OPM Musings

A little over six months ago, I joined the Paizo team as the new (and first!) Organized Play Associate. Those six months have been an adventure. I had a total of eight days in the office before I was suddenly working from home in a different timezone. We went from discussing floor plans for the Sagamore to scrambling to put together our first completely online convention. My poor dice sit neglected in their bag as macros have replaced them (alright, not really, I take them out regularly, I can’t bear to let them sit unrolled).

That paints a bleak picture. Let me brighten it up! I’ve seen how resilient our community can be, as we moved online and kept playing at full force. I’ve seen how hard our Online Region venture-officers worked to welcome the entire world into their realm. I’ve witnessed the passion our players have for our products, passion matched only by the people I work with. Tonya has taken a vacation, which hasn’t happened in far too long, and is also the reason I get to take over this space for the month!

I will be very honest: I love my job. I love coming to work each day and helping to support some talented creatives. I love working with the volunteers and the players, all of them, even you. I think it’s important to remember that gaming is at the heart of what we do. Games are meant to be fun, and we’re all playing this one together. I’m having fun! Let’s keep it going.

Sanctioning

While no new hardcover books came out this month, Lost Omens Pathfinder Society Guide comes out on October 14! We hope you’re all looking forward to it, and we’re aiming to have it sanctioned as soon as possible, ideally on Oct 15th! To let you all We’ll post a blog as well as update the Character Options blog.

By month’s end, we aim to have sanctioning posted for Extinction Curse and the remainder of The Threefold Conspiracy. We’ll post a blog when we add them to the website, so keep an eye out on Thursdays! The team is also currently working through Tyrant’s Grasp and will begin to look at the still unsanctioned APs in the coming weeks.

Chronicle Boons

Many of you have noticed that there are now Chronicle Boons available on the Boons tab of My Organized Play. These Chronicle Boons will replace the boons on the Chronicle sheets you’re used to. They have no cost and can be purchased for any character who qualifies.

If you already have a boon from Season 1 on your chronicle sheet, you don’t need to purchase it again online, though you certainly can if you like! Season 2 scenarios will only list boons online, so those boons, such as the boon for PFS 2-00: The King in Thorns, will need to be purchased.

There is currently a bug where characters with GM credit do not qualify for a scenario’s chronicle boon; we have sent this to tech and are hopeful for a fix very soon. Other feature requests we’ve made include the ability to hide boons that a character does not qualify for, or which they have already purchased.

Guides

Last week, we released the new Guide to Organized Play: Pathfinder Society (second edition) on the Organized Play Foundation’s website. This is a complete update and overhaul. Many sections were trimmed or outright removed, and a number of upgrades were made for ease of use. We discussed some of the changes in our recent blog about our goals for the future, and later today we'll be publishing a blog discussing how to bring your characters in compliance with the new rules.

Our goal is to continue refining the Guide in the coming weeks, based on community feedback. Once the text is finalized, the OPF will create a PDF version for download.

Stars/Novas/Glyphs

Several GMs received their fifth star in the last month. Doing so indicates a commitment to Organized Play, as to achieve this milestone, a GM 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 the time needed to reach five stars is 650 hours!

Congratulations to:
Patrick Berndt
RC Craigo
Melvin Ngo

For Novas and Glyphs, the online evaluation system is active and GMs should confirm their observer entered their evaluation into the system.

Convention Listing

If you don’t see a convention on the list that you think should be there, contact the event organizer and ask them to register their event for Organized Play support!

Convention	Location	Start Date	Status	Interactive Events	Staff Attendance
Nuke-Con	Omaha, NE	10/2/2020	Online	PFS2 2-00 The King In Thorns
SkålCon Online 2020	Minneapolis, MN	10/9/2020	Online		Tonya, Thurston, Alex
Save Against Fear 2020	Harrisburg, PA	10/9/2020	Online
Friend Con 2020	Bloomington-Normal, IL	10/9/202	Online
Rolling in the Isles	Isles Region	10/11/2020	Online	PFS2 2-00 The King In Thorns
AB-Confusion	Germany/Netherlands	10/16/2020	Online	PFS2 2-00 The King In Thorns SFS 3-00 The Last Bite
Canceled Con	Online	10/23/2020	Online	PFS2 2-00 The King In Thorns SFS 3-00 The Last Bite
G0b10w33n Online	Bloomington, IN	10/29/2020	Online	PFS2 2-00 The King In Thorns SFS 3-00 The Last Bite
Virtual Mepacon 39	Allentown, PA	11/6/2020	Online
Midwest Game Fest Online 2020	Kansas City, MO	11/12/2020	Online	PFS2 2-00 The King In Thorns SFS 3-00 The Last Bite
Lone Star Con	Texas	11/13/2020	Online	SFS 3-00 The Last Bite
MACE 2020	Charlotte, NC	11/27/2020	Hybrid
WolfCon Online '20	Online	11/27/2020	Online	SFS 3-00 The Last Bite

Don’t forget to come back next week for more exciting organized play news!

Until next time—Explore, Report, Cooperate!

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Associate

Tonya Woldridge
Organized Play Manager