I'll have to keep an eye out for it then. Sounds enticing, even if deadly.
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I have just registered:
PbP Community Multi Table Special II
-Blood under Absalom-
Kick off date will be Friday 13th of January ('Straya time!)
*I will be contacting the list of previous and waitlisted GM's this weekend to confirm interest and availability during this weekend.
*I will then be doing an open call for any further GM's required to build to a 15 table count (that being the upper limit) likely next weekend.
* Once I have the above info I can send in for scenario/boon support.
* I will be travelling during 10-18 Dec.
* Open player recruitment will occur after that time.
Cheers!
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Not sure how impressed I am with the title; we're adventurers, there's blood everywhere we go.
...and based on the number of fatalities when I just ran this, it may well be Pathfinder blood everywhere too :p
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Cheers guys, will get onto all the bits I need to - and try get as many people the opportunity to play/gm as I can.
I just needed to get planning now as the process for applying for Game Day support and also wrangling/mustering takes some time, and I know Xmas - New Years will also have an impact.
Whaaaaaaaa?!
Color me interested, Shifty! (As a player ... ahem)
Cough fistbump etc. *another interest here*
Same here, but I want . Hopefully Subtier 3-4 or above (I have all the way up to level 9). ;)
Excellent work getting it registered with enough time for gameday support!
I do have a thought about specials and GMs that I would like to run past Shifty, Iammars, Jesse and others. In the last special, there were a number of GMs that got sick and missed several days of the campaign. One of them was me -- out completely for two days with a high fever. In desperation, I contacted a friend (King of Anything) who I knew had served as an overseer for this special and asked him if he could keep my table going for a couple days while I fought off the illness from hell. He did. We joked that it was the special where everyone had gotten botted to keep up the pace, including the GM.
In live specials, the people who serve as runners and HQ also get GM chronicles. Would it be possible to have 2 GMs who are HQ subs who can take a special and keep it going if the GM is sick or having computer problems? In Sky Key, the overseer wound up taking over a table where the GM got swallowed up by real life, and that is too much work.
In order for this to work, we'd need some good people to serve as subs. We'd need GMs to buy in and communicate. And we'd need for this option to work a slight expansion of what it would mean to be a runner or HQ.
What do you think of this proposal?
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Hmm
How long will the game last? 6 weeks?
That's pretty likely as a general guesstimate - haven't converted it yet, I only just finished overseering it at a con.
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In live specials, the people who serve as runners and HQ also get GM chronicles. Would it be possible to have 2 GMs who are HQ subs who can take a special and keep it going if the GM is sick or having computer problems? In Sky Key, the overseer wound up taking over a table where the GM got swallowed up by real life, and that is too much work.
Completely agree.
As much as it is nice to be included in the sentence with Jesse and Iammars, those guys are the VC/VL and I'm a Venture Nothing - and just wanted to clarify that again for the audience :)
The Mult-table format via PbP is still in its early stages and there is a lot of testing and adjusting as the various different groups try to work out the best strategy for running them. Year of the Shadow Lodge was my first crack, and it was a great experiment that by and large ran pretty well. The hassle has been that there is no 'go to' guide or accepted practice - we have no official RAW - on what is allowed or accepted. This has meant that we were as conservative as possible in our decision-making process (also because we planned on 3 tables and ended with 15).
At the end of the event, I added a general comments field when providing their reporting into. The information gathered was pretty interesting, a small handful thought it went too fast, and around the same number said it was too slow, and a person or two who had a run in with their GM. Most people were pretty happy and generally it seems that the system works well enough from a player perspective. Boons happened, people smiled.
From the GM's, they got the scenarios, they seemed to generally have the info they required and so far so good. A few administrative clarifications had to be made (because assumptions had been made that were a bit askew) - so generally the GM's worked out ok. We only had 15 though, so obviously the more you have the higher the likelihood of a few derails, and when you are trucking the 30+ Iammars did then yeah you will hit a few issues.
From an Overseer point of view, I learnt that the use of an external website was probably not needed - Iammars last run sort of illustrated you can just keep everything here on these boards, which is what I will do rolling forward.
I also learnt that the process of getting Boons out is wonky and time-consuming and is a process that frankly isn't worth the time invested at present. I have raised my gripes there via separate correspondence. There is a significant amount of data double handling and people emailing and messaging back and forth and things get lost, people miss out, and it is dull.
Now to get to the last part which was your original question, there is no science on what is 'allowed' by way of having assistants-for-credit. In a face to face con, we'd have assistant overseers and the like due to the scale and the real-time requirements, I know I have at least one during my conventions, and that seems to be an understood practice. In PbP there seems (could just be me) to be more scrutiny on what is allowed or not - so to avoid argument I have just avoided the issues. It seems accepted that the Overseer gets credit, but how many assistants are allowed? Back up GM's make sense, but as they haven't run their own table (or possibly ANY table) should they still get credit? How many can that apply to?
My main reason for generally avoiding those issues is because I would be mortified if I promised a GM something, and then the powers that be took a different view. I don't want to sign up 'standby' GM's and then see them end up empty handed afterwards.
Anyhow, that's my stream of consciousness over a morning coffee...
Now to get back to registering my next convention (and Race for the Runecarved Key).
Shifty
Venture Nothing.
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How long will the game last? 6 weeks?That's pretty likely as a general guesstimate - haven't converted it yet, I only just finished overseering it at a con.
If I remember well enough, it can last much more than that, since at one step into the scenario, you don't need to be synchronized anymore. Indeed, when we played it at a local con last winter, some GMs only ended the game several hours after others ;)
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Well, I'm a Venture Agent, but that only gives me any authority over PFS at Dreamers Vault in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Really, my title should be "Venture Figurehead" or maybe "Venture Face". There are three of us who plan stuff together at Dreamers, but I'm the vocal one so I'm the one that got tagged with the title.
So, PbP is a brand new world. I've pointed both Jesse and Iammars to this discussion, but I'm willing to email Tonya, John and Linda about it as well. My thought is... If they allow a few runners in live events, why not GM subs? Why not allow it as an experiment or a test run and see if it works?
Hmm
PS Shifty.... Venture Nothing? Really? You are awesome and brilliant. Don't get hung up over the titles. The work you are doing here is wonderful, and I'm sure that I'm not the only one around here who has noticed.
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I've been a stalwart follower of Shifty and his GM'ing capabilities ever since I ran through WBG with him a few years ago. If anyone deserves to be known as a Venture... Something on the Paizo boards, it's him. (Well, along with several others, but he's the subject of conversation at the moment). Shifty has picked up so many games for tables that the GM flaked on, he's run multiple tables of scenarios simultaneously so interested players didn't get left out, and he's begun scheduling and Overseeing these specials like this, which to my knowledge hasn't been done outside of online cons or game days previously.
TL;DR: Shifty is awesome. All hail Shifty.
Ahhh cheers guys, I am just cognizant that I get included in a fair few things that are directed to the Venture crew, and vice-versa. The issue there is that I wouldn't want anyone to mistake something I said for an 'official' comment and likewise the fine Venture people aren't responsible for the actions of a shifty character running around doing his own thing.
I'm the same locally too, just sort of go off and organise cons on my own because it's the only way I can ensure they fit MY timetable... I have a busy work calendar, so the only way I can ensure the world revolves around my needs is to be the one setting it in motion :)
With regards the PbP space, the whole thing is an experiment and test-run, which is why I like it. It has not only provided a great space for me to learn and experiment, but also to take a lot of the experiments into the face to face play space as well.
I'm now in the process of sorting out understandings with the local Venture crew, especially as I am upping the game into running 3x cons a year. Then there's the Online content.
I think that's my unicorn issue, I'm a busy beaver in both spaces.
Sounds really cool! I would love to play and/or gm!
There's plenty of room to be an awesome yahoo without holding a leadership position in the campaign.
Well the GM's have all come flooding in overnight, that's a positive!
It is a good sign when your past GM's turn up to go again, I'll consider that as 'positive feedback'.
On a side note, I am unsure what the difference between a Game-Day and a Convention is, so if I learn nothing else from this outing (ooooh there WILL be learning) hopefully I can learn the difference between those as defined by Paizo.
It is a pertinent question, as I am in the process of putting together my third and fourth conventions and my second PbP Game Day, so knowing what is what can also shape my thoughts about how best to style/shape them.
I'd just LOOOOVE to get my hands on the Convocation or some other freeform PFS material, sometimes sitting at a table can be restrictive.
Venture ninja has my vote.
I could 100% get behind Venture Ninja.
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Yeah mate, interesting election you guys just had.
Mate it's pretty good here downunder, and the film industry is pretty exciting (Hacksaw Ridge was filmed here in Sydney).
...but beware!
Canada is on my 'to visit' list - last time I was there I was age 7 :) Still remember it fondly!
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...but beware!
That does concern me a little, but my mother lived in Australia for a few years in the 1970s, and she loved it. She once posited that Australia may not just have been a prison colony for the British Empire, but for the entire plant and animal kingdoms.
you could always come to Canada....i know a great immigration lawyer....(no seriously i really do)
That's the easy choice, of course, and I wouldn't mind it, but there's probably going to be something of a crowd rushing for it.
I hear a few companies are moving out of London...might open up some room and board there. With a splendid view of the Thames.
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Shifty: LMAO at you vid link. Thats awesome. But as a Texan, I would probably have less trouble than most dealing with that. My uncle lives right outside of Sydney and has been working on my sister and I for years to move down there and join the ambo service.. I hear its an amazing pay/benefits package. Its very tempting, let me tell ya!!
IHIYC & Grimdog: Did you hear that they Canadian immigration website crashed last night and still isn't working properly!!??
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I read about that, yes. It's good to hear that it's just a coincidence (at least mostly).
Do you think your friend could be helpful to people who are immigrating to somewhere other than Canada?
My grandfather's a lawyer, too (one of the first Jews ever to be admitted to Harvard) - but he was more of a corporate lawyer, so I don't know how much he could help with this. Fun Fact: For a long time, one of his firm's biggest clients was Marvel Comics - and he worked in New York City. This was way back when telegrams were still relevant, so whenever Marvel sent my grandpa a telegram, it would always be delivered by someone dressed as Spider-Man.
TL;DR: My grandfather knew Spider-Man.
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I don't think this is the place to be discussing this kind of stuff. You may want to consider starting a thread. Just an idea.
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I currently live in Florida in the US. Australia isn't that much worse as far as evil-out-to-get-you wildlife and wilderness, so im strongly considering moving there. I just have to learn to speak Australian. You guys have some pretty awesome (and completely off the wall to us Americans) slang and lingo.
I get enough wailing and gnashing of teeth elsewhere- I don't need to see it here, too.