OPM Musings

May turned out to be a very topsy-turvy month and the blogs reflect that craziness. Turns out we’ve been working from home for ten or so weeks and somewhere at the end of April, I decided to skip a week. That led to a really cool blog from James Case, but also meant we missed our regular update. I’m catching us up now and plan to be back on a regular schedule in June.

Onto the news…

We made lots of announcements the past month regarding the upcoming PaizoCon Online. For more information on events, check out the blogs we posted on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Though we still have a few weeks to go before PaizoCon and are putting final touches on that event, we are also looking beyond to Origins Online. If you are interested in GMing at Origins Online, email organizedplay@paizo.com for more information.

We also have seen movement on the Achievement Point program and many players and GMs note their totals are closer to expected totals. We are actively working on resolving the issues and we hope to have more to announce soon.

Our friends at Know Direction advised they received 84 entries in the Battle of the Pantheon contest. They are reviewing the entries and will pass on their top choices to our team for us to pick our top selections. From there, we will preview all of them in a blog on June 4th, 2020 and open voting shortly after.

Sanctioning

The team’s worked hard this month on getting caught up and we hope to finalize sanctioning on the Age of Ashes Adventure Path before the end of May. Stay tuned for more information.

Campaign Coins

With the lack of travel due to Covid-19, we awarded no coins during the past month.

Stars

We don’t have any new 5 stars this month. For those waiting on displays of 5 stars behind your name, we hope to have them appear soon as part of the Achievement Point resolution.

Novas & Glyphs

The online nova evaluation tool is still undergoing work, but you can submit any evaluations via an online form. Venture-Captains, please use this form to submit evaluations.

As part of the Achievement Point fixes, we are also resolving the issues with GM rankings and table counts displaying properly. You should see Starfinder Society table counts show something other than 0 and a space to count Glyphs appearing soon.

Convention Listing

Many of the conventions planned for the upcoming months have needed to cancel or postpone due to shelter in place orders, but several others moved their events online. We’ve listed the status for each event, but please check their websites or notices for any last minute changes.

Convention	Location	Start Date	Status
Monster Prom	DeKalb, IL	5/15/2020	Online
Virtual Mepacon 38	Pennsylvania	5/15/2020	Online
C4 2020	Acme, Michigan	5/22/2020	Postponed
KublaCon 2020	Burlingame, CA	5/22/2020	Cancelled
Gamex 2020 Online	Los Angeles, CA	5/22/2020	Online
QuarantineCon'20	Houston, TX	5/22/2020	Online
PaizoCon Online	Seattle, WA	5/26/20	Online
UKGE 2020	Birmingham, UK	5/29/2020	Cancelled
Origins Online	Columbus, OH	6/19/20 Online	Online
LexiCon 2020	Lexington, KY	7/3/2020	Postponed
Huntsville Comic and Pop Culture Expo (2020)	Huntsville, AL	7/18/2020	Postponed
1D4 Con 2020	Shepherdstown, WV	10/30/2020	Postponed

Organized Play Staff Travel

At this point, there is no travel planned for organized play staff through the beginning of July.

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

Until next time—Explore, Report, Cooperate!

Tonya Woldridge
Organized Play Manager