It is my distinct pleasure and honor to award the last four Campaign Service Awards of my tenure. Included are two VOs and two non-VOs.
VC Chris Hays and VC Andrew Hoskins both are awarded a Campaign Service Awards for not only their awesome duties as VOs organizing and coordinating local and regional game days and conventions, but also for the tremendous talent to create memorable 3d terrain for games they run. I saw examples of both of their works at Gen Con in the last 24 hours and the added care and attention they provide to immerse players at their tables is remarkable. These dioramas and rooms and maps they build into 3d also attracts quite a bit of interest from passerbys that sometimes decide to stay and try quests and the like, thus bringing new players into the fold. If you haven't had a chance to see their amazing skills at terrain building, I encourage you to do a google search. Hopefully someone can post some links to some of these photos.
The other two awards I presented tonight are for two people who are not VOs, but that have been instrumental in making 4-5 years of Gen Cons and PaizoCons run smoothly and successfully. Both Tersha Choy and Angus Maclennan work tirelessly behind the scenes and most of the time unnoticed by the player base at large. However, they have been two of my most valuable and appreciated HQ staff at both large conventions, and without them, Gen Con and PaizoCon would not have been as awesome as it has these past few years. Both of these awesome volunteers have given up every minute of their time at Gen Con and PaizoCon the last 4-5 years to devote solely to PFS HQ to make sure all attendees have the best experience possible. I am going to miss working with both tremendously.
All four of the awesome volunteers above have taken steps to foster growth and community cohesion in their own ways. They make my job easier and I thank them for that from the bottom of my heart. They are pillars of the community and members of the community that people can look to as an outstanding PFS example.
All four have my highest respect and most sincere thank you for all of their work. Without them, PFS would not be where it is today.
Congratulations VC Chris Hays! You are now PFS number 747.
Congratulations VC Andrew Hoskins! You are now PFS number 748.
Congratulations Angus MacLennan! You are now PFS number 749.
Congratulations Tersha Choy! You are now PFS number 750.
As my final official act as the Global Organized Play Coordinator, it is my honor and pleasure in congratulating the 11 newest campaign service award recipients. I was able to award nine of them at the Gen Con special tonight. Martin and Dan were not at the special and I will make sure they receive them before the end of the show. The recipients include:
VC Brett Sweeney
VC Eric Clingenpeel
VC Jason Roeder
VC Richard Gilbert
VC Michael Costello
VC Derek Boobyer
VC Seth Brummond
VC Michael VonHasseln
VC Daniel Flood
VC Martin Shelby
VC Dan Cornett
These VOs have all served as a campaign volunteer for more than 1,000 days.
Their efforts have fostered growth and community cohesion in their respective regions. They make my job easier and I thank them for that. Their PFS Work with large regional conventions and local charities places them as pillars of the community and members of the community that people can look to as an outstanding PFS example.
All five have my highest respect and most sincere thank you for all of their work. Without them, PFS would not be where it is today.
Congratulations VC Brett Sweeney. You are now PFS number 736!
Congratulations VC Eric Clingenpeel. You are now PFS number 737!
Congratulations VC Jason Roeder. You are now PFS number 738!
Congratulations VC Richard Gilbert. You are now PFS number 739!
Congratulations VC Michael Costello. You are now PFS number 740!
Congratulations VC Derek Boobyer. You are now PFS number 741!
Congratulations VC Seth Brummond. You are now PFS number 742!
Congratulations VC Michael VonHasseln. You are now PFS number 743!
Congratulations VC Daniel Flood. You are now PFS number 744!
Congratulations VC Martin Shelby. You are now PFS number 745!
Congratulations VC Dan Cornett. You are now PFS number 746!
I was sent the list of confirmations about an hour ago. They are all on one spreadsheet. All names are placed with the Marriott. If you have a problem at check in, find me in the Sagamore Ballroom. I will have the list of all 65 confirmation numbers with me. However, all tier 1 and 2 volunteers appear on the sheet and should be set with their hotel rooms. Thanks again for all of your help and looking forward to seeing you all this weekend.
Please join me in congratulating the five newest campaign service award recipients. The recipients include:
VC Karim Majeri
VC Benoit Gros
VL Mark Langereis
VL Chris Brockley-Blatt
VL Gaël Aubort
The first three have been VOs for more than 1,000 days.
Their efforts have fostered growth and community cohesion in their respective regions. They make my job easier and I thank them for that. Their PFS Work with large regional conventions and local charities places them as pillars of the community and members of the community that people can look to as an outstanding PFS example.
The latter two, I sought the advice of VCs David Harrison and Rob Silk as they know their areas better than I. The following are what they had to say about Chris and Gael:
"A year ago we lost our Venture Officer, Tonya Woldridge, to Canada and we thought she would be impossible to replace. Chris Brockley-Blatt stepped up to the mark and since then she has developed the organization of events to an exquisite level.
You may know that she is a Project Manager for a Space Programme and she bring that same level of perfection to her organization of Pathfinder events. Every detail is covered. It’s rare to have to ask someone to do LESS, but if we didn’t restrain her she would single handedly do the work of our entire Pathfinder Team.
We hope that Pathfinder events in the UK appear smooth running, but here’s the secret. It’s only because Chris has fielded all the problems and patched them up so seamlessly that no one even knows the catastrophes have happened.
Chris is an especially caring person and looks after her wonderful family as well as doing a very demanding job and running a figure painting business. It’s quite amazing that she finds time to look after our GMs and Players as though they are part of her family, too. Her cooking, baking and GM goodie bags have raised the morale of many a GM."

"Gaël Aubort is someone who has supported the international roleplaying scene since the days of Living Grayhawk. He was one of the very first to make the change to Pathfinder. Gaël is a market gardener and he generously makes his land available to all the Pathfinders who attend GardenCon in Geneva. If there is a “Glastonbury Festival” for Pathfinder it’s GardenCon!
Without Gaël it couldn’t happen. He built the Bar and Café for the event, offers free camping and he supplies food and the organic mead he makes from local honey. He even roasts a sheep for the Feast on the Saturday Night.
Gaël is born and bred Swiss and his mother tongue is French. He is a tireless GM. He puts Pathfinder Society adventures through a Google Translator, checks them, and then runs them in French. He doesn’t hesitate to run games in English and we are delighted to see him regularly GM’ing in the UK, at “Conception” and at “PaizoCon”. He has done wonders for the Entente Cordiale for European Pathfinders. He is a great guy and a very generous Pathfinder person."
All five have my highest respect and most sincere thank you for all of their work. Without them, PFS would not be where it is today.
Congratulations Karim Majeri. You are now PFS number 731!
Congratulations Benoit Gros. You are now PFS number 732!
Congratulations Mark Langereis. You are now PFS number 733!
Congratulations Chris Brockley-Blatt. You are now PFS number 734!
Congratulations Gaël Aubort. You are now PFS number 735!
Please join me in congratulating the two newest campaign service award recipients. The recipients include:
VC June Soler
VC Michael McNerney
Their efforts have fostered growth and community cohesion in their respective regions. They make my job easier and I thank them for that. Their PFS Work with large regional conventions and local charities places them as pillars of the community and members of the community that people can look to as an outstanding PFS example.
Both have served more than 1,000 days each as venture officers.
They have my highest respect and most sincere thank you for all of their work. Without them, PFS would not be where it is today.
Congratulations June Soler You are now PFS number 729!
Congratulations Michael McNerney. You are now PFS number 730!
Please join me in congratulating the five newest campaign service award recipients. The recipients include:
VC Andrew Christian
VC Dan Simon
VC Brent Jans
VC Jon Dehning
VL Jester Deren
Their efforts have fostered growth and community cohesion in their respective regions. They make my job easier and I thank them for that. Their PFS Work with large regional conventions and local charities places them as pillars of the community and members of the community that people can look to as an outstanding PFS example.
All five have served more than 1,000 days each as venture officers.
They have my highest respect and most sincere thank you for all of their work. Without them, PFS would not be where it is today.
Congratulations Andrew Christian. You are now PFS number 724!
Congratulations Dan Simons. You are now PFS number 725!
Congratulations Brent Jans. You are now PFS number 726!
Congratulations Jon Dehning. You are now PFS number 727!
Congratulations Jester Deren. You are now PFS number 728!
A big thank you goes out to Jonathan Choy, aka...TetsujinOni, for coming to the Paizo office yesterday and helping me work on Guide 7.0 for 3-4 hours.
Jon took notes from the message board posts, made a list, and we worked together on the new Guide. We eliminated some things (should be 7-8 pages shorter), rearranged some info to make it flow better, deleted some unnecessary text, clarified some confusing language, moved info to different parts of the Guide that made more since (for example, character retraining to After the Adventure section instead of in the character creation section), etc....
Overall, the Guide will be more concise, user friendly, and a better product, and a good amount of credit goes to Jon for that!
Finally another reward for all VOs, 4 and 5 star GMs! Check your email Inbox. You should have received the following:
"As a diligent 4 or 5-Star Game Master, or faithful Venture Officer, you are among Pathfinder Society's elite. We wanted to take a moment to say "Thank you!" and give you free stuff, because there's nothing quite so good as free stuff!
Our pals at Syrinscape have awarded you with a complete unlock of their existing library of Pathfinder sounds (including "The Goblin Song"!), as well as all future Pathfinder SoundPacks and releases, for a full year!
"The Syrinscape Fantasy Player had been sorely missing from my table. Very very very good." — RPG.net
In case you haven't yet heard (literally) Syrinscape, prepare for greatness. Syrinscape is an easy-to-use sound app that allows you to control the sound effects, music, and complete soundscapes for your Pathfinder adventures, and it works on a wide range of devices, including PC, Mac, Android Tablets, and iPads.
Click here to activate your gift!*
By redeeming this free Syrinscape offer, you agree to allow Paizo to share your name and email address with Syrinscape, and vice-versa, for verification purposes. This verification may take a few days, but will not prevent you from claiming your gift.
Every sound-set is beautifully crafted, complete with marco sound effects ready to be triggered when the creaky dungeon door opens, the thunder claps or the sorcerer absolutely, positively has to kill everyone in the room and casts a fireball spell." — RPG Pro Tip
Have fun, go make some noise, and we look forward to hearing Syrinscape at your gaming table!
We are still looking for a few card game volunteers for both OP and demos. Origins is taking place from Wednesday June 3rd through Sunday June 7th.
GM registration for Origins 2015 is live! Please go to Origins GM Application to sign up. 4 GM slots will earn you a badge while 7 GM slots will earn you a badge and 1/4 hotel room or a parking pass.
Please join me in welcoming the newest members to the Venture-Captain staff, Stuart Hibbs. He will be overseeing PFS growth and expansion in and around Durban, South Africa.
Please join me in welcoming the newest members to the Venture-Captain staff, Sergey Nenko. He will be overseeing PFS growth and expansion in and around Kherson, Ukraine.
Please join me in welcoming the newest members to the Venture-Captain staff, Amanda and Christopher Hays. They will be overseeing PFS growth and expansion in and around Quincy, Illinois.
Please join me in congratulating Dominick Trascritti as the newest recipient of the PFS Campaign Service Award.
Dominick has served as a Tampa are Venture-Officer for several years, first as a VL and now as a VC. His efforts have fostered growth and community cohesion in his region. He makes my job easier and I thank him for that. His PFS Work with large regional conventions and local charities places him as a pillar of the community and someone that people can look to as an outstanding person, not only in PFS, but life in general.
He has my highest respect and most sincere thank you for all of his work. Without him, PFS would not be where it is today.
Congratulations Dominick Trascritti. You are now PFS number 719 and one of the pillars that Society is built upon!
I wanted to take a minute to welcome aboard the new Venture-Captain assigned to Montreal. I will let Charles-Éric Savaria introduce himself, advise about the websites he will utilize for coordinating, and any other information he wishes to share.
For PaizoCon, I still have one full volunteer spots available. I have seven open tables of Card Game OP to fill for the entire convention with three of those on Monday morning.
For Gen Con, there are 20 Tier 1 and 2 spots remaining. Twelve of the 20 are for Card Game OP and Card Game Demos. Tier 1 and 2 rewards include a free four day badge, free one-quarter share of a hotel room (you are assigned to a hotel room with 3 other volunteers), $10/slot store credit, volunteer goblin shirts, etc....
I also have approximately 4-5 Tier 3-5 slots remaining as well.
I wanted to take a minute to welcome aboard the new Venture-Captain assigned to South Dakota. I will let Phillip Goettsch introduce himself, advise about the websites he will utilize for coordinating, locations where PFS will be played and any other information he wishes to share. He was previously the VC of Memphis, TN.
I wanted to take a minute to welcome aboard the new Venture-Captain assigned to Novosibirsk, Russia. I will let Roman Brontisky introduce himself, advise about the websites he will utilize for coordinating, locations where PFS will be played and any other information he wishes to share.
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It is my distinct honor and pleasure to announce the awarding of two new Campaign Service Awards.
With more than 1,000 days of service to the campaign, Garrett Gottschalk and Seth Gipson have accomplished too many acts of recognition for me to try to list them all. From regional game days and conventions to work in libraries, their efforts have been commendable. They make my job easier and have my sincerest appreciation and respect. Suffice to say they are a few of the pillars that this community is built on and represent exactly what the Campaign Service Award was created for.
My highest congratulations to both awesome VOs. They are now PFS Numbers:
I wanted to take a minute to welcome aboard the new Venture-Captain assigned to the Canary Islands. I will let Guillermo Cerezo introduce himself, advise about the websites he will utilize for coordinating, and any other information he wishes to share.
The new addition of Core Mode has just been added to the reporting system. If you find any problems, or have general feedback, please list it in the thread.
Hi all. We. Are starting a new campaign playing through the Giantslayer AP. We have three players and a GM. We are looking for 2-3 more players. Games will be on Friday nights from 7-11 pm in Slidell. If interested, send me a PM.
I wanted to take a minute to welcome aboard the new Venture-Captain assigned to Delaware. I will let Marietta Messina introduce herself, advise about any websites she will utilize for coordinating, and any other information she wishes to share.
I wanted to take a minute to welcome aboard the new Venture-Captain assigned to Portland, OR. I will let Chris Hesla introduce himself, advise about any websites he will utilize for coordinating, and any other information he wishes to share.
I wanted to take a minute to welcome aboard the new Venture-Captain assigned to Ankara, Turkey. I will let Duhan Cengiz introduce himself, advise about any websites he will utilize for coordinating, and any other information he wishes to share.
His region will cover Ankara and all other major cities around inner Anatolia. (Eskişehir, Kayseri, Konya, etc...). He will also try to reach out to other cities such as Aydın, Mersin which has a robust RPG community.
I wanted to take a minute to welcome aboard the new Venture-Captain assigned to New Hampshire and Vermont. I will let Bill Tobin introduce himself, advise about any websites he will utilize for coordinating, and any other information he wishes to share.
I wanted to take a minute to welcome aboard the new Venture-Captain assigned to Salem, OR. I will let Timothy Wallace introduce himself, advise about any websites he will utilize for coordinating, and any other information he wishes to share.
As for areas that fall within his region, he will cover the area around Salem and Keizer.
I wanted to take a minute to welcome aboard the new Venture-Captain assigned to Topeka, KS. I will let Jake Prewitt introduce himself, advise about any websites he will utilize for coordinating, and any other information he wishes to share.
As for areas that fall within his region, he will cover the area around Topeka.
I wanted to take a minute to welcome aboard the new Venture-Captain assigned to West Virginia. I will let Andrew Shumate introduce himself, advise about any websites he will utilize for coordinating, and any other information he wishes to share.
As for areas that fall within his region, he will cover all of West Virginia with the help of the current VLs.
Please join me in congratulating Steve Miller and Joe Jungers as the newest recipients of the PFS Campaign Service Award.
Steve has served as the Raleigh, NC, Venture-Captain and has served since October 2011. His efforts have fostered growth and community cohesion throughout North Carolina. He has scheduled buses of gamers to travel to Gen Con, has written for PFS, and has contributed in many numerous ways I will let his player base expand upon.
Likewise, Joe has served as the Raleigh area Venture-Lieutenant since October 2011. His efforts have aided in the growth and community cohesion across the entire state of North Carolina, the many regional conventions, and other growth too far to list here, that the regional fanbase can expand upon.
Both have spent thousands of hours volunteering, to include more than 1,000 days as a Venture-Officer, and thousands of dollars out of their own pocket to make PFS amazing in their respective regions.
Both Steve and Joe have my highest respect and most sincere thank you for all of their volunteer work. Without them, PFS would not be where it is today. They exemplify the values of what organized play and community building is all about.
Congratulations Steve and Joe. You are now PFS numbers 715 and 716 respectively, and two of the pillars that the Society is built upon!
Please join me in welcoming Jefrey McDuff as the newly assigned Venture-Captain of west Texas! His region will initially consist of the areas in and around Lubbock and possibly Amarillo.
I will let Jeffrey advise websites he will use to coordinate game days, a little about his region, and any other information he wishes to share.
Please join me in welcoming Beatrice Pscheidl as the newly assigned Venture-Captain of Austria, specifically the regions of Vienna, lower Austria, and the Burgenland.
I will let Beatrice advise websites she will use to coordinate game days, a little about her region, and any other information she wishes to share.
Please join me in welcoming Jeremy Rodriguez as the newly assigned Venture-Captain of southern New Mexico! His region will initially consist of the areas in and around Artesia, Roswell, and Carslbad.
I will let Jeremy advise websites he will use to coordinate game days, a little about his region, and any other information he wishes to share. (And no, he isn't going to tell you any new info about UFOs or aliens before he tells me).
Please join me in welcoming Yuri Gorshenin as the newly assigned Venture-Captain of Krasnodar Krai, Russia!
I will let Yuri advise websites he will use to coordinate game days, a little about his region, and any other information he wishes to share.
Welcome to the team!
Full Name
Vardyr L. Aeternum
Race
Elf
Classes/Levels
Rogue lvl 1/ Hp-8/8 / AC - 16 / Fort - 0/ Ref - 7 / Will - 1 / Initiative - 4
Gender
M
Size
Medium
Age
27
Alignment
Chaotic Good
Deity
Olidamarra
Languages
Elf, Common, Orc, Goblin, Gnoll, Sylvan
Strength
7
Dexterity
19
Constitution
10
Intelligence
18
Wisdom
13
Charisma
7
About Vardyr
Backstory:
His father and mother were casualties of war and sickness. He was then adopted by a band of mercenaries known as The Band of the Red Serpent. Vardyr was sort of considered the camp nephew, while everyone played the uncle, or aunt. Through this relationship, every member of the band taught Vardyr some small trick here and there. After a while he learned how to put these abilities to good use. He traveled with the band well into his thirties, but recently the leader died and the band had a falling out. Many terrible things happened and led Vardyr to where he is now. Vardyr has always been a very beautiful man, but his love for tricks and failure to understand the ability to empathize with others has gotten him into many a black book. He loves a good joke or prank anyday of the week, but he loves the company of others.
Traits:Youthful Mischief (Elf Racial Trait)
Though you gave up the life of a padfoot, scout, or minstrel decades before, you still know how to roll with the punches when things turn sour.
Benefit: You gain a +1 trait bonus on Reflex saves.
Slippery
You have escaped from so many dangerous situations in your life that you’ve gotten quite good at not getting caught.
Benefit: You gain a +1 trait bonus on Stealth checks and Stealth is a class skill for you.
