Venture-Agent, Minnesota—Champlin
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Strawberry Machine Cake? They used to be good... I guess...
I’m into Thunder Belly Behemoth now. Have you heard their Inferno Knife release? It’ll scour your stars!
Hah! My group came up with those as a perfect band name and their first release, as well!
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This is awesome, time to go create my -722 to -731 characters, I'm a bit surprised, however, that draelik made the cut of allowable races due to their background (sort of ditto Witchwyrd). This means that there are currently boons out there (or at the very least announced) for every race that has stats in a released starfinder product except Dragonkin, Elebrian, Goblin, Reptoid, Shobhad, and Urog and one of those hasn't even been officially released yet.
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It's a little unclear from the description, but it looks like you've 'mottled' the regions, rather than making them big geographical blocks - giving people an achievable incentive to head out to a CON they might not have otherwise gone to. Nice work!
Rather than using terms like 'Southeast Mega-Region' (based on RVC locations?), would it be simpler to use timezones? Most people know what timezone they are in without checking the guide to organised play.
Not criticising, just far enough into 'test the Christmas beers' to get all brainstormy. Loving SFS so far.
Edit: To clarify my lack of clarity - when you say 'Central Europe, Northwest, and Southeast Mega-Region'. Is that 'Central Europe, and the Northwest and Southeast of America'?
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It's a little unclear from the description, but it looks like you've 'mottled' the regions, rather than making them big geographical blocks - giving people an achievable incentive to head out to a CON they might not have otherwise gone to. Nice work!
Rather than using terms like 'Southeast Mega-Region' (based on RVC locations?), would it be simpler to use timezones? Most people know what timezone they are in without checking the guide to organised play.
Not criticising, just far enough into 'test the Christmas beers' to get all brainstormy. Loving SFS so far.
Edit: To clarify my lack of clarity - when you say 'Central Europe, Northwest, and Southeast Mega-Region'. Is that 'Central Europe, and the Northwest and Southeast of America'?
Brainstorming is great! Brainstorming on beer even better.
Each of the regions is listed on the Coordinators' Page. All of the directional regions encompass a part of North America (cannot forget Canada here). The five non-directional (Asia-Pacific, Africa-East Eurasia, West Eurasia-Middle East, Central Europe, Online) encompass too many time zones to list. I suggest if people want to find their closest mega-region, they check out the coordinators' page linked above and then look for adjacent states/countries.
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aka Shaudius
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Was Thursty channeling his inner poppy with this:
""Two is a pretty cool number. I hear a lot of people talking about two in recent months. Lots of questions and comments about the word two. What is two? What does two mean to you? The dictionary defines two as "equivalent to the sum of one and one." Did you know that two is the smallest and first prime number? Two is also the only even prime number. Did you know that a honeybee must tap TWO million flowers to make one pound of honey!
There's just so many interesting and fun facts about the number two...""
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n06FqMYa3eI
So I missed how these regional boons are gotten?
Seconding this question. Are these "You GM'd at a convention" boons, or "You GM'd at a Regional Store a lot of times" boons?
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So I missed how these regional boons are gotten?Seconding this question. Are these "You GM'd at a convention" boons, or "You GM'd at a Regional Store a lot of times" boons?
For physical regions, if you GM at a convention, you will have access to the boons distributed to that Mega-Region. This is consistent with the PFS GM Boon distribution model.
For online, the Online VO team and the Org Play team are looking at which of the online events will qualify as conventions and receive gift certificate and boon support, which will qualify for the Regional Support program and get boons, and which will be classed as independent events. For example, AetherCon may be classed a Convention, PbP Multi-table special as RSP, and TerraCon as an independent event. This is to enable us to keep event support and boon dissemination roughly equvilant to the physical regions.
Once we have a list of online events receiving support, we will post it in the blog, so that our community knows what level of rewards are available from particular events.
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♫ Thurston Hillman was there as SFS flared
All our ships started to land
We gave it our best, took off in the quests
The Scoured Stars were out of hand
With glee partaked Strawberry Machine Cake
As our filkers started to jam
Then at a deadly pace it came from outer space
And this is how the message ran
We want a Science fiction (uh uh) double feature
Mega Regions (uh uh) to pick your creature
See androids fighting
The bony Corpse Fleet
Meet crazy plots that can’t be beat
Oh oh oh oh
At the late night double feature picture show ♫
Personally I think the whole "you have to have a boon to play a race" is stupid. Boons should not be used to gate potential characters but to add a benefit to existing ones. All this does is turn me off from ever playing SFS.
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Conversely, boons allow you to play characters you might never get to play in OP otherwise.
I play OP one weekend a year, I will never get the chance to play a race gated by a boon with this policy, seems like a bad policy overall.
What region is Texas in? My sad, little state doesn't seem to be listed on the organized play/coordinators page.
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What region is Texas in? My sad, little state doesn't seem to be listed on the organized play/coordinators page.
Eric Brittain is your RVC, SJ! Texas is in the Southwest Region.
Hmm
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Central America and South America are considered Southwest Region ?
According to this http://paizo.com/organizedplay/coordinators : "Southwest (Eric Brittain)—California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, all of Mexico, all of Central America and all of South America" (emphasis mine.), yes.
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Apologies to those players in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. They were absorbed into neighboring regions when the South Region went away last year, but weren't added to their new regions.
Arkansas went to the Southeast region.
Oklahoma went to the Midwest region.
Texas went to the Southwest region.
I couldn't help but notice that Texas is not listed in any of the regions - or both my 'Find' functionality in Chrome, and my eyes, have failed me.
EDIT - Perhaps I should have searched this page too.
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Venture-Agent
aka Shaudius
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Are the Convention specials something that will be later released for regular play? I'll be a bit bummed if there's stuff I can't GM for my regular group.
If they follow the same standards they do for the PFS interactive specials, they will be available for other conventions which meet whatever criteria they normally apply to those but not for one off tables for your regular group (due to the nature of interactive specials.)
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Are the Convention specials something that will be later released for regular play? I'll be a bit bummed if there's stuff I can't GM for my regular group.If they follow the same standards they do for the PFS interactive specials, they will be available for other conventions which meet whatever criteria they normally apply to those but not for one off tables for your regular group (due to the nature of interactive specials.)
Yeah, that was what I was afraid of. I wish it was at least available as a PDF so I could read it (I'm big on the world lore and continuing story) or even run it "unofficially" for my home group so they don't miss out on the epic capstone scenario after playing everything else in the season month by month.