OPC Log—3 Desnus 4717

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

We're mixing things up a bit! Wednesdays are the new day for organized play-related content. Check back frequently, as in the run up to Gen Con the team is putting together double blogs to deliver previews of the Starfinder Society Roleplaying Guild while maintaining all our regular Pathfinder Society content.

I took some time this weekend to recharge my gaming batteries. On Saturday, I attended a mini-con at Mox Boardinghouse in Bellevue. During the afternoon, nine tables battled through a myriad of pregenerated specials and harder scenarios such as Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-26: The Waking Rune. I got a chance to chat with local players and look in on some of their games. I left before the start of the multi-table interactive special event, Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-00: The Sky Key Solution. I hear there were several deaths, but the Society emerged victorious.

On Sunday, I GMed a table of Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-20: All for Immortality, pt. 1: First Taste of Eternity for a group of local 5 star GMs. I really like this Seeker arc, in that it pulls together the Aspis storyline into a tight package and wraps up many, but not all, of the loose ends from a Season 7. I can't wait until next weekend, where we tackle part two. Thanks to the players that made my afternoon so enjoyable!

Player Survey

One of the focuses when I stepped into the position of Organized Play Coordinator was looking at the data and seeing how it supported our decisions as a team and drove our future plans. We've done that with event support and with scenario reporting. Our next focus is on characters and seasons. We've put together a survey through Survey Monkey to gather this data for use in future decisions. As a thank you for taking time to complete our questions, John put together a thank you boon that may be applied to one of your Pathfinder Society characters.

Pathfinder Society Survey

Newest 5 Star GMs

The list of five star GMs grew again this month. Thanks to the GMs who gave of their time and energies to run 150 games for players, including 50 different scenarios and 10 special events. Kudos to the recipients for achieving this milestone and to all 5 star GMs for their time and devotion to our hobby. Without you, the Pathfinder Society would not exist.

  • Mikko Rekola
  • Robert Love
  • Jim Harris
  • Naren Prasad
  • Sean O'Shea
  • Nicholas Louie
  • Shelly Hudson
  • Lawrence Smith
  • Devon Terpening
  • Jason Daugherty

Upcoming Conventions

Just like the tides, the number of conventions may ebb and flow, but something is always occurring somewhere. To assist in finding events near you, or ones far away you may wish to travel to, here is a list of conventions running Pathfinder Society over the two months. There are many more conventions out there, but these are the ones that requested support through the Pathfinder Society. May is pretty solid, but June's requests are still coming in, so more will add to this list. Consider dropping in and checking one out!

Convention Location Date
HMGS-South Recon 2017 Kissimmee, FL 5/4/17
1d4 Con 2017 Martinsburg, WV 5/5/17
CharCon Bonus Round 2017 Flatwoods, WV 5/5/17
Lexicon 2017 Lexington, KY 5/5/17
PDXAGE (Portland Analog Gaming Event) Portland, OR 5/5/17
TriCon 2: Tri Harder (2017) High Point, NC 5/6/17
Chupacabracon 4 (2017) Austin, TX 5/12/17
Comicpalooza 2017 Houston, TX 5/12/17
the Seelie Court 2017 Philadelphia, PA 5/12/17
Heroicon 2017 Decatur, IL 5/19/17
Monster Promenade 2017 DeKalb, IL 5/19/17
Oasis 29 (2017) Orlando, FL 5/19/17
KevätMaracon17 Oulu, Finland 5/25/17
MegaCon 2017 Orlando, FL 5/25/17
MomoCon 2017 Atlanta, GA 5/25/17
PaizoCon 2017 Seattle, WA 5/25/17
Phoenix Comic Con Phoenix, AZ 5/25/17
RheingauCon 2017 Destrich-Winkel, Germany 5/25/17
Arkansas Anime Festival Fort Smith, AR 5/26/17
Gamex 2017 Los Angeles, CA 5/26/17
KublaCon 2017 Burlingame, CA 5/26/17
Nexus Game Fair 2017 Milwaukee, WI 5/26/17
UK Games Expo Birmingham, UK 6/2/17
ConCarolinas 2017 Charlotte, NC 6/2/17
Die Con2017 Collinsville, Il 6/9/17
Cosmic Captive PbP Gameday Online 6/9/17
RageCon 2017 Reno, NV 6/23/17
Milwaukee Summer Revel 20 (2017) Brookfield, WI 6/30/17

Convention Volunteer Update

Volunteers for PaizoCon should have received their schedules. We touched base with Organizer Mike McNerney regarding Origins schedules and he advises they are being sent asap and will arrive before event registration opens. Volunteer lead Bob Jonquet is working on the volunteer schedules for Gen Con. Look for them to arrive before the Gen Con event system goes live at the end of the month. We are adding volunteers to the Gen Con roster this week, so if you're waiting for information, please watch your inbox. No matter what the status, all Gen Con volunteers will receive some communication by weeks end.

Stopping here so I can get back to convention planning. I owe people emails!

Explore, Report, Cooperate!

Tonya Woldridge
Organized Play Coordinator

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Grand Lodge 4/5

Pathfinder Adventure, Rulebook Subscriber
Mr. Hunter wrote:
May 3rd Blog Post wrote:
No matter what the status, all Gen Con volunteers will receive some communication by weeks end.
So, not so much?

Hopefully more information will be coming in today's blog.

Sovereign Court 4/5 5/55/55/5 *

I think I read somewhere it will be anytime from now to may 21st but yes I'm expecting more clarification tonight from the blog

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Is there any chance the data can be released after the survey is done? I'd love to see what insights might be gleaned.

Liberty's Edge 1/5

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

Stupid player question: how do we record the boon for our character? Does the GM for the scenario we are applying it to need to do it as part of reporting the scenario, or is there somewhere we can record it ourselves?

Scarab Sages

Mr. Hunter wrote:
May 3rd Blog Post wrote:
No matter what the status, all Gen Con volunteers will receive some communication by weeks end.
So, not so much?

You should have received your schedule today. The team was trying to find a way to keep the tier 1 and 2 GMs from having 15 hour slogs of GMing without only giving 5 hours of rest/sleep to those individuals. Looks like I wont get much time at Scotty's this year, as I got Midnight Madness the entire Con.

Scarab Sages

Tusk the Half-Orc wrote:
Stupid player question: how do we record the boon for our character? Does the GM for the scenario we are applying it to need to do it as part of reporting the scenario, or is there somewhere we can record it ourselves?

Boons don't get recorded. If you're talking about the replay for credit, even GM star replays don't have a way to be separately "recorded". A scenario is a scenario to the system. It'll say that you've already played it, but the boon attached to that character allowed the replay. That's basically how you keep track of it.

Liberty's Edge 1/5

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber
Steven G. wrote:
Tusk the Half-Orc wrote:
Stupid player question: how do we record the boon for our character? Does the GM for the scenario we are applying it to need to do it as part of reporting the scenario, or is there somewhere we can record it ourselves?
Boons don't get recorded. If you're talking about the replay for credit, even GM star replays don't have a way to be separately "recorded". A scenario is a scenario to the system. It'll say that you've already played it, but the boon attached to that character allowed the replay. That's basically how you keep track of it.

I meant the extra prestige point, not the replay. I'm applying it to a character who shows only one PP for Scenario X in the online reporting system and is now receiving a second one. Does that get added to the characters prestige in the reporting system somehow, or will his PP always be off by 1?

Grand Lodge 4/5

Pathfinder Adventure, Rulebook Subscriber

The boon is not reported in the system. You can ask your Venture Captain to update the prestige entry, but the reporting system is not the official record for your character either way.

Liberty's Edge 1/5

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber
Steven Schopmeyer wrote:
The boon is not reported in the system. You can ask your Venture Captain to update the prestige entry, but the reporting system is not the official record for your character either way.

Got it - thanks.

3/5

So for the replay part of the boon: Is the character the boon is assigned to the one allowed to replay games you've played with other characters? Or is the character assigned the boon the one whose games can be replayed by one of your other characters? Or does assigning the boon to any character open up all scenarios back up for replay by any of your characters regardless of what character the boon is assigned to?

Grand Lodge 4/5

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Tusk the Half-Orc wrote:
Stupid player question: how do we record the boon for our character? Does the GM for the scenario we are applying it to need to do it as part of reporting the scenario, or is there somewhere we can record it ourselves?

I'd note it on the chronicle and reporting sheet (apart from anything else, because it'll flag as a duplicate to the person reporting).

Liberty's Edge 4/5 *

DrakeRoberts wrote:
So for the replay part of the boon: Is the character the boon is assigned to the one allowed to replay games you've played with other characters? Or is the character assigned the boon the one whose games can be replayed by one of your other characters? Or does assigning the boon to any character open up all scenarios back up for replay by any of your characters regardless of what character the boon is assigned to?

This particular boon isn't assigned to a character. Keep it on you with your gaming gear, and any time you want to use the replay, show it to the GM and record the information about the replayed scenario on the boon, then have the GM note this was a boon-allowed replay on the chronicle.

Grand Lodge 2/5 *

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

What's the deadline on the survey again please?

Grand Lodge 4/5 **** Developer

Darrell Impey UK wrote:
What's the deadline on the survey again please?

The survey closes in a week, on May 30th.

Grand Lodge 2/5 *

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

Thanks. :)

3/5

Linda Zayas-Palmer wrote:
Darrell Impey UK wrote:
What's the deadline on the survey again please?
The survey closes in a week, on May 30th.

Boon download pages still says that the link will expire at the end of today, May 24.

5/5 ***

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

This Chronicle sheet allows replaying scenarios of Tier 1-5, 3-7, 5-9, or even 7-11 if we report more PCs. What a great incentive; thank you! It doesn't mention scenarios with different tiering (such as multi-table specials for Tiers 1-11, or the ones with pregen PCs), so are those not eligible, even if we could replay a 7-11? For example, could I use this boon to replay #8-99 at GenCon if I've played it at Origins?

Sovereign Court 4/5 * Organized Play Coordinator

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Derek Schubert wrote:
This Chronicle sheet allows replaying scenarios of Tier 1-5, 3-7, 5-9, or even 7-11 if we report more PCs. What a great incentive; thank you! It doesn't mention scenarios with different tiering (such as multi-table specials for Tiers 1-11, or the ones with pregen PCs), so are those not eligible, even if we could replay a 7-11? For example, could I use this boon to replay #8-99 at GenCon if I've played it at Origins?

Pregen PC scenarios fit into a tier, for example Serpents' Rise is Tier 7. As long as you have the right box checked, you may replay the scenario. For multi-table specials, you would be able to play in any subtler you qualified for on the boon. Which means you may only get up to a Tier 5-6 in Cosmic Captive, but you would be able to replay any Tier up to 6.

5/5 5/55/55/5

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Some of my players would like to know if it would work on a module if it falls within range. (they may want to run masks of the living god again)

4/5

Ok, so what are the results of this player survey?

1/5

Pathfinder Adventure, Adventure Path, Rulebook Subscriber
BigNorseWolf wrote:
Some of my players would like to know if it would work on a module if it falls within range. (they may want to run masks of the living god again)

I was planning on using this for a character to replay "We Be Goblins Too" just before GenCon.

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