PaizoCon 2013 Recap

Any buttons for sale on the website this year?

For the curious, yes, we have announced the dates for next year!
PaizoCon 2014 will be held July 4th, 5th and 6th at the Seattle Airport Marriott (same location).

As Mike said, can't wait to see you there!

I am sad that I missed it this time! I plan to be there next year!!! ^_^

Yeah Kyle!

Also, when are we going to see some pictures from this year?

Lots of photos:
4th of July
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Yeah Kyle!

Also, when are we going to see some pictures from this year?

Ed Heely over at Gamerati posted a huge photo album of pictures over on his Facebook page!

-Lisa

I killed a PC!

Ive never been to a large conlike this: However how does noise work with the tables so close to each other? I was thinking it must get very loud.

Or are the tables not so close to each other, it just appears to be in the camera shot?

They were quite close, and yes, it was loud.

I've described the big multi-table events as the sound of a jet taking off for eight hours. That said, the Special was not as noisy as I usually expect (I was watching it unfold from time to time), but that may have been due to sheer exhaustion on the part of the participants.

Paizo Con 2013 = Best Convention Ever!

I know I was blitzed before Act 3 kicked off.

The noise was pretty horrible. The games were fun, and on balance it was worth it. However, when I started playing in the PFS room, I was wondering if I was going to make it through the weekend.

Lots of people (myself included) were hoarse by mid-Saturday.

I don't know if there's anything to be done about it, but some sort of noise-mitigation strategy in the PFS room (and the other big room with lots of tables) would greatly improve the entire experience.

I was surprised there were no partitions in use. At least I didnt see any in any of the photos. Is the configurations of tables at Paizocon indicative of the way most cons in the US setup their tables?

Ed Heely over at Gamerati posted a huge photo album of pictures over on his Facebook page!

I'm also starting to release some videos on GameratiTV. You can find the playlist here. More coming over the next couple weeks, so if you want to subscribe... #hint #wink #nudge

That ice sculpture is amazing. I love the detail on the teeth

I was surprised there were no partitions in use. At least I didnt see any in any of the photos. Is the configurations of tables at Paizocon indicative of the way most cons in the US setup their tables?

Looks like how the RPG rooms have looked at the cons I've attended. Table counts/types, space between tables, and use of a room's built-in dividing walls will vary depending on the available space, available tables, and planned event numbers, but this seems typical for a hotel space.

In PaizoCon's case, it would likely be annoying to divide up the large PFS room (which also reduces the total number of tables that fit in the room) and then undo it for the Special, where you need to be able to make announcements that the entire room can see and hear.

Hey All,

May I inquire, specifically to the "Paizonian Pantheon", when GM 201 will come out in PDF form?

Rom001

You can now find some pictures of the Siege of the Diamond City Special and general PaizoCon 2013 pictures here. :)

May I inquire, specifically to the "Paizonian Pantheon", when GM 201 will come out in PDF form?

GM 201 will likely be available sometime after Gen Con. Looking back, it appears we publicly released GM 101 in November 2012, and we might have a similar release date for GM 201. I still have plenty of Gen Con preparations to do, after which I can begin looking at preparing GM 201 for release in pdf form and form a better estimate.

I had a blast, as did most of my players. I had one death (in a group that played up), and very nearly turned the Colorado Venture-Captain into an undead shadow. Those shadows are scary stuff!!

You can now find some pictures of the Siege of the Diamond City Special and general PaizoCon 2013 pictures here. :)

Flicker won't let me comment .. but on the first page ... the pic listed as GM 101 (has Mike in the pick and the chick in the pink sweatshirt) was really GM 201... Mike and the guy next to him (sorry don't remember name) did an excellent job as the kid and domineering character playing parent.

Did the official results of the 2013 Special ever get posted? I understand they did "okay," but with the Special as I understand it, that's pretty darn vague.

I was surprised there were no partitions in use. At least I didnt see any in any of the photos. Is the configurations of tables at Paizocon indicative of the way most cons in the US setup their tables?

Unfortunately partitions cost money, so generally have a negative impact on ability to host cons in the US.

So most conventions won't have any partitions between tables, and only a lucky few can afford to get a large number of smaller rooms for their rpg areas.

I know that our local convention has had the good luck to have small rooms with 2 to 3 tables per room, but as we grow, we will be losing that next year. :(

PS- this photo's one of our locals PFSers. Glad he made it into the gallery. :D

The old Coast Bellevue location's banquet room had literal built-in partitions that could be rolled/folded into the walls for stuff like the banquet, but I have to admit, I didn't see much in the way of that at the new location (excepting the Pathfinder Card Game room, which seemed to be partitionable). That said, I think the noise level is a necessary side-effect of big multi-table events like the Specials, or Grand Convocations, or whatever. And een though my very fagile hearing couldn't handle being in the rooms too long, it still wasn't as bad as the PFS games I've helped run where we're squeezed between a batch of Warhammer 40K tables and a batch of local Poke'mon tournament tables. That day was AWFUL.

PPS- Hey, Robyn!

Hi Robyn,

That I didnt know. Like I said earlier, my experience with cons is very limited. I try to get to Arcanacon each year over in Melbourne, that is run out of a school (so they use the classrooms as artificial partitions)Of course its nothing like a US con in terms in size.

You can now find some pictures of the Siege of the Diamond City Special and general PaizoCon 2013 pictures here. :)

Sweet Mercy! How did the last photo on page one make the cut? I tell you wut, they'll let any yahoo Venture-Lieutenant wearing a San Francisco Giants ball cap gm the special.

My wife said that was a really nice photo of me. Thank You!

PS- this photo's one of our locals PFSers. Glad he made it into the gallery. :D

He and his lady friend sat at my table of Bonekeep and made my PaizoCon experience even better! Tell him thanks for a great time if you see him!

I'll pass the word! We don't roll in the same PFS tables (he runs the local university's PFS club, whereas I am a bitter old crank who left school long ago), but I've got his e-mail address, and we sometimes run into him when we go out to eat during some of our home games (the university's just down the road from one of our player's houses, and that road is paved with fast food chains).

Did the official results of the 2013 Special ever get posted? I understand they did "okay," but with the Special as I understand it, that's pretty darn vague.

My Chronicle sheet says ....

Sweet. Things were taking a turn the last time I'd checked up, where the northwest quadrant had gone clear, but the southeast went dark yellow, so I was worried.

What level of table did you play at? My buddies Ben Bruck and John Spalding had me run a pile of stuff to get a couple of their PCs up to 15th to be part of the high-level action.

I had already played two tier 7-11 games that day so I gave my brain a bit of a break and played a new character at tier 1-2.

My Oracle of flame had a bit of a hard time since a lot of the things had some fire resistance and ended up helping fire the big (anti-)siege engines for a good amount of the time. Super fun scenario though.

Rom001 wrote:

May I inquire, specifically to the "Paizonian Pantheon", when GM 201 will come out in PDF form?

GM 201 will likely be available sometime after Gen Con. Looking back, it appears we publicly released GM 101 in November 2012, and we might have a similar release date for GM 201. I still have plenty of Gen Con preparations to do, after which I can begin looking at preparing GM 201 for release in pdf form and form a better estimate.

Sorry Sir, I would have responded properly had the fact that LIFE gets in the way of the things we really want to do.

Thank you for the 411 RE: GM 201

Rom001