Gen Con, Baby!

Or is the better question, should I stay away from any events, b/c I may not/will not have "experienced" characters.

Trying to decide how to finish building my GenCon wish list.

Inquisitor60504, are there PFS ACG events in your area? You'd have a couple months to give it a try locally and build a character deck or three.

Regardless, if you're interested in giving it a try I wouldn't stay away just because you're new. There'll be other folks in the same boat.

A lot of people are trying Organized Play for the first time at GenCon, Inquisitor60504. Try it and see if you like it.

Got everything I wanted so far pertaining to Pathfinder. yay.

Glad you got what you wanted.

FWIW, I never worry about getting PFS tickets; outside of the Interactive Special they're my final fallback and there's always stuff available.

At the time of this writing they've only sold out of the top two tiers of Interactive tickets and a few scattered others.

ACG Interactive is at less than half capacity right now

(I got my tix to it yay)

I screwed it up; I wanted tickets for 7-8 but (after a couple trips through the wishlist for various reasons) got 5-6.

Good thing I have a lot of characters. :)

So has anyone heard what decks / characters we will be using or need to bring for the the ACG Interactive?

The time blocks on Sunday for the ACG do not match the times in the volunteer request blog from last Jan. Did the Sunday time blocks for the card game change?

Volunteer

I'm not following. ACG Vols arrive at 0830, games start at 0900 and 1200, we finish at 1400. How does this not match up?

So has anyone heard what decks / characters we will be using or need to bring for the the ACG Interactive?

Anything legal for Guild Play :P

Tanis has plans for both low tables (Tier 1-3) and high tables (Tier 4-6) so bring what you wish.

Have you decided if we can play both sides for credit?

Have you decided if we can play both sides for credit?

Do you mean when it's released?

Anything legal for Guild Play :P

Tanis has plans for both low tables (Tier 1-3) and high tables (Tier 4-6) so bring what you wish.

Sounds good. So would if you are using a character from Season of Wrath will they have their Mythic abilities as well? (I would guess no, but figure it doesn't hurt to ask.)

Now to figure out what characters to play over the next few months to have ready.

I'm going to go with No as well.
The adventure path states, "For the rest of the Adventure Path, when you play a scenario in Adventure 2 or higher, the card you chose is your mythic path card." which means that you only have it while playing something from that Season.

Waiting to see what the schedule looks like once the Open tickets are available.
I'm playing a decent amount of the Seasons at Origins, and couldn't get anyone interested in the Goblins Mini-Season (blasphemy, I know), so right now I have no ACG tickets. Which feels weird, but we got in twice last year with generics, so I'm pretty sure it'll pass.

Parody wrote:

Have you decided if we can play both sides for credit?

Do you mean when it's released?

It's a bit hard to play the RPG and ACG sides at the same time, at least if you want to do a good job! :P

See also where I asked this question above; Tanis eventually said it's up to Tonya, and (as far as I have seen) it hasn't been answered yet. Based on the conventions I attend I'll have plenty of chances to play the ACG side, and may have to play to help fill in tables even if it's not for credit. It'd just be nice to know. (It would have been nicer to know before Gen Con event registration, but I'm sure everyone's busy. :)

Well, Parody, when the ACG portion of the special was originally put up in the events, there was a Thur afternoon session ... some how. It was taken down along with the ACG portion happening during the special. That's why I asked it that way. And, yes, it is difficult to play both.

As far as the Mythic Path, no, you wouldn't be able to use the Mythic Path as that is only applicable to the AP you're playing. Now if the special has a Mythic Path available, then I'd expect to see my answer change. (I'm hoping no.)

I'm sure we'll find out more about the Special as time goes one ... if they're going to make sure our characters have so many Skill Feats, Power Feats and Card Feats.

Well, Parody, when the ACG portion of the special was originally put up in the events, there was a Thur afternoon session ... some how.

I think we both knew it was an error, though. I certainly assumed so. ::shrug::

I'm sure we'll find out more about the Special as time goes one ... if they're going to make sure our characters have so many Skill Feats, Power Feats and Card Feats.

They've said they're dividing it up by Tier, which restricts what you'll have available to ranges that are still pretty wide. It'll be interesting to see how well it works.

I'm following up on the PFSACG Open. We submitted the event to Gen Con weeks ago. We had to make a few changes, but those were done early last week. So I'm getting an answer and will post here.

We requested the following:

1st Round -
Thurs 5 pm
Thurs 8 pm
Fri 8 am
Fri 11 am

2nd Round -
Sat 11 am
Sat 2 pm

3rd Round -
Sun 9 am

Thank you for the update.

How many tables will you be running for each session of Round 1?

Cool. It's good to spread things out. :)

JDragon_ITTS: FWIW, it was 3 before.

Tonya, are we able to use Season tickets for the Open since I still don't see the events? And the Season tix correspond to the times you've mentioned.

Gen Con Policy is that you can use tickets for any event for any other event as if they were generics. What they don't do is reserve a place for you. (Also don't expect change. :)

Talked to the people at Gen Con and worked out what happened to the Open - darned email filters. Been quite a learning curve this year, as it is my first interfacing with the event system and planning the overall layout of the Con. Which is why there were two interactive for a time. I submitted a whoops event.

We decided to open the ticket sales for the Open next Sunday, May 22nd, at 1200 pm Eastern (9 am Pacific). This allows people to arrange their schedule and be ready for the tickets.

There are 2 tables open in each session. If you are a single rider, that is fine. Just by your 1 ticket and you will be grouped together with others in that session.

As posted above, the sessions will be:

1st Round -
Thurs 5 pm
Thurs 8 pm
Fri 8 am
Fri 11 am

2nd Round -
Sat 11 am
Sat 2 pm

3rd Round -
Sun 9 am

Theryon Stormrune wrote:

Parody wrote:

Have you decided if we can play both sides for credit?

Do you mean when it's released?

It's a bit hard to play the RPG and ACG sides at the same time, at least if you want to do a good job! :P

See also where I asked this question above; Tanis eventually said it's up to Tonya, and (as far as I have seen) it hasn't been answered yet. Based on the conventions I attend I'll have plenty of chances to play the ACG side, and may have to play to help fill in tables even if it's not for credit. It'd just be nice to know. (It would have been nicer to know before Gen Con event registration, but I'm sure everyone's busy. :)

Talked to the PFS team. The decision was that a player could earn credit for 8-00 The Cosmic Captive three times - once in RPG, once in ACG, and once in Core.

Talked to the PFS team. The decision was that a player could earn credit for 8-00 The Cosmic Captive three times - once in RPG, once in ACG, and once in Core.

That's awesome. Thanks! :)

Talked to the PFS team. The decision was that a player could earn credit for 8-00 The Cosmic Captive three times - once in RPG, once in ACG, and once in Core.

Silly question, Tonya, does #8-00 require the ACG portion to run it? (I do want to talk to Bobby Harring about running the special at Save Against Fear. I would be running the ACG side if there is interest in that portion, but in case there isn't, wouldn't want to hold that up.)

@Theryon: If you're running it, I'll be there, so there will be interest. :-D

Looking at the website, looks like Save Against Fear is October 14-16 in Harrisburg, PA, where my in laws live. I shall talk to my wife about a family trip that weekend.

Yep, and it's only a 2 hour drive for me, so a day trip is doable. :-D

And I'm planning on going, too! Party in Harrisburg!

Don't worry, as long as it's released and Bobby is up to running it, I'll be running the ACG portion. I'll be running PFSACG the rest of the time. Eliandra can't wait for Season of the Goblin! Either way I'll keep you guys up-to-date.

I work Saturdays, so I prolly won't make it. I've been using all my vacation as I earn it, and I'd like to bank a few weeks (especially after burning a week for GenCon).

So, the Open is listed now on the GenCon site. When I try to get tickets I get the message "Ticket could not be added - event is not open at this time." (This is a different message than you get if it's already run out of tickets.)

So what's the deal? Will it be open at some point?

From Tonya's post above:

We decided to open the ticket sales for the Open next Sunday, May 22nd, at 1200 pm Eastern (9 am Pacific). This allows people to arrange their schedule and be ready for the tickets.

Looking at the website, looks like Save Against Fear is October 14-16 in Harrisburg, PA, where my in laws live. I shall talk to my wife about a family trip that weekend.

Looking at making it out to this event.

We are still determining what the requirements will be for 8-00. As soon as we decide, will let organizers know!

So, I see there are 8 tickets available for each open slot when they go on sale. Does this mean there will only be 32 players allowed for the Open?

If I get an Open ticket somehow, do I need to have both Semi final slots open just in case?

Will groups be assigned based on experience? I haven't played in an open before and don't want to let down a group of experienced players.

Thanks

Save Against Fear is close; I can do close. And October is after some other commitments are done...

So, I see there are 8 tickets available for each open slot when they go on sale. Does this mean there will only be 32 players allowed for the Open?

Sounds about right. It's three rounds, so 8 teams/4 teams/2 teams.

If I get an Open ticket somehow, do I need to have both Semi final slots open just in case?

My guess is that you'll only need to know the one assigned to your qualifier's time slot. For example, the Thursday qualifiers might advance to Saturday at 11 and the Friday ones to Saturday at 2.

Will groups be assigned based on experience? I haven't played in an open before and don't want to let down a group of experienced players.

It's only two groups of four per qualifier, so the amount of group selection available is pretty low.

Last year I was by myself, dropped in with some good players, and had a fun time even though we didn't advance. It's still the card game, complete with random draws from decks and seeing exactly how many 1s you can roll for a check, so don't get too wrapped up in it. :)

At this time, 32 players is the limit. IF we sell them out, we can look at adding tables.

You need to have the earlier semi slot (if you qualify on Thursday) or the later semi slot (if you qualify on Friday)

Teams are put together onsite, somewhat randomly.

Just a reminder - tickets go on sale tomorrow for the Gen Con open!

Tickets for the Gencon card game open are live but are going very fast.

Ticket purchased! :-D

Darn, The 1 minute that my submitted wish list processed was not fast enough and they were all gone. I guess I will show up with generics and see if they will open more groups to play.

congrats to those that got a ticket!

When I checked yesterday an hour after they were made available only about half of them were gone. As of this posting there's 6 tickets left, so there's still spots available if you want one.

There's no reason to use Wish Lists at this point, BTW. Just add to cart and go.

I managed to snag a spot for my group. Looking forward to seeing some of you there!

Yeah, those are for Friday morning. I have volunteer commitments those times. Thursday was the only day I could play.

I will definitely come watch and learn.

FYI
Friday 8:00am 2 tickets left, 11:00am 3 tickets left