January Update—Stars, Spotlights and Conventions!

Thank you, I appreciate this new format.

You got my hopes up that there was another con coming to Sacramento. Alas, I'm pretty sure CogCon is in Rolla, MO. You might want to check your plane tickets?

It feels nice to finally be among the other 5 star GMs.

Welcome aboard, Derek! Well deserved. Thanks for all you and the other new five-stars have done to make PFS awesome in your areas.

(BTW, it often takes a few days for the star count on the boards to propogate through the system...)

Welcome aboard, Derek! Well deserved. Thanks for all you and the other new five-stars have done to make PFS awesome in your areas.

(BTW, it often takes a few days for the star count on the boards to propogate through the system...)

Thanks. Technically, if it wasn't for the '10 specials' requirement, I would have gotten the star way earlier. I'm at something like 700 credits now. The problem with specials is by this point, if not literally, it definitely feels like 99% of players have already done them. That made for quite the task in finding players.

I figured that it'd take a while to see the 5th star on my profile. I've waited this long, another week won't kill me.

Correct me if I am wrong , but I do not belive that "CogCon 2020" takes place in Sacramento.

I hope someone bites on that job listing!

Way to go, Kyle!

Wooooooo!

I’m pleased to announce the organized play team is growing by one – we are adding an operational administrative assistant working directly with me to support our programs. The job posting should go up shortly and I encourage our community members to apply!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

This is the best news ever! I am so happy that the OrgPlay team is finally getting an administrative assistant. There is so much work to be done, and this will make such a difference!

Conor McClure

Adam Kessler
Steven Mombourquette
Kyle Hallberg
Michael Petlicke
Jon Haight
Edward Kabara
Derek Blakely
Mike Welham

Congratulations to all, but especially to Kyle! I was there at his first table, and got to play in his 5 star! Yay to all of you. This is a ton of work!

Hmm

Congrats to all the new 5 star GMS! Especially Steven, well deserved and I'm glad Fin ignored my advice of "give him hell" ;)

Great to hear progress is being made on all fronts, can't wait to actually start to see some of these things go live!

Grats to the 5-Stars! Special Grats to our 5-Star GM for the Online Region, Steven Mombourquette!

Now he can start working on those Glyphs! Come on and catch up, Steven M. You're 44 behind!

Great news on the AcP stuff!

Better news that we're getting another person on the Org Play staff!

Once the AcP goes live I think PFS2 is really going to expand far more than it has to this point. So start GMing now so you're ready for the player boom!

WOOT!

Congratulations on the new 5 star GMs. I'm new to the GM side of the screen so I'm still working on getting my first star; I will get my first Glyph first. I can already see how much work and dedication it takes to get 5 stars.

This is another task I hope to have completed by the end of the month.

Never looked forward to February so much. Thank you Tonya and the team for all the hard work.

Congrats to the all the new, shiny 5-stars!! Thank you for all you have done for your players over the years!

I’m pleased to announce the organized play team is growing by one – we are adding an operational administrative assistant working directly with me to support our programs. The job posting should go up shortly and I encourage our community members to appy!

Most Excellent News!!! Now if only I could convince my spouse to move to the west coast....

Thurston See you in Houston!!! I will get a beer or 4 for ya!

Yes, new five stars! w00t!

Now if only I could convince my spouse to move to the west coast....

"If you go, she will follow!" That's how America was settled. Men left their homes and took their wives west. Go West, Young Man!

... our movement on sanctioning. The organized play developers finished their pass on several of the books and now we are working on getting them formatted for publication. This is another task I hope to have completed by the end of the month.

Wonderful! Really looking forward to seeing this come online.

All of this is really good news to hear! I have high hopes that the AcP reporting gets finished so that those items dependent on it for sanctioning can roll out ASAP. My players are clamoring for the sanctioning of the Lost Omens content from both the World Guide and the Character Creation Guide, so this is welcome news indeed.

Finally with the 5 stars! :D

Everyone who noted CogCon isn't in Sacramento, but is in Rolla is correct. I've got a request in to get the blog updated, but it went in late on Friday, so I don't think we will see a change until Monday.

I updated privileges for our new 5* GMs. Not sure why it isn't showing. I suggest going into your "My Organized Page" and recalculating your stars by hitting the button. If that doesn't work, email me and I'll get tech to look at it on Mon.

Gary Bush wrote:

Now if only I could convince my spouse to move to the west coast....

"If you go, she will follow!" That's how America was settled. Men left their homes and took their wives west. Go West, Young Man!

The Midwest is as far west as I go.

And as far east as well!

Congrats, Kyle, and all of the other amazing new 5-star GMs!

We all look forward to many more great things from all of you!

I was just alerted about this post by my VC. Glad to see it went through. I'm so glad I finally have a reason to act like I'm better than everybody else.

Finally with the 5 stars! :D

Congrats!

Was one of the books that is on its way to be formatted "Age of Ashes?"

I am wondering why this blog is posted under Local Events instead of the main Pathfinder Society area? This is the first time I have seen these type of blogs put under Local Events. People are not use to this and I believe may have missed this blog because of it.

Can this blog be moved to the Pathfinder Society area?

Congrats to Kyle, Mike, and all the other new 5-star GMs!

The job posting should go up shortly and I encourage our community members to apply!

Well Damn, not retiring for a year yet...

So many 5 stars! Congratulations!

So many 5 stars! Congratulations!

Gonna need a bigger island

For those keeping watch, the job posting went up today. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click on Careers for more information.

I hope you get someone awesome!

Hmm

I am wondering why this blog is posted under Local Events instead of the main Pathfinder Society area? This is the first time I have seen these type of blogs put under Local Events. People are not use to this and I believe may have missed this blog because of it.

Can this blog be moved to the Pathfinder Society area?

I flagged the first post of this thread with the "wrong forum" tag, but maybe I should do it for your post as well.

Hmm

Can we get someone that will actually get progress going on society? A single person that has to learn how to edit the additional resources from scratch and decide what is and isn't legal could do more in 6 months than what has happened. It's basically already been play tested with starfinder how things go and 2e is just going that route anyway.

Between literally next to no content and no AR for almost 6 months and not nearly enough replayables, society is damn near dead, and it'd probably bring in a huge profit once players have more reason to buy books. Cuz buying something to support someone who doesn't care about you enough and doesn't even value you as a customer enough to take the locks off of the toys you buy for MULTIPLE MONTHS is really really rude and disrespectful, especially after claiming that there are people supposedly doing exactly that and never showing results while continuing to work on other projects.

We've been playing with core for the past decade and yalk have been at this for almost as long. How has nobody learned how to get a conversation going over Facebook messenger group texting and make some decisions then implement them in a timely manner IN TEN YEARS of doing this?

All the stuff is linked to the AcP system. Until that gets going nothing else can be sanctioned and released. They stated this in the blog post.

Society is not dead. It is going great with what we have right now.

*snippage*

We've been playing with core for the past decade and yalk have been at this for almost as long. How has nobody learned how to get a conversation going over Facebook messenger group texting and make some decisions then implement them in a timely manner IN TEN YEARS of doing this?

There are at least a few people that avoid Fakebook, Titter, and such things. To insist that be the only mode of conversation is to disregard those people at the very least.

And as someone who has been burnt by the 'approve it all now' followed by 'oh, wait, we really didn't see this interaction and now have to roll back *insert crucial portion of character build here*' in a minor fashion, I'd prefer caution over haste.

Instead of insisting on having it all now, just wait to buy it when the things one desires are approved. Sure, it sadly means the sometimes 'sexy' books aren't in one's possession, but it's not like they're going to be of any great use if the 'one thing' that is desired ends up on the banned list.

Compared to other approval processes and alternatives from other organized play experiences, the methodology used for PFS(1) has been a FAR better method.

YMMV.

YMMV.\

Many of our mileages do vary. There has to be a middle ground. Hell, we know that the actual vetting process was done sometime in November or early December — they're just not publishing what was sanctioned because the website is so frakked.

There are three days until the end of the month. An update from campaign staff — and a plan to get information out there now while they figure out their damnable web developer issues — is warranted.