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The link for the PreGens needs to be Fixed.
It has been :)
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Chris, you are awesome as always, thank you!!
Congratulations to the new RVCs, especially Walter Sheppard. Going to be great to have my RVC close now. Thank you Todd Morgan for all you have done as the previous Northwest RVC!
Thank you Art and Jason for what you have done for your respective regions as RVCs!!
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I feel the need be That One Finn who crawls out of the woodwork to make the pedantic comment that Finland is not a part of Scandinavia. It is a part of the Nordic countries and the larger area known as Fennoscandia, but not a part of Scandinavia proper either culturally or geographically. Therefore, PFS in Finland does not fall under any listed category.
Also, when the Regional Coordinators page was last edited, the Danish region of Odense and the UK region of Ringstead were moved into the Finland section for some reason.
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Forgive me, but I have been out of the PFS scene for a while, and I ask this only out of curiosity, not to start any discussion; what direction is PFS going that has people upset?
I recommend you look for any thread where the last post is from either Liz or Chris. That should start you on the path to enlightenment, Grasshopper.
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Any news on the sketch contest? :D
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Chris, you are awesome as always, thank you!!
Congratulations to the new RVCs, especially Walter Sheppard. Going to be great to have my RVC close now. Thank you Todd Morgan for all you have done as the previous Northwest RVC!
Thank you Art and Jason for what you have done for your respective regions as RVCs!!
No problem! I was glad to work with everyone out there. I may have missed it in the blog but I just shifted over to RVC of the Midwest. Just a split of a region and picking some areas up closer to home.
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Tonya, I'm not sure if you typically carry stock when you visits conventions, but either way are you likely to be bringing pins to PaizoCon UK?
Cheers,
Jim
Oh yes please. The import costs really prohibit ordering these from Europe. If we get a bunch of them at PaizoCon UK, we can send people over with shopping lists ;)
Venture-Captain, Germany—Bavaria
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Oh yes please. The import costs really prohibit ordering these from Europe. If we get a bunch of them at PaizoCon UK, we can send people over with shopping lists ;)Tonya, I'm not sure if you typically carry stock when you visits conventions, but either way are you likely to be bringing pins to PaizoCon UK?
Cheers,
Jim
Actually, it's not that bad, I added a couple sets to my current order and out of curiosity checked what it would cost to send them excluding my subscription.. under 10 $ IIRC.
Of course, I fully expect to be ordering dozens of them and giving them to local players at cost (credit cards are still quite rare here, and if you want store credit you can usually find one who gets it for you).
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Oh yes please. The import costs really prohibit ordering these from Europe. If we get a bunch of them at PaizoCon UK, we can send people over with shopping lists ;)Tonya, I'm not sure if you typically carry stock when you visits conventions, but either way are you likely to be bringing pins to PaizoCon UK?
Cheers,
Jim
Actually, it's not that bad, I added a couple sets to my current order and out of curiosity checked what it would cost to send them excluding my subscription.. under 10 $ IIRC.
Of course, I fully expect to be ordering dozens of them and giving them to local players at cost (credit cards are still quite rare here, and if you want store credit you can usually find one who gets it for you).
I'm definitely hoping we might get some in con support. It would be super super cool to be able to hand new players who decide PFS is their kind of game a pin.
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Oh yes please. The import costs really prohibit ordering these from Europe. If we get a bunch of them at PaizoCon UK, we can send people over with shopping lists ;)Actually, it's not that bad, I added a couple sets to my current order and out of curiosity checked what it would cost to send them excluding my subscription.. under 10 $ IIRC.
Of course, I fully expect to be ordering dozens of them and giving them to local players at cost (credit cards are still quite rare here, and if you want store credit you can usually find one who gets it for you).
I made a list of what it would cost for the pins only.
It's not the shipping that breaks the camel's back, it's the added taxes and stuff :)While I don't know the German laws, for the Netherlands it's most cost effective to order them in sets of 4 pins at a time.
1 pin: 4,49 + shipping 2,74 = 7,23
2 pin: 8,98 + shipping 2,74 = 11,72
3 pin: 13,47 + shipping 2,74 = 16,21
4 pin: 17,96 + shipping 3.15 = 21,11
5 pin: 22,48 + shipping 3,15 + tax 5,38 + administrative costs 13,00 = 44,01
6 pin: 26,94 + shipping 3,15 + tax 6.32 + administrative costs 13,00 = 49,41
7 pin: 31,42 + shipping 3,15 + tax 7,26 + administrative costs 13,00 = 54,83
8 pin: 35,91 + shipping 3,55 + tax 8,29 + administrative costs 13,00 = 60,75 (42,22 if ordering per 4)
12 pin: 53,87 + shipping 4,57 + tax 12,27 + administrative costs 13,00 = 83,71 (63,33 if ordering per 4)
16 pin: 71,83 + shipping 4,98 + tax 16,13 + administrative costs 13,00 = 105,94 (84,44 if ordering per 4)
32 pin: 143,66 + shipping 8,31 + importcost: 6,08 + tax 33,19 + administrative costs 13,00 = 204,24 (168,88 if ordering per 4)
Orders with a combined cost of value + shipping of 22 or less have no tax or importcosts.
Orders with a combined costs of value of goods + shipping between 22 and 150 will get 21% tax over that amount.
Orders with a combined cost of value + shipping above 150 will get import costs added to it (for jewelry that's 0-4% based on an unknown rating for me, so I went with 4%) and 21% tax over the combined amount of import costs and the value of goods and shipping.
And the Dutch postal service will do the declaration for you, which they do for 13 euro added to the total.
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I haven't been following the messageboards very closely lately, so I'm a bit out of the loop. Could someone please summarize what the "heated discussions" recently were about? I certainly don't mean to reopen a can of worms; I'm just curious what the bone(s) of contention were.
Thanks!
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I haven't been following the messageboards very closely lately, so I'm a bit out of the loop. Could someone please summarize what the "heated discussions" recently were about? I certainly don't mean to reopen a can of worms; I'm just curious what the bone(s) of contention were.
Thanks!
Slaves, Profession: Slaver, and the banning of said things
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Regional Venture-Coordinator, Baltic
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Oh yes please. The import costs really prohibit ordering these from Europe. If we get a bunch of them at PaizoCon UK, we can send people over with shopping lists ;)
I can bring some pins along from GenCon, but are they Paizo.com exclusive, or are they available for brick and mortar retail as well?
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They are paizo.com exclusive, and we are trekking them along to Gen Con :)
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Cross-posting from the contest announcement blog for folks asking here:
I know there's some antsy people waiting for voting to open. There's been a brief delay, but we anticipate opening voting up later this week. Thank you for your patience!
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RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16
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Slaves, Profession: Slaver, and the banning of said thingsI haven't been following the messageboards very closely lately, so I'm a bit out of the loop. Could someone please summarize what the "heated discussions" recently were about? I certainly don't mean to reopen a can of worms; I'm just curious what the bone(s) of contention were.
Thanks!
Ah. Yes, I can see how that would have stirred up some harsh feelings.
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Venture-Captain, Netherlands
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Oh yes please. The import costs really prohibit ordering these from Europe. If we get a bunch of them at PaizoCon UK, we can send people over with shopping lists ;)I can bring some pins along from GenCon, but are they Paizo.com exclusive, or are they available for brick and mortar retail as well?
Dont call us, we will call you ;)
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They are paizo.com exclusive, and we are trekking them along to Gen Con :)
While I appreciate the idea of having Paizo exclusive stuff, as a local PFS coordinator I would deeply love it if I could buy these things and also hand them out to my players, and support my FLGS at the same time.
People don't cart around hard-copy books like they used to. When your PFS character uses 15 different books, it only makes sense to get the PDF rather than the hard cover. My FLGS is carrying less and less Pathfinder hard copy, not because they don't want to be a part of Paizo's community, but because they don't sell, even to our PFS players, when PFS players can buy the digital copies for far less money and not be stuck with a bulky physical copy.
I'm not saying Paizo needs to change its policy on those, because that's a complicated and knotty subject. But when you've created a new product that literally has to be a physical item and doesn't have a PDF version, I know that my FLGS will tend to not feel very good about that when that's... a paizo.com exclusive. Here's a physical piece of merchandise that COULD be sold in store as a goody to PFS players, and... it's not an option. :(
As a PFS coordinator and VL, I frequently feel like I'm being torn in two directions between my love for Paizo and PFS, and my desire to support and patronize my local store-- which is where I first got into PFS in the first place. Like most brick and mortar stores, they're not rolling in the dough; the bulk of their income comes from Magic players. By hosting weekly tables of PFS, they're giving us table space that could be given to Magic players instead-- and would make them far more money. They choose to keep allowing us to play PFS, out of love for the game and for roleplayers... but it is going to be increasingly hard to justify that for them on an economic level, when PFS purchases can be made, more, and more, and more, without ever requiring a dime to be spent in the local store. At some point, the only way the stores will make any money off PFS players-- and they need to make money, they're a business-- will be on snacks and charging admission. And they can already make that, and far more, off the Magic players.
I'm not saying a single thing like a pin is going to make the difference, and I'm sure Paizo's run the numbers on shipping and have reasons for their decision to keep the pins exclusive to Paizo.
But for the stores that are already wrestling with the fact that PFS players may not spend a lot locally, having a new physical product like this that is literally not available to them... doesn't and won't feel very good. :|
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Totally agree on making the pins available for FLGS sales. We need to support our local stores.
One other question about the roll bonus from using a pin: Do you have to actually be wearing the pin on our shirt or clothes? Can I just attach all 7 of them to my backpack that I bring every game instead? OK, I probably won't buy all 7, but at least 2 or 3 for the factions where I have the most PC's.
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Totally agree on making the pins available for FLGS sales. We need to support our local stores.
One other question about the roll bonus from using a pin: Do you have to actually be wearing the pin on our shirt or clothes? Can I just attach all 7 of them to my backpack that I bring every game instead? OK, I probably won't buy all 7, but at least 2 or 3 for the factions where I have the most PC's.
Like T-shirts, they need to be worn. So grab it off your backpack and put it on for the game!
The new pins will go into the Season 8 guide, but printing out in the meantime won't hurt.
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Since there were no pins for the one true lodge, i went and made one Shown with the pins of lesser factions for scale.
I sewed a small magnet onto my hat , baked a magnet into the pin, and for the other ones cut off the pin and glued a magnet on it, so i can hot swap out the pins onto my hat like benny from the mummy. As an added bonus the pins all stick together in a clump (but my silver crusade pin is apparently off crusading somewhere...)
