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May Update— Sanctioning, Stars, Spotlights and Conventions!

Friday, May 16, 2020

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.

ConventionLocationStart DateStatus
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

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Liberty's Edge 4/5 5/55/55/5 ****

Awesome news.
Grand Lodge 4/5 5/55/55/55/5 ***** Venture-Captain, Minnesota

Thanks for all these updates!

I don't know what Monster Prom is, but that sounds like an awesome convention name!

I look really am looking forward to seeing my starfinder table count show something other than zero! I've started asking VCs to evaluate my tables, and I'd love to have a screenshot of my table count to show them!

Hmm
Lantern Lodge

Gen Con is not listed. Hurmmmm...
Grand Lodge 4/5

Well it hasn't been canceled or postponed yet.
Lantern Lodge
Steven Schopmeyer wrote:
Well it hasn't been canceled or postponed yet.

Ah. misread the purpose of the list. Carry on.

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*chants* A-C-P! It's coming together quite nicely :)
Silver Crusade 5/5 5/55/5 **** Venture-Captain, Germany—Bavaria
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Looking forward to the ACP, but right now the most important thing is that everyone stays safe, and I am very happy how many of us have embraced the online region.
5/5 *****

UK Games Expo recently announced that they are moving online as well.
Paizo Employee 4/5 ** Developer
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Love the logo! Keep up all the good work!
1/5 5/55/5 **

There has been so much evidence of the team being hard at work. Thank you all and thank you for the update.

Is the new logo something we can use in relation to Organized Play?
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I am happy to hear the Age of Ashes will be sancrionwd soon.
Scarab Sages 5/5 5/5 *** Venture-Captain, Netherlands

Thank you for the update
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Excellent! Excited for the AcP progress! Keep up the great work all around!
Grand Lodge 1/5

forgive me if it's obvious but what's AcP?
Silver Crusade
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Achievement Points, what you get for playing/running games, you use them to buy Boons and the like ^w^
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Pathfinder Pathfinder Accessories, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

Sanctioning. Yay!
Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo) 4/5 5/55/5 *** Venture-Lieutenant, Tennessee—Cookeville

Probably not the best time, but any updates on the playtest point boons?
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I know it probably feels like old news from a world away, but any word on chronicles for Tyrant's Grasp and Return of the Runelords? Those of us who haven't played out 1E would very much appreciate those chronicles.
Second Seekers (Jadnura) 5/55/55/55/5

Thanks to everyone who continues to work on these issues!
***** Venture-Captain, Illinois—Chicago

Now that GenCon has canceled (and moved online) do those of us signed up to help out have to resubmit the volunteer information? Or will we be transferred over?
Dark Archive 4/5 5/55/5 ****

Not the organizer, but I'm going to guess there's going to be some sort of mechanism required to transfer over, as some people will want to, others won't and new people (me and others) will want to help out.
Grand Lodge 4/5 ***** Venture-Captain, Missouri—Columbia

2020, the Year of No Cons.
Grand Lodge 4/5 5/55/55/55/5 ***** Venture-Captain, Minnesota
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Nope, 2020, the year of the best ONLINE CONVENTIONS EVER!
Grand Lodge 4/5 5/55/5 *** Premier Event Coordinator
alttprules wrote:
Now that GenCon has canceled (and moved online) do those of us signed up to help out have to resubmit the volunteer information? Or will we be transferred over?

We cannot assume anyone will/won’t want to, and we don’t want to have to do double work with a bunch of manual manipulation. So, Gen Con Online will largely be treated as its own event and there will be procedures for it independent of the live event. tl;dr yes if you signed up to volunteer, you will still need to sign up for Gen Con Online. Once we have that figured out, we’ll post instructions.

Scarab Sages 1/5 *** Venture-Lieutenant, Virginia—Richmond
Jimmy Dick wrote:
2020, the Year of No Cons.

No, MarsCon 2020 back in January was great!

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Hmm wrote:
Nope, 2020, the year of the best ONLINE CONVENTIONS EVER!

Maybe not EVER, but SO FAR or YET? I mean, there's gonna be a lot of people suddenly more experienced and/or comfortable running/playing in virtual settings, which can only be good things for future online conventions.

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