Trading a lottery event for which I am not qualified


PaizoCon General Discussion


So, I signed up for and won a lottery event (Night of the Crimson Moon) without realizing that it is a game system with which I am completely unfamiliar (Call of Cthulhu), and experience required is veteran (The quickstart rules are 50 pages long so I couldn't even fake it). I thought I had it sorted to only Pathfinder RPG games. I've put up a trade for it, so far with no takers, and no one else has created a trade looking for it. Worst case scenario, is there a way to drop the event to free it up, or give it to someone else who really wanted to win it in the lottery?

Community & Digital Content Director

I would suggest making a post to let the GM of the game know that you will not be in attendance. We do have a take-a-ticket/leave-a-ticket area designated for folks that won't be able to attend also.

However, if you'd like to simply remove the event from your schedule, you can do so by clicking the "remove" button next to the event listing on the Event Schedule page.

Scarab Sages

Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber; Pathfinder Maps, PF Special Edition, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

This is James Jacobs game and it's one of the hottest tickets, I think. I asked about the experience requirement in his thread and he said that it's only important to be an experienced role player. He said the rules are simpler and it's not necessary to have CoC experience.

If you don't want to play, though, you'll have no trouble trading this for another high demand game.


I've played in that event 2 years and I had zero experience with CoC the first time and it was AMAZING.


TomParker wrote:

This is James Jacobs game and it's one of the hottest tickets, I think. I asked about the experience requirement in his thread and he said that it's only important to be an experienced role player. He said the rules are simpler and it's not necessary to have CoC experience.

If you don't want to play, though, you'll have no trouble trading this for another high demand game.

That is great news, thank you. I will keep the event and devour the quickstart rulebook in the days leading up to it.

Scarab Sages

Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber; Pathfinder Maps, PF Special Edition, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

I think you'll be happy with that decision. I also lucked into this so I'll see you there. I have some quickstart homework as well.


I played in James Jacobs' Call of Cthulhu game a few years back. It was the best roleplaying experience of my life. CoC is a pretty rules-light system anyway, it's all about roleplaying. And then going insane or dying. (At the end, if you're lucky.)

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