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Hi All from the Team organising PaizoCon - South Pacific. We're in the process of finalising details and dates for this years event due to COVID, life and being all the way down in the South Pacific. Expect a formal announcement very soon but in the mean time you can bother me here

If they all want to play the table of seven then it will be a cake walk. Even with a table of five optimised PCs in the same APL quagmire would cakewalk it. Happens at my tables on a regular basis.

As experienced players they need to deal with that fact or one of them steps up to GM. If they don't want to GM this one cold, suggest running an evergreen with the table the gets bumped and then arrange for that scenario to run a second time, preferably by one of those that got to play it the first go around.

As the GM it is your call and not theirs to seat seven players. As experienced players it's their role to understand the realities of the situation. And please don't ever, under any circcmstance, rewrite the scenario to suit the table. That is not what PFS is about, runs contrary to the guide and intent of the organised play program. This kind of stuff gives Venture Captains migraines.

I'd like to thank the Australian GM who ran True Dragons of Absalom. Not only was he probably the best GM I've ever seen but I'm also pretty sure he is an actual wizard.

Glad you had a good time. Your table was a pleasure to GM. All rumors of actual wizardly powers are greatly exaggerated.

Daniel Flood wrote:

Alice Margatroid wrote:

I'd love to go to the PFS games in Sydney, but I'm in Newcastle and the 2.5+ hour drive is a bit of a drag. The VC in Sydney said in another thread that they tried to start games up here in Newwie but they didn't go well. (Probably when I was overseas last year... else I would've dragged my friends along for sure.)

When I played PFS games at GenConOz back in '09 I was usually the only woman at the table. Or even the only woman at all the tables in that session. Here's hoping that PAX Aus's PFS games aren't the same way!

I'm hoping that it isn't. Gender imbalance in Brisbane is huge. There are female pathfinder players out there, most of them I know of play in home campaigns. I am not a hundred percent certain why they do not attend - many of their partners do - and have been trying to get a better understanding of this. Could be time of the week sessions run, the perception of it being a boys club (which it isn't) or that, like a lot of male gamers also, they're just not that into organised play and prefer the ongoing campaign vibe.

Always open for suggestions on how to change this...

Well, one thing that was mentioned before was that many female gamers seem to enjoy the interpersonal role-playing part more than combat (though some women like that too). Are there any organized adventures that are mostly talking, perhaps piecing together a murder mystery by interviewing witnesses and suspects, examining the scene of the crime, etc? Maybe even adapt or frankenstein together something from Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, etc. I think that may go over quite well.

Totally agree. Many male gamers enjoy it that way too {:-)

Severing Ties, The Disappearance, The Sundering are really good for this, and I think Fortress of the Nail will be too; running that this week.

There is still come combat, but the roleplaying elements can be easily pushed. Encouraging the creative solutions clause is a great way to avoid combat, though I have seen some GMs stonewall this kind of behavior, which is frowned on round these parts.