June 2022 Organized Play Monthly Update

I want to echo Alex's sentiments about PaizoCon - it was great getting to be there, and meet so many people in person (especially those that previously were only "virtual" acquaintances). Also seeing the energy in the Org. Play room the whole weekend was motivating, energizing, and rewarding for me personally. I hope that I get to meet even more of the awesome people in our community at GenCon.

Also, congrats to all of the new coin holders, especially one of my partners in crime - David Peever! Welcome all of you to the club, for each and everyone of you has earned your place at the table.

Congratulations new 5-rank GM's, and Campaign Coin holders! I have enjoyed playing at some of your tables and thank you all for your service!!

I've had the great pleasure of working directly with David, Jocelyn, Dennis, and Nicole over the past few years. I must say that these campaign coin awards are richly deserved, as are Preston's and Glen's! Congratulations to all of you, and thank you so much for your dedication to our campaigns!

Also, huge congratulations to Nik and LeRoy on 5-Novas/Stars! It takes so many hours of prep-time and running to get to where you both are!

PaizoCon Online was also a great success, and is still ongoing in the form of our Play-by-Post and Play-by-Discord players and GMs! Everyone who was a GM or HQ volunteer on either side of the convention should feel very proud - we put on a great show this year!

And lest it be missed, the work Alex Speidel puts in to make the games we enjoy run smoothly cannot be overstated. Thank you, Alex, for everything you do during "con season" and beyond!

/flexes shiny new 5th Nova.

Thanks all!

Unless I am mistaken, first in the Southern Hemisphere.

Congrats to everyone involved.

This was my first time to PaizoCon and while its not exactly a pilgrimage, it felt long overdue.

Now to rest up and prepare for gen con.

Huge grats on everyone involved! So many campaign coins to people who you would have thought would have had them for a long, long time!

If you think someone should have one, make sure to recommend them! Otherwise they'll never get one.

Congratulations and well done all around!

Congratulations to all the newly minted 5 rank GM's!

Congratulations to all who joined the ranks of Campaign Coin holders (including myself)! I was definitely pleasantly surprised by my coin!

It was great to be back in SeaTac for our "Family Reunion" known as PaizoCon and I am already looking forward to next year!

Any chance that someone can get the page for the Organised Play pin updated? Whilst I'm sure that the image of the back of it is accurate, it's not very helpful. :)

Fantastic blog. Happy to read all the good news. Congrats and Thanks to all the organizers and coin recipients.

Any chance that someone can get the page for the Organised Play pin updated? Whilst I'm sure that the image of the back of it is accurate, it's not very helpful. :)

Page looks fine to me, maybe a caching issue on your end?

Darrell Impey UK wrote:

Any chance that someone can get the page for the Organised Play pin updated? Whilst I'm sure that the image of the back of it is accurate, it's not very helpful. :)

Page looks fine to me, maybe a caching issue on your end?

OK, I accept that you may be joking, but; even in your image that is the wing-clips on the back of the pin.

Alex Speidel wrote:

Darrell Impey UK wrote:

Any chance that someone can get the page for the Organised Play pin updated? Whilst I'm sure that the image of the back of it is accurate, it's not very helpful. :)

Page looks fine to me, maybe a caching issue on your end?

OK, I accept that you may be joking, but; even in your image that is the wing-clips on the back of the pin.

The product image for the front of the pin, which looks like the Organized Play logo, is on the right-hand side.

The product image for the front of the pin, which looks like the Organized Play logo, is on the right-hand side.

Ah! (Thanks.)

Congratulations to the new campaign coin holders and 5 Nova/Star GMs, without dedication like yours this campaign would be a pale shadow of what it is today.

Grats the new 5 Star and 5 Nova GMs! Way to go!

Grats to the new coin holders!

Special grats to Nicole Heits on her coin! You make me so proud of you every day!

Congrats to the new star, nova, and coin holders.

The bad news: doing so apparently broke AcP entirely in new and exciting ways. We’ve had reports of some people not seeing the grant yet, and other reports of events not awarding AcP for sessions anymore. Obviously, this is a problem, and tech is actively working on fixing it. Please know that fixing this is my highest priority, and I hope to see the issues resolved soon. Thank you all so much for your patience!

For those of us in a bad state (no new AcP, sessions not awarding future AcP) should we hold off making any purchases with existing previously earned AcP? Or will the expected fix account for that?

Congratulations, all you crazy stellar and interstellar numismatists!

Awesome to see the new pins! I'll rejoice to see these faction logos displaying properly on the forum one day. ;)

And the one real-time PaizoCon scenario I managed to attend was awesome! Been enjoying my PBP scenarios actively in progress. Great stuff.

For those of us in a bad state (no new AcP, sessions not awarding future AcP) should we hold off making any purchases with existing previously earned AcP? Or will the expected fix account for that?

My understanding of what's causing the errors is that once it's fixed, everything should snap back to reality, including any purchases you make in the meantime.

ACP is apparently still broken? I’m not getting ACP for anything since PaizoCon…

ACP is apparently still broken? I’m not getting ACP for anything since PaizoCon…

Yes, it is.

Any updates on the ACP issue?

How do we know if you got the 80 AcP or not?

How do we know if you got the 80 AcP or not?

https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si35?Pathfinder-Society-Year-4-Ru le-Updates#discuss

Tech is aware of the problem and is currently reviewing the code to fix this issue. Once it’s fixed, you won’t have to do anything but refresh your points to fix the errors. Achievement Points can still be spent currently. We hope to have good news on this front very soon!

At the end of May, we also announced that we would be awarding every player a starting player grant of 80 Achievement Points for both Pathfinder and Starfinder Society. You may use these points to unlock an uncommon ancestry, other fun uncommon options, or just as a cushion for a couple of resurrections should your low-level character meet with an untimely critical hit. The aforementioned issues with Achievement Points are also blocking this grant for a small number of users, but that should be fixed shortly as well.

So, everybody got the 80 acp, it might not just show up yet on some people, and once it's fixed, they'll show up when you refresh your points.

Right, but how do I know if it showed up or not? I only check my points a few times a year when I am considering buying a boon. I have no idea how many points I have earned, how many I've spent, and how many I should currently have.

I really hope the 80 AcP grant will show up as a line in your session info.

Ah, so what you're saying is that if you now check your points and they show 400, you wouldn't know if it included that extra 80 acp or if that extra was still missing?

Well, normal games give 4acp, 4xp, and 4 reputation. Convention games give slightly more. Your ACP should be roughly equal to the total xp on your 2e characters, minus any boons you might have purchased, or you could check the "summary" page and check how much reputation each of your characters have in total - your AcP should again be roughly equal to that, unless you've failed several secondary/primary missions.
GMing gives double the amount of AcP, so if you've GM'd a lot, then your AcP will be higher than your xp or reputation.

I guess you could use those stats to estimate whether or not the 80 acp is already included in your total or not.

For example:
My 8 characters have total fame of 459. I have 45 tables of GM credit. GM credits give double points, since nearly all of the games I've ran have been assigned to characters, half of those double points are already included in the 459 fame. So 4x45 = 180pts more, for a total of 639 points. I **should** have about 639 acp.
I've spent 160 on a sprite, 80 on a kayal, and 80 on a changeling, for a total of 320 aco spent, leaving 319 acp. However, I have 411 acp. That's roughly 90 more than what I've calculated, so it seems that my 80 acp have already been included.

("roughly", because I've run some games on conventions and on gamedays and those give slightly more acp, but then some adventures also give you bonus reputation, which is why the difference between my estimate what I should have (319+80=399) vs what I have (411) exists.)

Well if you haven't played much of 2E or Starfinder, it can be pretty easy to spot since you automatically get them regardless. Which is probably the fastest way to due the math without having to do the math if that applies.

I have almost 4 full pages of 2e credit, so that's why I was hoping to avoid calculating it manually. I do notice I still have 0 points for SFS. That doesn't necessarily mean I didn't receive the 2e AcP, but it might be an indicator. Then again maybe I won't get the SFS AcP until I actually make an SFS character and play.

I have almost 4 full pages of 2e credit, so that's why I was hoping to avoid calculating it manually. I do notice I still have 0 points for SFS. That doesn't necessarily mean I didn't receive the 2e AcP, but it might be an indicator. Then again maybe I won't get the SFS AcP until I actually make an SFS character and play.

Paizo Blog: July 2022 Organized Play Update

Hi all! As I'm sure you're aware, we've had some issues with AcP and GM credit not being awarded properly lately. I am delighted to announce that these issues are 95% fixed at this time! Any future sessions reported should grant AcP and GM credit correctly, and any new OP IDs generated should include the 80 AcP starting grant for both Pathfinder and Starfinder Society.

As for the 5%, well. There are some people who didn't get the 80 AcP for mysterious reasons and will need to be kicked manually, which I now have the power to do! If you fall into this category, first try refreshing your points once more using the button on the GM/event coordinator tab. Assuming that doesn't work, please email orgplayreportingerrors[at]paizo[dot]com with the affected OP ID and I will manually kick them into behaving. Some people have also had issues with sessions awarding erroneous PFS1 GM credit; this can be solved in the same manner.

I encourage anybody with issues to email in; the fix is literally two button clicks and I would hate for people to neglect emailing me just to avoid being a bother. I want to fix these problems, please let me!

Thanks for your patience on this issue. I'll be working with tech going forward to ensure that issues like this don't go unresolved for weeks at a time. If you have any questions or other issues, don't hesitate to reach out at the above email!

You should have the 80 acp even if you haven't played any SFS scenarios.