Rysky wrote:
“BASIC bonus races that everyone had access to”
And?
“If you didn't GM a ton at Gencon or at any big con, you didn't really have anything special.”
So it’s wanting something special? That aside that was the point of them offering Con rewards like that, they were a thank you for volunteering your time to run during the Convention. Not a light task.
But they were just that, rewards, not basics required to function.
“It was really unfair to non con goers.”
Again, it was a reward and incentive for people putting aside their time to GM at cons, not a f#@$ you to everyone else.
you forgot the part about "maybe they'll still get boons in person" yknow like free raffle prizes and such. Be honest, the big reason to gm cons is for special boons you can't get anywhere else.
Also even online cons take time, of which not everyone (most people) can afford to make time for because of life.
Also in pf1 A TON of options are just entirely blocked from society. A metric ton. Literally like half of all content was blocked from society play (rough guess, additional resources was rrreeeaaalllyyyy long with "not legal not legal not legal" and I'm probably slightly wrong on this but not by much) and luckily that didn't carry over to 2e. In 1e like half of the current heritages and ancestry feats and most of the archetypes from current books would have entirely been blocked from society without a boon.
And again, there will probably be physical in person bonus rewards for gming besides just the points to make up the difference since apparently a handful of people that go to cons aren't happy with the loss of a random boon and arent happy with the option to get whatever boon they CHOSE (with a tiny bit more work, which is way better than a random boon you don't want and then have to put in extra work to trade regardless, so roughly same effort)
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