PaizoCon 2016 is Coming—Badges and Special Guests Announced!

Huzzah!

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Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeeeeeeees. God, I hope my schedule lines up for me to go again this year.

Plane ticket purchased, hotel booked, and tickets bought. I'm all set!

We're all looking forward to seeing you folks at this year's show!

Just purchased my tickets!!! Woot!!

Awesome! Just happened to check and tickets were suddenly available - and on my birthday, no less! Hotel, flights, badges and banquet tickets for me and my son are a go! Now to waitwaitwait for the schedule.

All done (hopefully).

FWIW, I didn't really see the $10 discount being applied, but I did get pathfinder advantage (was I supposed to get that?) so maybe it was swallowed up by the 15%.

If I look at last year's program will that give me a rough idea of when seminars are and so forth? Like is the rough outline the same each year even though the specifics change? (Is it even possible to find last year's program still?)

I can't wait to see everyone again this year, and meet new friends attending Paizocon for the first time this year. Hmm...time to decide what games I'm going to run for you guys.

Can you pay for tickets with PayPal?

Can you pay for tickets with PayPal?

Check out is through the regular paizo.com store and we are not able to accept paypal at this time.

Phew, glad the banquet hasn't sold out already! :)

Woot! Got my 4 day pass and Banquet Ticket, see you all there!

Just bought my tickets! I'm even thinking about submitting some events this year.

Got it! Here comes my first trip to Paizocon!

Suggestions?

Hotel Room: Reserved
Travel Arrangements: Purchased
Ticket/Banquet: Paid for

Just under four months to go...

Got it! Here comes my first trip to Paizocon!

Suggestions?

Keep an eye peeled for the lottery (especially if you aren't huge on PFS), and if you're going to the banquet, be prepared for a big line. Most important of all, though, watch for Majuba's annual Goblin Brains thread (assuming you like and can eat peanut stuff). Those things are always a treat!

Oh also pack deodorant and plug your nose when stray goblin dogs run by in the halls.

Just paid for my 4-day pass and banquet ticket...

TemplateFu is coming to the USA!

Yey :)

Transatlantic Holiday 2016 Booked... Flights loaded, hotel sorted.... roll on May!

See you all in a few months!!

zergtitan wrote:

Got it! Here comes my first trip to Paizocon!

Suggestions?

Keep an eye peeled for the lottery (especially if you aren't huge on PFS), and if you're going to the banquet, be prepared for a big line.

Oh also pack deodorant and plug your nose when stray goblin dogs run by in the halls.

Lottery?

All the various panels and games (except most PFS) only have so much room, so once the schedule is announced, to be fair to everyone, they run a lottery for spots. Ticket holders will have a certain amount of time to rate how interested they are in an event before the lottery, so your name will only be pulled if you showed interest. You can rate things from 1-5, 5 being most interested. If you could care less about something, then you just don't rate it, leaving it an effective 0. After the lottery is over, the entire schedule opens up to sign ups, so any empty spaces (and non-lottery games) are filled in at that time.
There'll be instructions for all this one the schedule comes out. :)

Awesome and looking forward to May. Now to await the volunteer announcement.

FWIW, I didn't really see the $10 discount being applied, but I did get pathfinder advantage (was I supposed to get that?) so maybe it was swallowed up by the 15%.

Same here.

If I look at last year's program will that give me a rough idea of when seminars are and so forth? Like is the rough outline the same each year even though the specifics change? (Is it even possible to find last year's program still?)

I don't recall the program being available online. I could mail you one if you want Steve (we got two after all) - PM if so.

To set up the tickets in a more simple and practical manner, we had to allow the AP discount to apply to badges. The total of [Badge + Banquet + AP discount] is just a tiny, itsy bit less than the price of the [badge + banquet + $10 discount] so we decided to go ahead with this simpler method of setting up badges.

The real benefit here is that banquet tickets do not require a prior or simultaneous purchase of a badge. This means our PFS volunteers and etc who may not know if they are getting a free badge for a few weeks yet, can go ahead and buy the banquet ticket without as much of the shenanigans we've had to deal with in past years with refunds and whatnot when the complimentary badges are granted. (You'll still need a PaizoCon Badge (4-day or Saturday Badge at the door) and your Banquet ticket to go to the Preview Banquet).

I am finding myself tempted to write a sequel to the "Find Jatembe!" game I ran a couple of years ago. I really shouldn't.

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Thanks Sara! All clear.

By the way - the Event Submission page calls this the eighth PaizoCon, which is not entirely accurate.

I am finding myself tempted to write a sequel to the "Find Jatembe!" game I ran a couple of years ago. I really shouldn't.

Given how much awesome Jatembe/Mwangi/Mgaambyan themed stuff came out in Arcane Anthology....

rknop wrote:

I am finding myself tempted to write a sequel to the "Find Jatembe!" game I ran a couple of years ago. I really shouldn't.

Given how much awesome Jatembe/Mwangi/Mgaambyan themed stuff came out in Arcane Anthology....

I know I'd love to play it!

I am finding myself tempted to write a sequel to the "Find Jatembe!" game I ran a couple of years ago. I really shouldn't.

My son loved that game and would love a sequel, I'm sure of it! You really should. Heck, he might be up for contributing to it instead, if that would interest you. (Disclaimer: Committing on behalf of a 14-year-old could be grounds for his revoking the parent/child contract, so this contributor notion is, um, notional, at best.)

Steve Geddes wrote:

If I look at last year's program will that give me a rough idea of when seminars are and so forth? Like is the rough outline the same each year even though the specifics change? (Is it even possible to find last year's program still?)

I don't recall the program being available online. I could mail you one if you want Steve (we got two after all) - PM if so.

Done, thanks. I'd appreciate a look, even if it's just a broad outline of how things run.

Woohoo, I got my hotel booked, got my tickets don't need plane tickets I'm only 4 hrs away. So have my GPS programed already.

Question I thought somewhere you could customize your badges with a avatar/pic and name? I see & did the name but didn't see option for pic did I miss read somewhere?

rknop wrote:

I am finding myself tempted to write a sequel to the "Find Jatembe!" game I ran a couple of years ago. I really shouldn't.

Given how much awesome Jatembe/Mwangi/Mgaambyan themed stuff came out in Arcane Anthology....

Yep! Part of the inspiration. I'm also looking forward to seeing what's made PFS legal from Arcane Anthnology, because I want to make a character (my Ganzi race boon character) based on some of that stuff.

How much should a person save up in terms of expenses for the convention floor. Since I don't believe any product stations will be able to take Visa cards, right?

How much should a person save up in terms of expenses for the convention floor. Since I don't believe any product stations will be able to take Visa cards, right?

Product stations? The merchants all took plastic.

As far as how much to budget--in my experience, way more than you expected. :-)

Your convention badge will have a barcode and be directly attached to your Paizo account. Any payment method you have there will be available at the store checkout.

Woohoo, I got my hotel booked, got my tickets don't need plane tickets I'm only 4 hrs away. So have my GPS programed already.

Question I thought somewhere you could customize your badges with a avatar/pic and name? I see & did the name but didn't see option for pic did I miss read somewhere?

There isn't a place to add an avatar image. We frequently use "avatar" to refer to your forum alias, so that may what's generating the confusion. :)

Your convention badge will have a barcode and be directly attached to your Paizo account. Any payment method you have there will be available at the store checkout.

That's not the case—while we *do* attach your store purchases to your paizo.com account, we don't have the ability to charge the cards you have on file. If we did that, anyone who could managed to convince us they're you would be able to buy stuff using your card, and that's not something we'll let happen!

Accepted forms of payment in the PaizoCon store are Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and US currency.

I must be misremembering how things worked then. It's been awhile since last PaizoCon.

Chelaxian gold sails will not be accepted for purchase of the Hell's Rebels adventure path.

Andoran gold sails will not be accepted for purchase of the Hell's Vengenance adventure path.

All forms of gold are accepted for purchase of the Skull & Shackles adventure path.

The Paizo team is currently looking into adding a "sanity" payment method for the Strange Aeons adventure path.

I seem to be rather out of sanity. Will blood sacrifice be an option?

Just a little reminder of a conversation we've had over the last couple of years (though you guys may already have made orders for the swag bag):

In last year's feedback thread, a few of us talked about the swag bag:

Khelreddin wrote:

Just want to echo the point about the change from the canvas bag to the Giant Purple Bag of Crinkling and Crackling. The swag bag went from being something I carried throughout the Con and then happily brought home and gave as a gift to a friend who couldn't attend PaizoCon to being something too awkward to usefully use during the weekend that then got left in my hotel room when I left.

And we got an encouraging answer:

Erik Mona wrote:

Bag change wasn't really financial. We'll consider doing something cooler next year.

I want to be clear, the contents of this year's bag were awesome. But if it's possible, I'd love a bag like the cool canvas one of two years ago, over the purple thang.

If it's possible for the swag bag to be a collectible in itself (as it was a few years back), rather than something bound for the landfill (as it was the last two years), that would make the bag as awesome as the rest of PaizoCon.

If it's possible for the swag bag to be a collectible in itself (as it was a few years back), rather than something bound for the landfill (as it was the last two years), that would make the bag as awesome as the rest of PaizoCon.

Durability is a key issue as well if we're making it collectible. I loaded the swag bag from GenCon this past year with some Pathfinder books to a local convention and the thing burst on the second day. Thankfully it *held* (sort of, with super-glue and duct tape) long enough to get home but it was still dramatically inconvenient.

Khelreddin wrote:

If it's possible for the swag bag to be a collectible in itself (as it was a few years back), rather than something bound for the landfill (as it was the last two years), that would make the bag as awesome as the rest of PaizoCon.

Durability is a key issue as well if we're making it collectible. I loaded the swag bag from GenCon this past year with some Pathfinder books to a local convention and the thing burst on the second day. Thankfully it *held* (sort of, with super-glue and duct tape) long enough to get home but it was still dramatically inconvenient.

I am still using the awesome Pathfinder tote bag from three years ago on a weekly basis to haul minis, maps, templates and other sundries to PFS games. That one is plenty durable.

Just a little reminder of a conversation we've had over the last couple of years (though you guys may already have made orders for the swag bag):

Khelreddin wrote:

In last year's feedback thread, a few of us talked about the swag bag:

Khelreddin wrote:

Just want to echo the point about the change from the canvas bag to the Giant Purple Bag of Crinkling and Crackling. The swag bag went from being something I carried throughout the Con and then happily brought home and gave as a gift to a friend who couldn't attend PaizoCon to being something too awkward to usefully use during the weekend that then got left in my hotel room when I left.

And we got an encouraging answer:

Erik Mona wrote:

Bag change wasn't really financial. We'll consider doing something cooler next year.

I want to be clear, the contents of this year's bag were awesome. But if it's possible, I'd love a bag like the cool canvas one of two years ago, over the purple thang.

If it's possible for the swag bag to be a collectible in itself (as it was a few years back), rather than something bound for the landfill (as it was the last two years), that would make the bag as awesome as the rest of PaizoCon.

Second the motion!

I still use my PaizoCon 2013 bag (with the Pathfinder logo on it) to carry things to gamedays. It's starting to show some wear (bit of a hole in the side), and I hardly carry any hardbacks in it; it's all the paper plus all the maps doing it nowadays.

Love that bag. Threw out the bags from 2014 and 2015.

-Rob

Khelreddin wrote:

Just a little reminder of a conversation we've had over the last couple of years (though you guys may already have made orders for the swag bag):

Khelreddin wrote:

In last year's feedback thread, a few of us talked about the swag bag:

Khelreddin wrote:

Just want to echo the point about the change from the canvas bag to the Giant Purple Bag of Crinkling and Crackling. The swag bag went from being something I carried throughout the Con and then happily brought home and gave as a gift to a friend who couldn't attend PaizoCon to being something too awkward to usefully use during the weekend that then got left in my hotel room when I left.

And we got an encouraging answer:

Erik Mona wrote:

Bag change wasn't really financial. We'll consider doing something cooler next year.

I want to be clear, the contents of this year's bag were awesome. But if it's possible, I'd love a bag like the cool canvas one of two years ago, over the purple thang.

If it's possible for the swag bag to be a collectible in itself (as it was a few years back), rather than something bound for the landfill (as it was the last two years), that would make the bag as awesome as the rest of PaizoCon.

Second the motion!

I still use my PaizoCon 2013 bag (with the Pathfinder logo on it) to carry things to gamedays. It's starting to show some wear (bit of a hole in the side), and I hardly carry any hardbacks in it; it's all the paper plus all the maps doing it nowadays.

Love that bag. Threw out the bags from 2014 and 2015.

-Rob

Another vote for that style of bag. Mine's starting to get a little old, too. I use it constantly both for game night materials and grocery shopping.

While we really appreciate everyone's suggestions on how we can make PaizoCon the best possible show it can be, I thought I might temper expectations for the swag bag (or more accurately the bag which holds the swag).

In 2013, when we gave out the fabric swag bag, it wasn't made specifically for PaizoCon but instead was made for a marketing initiative and we decided to use the remainder for the swag bag for the show. We felt it was the best way to get those remaining bags into the hands of our most hardcore fans and we thought it would make the swag bag for the show a neat treat.

And obviously, while it did do that, it has had the unanticipated side effect of tainting the rest of the years swag bags (and this thread is a perfect example of that). Every year folks clamor for a return to 2013's bag and I'm sorry to say that that's going to be really hard to do.

Those bags were more expensive than folks realize and our show just doesn't have the attendance levels to reach reasonable printing and manufacturing thresholds to bring a bag like that within our budget. That is the reality and that is why all of the other years the show has run, we've used the plastic Paizo shopping bags to hold the swag.

Please understand I'm not trying to be a Debbie-Downer here, I'm just trying to provide you guys with some additional context for the thread. I'm also not saying that we will never have a fabric swag bag again, I'm just saying that it is a challenge.

TriOmegaZero wrote:

Your convention badge will have a barcode and be directly attached to your Paizo account. Any payment method you have there will be available at the store checkout.

That's not the case—while we *do* attach your store purchases to your paizo.com account, we don't have the ability to charge the cards you have on file. If we did that, anyone who could managed to convince us they're you would be able to buy stuff using your card, and that's not something we'll let happen!

Accepted forms of payment in the PaizoCon store are Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and US currency.

Accepted forms of payment in the PaizoCon store are Visa, MasterCard, Discover, exisiting paizo.com store credit and US currency.

We do not take American Express.

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