Join Paizo Organized Play at PaizoCon Online 2025!

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Greetings, Pathfinders and Starfinders! Following on our previous call for GMs, we’re now recruiting GMs for PaizoCon Online!


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PaizoCon Online 2025

PaizoCon Online 2025 will take place online May 23–26, 2025. New content at this show includes the final scenario for Starfinder Society first edition and new Pathfinder Society scenarios.

We are currently seeking volunteers for the following roles:

  • Game Master: Run tables of Organized Play Scenarios, Bounties and Quests
  • Headquarters (HQ): Answer player and GM questions, seat players, handle conflicts and disputes, and report games after completion

Please read this important information before applying:

  • Volunteer applications will be reviewed and accepted or rejected by the PaizoCon Organizing Committee. Filling this form out does not guarantee acceptance; you will receive an email with further information from the PaizoCon committee.
  • PaizoCon Online schedules will be assigned by the committee. You will be asked for your preference of system and level, but you will not necessarily be able to choose the specific scenario(s) you run. There is a free-form field at the end of the form to enter specific requests, though there’s no guarantee they will be honored.
  • Reward information is listed in the table below. GMs who do not qualify for a badge will still need to purchase one if they wish to play games.
  • Applications will be processed on a rolling basis, beginning no later than March 1. The earlier you get your application in, the more likely it is you’ll get the scenarios you want. Please be patient as we put the final details on the convention internally before we send out GM emails!
  • Adventure authors interested in running tables of scenarios they have written should fill out this form and then follow up by emailing paizoorgplayhq@gmail.com. Anybody interested in running games outside of the Organized Play offerings (such as Infinite content, homebrew content, or games from other publishers) will be able to propose events once tickets go on sale. Stay tuned for future information!
  • Any questions about the GM signup process should be sent to the committee at paizoorgplayhq@gmail.com.

Rewards Table

Blocks

PDF Product

Player Badge

Early Sign-Up Access

In-Game Reward

Voucher

6+ blocks

5 blocks

 

4 blocks

 

3 blocks

 

2 blocks

 

1 block

     

*Definitions for rewards:

  • PDF Product: A PDF of any Paizo product valued at $29.99 or less.
  • Player Badge: A badge for the duration of the event. GMs must have a Player badge before registering to play games.
  • Early Sign-Up Access: One week before signups open, GMs may sign up for one game per block they are running.
  • In-game reward: A reward for characters based on the current organized play program GM reward programs. Pathfinder Society (first edition) is paper boons, Pathfinder Society (second edition)/Starfinder Society (first edition) is Achievement Point rewards at the Premier Plus (2.0x) level.
  • Voucher: Earn one voucher for $15 spendable on paizo.com for every block run.

Important Dates

Please note that these dates are tentative and subject to change.

  • April 9: Early player signups begin for GMs
  • April 16: Player signups begin for all badge holders
  • May 23–26: PaizoCon Online!

>>PaizoCon Online 2025 Volunteer Application<<

Alex Speidel
Organized Play Coordinator

David Peever and Jocelyn Hamilton
PaizoCon Online Organizing Committee

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1/5

Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

Huzzah! Looking forward to all the fun and announcements!

Verdant Wheel 2/5 *****

Is it possible to request running a short game during either the first of last half of a slot, but not the whole slot? Or should we only put ourselves as available if we can do the whole slot?

**

I'm interested in running some events, but I have a few questions.

1) I don't think I cam get off work (I'm using up the last of my unacounted for vacation time for Gen Con), so I'd probably only be available to run Friday/Monday Evenings and during the weekend. What do the timeslots look like? You can find the timeslots in the volunteer form
2) Are these online games run through foundry? Are pre-made modules available for GMs who have a foundry GM license? No

Edit: The volunteer form answered my questions. I edited the answers in bold for anyone with similar questions.

Edit2: Copied the schedule off the form so it's here for the curious

Schedule

PaizoCon Online is scheduled to take place Friday, May 23 through Monday, May 26, 2025.  All event slots are listed in Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-07).

The following are the live convention blocks scheduled for Virtual Tabletop (VTT) games:

FRIDAY - Block 1: 4pm-9pm, Block 2: 10pm-3am, Block 3: 4am-9am

SATURDAY - Block 4: 10am-3pm (PFS2 Special), Block 5: 4pm-9pm, Block 6: 10pm-3am, Block 7: 4am-9am    SUNDAY - Block 8: 10am-3pm (SFS1 Special), Block 9: 4pm-9pm, Block 10: 10pm-3am, Block 11: 4am-9am 
MONDAY - Block 12: 10am-3pm, Block 13: 4pm-9pm

Paizo Employee 5/55/5 ** Organized Play Coordinator

DeadGators wrote:
Is it possible to request running a short game during either the first of last half of a slot, but not the whole slot? Or should we only put ourselves as available if we can do the whole slot?

We'd prefer to keep GMs in the whole slot, so if you're only available for part of it, don't mark it.

4/5 Venture-Agent, Wisconsin—

Will/Can Play-by-Post game be offered? I vaguely recall there were PbP games for PaizoCon Online before...

* Venture-Agent, Ohio—Cincinnati

I’m interesting in running, but never ran online.
To gear up: What platform are we using? I assume FoundryVTT?

Paizo Employee 5/55/5 ** Organized Play Coordinator

Colin_Mercer wrote:
Will/Can Play-by-Post game be offered? I vaguely recall there were PbP games for PaizoCon Online before...

Yes! The same form is used for both, and we welcome play-by-post GMs to join us.

Paizo Employee 5/55/5 ** Organized Play Coordinator

NerdChieftain wrote:

I’m interesting in running, but never ran online.

To gear up: What platform are we using? I assume FoundryVTT?

GMs are free to use whichever platform they are most comfortable with. In the past we have had a variety of VTTs including Foundry, Roll20, FantasyGrounds, and even Google Slides.


Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

Are there going to be paizocon@ locations this year? Would hate to sign up and then not be able to do a local option.

Paizo Employee 5/55/5 ** Organized Play Coordinator

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elisaelli wrote:
Are there going to be paizocon@ locations this year? Would hate to sign up and then not be able to do a local option.

There will be! We'll have more information on those to share in a few weeks, and we won't lock in GM schedules until that information is announced.

Shadow Lodge 3/5 **

Sorry for dumb question but will these be on a certain vtt with the scenarios already inputted? I have only played online so far I could learn gm side if all inputted

Matt

Paizo Employee 5/55/5 ** Organized Play Coordinator

Matt Clay wrote:

Sorry for dumb question but will these be on a certain vtt with the scenarios already inputted? I have only played online so far I could learn gm side if all inputted

Matt

Alex Speidel wrote:
NerdChieftain wrote:

I’m interesting in running, but never ran online.

To gear up: What platform are we using? I assume FoundryVTT?
GMs are free to use whichever platform they are most comfortable with. In the past we have had a variety of VTTs including Foundry, Roll20, FantasyGrounds, and even Google Slides.

Scarab Sages 2/5 5/55/55/55/5

Woot! Gonna make sure I can run some sessions.

Grand Lodge **

"Very Experienced (50+ sessions run)"

Well, it's Organized Play so it's easy to count exactly how many sessions I've run, so let's verify that... 49. I've run exactly 49 Organized Play sessions.

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Pathfinder Adventure, Adventure Path, LO Special Edition, Maps, PF Special Edition, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Maps, Starfinder Society Subscriber

Quick run one more before you submit the form.

4/5 5/55/55/5 **** Venture-Captain, Kentucky—Lexington

Is it public knowledge which specials are being run?

Paizo Employee 5/55/5 ** Organized Play Coordinator

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Meranthi wrote:
Is it public knowledge which specials are being run?

We will be running PFS2 3-99: Fate in the Future and SFS1 3-99: Perils of the Past!

Dark Archive 4/5 5/55/5

And for Paizo Con the Specials are fully repeatable!

Second Seekers (Jadnura) 1/5 5/55/55/55/5

Pathfinder Starfinder Society Subscriber

AndMyAxe.jpeg!

From the sign-up form, it looks like the answer is "no," but, just to ask the question: will there be any SF2 Playtest stuff on offer at PaizoCon?

5/55/55/55/5 ***** Venture-Captain, Washington—Seattle

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Kishmo wrote:

AndMyAxe.jpeg!

From the sign-up form, it looks like the answer is "no," but, just to ask the question: will there be any SF2 Playtest stuff on offer at PaizoCon?

If you are passionate about running SF2 playtest please add your requested scenarios to the notes in the signup form.

Venture-Agent, Australia—NSW—Dubbo

i got the email back for this event to be a gm but i have misplaced the email that got sent to me is it possible the people who are running and organising this contact me so i can find the email on my end

5/55/55/55/5 ***** Venture-Captain, Washington—Seattle

dubbomale wrote:
i got the email back for this event to be a gm but i have misplaced the email that got sent to me is it possible the people who are running and organising this contact me so i can find the email on my end

Your schedule offer has been re-sent.

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