June 2021 Organized Play Update

HUZZAH!
PaizoCon was awesome to play in PFS! Kikji really got a lot of time to shine during these 9 games! :3

Congrats to the new crop of elite GM's.

Here in MN we are awaiting SkålCon, Oct 29-31. I can't promise it won't snow but we will have fun either way.

Congratulations all 5 Star and 5 Glyph GMs!!

Congratulations all you new Campaign Coin holders!! Well deserved!!

Congrats to the new crop of elite GM's.

Here in MN we are awaiting SkålCon, Oct 29-31. I can't promise it won't snow but we will have fun either way.

I can't wait for SkalCon, planning for it to be my first return to in-person conventioning!

Huge thank you to everyone who helped pull off Paizocon Online 2021!

Congrats to the 5 star/glyph GM's, new campaign coin holders, and Jesse for the Order of the Wayfinder!!! What phenomenal accomplishments!

I wanted to give a special thanks and congratulations to Mark Koopman aka MorkXII. Mark has done so much for the Pathfinder Card Game -- both society and non-society. On the society side of things he has not only run just about every adventure for organized play, he has also handled the bulk of our card game society reporting for the online region conventions. He also was the one who ran all of our playtests for both society content and non-society content. To be clear-- This was a huge task. It involved playtest card data that had to be put into the database and then hack it all together in a way that worked. Then he ran the box for us when we were frequently going through scenarios via play-by-post in a week or less (read: fast!). Honestly It's amazed me how he has managed to stay on top of it all and I don't think I've ever heard him complain. With all of that, and more, I can confidently say that the pathfinder card game wouldn't be the same without his help.

To all that helped with PaizoCon Online 2021 - HQ, GMs, Players, my fellow committee members - thank you. It would not have been the event that it was without each and every one of you. Now to rest, and then look forward to 2022!

How's that final 1e sanctioning coming? Or did I miss the announcement?

Thank you, Ivis and everyone else for your hard work at PaizoCon Online!

Also, is that 1st Edition sanctioning I see? Oh, yes yes yes!

At what time will this Wed Jun 9th stream start, please and also thank you?

Congrats Jesse!

Congrats to all coin winners and new 5 stars also.

Congratulations Jesse! Get use to saying the phrase, "yes, that is my org play number—its not a typo." It might come up...A LOT :-)

With respect to the shiny new calendar, is it correct that it will only list conventions that have been approved for org play support? So, we shouldn't be concerned that Origins, DragonCon, and SkalCon are absent, its just that they are pending?

Yay! Thanks organisers, especially Mike and Ivis. I hear Sarusan is nice at this time of year, should go see it and defs come visit me.

Also thanks to the HQ people, especially Nicole and Barb. I saw you two working so hard, so often. You deserve a cuppa and someone to massage your claws feet.

Congrats to new 5 stars/glyphs. I gotta catch up to all you PF1e and SFS Gms on 5. *looks hopeful*

I am however in same boat as Alex, "no musings, brain empty, only Paizo Con" still. I'm hoping everyone who had a lovely time can get back their brain from the official PaizoCon Brain Collectors in time for Con Current ;)

With respect to the shiny new calendar, is it correct that it will only list conventions that have been approved for org play support? So, we shouldn't be concerned that Origins, DragonCon, and SkalCon are absent, its just that they are pending?

Events will be added as an organizer requests event support via the form the VOs have access to (and which I can provide to anybody else upon request). Typically organizers don't request support until they have a good idea of how many tables they'll be running, so yeah, SkalCon in particular we're aware of but I haven't added to the calendar yet.

It might be nice to figure out a work flow that doesn't overwhelm you with too many updates, that would allow posting 'expected' or 'announced' conventions before you have the event support request.

It would definitely be useful for players trying to find conventions to attend, or organizers of smaller events trying to pick dates to see what's already known further out than the ~1-1.5 month lead time that event support usually means.

Congrats to Eric! 5 gyphs. A goal I hope to reach..

And to all who help to make PaizoCon 2021 as fun as possible considering the times we are in.

Looking forward to next year when we can game in person.

Congrats all!! Thank you to all the HQ, especially Aerine. You go, mom!

Thanks for an awesome PaizoCon Online! I had a great 10 games this year and loved that I was but one of many Foundry VTT GMs this year, rather than one of two :D Looking forward to the next one y'all <3

Possibly monumentally silly suggestion ahead, but I've noticed that the very busy GMs have simply mountains of ACP to spend. I have a "small" suggestion to help people use this resource they've been gaining by contributing so much of their time and energy to keeping organized play sessions happening. Hold onto your butts:

Free Archetype *Slots* purchasable with ACP
- For some ACP, you can purchase a level 2 archetype slot for a single character.
- For some MORE ACP, you can purchase a level 4 archetype slot for a single character.
- Etc.

I love the Free Archetype ruleset, very much wish it was part of the core rules, but alas, it isn't. I also know that just opening the floodgates and saying "okay everyone has Free Archetypes now" both likely won't happen and would probably unbalance the carefully tuned challenge point system in favor of the players. Opening up Free Archetype slowly to the GMs and the most dedicated players could incentivize more people to GM their own games.

Just a little something that popped into my head during Paizocon that I wanted to get in front of eyeballs.

Free Archetype *Slots* purchasable with ACP

I'm one of the people with hundreds of ACP accumulated.

And I'd vehemently oppose this suggestion.

It would create two tiers of characters and totally unbalance things and be very unfair.

Whatever rewards are extended to GMs they should NOT include having characters notably more powerful than non GMs

100% agree with pauljathome.

Yes Free Archetype is cool, but its unbalancing to allow for some characters, but not all. It should be an all or nothing. And I think were the campaign/CP balance points are now, we shouldn't change the default assumption.

As someone who is sitting on 1100ACP I agree entirely with Paul.

Fair Enough :)

The boon-only ancestries should already be a good way to encourage people to spend their AcP, though if you have multiple characters and buy a hireling or two for each one plus a few pragmatic boons like Emergency Draught, Treasure Bundle insurance, special wayfinders, etc. you'll burn though quite a few AcP, and have a more pragmatic character.

I do wish though that there was more stuff to spend AcP on for existing characters. It's hard to justify, at least for me, spending 80-240+ AcP on a character that I can only play in repeatable or unreleased low-level content at this point.

Or basically, I have these high-level (for society) characters that are always going to be what I consider my "main" characters, the ones I'm most excited about when there's new content out they can participate in, and I'd like to spend AcP on them, as they are my focus. But I don't actually have good ideas for what that would look like. More uncommon access stuff? That's really all I got.

TwilightKnight wrote:

With respect to the shiny new calendar, is it correct that it will only list conventions that have been approved for org play support? So, we shouldn't be concerned that Origins, DragonCon, and SkalCon are absent, its just that they are pending?

Events will be added as an organizer requests event support via the form the VOs have access to (and which I can provide to anybody else upon request). Typically organizers don't request support until they have a good idea of how many tables they'll be running, so yeah, SkalCon in particular we're aware of but I haven't added to the calendar yet.

Guess I need to get that form sent in!

SkålCon will be October 29-31 this year... we had to move because of GenCon

Grats to Eric for attaining that fifth glyph.

Grats to the new five star GMs!

Thanks to all that helped run PCO so it was a success. I enjoyed it and had no issues running or playing at PCO again.

Dreading GCO if GC folks are the ones running it instead of Paizo folks. I would much rather have had Paizo at Gen Con live instead.

At what time will this Wed Jun 9th stream start, please and also thank you?

Apologize for any confusion. We submit blogs a few weeks out and I forgot to request a text update when our announcement plans changed just after PaizoCon. Confirming that we are now announcing PFS Year 3 in Thursday's blog and will have a follow-up interview with OP team member Mike Kimmell. Check out Thursday's blog for all the info!

I am so excited that Jesse earned the Order of the Wayfinder. Congratulations, my dear friend, for all the hard work that you continue to do for all of us!

A huge congratulations to our new Campaign Coin holders!

Jared Thaler 842
Mark Koopman 843
Eric Nielsen 844
Michael Tracey 845

Also... Eric, you're at five glyphs already? Wow. Just wow! Thank you for all your hard work!

Hmm

I think I'll be at 200 tables by the end of summer, and I'm even getting a chance to play a bit more. Think I'm down to 4 unplayed scenarios, which is a nice change in the last ~6 months or so.