Achievement Points – Pathfinder Society (second edition)

The last week saw great progress on the backlog of organized play tasks. I’ve reviewed resumes for the new Organized Play Associate position, posted a blog with Pathfinder Society (second edition) sanctioning, and made progress on onboarding our venture-officer volunteers from the Organized Play Foundation. There are other tasks, that we aren’t quite ready to reveal, that got crossed off the to-do list. While not over the hill, we made progress up the slope.

One of the outstanding tasks I’m working on is the Achievement Point (AcP) system. We found a few small bugs – GM credit and GM AcP credit are currently linked – and need a few improvements – scaling the amount to accommodate points earned for quests – before we can roll the system out. We are testing the system and moving the bar forward but are still a few weeks out from implementation.

To bridge the gap and allow players to determine how to spend their points once the system goes live, we decided to release the first round of rewards. We haven’t decided how often to change things, but plan on leaving this in place for a minimum of three months, to give players time to reach their goals. When we do decide to rotate the offerings, we will announce our intentions and give a good amount of time for players to acquire points and purchase. This gap will most likely be a month long, but we will watch feedback once the system goes live and make final decisions then. As with our other programs, the first rotation or two will be where we work the bugs out and fine tune the processes.

Achievement Point Chart #1:

AcP Cost	Purchase Multiple Times	Scaling Cost	Reward Name	Description
80	Yes	No	Leshy Ancestry	Build a leshy PC
80	Yes	No	Iruxi Ancestry	Build an iruxi (lizardfolk) PC
120	No	N/A	Hobgoblin Ancestry	Build a hobgoblin PC from Oprak
20	Yes	No	Evolving Destiny	Rebuild a PC who has 47 XP or less (i.e. level 4 or lower)
50	Yes	+15 every time	Career Change	Rebuild a PC who has 48 or more XP (level 5+)
20	Yes	No	World Traveler	You are treated as being from a particular region for the purpose of accessing character options
20	Yes	No	Exclusive Spellcaster—Core	Select an uncommon spell from a curated list of CRB options; your PCs have access to it
40	Yes	+10 every time	Second Chance	Gain the benefits of a resurrect ritual
4	Yes	No	Inherited Wayfinder	Gain a wayfinder at no additional cost
20	Yes	No	Ancestral Adoption 2019	Choose leshy, lizardfolk, or hobgoblin when taking the Adopted Ancestry feat

Campaign Coins

At MarsCon in January, we had the pleasure of recognizing longtime venture-officer Jason Avery, VC New Hampshire, as recipient. He may now use #827! Huzzah and thank you for your efforts on behalf of the gaming community.

Novas

Congratulations to our first Nova recipients:

• Gary Norton
• Natalie Kertzner
• Glen Parnell

As with stars, 5-nova GMs run 150 games, of which 50 are unique scenarios and 10 are interactive events. They also run at least three evaluation games under the purview of a Venture-Captain, who evaluate the GM using this rubric. Not a small time committment! Congratulations again to our first ever 5-nova GMs.

Keep those assessments coming! Venture-Captains, to log evaluation games, please use this form to submit evaluations.

Stars

We had one GM reached their 5th star in January. Doing so indicates a commitment to organized play, as to achieve this milestone, GMs must run 150 games, of which at least 50 must be unique scenarios and 10 special scenarios, as well as run a game for a venture-captain. A conservative estimate of time needed to reach 5-stars is 650 hours!

Congratulations to Aerine Caerwyn on achieving her 5th star!

Glyphs

I mentioned it under the Achievement Point entry but wanted to note it here as well. We are having issues with the separation of GM Achievement Points and GM table credit. Until we get this issue resolved, counts aren’t accurate. Once we do get it fixed, we will get the symbol in place and people can start announcing their Glyphs.

Convention Listing

Convention season 2020 is well under way! You can play in Society games at any of the conventions listed below! The list includes all submissions as of 4 February. If you see one missing, ping the organizer and have them submit a request for support or have them email me at organizedplay@paizo.com to discuss their event. All of the conventions on the list maintain some type of web presence, be it website, social media page, or Warhorn listing, so if you are interested in attending in either capacity, check out their websites or contact the local venture-officer for more information!

Convention	Location	Start Date
CaptainCon 2020	Warwick, RI	2/7/2020
FlintCon 2020	Flint, MI	2/8/2020
LodgeCon 2020	Peotone, Illinois	2/8/2020
GenghisCon 2020	Aurora, Colorado	2/13/2020
BASHCon 35 (2020)	Toledo, OH	2/14/2020
Capricon 40 (2020)	Wheeling, IL	2/14/2020
Con of the North 2020	Plymouth MN	2/14/2020
DunDraCon 44 (2020)	San Ramon, California	2/14/2020
DunDraCon 44 (2020)	San Ramon, California	2/14/2020
NexusCon2020	Starfinder Nexus Discord & Roll20	2/14/2020
Orccon 2020	Los Angeles, CA, USA	2/14/2020
Orccon 2020	Los Angeles, CA, USA	2/14/2020
Radcon 8 (2020)	Pasco WA	2/14/2020
Dreamation 2020	Morristown, NJ	2/20/2020
TotalCon 34 (2020)	Marlborough, MA	2/20/2020
4th Annual Omaha Pathfinder Charity Con 2020	Bellevue, NE	2/21/2020
Manaleak 2020	Birmingham, West Midlands, UK	2/22/2020
Hoop & Stick 2020	65666 Bethel Rd New Plymouth, OH 45654	2/27/2020
PAX East 2020	Boston, MA	2/27/2020
Adventure Con 2020	Hamburg, Germany	2/28/2020
Gad Con 2020	Aberdeen MD	2/28/2020
George WashingCon 2020	Bloomington, IN	2/28/2020
Mysticon 2020	Roanoke, Virginia	2/28/2020
Owlcon: Hindsight 2020	Houston, Texas	2/28/2020
Vinterfinder 2020	Copenhagen/Denmark	2/28/2020
ArctiCon X	Merrillville, Indiana	2/29/2020
Cincycon	Hamilton, Ohio	3/6/2020
KevätMaraCon2020	Finland, Oulu, Kaijonharjun nuorisotalo	3/6/2020
Southend Pathfinder Conclave 2020	Southend, Essex, UK	3/7/2020
BFG CON	Frederick, MD	3/13/2020
Cleveland ConCoction	Aurora, Ohio	3/20/2020
COSCON 2020	Lyndora, PA (USA)	3/20/2020
CogCon Spring Revel 2020	Rolla, MO	3/27/2020
CoNfUsIoN 2020 - Winter	Gouda, zuid-holland, the Netherlands	3/27/2020
Not-A-Con 2020	Winder, GA	3/29/2020
CODCON 2020	Glen Ellyn, IL	4/3/2020
Save vs Hunger 2020	Maryville, TN	4/3/2020

Organized Play Staff Travel

While we aren’t ready to announce our full year of convention travel quite yet, we can confirm a few appearances during first quarter 2020. For those proactive organizers out there, please note the deadline to request Paizo staff attendance is 1 June 2020. Organizers may email your interest to organizedplay@paizo.com. Note: staff do not attend conventions that conflict with Paizo-sponsored shows.

Convention	Location	Start Date	Paizo Staffers Scheduled to Attend*
OwlCon 2020	Houston, TX	2/28/2020	Thurston
GenghisCon 2020	Aurora, CO	2/13/2020	Tonya
Gama Trade Show 2020	Reno, NV	3/9/2020	Staff TBD
Emerald City Comic Con 2020	Seattle, WA	3/13/2020	Staff TBD
CogCon 2020	Sacramento, CA	3/27/2020	Tonya

*Staffers scheduled to attend may change without notice.

Don’t forget to come back next week for the scenario previews!

Until next time—Explore, Report, Cooperate!

Tonya Woldridge
Organized Play Manager