2016 PFS PaizoCon Bloggery


Pathfinder Society

101 to 150 of 264 << first < prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | next > last >>
4/5

A mixed experience at the afternoon pickup games...

On one hand, seeing Nefreet and chatting for a while. He met up with Wei Jei. Sweetsauce! Then... we couldn't get a game.

Too many players both experienced and new. Not enough gm's nor variety of games. (Not sure why most of the "pickup" games are the same games as the con). Oh well - got a nap in before the banquet.

Time to warm up for the banquet.

5/5 5/55/55/5

3 people marked this as a favorite.
Rob Silk wrote:
It seems like a Faceless Stalker managed to slip through and caught the flight out of Heathrow. Someone found the mangled body of "Andrew the Brit" jammed into a dicebag in the washrooms. It seems likely that it took over his appearance and stole his PaizoCon ticket.

Skip to the important information, will it still DM games?

The Exchange 3/5

2 people marked this as a favorite.
Kevin Mack wrote:
Much pathfinder online on display there this year?

I heard there as a room upstairs where there was PO, but have yet to go check. I will aspire to do so.

BigNorseWolf wrote:
BOTHER

Geez. For a BigNorseTeddyBear, you sure are demanding. :)

Hmm wrote:

Keep sharing, thank you!

Hmm

Damnit. I admire your enthusiasm, Hmm...and like your PbP deeds too. I'm going to double your request despite the deprivations and turpitudes of your Minnesota counterparts. They all speak wonderfully about you, but they are known miscreants and not to be trusted.

James McTeague wrote:
I always enjoy reading your spoilers Painlord - they're the next best thing to actually being there!

For the love I bear you after our meeting at GenCon, I consider this.

GM Lamplighter wrote:
Yes please - I'll be checking my phone between sets tonight to see what's what!

Damnit, how do I turn down a Canadian? I might need to move to Canada after the US elections in November and the word of a Lamplighter might hold sway....hmm....

Drogon wrote:

DO IT!!

I mean, I'm not there to do it, so you kinda have to...

Dude. Man, I wish you were here.

Tineke Bolleman wrote:
GIVE US THE GOODS!

Fine. For you, the guy I don't know we'll make this work. I do worry about Internet access but I'll do the best I can.

* * *
The Banquet starts at 7pmish and the line to get in starts building at 5pmish. Why wait in line? Well, if you get in early you get first choice to sit with the Paizo employee/yahoo or VIP. Each table has a yahoo of note and you might want the company of So-and-So and I think they are mandated that they have to be nice to you.

But yeah...it's 6:15 or so and the line is already pretty big.

The Exchange 3/5

1 person marked this as a favorite.

Ah piddlespot. Ryan Freakin' Bolduan aka Mr.Freakin'Slanky just came by and disparaged, in loud and no uncertain words, Seelah *AND* Lini (as if saying Seelah sucked wasn't bad enough) were the worst characters in the ACG for tablet game. He quoted Valeros and Harsk as characters worth playing.

Wow. Just wow. Shots fired.

And no, he wasn't joking. He wasn't trying to get a rise out of me (it's easy to do, of course) but genuinely has no idea what he's talking about.

Hmm? No..the user named as 'Hmm'? You there? I pray for your soul. You have to deal with people like him far too often.

Shadow Lodge 5/5

Painlord wrote:

Ah piddlespot. Ryan Freakin' Bolduan aka Mr.Freakin'Slanky just came by and disparaged, in loud and no uncertain words, Seelah *AND* Lini (as if saying Seelah sucked wasn't bad enough) were the worst characters in the ACG for tablet game. He quoted Valeros and Harsk as characters worth playing.

Wow. Just wow. Shots fired.

Thinking something doesn't make it right...

And Lini is so bad I'd rather not play the game at all. She just makes me mad.

4/5

1 person marked this as a favorite.

Banquet update number one: For twenty bucks... Jon Dehning will stand on his chair and shout/sing i'm a little tea pot.

Quote from Thursty: "oh. my. god..."

Quote from the Banquet Coordinator of the hotel: "please don't stand on the chairs... but if you do stay to the edges... or you will fall through."

The Minnesota crew is enjoying dinner with June Soler (RVC) and Will Chase. We pity them but they are amused. June was in on the sing-along

Sean Wellsmore seems to like us since he bailed on his table for our last chair.

Dark Archive 5/5 5/5

1 person marked this as a favorite.

It's not everyday you get to exercise the golden pipes.

The Exchange 3/5

1 person marked this as a favorite.

Good dinner. I ate food. I like eating food.

And then the lights go down and I try to hook to an Internet. HHilton wifi? Fail. Tethering via Verizon? Fail. I move chairs to the other side of the room (it's a big room). Crash a table of nice people. They let me steal a seat. I get connection. I can try to blog this banquet.

Logan Bonner is sitting next to me and looking concerned about my activities...or maybe he's worried that I might note his reaction to the tonight's announcements. Logan is a designer with Paizo. Logan is a nice humble guy.

7:50 pm...Erik Mona welcomes us to the 9th Annual PaizoCon. "Crazy. Humbling," that we (fans, yahoos) are here today. A nice opening speech.

He introduces Lisa Stevens who gives thanks to Tim N for pushing and promoting the idea of PaizoCon 9 years ago. Calls Tim the 'father of PaizoCon.'

Erik presented a hand crafted wood Grey Maiden that was created by fan Becky Barnes. It is a nice piece of work that was made from over 120 pieces of wood.

Erik thanks the Paizo staff, acknowledges all of them. And then notes the Guest of Honor.

Shadow Lodge 4/5 5/5 RPG Superstar Season 9 Top 8

My 4 hour powernap is completed. Fuel cells recharged. Before needing the reboot, I spend slot 3 HQing as planned. The one thing of note was the amount of interest in the middle slots (1 PM games). I felt bad not being able to give more advice to prospective players than telling them where the games were and who to look for, but HQ doesn't muster or prep those scenarios. I did get a chance to check out the Evergreen rooms before lunch and it looked like a good amount of people turned out for them.

Had lunch at Thai across the street. Good food, higher prices, and nothing came with rice--which I found odd. Afterwards I called it a day for the convention, since HQ was off for the evening. Have to rest up for the rest of the excitement.

Looking forward to playing at Bobby Pepka's table tomorrow with his 3D terrain, BahbTodd, and the some more of the HQ folks. Finally get to try out my mounted character after discovering that Ally the Allosaurus isn't a legal option. According to Compton, they're just too much dinosaur for one PC to handle. So she's been replaced by Rexxy the Trex. The loss of some claw attacks is sad, but powerful bite is going to be super satisfying.

Silver Crusade 2/5

Thanks for the converage Painlord. Sorry I couldn't make it this year but I am glad that you're covering it for us.

4/5

Horror Adventures....looking at you hive sickness.

4/5

Vigilante Archetype... "Baker by day, butcher by night"

The Exchange 3/5

Upcoming Releases: Jason Bulmahn.

Starts his works with apologizing for the Jingasa.

Hardcover: Horror Adventures. Sourcebook for drag & drop horrific adventures for your games.

In book:
Corruptions: bring the terror to your characters. Tempting characters to the dark side, temptations that might change players. Allow GMs to tempt and challenge their charactes. Sagan as a corrupted ghoul? 11 different corruptions: vampirism, hive larva, etc. Prometian. Accursed. Deep One. Hell bound. Lich. Possessed. Shadow bound.

Expanded rules for fear. 7 levels of fear. Beyond shaken and levels within.

Sanity rules.

Archetypes: great for villains. For alchemist: mad scientist. Slayer: Family Hunter. Profile Investigator. Vigilante: Serial killer. Gingerbread witch?

Chapter of feats. Story feats. Dozen of new monster feats: skin suit. Able to skin the fallen and wear them?

More spells. Contact entity spell series. Decapitate. (Slashing instant spell for when you crit?). Maze of Madness and Suffering (like to a clown circus.

New rules and subsystems: curse template (contagious). New diseases. New environmental rules and hazards: Bat colony. Blood Moon. Watchful Doll.

Fleshwarping chapter. More Haunts. Haunt templates (like not divine inspired/fixed). Complete system of madness.

Running Horror Adventures chapter. Different types of horror. How to create the right atmosphere for the game.

More magic items: Black Heart...doesn't take body slot, but when you squeeze it, it does damage to people. Cursed items too.

More monsters too: wax monster, painting monster. More templates to apply corruptions to monsters.

Liberty's Edge 5/5 **

Preview Time! I'm typing this on my phone so forgive the typos and formatting issues.

Horror Adventures.

Corruption system. Bring the horror to characters by tempting them with power. Examples are monk with ghoul powers, Meresiel with hive insect powers, and Valeros with construct parts.

Expanded fear rules. Seven levels of fear to fill the gap between shaken and frightened.

Sanity rules.

Archetypes including archetypes for villains. Mythos hunter cleric, serial killer vigilante, mad scientist alchemist, gingerbread witch.

New feats. Story feats. New style feats. Monster feats.

New spells. Contact 'entity' for all your mi-go needs. Fleshwall. Decapitate. Specialized maze spells.

New subsystems. Curse system. Contagious curses. New diseases. New environmental rules and hazards. Fleshwarping. New haunts and haunt templates including cleric-immune haunts.

GMing section on how to run a horror themed game. Don't forget consent! Types of horror. Creating atmosphere. Tips on rules improvisation.

New magic items. The 'black heart' is a spotless item that you can squeeze to deal damage to enemies. Special holy symbols. New cursed items.

No new monsters. Monster templates. Implacable stalker can't be killed and teleports behind you. Waxwork monster. Simple vampire template.

Dark Archive

Heard there was art presented of corrupt versions of the iconics any one there care to describe them?

Liberty's Edge 5/5 **

Fall 2016 - Villain Codex

256 page book on villainous organizations.

Vziers, serpent cult, evil mauraders, evil circus, merchant caravan, merry outlaws, natures scourge, scandalous pirates, secret society, slayers guild, theives guild.

The Exchange 3/5

Book for Fall 2016: Villain Codex.

20 Villainous Gangs: Brutal Slayers, Corrupt Guards, Demon Knights, Merry Outlaws, Sinister Cults, Cat Masks (?), Savage Marauder, Vizer. Merchant caravan. Nature's Scourge. Ruthless Brigands...+more.

Next: Core Rulebook Pocket Editions
Much lower price point. Paper and open flat. Available GenCon.

Spring 2017: Encounter Codex. Flip mat combats set ups.

Jason wraps up and I thank Feral for his help in unspoiling all this.

Liberty's Edge 5/5 **

Spring 2017 - Encounter Codex

Packed with flipmats and encounters. Tips for reward, boons, training etc.

4/5

1 person marked this as a favorite.

Tonya Woldridge - announced Pathfinder Academy. A program for young pathfinders that will be going to all locations to assist local coordinators in order to help children in playing and understanding PFS and will help bridge the gap and ease younger members into full society play.

The Exchange 3/5

1 person marked this as a favorite.

Tonya Woldridge speaks next about PFS.

The new faction pins do not offer a re-roll, but offer a key bump to a faction specific skill. Watch the blog for details.

Introduces Pathfinder Society Academy (PSA). A buffed up version of the kid's track to roll out at all locations. 3 pronged program: 1) setting up space for younger gamers in a safe place, 2) Society Legal. Starting at age 6. Kids track lessons, like grappling or splash weapon rules. Will be good for PFS credit. Transitioning players to PFS. 3) Adding rating system to PFS Scenarios. Helps identify content appropriate for younger players....or help GMs tweak content for younger players. Available at GenCon.

Adventure Card Guild:Season of the Goblin. Next ACG Guild. Uses goblins bite and goblins burn decks. Season of the Mummy is next.

Updated Boons for only the ACG guild. Debuting at PaizoCon. Some are generic and some are tied to Season of the Runelords.

PFS Season 8: Year of the Stolen Storm. PFS vs. Elemental Lords vs. those that want those artifacts.

Thanked VCs and volunteers who make the campaign go. She called out Rey Diaz and David Montgomery. 56 campaign coins have go out.

Liberty's Edge 5/5 **

PFS News.

Special three-tiered kids program. Rules lite. PFS legal. Ages 6+.

Kids track transitional. Splash weapon lessons. Grappling lessons. At the end of transitions a character will be level 2.

Ratings system for scenarios to warn GMs to adjust for kids. Trigger warnings.

Premiering at Gencon.

Season 8.

Year of the Stolen Storm. Dealing with malevolent elemental forces.

***

Adventure Card Guild News.

New season based on comics. Season of the Goblin. New characters and old favorites. After that Season of the Mummy. This season will not match the AP story. Card Guild boons to match PFS boons - extra power at a cost.

The Exchange 3/5

9 people marked this as a favorite.

Volunteer of the Year: Been around 9 years...Blake Davis. Long time contributor and fan. Tonya chokes up a bit when Blake is announced. He gets a deserved standing ovation. He manages the Archives of Nethys.

Congrats Blake.

Shadow Lodge 4/5

2 people marked this as a favorite.

I for one welcome our new elemental overlords(my Sylph Slayer does not and is in fact screaming right now).

Thanks for the spoilers so far, guys.

The Exchange 3/5

Erik introduces a somber moment, asking for a moment of silence for their characters who might have died in the first few days. He then asks for a round of applause for killer GMs.

Mike Selinker is next to talk about ACG.

Reintroduces Mummy's Mask, the next ACG set. It's horror themed. Introduces cards where you get hurt just by looking at cards. Introduces ability to sell stuff...extra cards can be sold rather than tossed. New character types including occult characters.

Introduces 19+ character decks, most with 3 builds each. 2 goblin decks...Goblins Fight & Goblins Burn. Pots that stop damage. Rat headed ammunition.

Shows ACG app as well.

Mike S introduces Nathan Davis (of Obsidian Entertainment) to talk about the tablet ACG. I've already played the bejeezus out of the app and love it so he's preaching to my choir.

Nathan thanked the betatesters, like Sarah Bull (who is awesome). Then talked about Quest mode (which allows you to play a randomized version of the game).

What's next: phone optimization. They will have it for phones. Online multiplayer and PC to come. Continuing decks for RotR. Customization options: dice skins.

Grand Lodge 4/5 5/55/55/55/5 **** Venture-Captain, Minnesota

1 person marked this as a favorite.

Congratulations, Blake! It's so well-deserved!

Painlord wrote:
Damnit. I admire your enthusiasm, Hmm...and like your PbP deeds too. I'm going to double your request despite the deprivations and turpitudes of your Minnesota counterparts. They all speak wonderfully about you, but they are known miscreants and not to be trusted.

They are miscreants, but delightful ones! Now let's find out how trustworthy they are. They told me that it is possible that you might come out to our little SkalCon. Is that rumor true? I'd be delighted to have a chance to meet you!

It was your guide to PbP that made me decide to give it a try, and eventually to GM.

Hmm

The Exchange 3/5

James Jacobs at the mic for 2016 releases. 3 big projects.

Adventure Path: Strange Aeons. Lovecraft inspired. Characters start in asylum, not knowing where they have been for the last few months. Color yellow will show up a lot. Lots of tentacles. Launched at GenCon(?). Adam D leads this one.

Adventure Path next February: IronFang Invasion. Near Nymthias/Malthune (sp?)...hobgoblin invasions. Minotaurs. Medusas.

Also: Curse of the Crimson Throne hardcover redone: 400 page book. Going to press soon. (GM Angry Ankheg: the queen wears red, not green, on the cover artwork.) Lots of new art. (Oh...GM AA in alternate artwork, the Queen wears green!). September release.

Shadow Lodge 4/5 5/55/55/55/5 ****

1 person marked this as a favorite.

Oh how I wish PaizoCon was something I could get to. Thanks for the posts, updates, and news - Painlord and others!

The Exchange 3/5

Ben Loomis Syrinscape spoke about his product. Complete Curse of the Crimson Throne package coming soon. Buy Syrinscape on Paizo.com if you want.

Harmonquest: TV show with Pathfinder.

Pathfinder Comics: Vol 4 Origins now avail in hardcover. Next series is Pathfinder Worldscape. Pathfinder teaming up with Tarzan, John Carter, Red Sonya, etc.

Pathfinder Battles (minis): Salamander (common). Decemvirate. PitDevil/Fiend. Set dressing: Book of the Damned (applause). Clockwork Dragon (?). Starspawn of Cthulhu.

The Exchange 3/5

7 people marked this as a favorite.

Oh, one more announcement: James L Sutter.

No Distant Worlds AP.

Announcing Starfinder Roleplaying Game, backward compatible stand alone RP game. Science fantasy. Pathfinder 1000s years into the future. Explore worlds of the Pathfinder worlds in the future. Computers. Plasma cannons. Magic & science.

A bunch of new races. Rat folk will be core player race for Starfinder.

Sovereign Court 4/5 5/5 ***

2 people marked this as a favorite.
Pathfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

STARFINDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Exchange 3/5

6 people marked this as a favorite.

More from Sutter.

All Pathfinder races will be in Starfinder. But will new core alien races as well. Androids and Ratfolk core races.

Set in possible future Golarion future. Golarion is gone (Gods won't say where). In its place is Absalom Station. In this new future, an artificial intelligence has ascended to godhood. This new god's gift is faster than light travel.

Releasing GenCon 2017. Also announcing Starfinder Adventure Line. Starfinder will be released with/under OGL (?). Sutter will be new creative director.

2/5 5/5

Starfinder! Woah. Now I'm excited!

The Exchange 3/5

1 person marked this as a favorite.

Starfinder Panel tomorrow at 5pm. Hopefully someone who is not me will blog about it.

This is some sweet and interesting new stuff.

Grand Lodge 4/5 5/55/55/55/5 **** Venture-Captain, Minnesota

Hey Painlord --

Ask Keith Apperson about a) busking on Hennepin Avenue and b) dead zombie Prince and you'll understand part of why I'm excited to meet you someday. Thanks for all these updates.

Starfinder sounds like fun, especially Absalom station.

Hmm

Scarab Sages 5/5 5/5 *** Venture-Captain, Washington—Spokane

Painlord, thank you once again for your coverage from the Preview Banquet. It is greatly appreciated and some awesome news was revealed.

4/5 ****

5 people marked this as a favorite.

I for one look forward to my new SFS overlords.

2/5

2 people marked this as a favorite.

Painlord, Feral -

Thank you for liveposting this for those of us who can't afford to go to Paizocon. Hearing this information as it comes out is a very welcome gift.

Shadow Lodge 4/5

Pirate Rob wrote:
I for one look forward to my new SFS overlords.

It took me a bit to get it

BUT WHEN I DID

*absolute joy*

5/5 5/55/55/5

1 person marked this as a favorite.
Painlord wrote:
Kevin Mack wrote:
Much pathfinder online on display there this year?

I heard there as a room upstairs where there was PO, but have yet to go check. I will aspire to do so.

BigNorseWolf wrote:
BOTHER
Geez. For a BigNorseTeddyBear, you sure are demanding. :)

What a teddybear looks like when its waiting for news

Scarab Sages

The real question for me is: How different will Starfinder be from SpellJammer? I never had the chance to play it, but I like the concept.

Thanks again Painlord (and everyone else blogging) for telling us the scoop on all the Paizo goodness we miss!

Paizo Employee Publisher, Chief Creative Officer

6 people marked this as a favorite.

Starfinder will be a lot more sci-fi than Spelljammer, at least visually. Think sealed starships in the vacuum of space shooting beam weapons at each other more than flying galleons with people shooting fireballs at each other.

Ok, maybe the fireball part.

Oh, also in Starfinder all of the players will have a role in ship-to-ship combat rather than just one.

Shadow Lodge 4/5

1 person marked this as a favorite.

After harassing John for the duration of the trivia contest, I will now formally announce my entry in next years contest.

Alone.

1/5

Pirate Rob wrote:
I for one look forward to my new SFS overlords.

I wondered about the same thing, Rob. Are you here?

4/5 ****

No, I was supposed to be at Kubla today, but had a family emergency. Everything is okay, but I missed my day out :(

Shadow Lodge 4/5 5/55/55/55/5 ****

1 person marked this as a favorite.
Erik Mona wrote:

Starfinder will be a lot more sci-fi than Spelljammer, at least visually. Think sealed starships in the vacuum of space shooting beam weapons at each other more than flying galleons with people shooting fireballs at each other.

Ok, maybe the fireball part.

Oh, also in Starfinder all of the players will have a role in ship-to-ship combat rather than just one.

Something is wrong with your website, Erik... I'm clicking "favorite/like" about a hundred times but it's only showing up once!!!

Grand Lodge 4/5 5/55/5 ***

3 people marked this as a favorite.

I sat down for the post-banquet trivia contest for the first time. Our team was
myself
Del Collins
Matt Polkowsky
Jim Price
Rafael Taramona
Anthony Bowen
Raymond Sullivan
and our ringer Joshua Herrington, who answered most of the questions correctly
Team name: "John Compton's Children"
We actually won the contest and John begrudgingly accepted us as his illegitimate offspring.

Scarab Sages 5/5 5/5 *** Venture-Captain, Netherlands

1 person marked this as a favorite.

AAAAAAAAAH STARFINDER!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAH RATFOLK CORE!!!!!!!!

Gimme!

1/5 5/5

1 person marked this as a favorite.
Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
Bob Jonquet wrote:

I sat down for the post-banquet trivia contest for the first time. Our team was

myself
Del Collins
Matt Polkowsky
Jim Price
Rafael Taramona
Anthony Bowen
Raymond Sullivan
and our ringer Joshua Herrington, who answered most of the questions correctly
Team name: "John Compton's Children"
We actually won the contest and John begrudgingly accepted us as his illegitimate offspring.

Jim Price is actually 'Jim Page'

Also: Meet Minnesota Folks: Mission: Successful.

5/5 5/55/55/5

Any race changes/announcements?

101 to 150 of 264 << first < prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | next > last >>
Community / Forums / Organized Play / Pathfinder Society / 2016 PFS PaizoCon Bloggery All Messageboards

Want to post a reply? Sign in.