total stranger pointed in the right direction. Nothing does that like a map.
I miss the old, enter zip code and miles away, watch events in that area pop up on a map.
The problem with that was that it only showed upcoming games.
Since people don't organize games on paizo, you'd have to effectively double the work load of organizing the game on warhorn/facebook/email list, pre reporting it on paizo, and then reporting the game after it was played. Most people tended not to use it consistently, if at all, meaning that people could look and not find games that were actually there.
People either made the session and reported it at the same time (after the event) or just reused the same event number for a game day. Either way the games weren't there to be found in advance (which is what i was hoping getting a look at PAST games would fix)
People either made the session and reported it at the same time (after the event) or just reused the same event number for a game day. Either way the games weren't there to be found in advance (which is what i was hoping getting a look at PAST games would fix)
Well i do that too, but also add dates in the future for the recurring gamedays, as far as i know they will/should happen.
I also try to make that well known on other information points.But BNW is right, pretty often local groups, even with VO´s, are more like closed circles where you already have to have some insider knowledge and that resemble more or less friend circles.
To the extend where players travel with one of their GM´s/VO´s to Cons so they can play a special under him/her and keep that circles even more closed this way.
Slight bump for this
Twice recently I've seen someone looking for PFS games and couldn't find them.
One person was in upstate new york, look at the list and saw "albany..." and thought they were too far away. They're smack dab in between two regular games (one of thems my store..)
Another person is from the upper portion of Texas. His closest games are probably in oklahoma.
Would it be helpful to post a link to the regular PFS online game that I am forming on Roll20?