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I think some of you have missed it. OP stated that he lives FAR from a large city.
I understand that some people can choose multiple locations and multiple days a week to play PFS at a FLGS.
If you have missed it he and his group cannot. It's not about gaming the system. It's about when they FINALLY get to go to a con to play this game they love that they will have characters to play in any scenario that they choose to play.
PFS should be inclusive, welcoming and friendly. Not accusing of cheating just because that are new to you and to the public con experience of pfs.
Also, I know for a fact that a local con recently had people coming to it for the first time specifically because of high level (13+) play.
Finally, OP come to myou table any day, you will be welcomed and hopefully enjoy the experience.
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I think some of you have missed it. OP stated that he lives FAR from a large city.
I understand that some people can choose multiple locations and multiple days a week to play PFS at a FLGS.
If you have missed it he and his group cannot. It's not about gaming the system. It's about when they FINALLY get to go to a con to play this game they love that they will have characters to play in any scenario that they choose to play.
PFS should be inclusive, welcoming and friendly. Not accusing of cheating just because that are new to you and to the public con experience of pfs.
Also, I know for a fact that a local con recently had people coming to it for the first time specifically because of high level (13+) play.
Finally, OP come to myou table any day, you will be welcomed and hopefully enjoy the experience.
Thank you for the invite, Mulgar. I might take you up on it someday.
To make things clear. My players and I do live in a city. I was talking about where I grew up - which has given me a several years perspective that many players do not have the ready or frequent options of playing at PFS/gaming events. I personally work 12 hour shifts and work every other weekend. I have a Thursday biweekly game that I run (S&S), a Sunday game one of my friends is running RoTRL, and starting a summer biweekly game for one of my young nephews who has a budding desire to play D&D while he is off for summer vacation. Because of my work schedule that those two biweekly games and the pick-up game for my nephew takes up the majority of my free time. Come the fall I will be running PFSACG (already in talks with the owner of a local hobby shop).
Based on where I grew up, it made one of the earliest bucket list items to attend GenCon. PaizoCon is now on the list too. Ideally I would like to attend with MY gaming group. Hence why it is a long-term plan. People on here tend to overlook that important detail and concentrate on 'oh, that is a bad idea!' about attending a con with credited PFS characters.
I will say this...based on the overall responses and attitudes of some posters...there are some great people involved in the PFS as well as a few who have given hints (inadvertently) that they are still susceptible to the high school 'clique' social mentality of ranking others. Of those few I would not be surprised if others have given up on the PFS. I came here for advice and got some great input. I also received some 'haters' who did not explain their stance...some eventually did (and in all fairness explained their stance quite well).
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PFS should be inclusive, welcoming and friendly. Not accusing of cheating just because that are new to you and to the public con experience of pfs.
I realize that you weren't directly calling out anyone, but I'd just like to clarify: I do not believe that anyone has implied or insisted that he is cheating.
Involving the word in the first place instantly creates a more tense discussion and almost universally leads to issues.
The concerns expressed seem to be more surrounding the PFS experience. The best way to get the PFS experience is through playing PFS - not coming into PFS at 5th, 9th, or 13th+ levels.
Nobody is implying he can't do that - just that the impact on the characters (who haven't played low level PFS), the players (who have minimal history on the lore of PFS and the different mechanics of a PFS scenario) and the other players at the table (who may have doubt of a 7th level, barely played character) may be more than expected.
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