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I am converting Shattered Star to Playtest rules. One of my usual house-rules is only one non-core race at the table at a time. This time I told the group I would convert one PFS Boon available race, as long as it wasn't a unique boon (android, drow, goblin.) I was expecting Tiefling or Tengu would be requested, but was pleasantly surprised by Vanara!

Vanara Ancestry

There weren't a whole lot of options for Vanara in 1E to go by, but I didn't want to give full tail plus climb access at 1st level. The few alternate racial traits filled out heritages easily, but other feats were pretty thin. Our game starts this Weds, so this is a one-evening draft. I will likely fill out higher level feats later.

Enjoy!

Conga Rats to Alabama's newest 5 Star GM, Zachary Hall​!

Thanks for running 150+ tables, spearheading the very successful Core campaign, running our only group of Seekers through retirement and beyond, and generally being an awesome PFS representative all over. Everywhere I go to cons, people recognize Birmingham as "that's where Zach Hall lives! That guy is awesome!"

Thanks for continuing to be the best GM I never have time to play with!

Several of my older (dated 2013 or older) GM'd games have turned into core (PFC) in reporting. I have noticed they are all older scenarios, season 0's for sure possibly season 1's.

I can manually edit the session to correct the game to the standard version which seems to stick so far. I checked one other GM and it has not happened to his account, so appears to be sporadic, or possible just affecting Venture Officers?

Just letting someone know

Mike Seales
VC Alabama-Birmingham

Oh war is the common cry, Pick up your swords and fly.
The sky is filled with good and bad that mortals never know.

My name is Mike Seales, the Pathfinder Society Venture-Captain for Alabama-Birmingham. I am contacting you to ask for help with GMing opportunities at Play On Con 8 on July 9-12, 2015. Play On Con (POC) is a family-friendly four day fantasy and science fiction fandom convention held each year in Birmingham, Alabama--the Magic City!

Last year at POC we ran 42 of 60 offered tables, including one special, and an unsanctioned LARP. We had zero player or vehicle casualties this year, but did lose a rather untimely battle with venue staff during the last slot on Sunday. Those responsible have been sacked.

This year we will offer 71 tables of PFS, including:
Two Specials: Legacy of the Stonelords and Race for the Runecarved Key. Both will have standard and Core tables available.
All three parts of The Ruins of Bonekeep.
Seeker level play options: The Ruby Phoenix Tournament & Shattered Star 4: Beyond the Doomsday Door.
2 tables of Core each slot, one dedicated 1-5 table and one alternating either 3-7 or 5-9 each slot.
Two Core modules, The Godsmouth Heresy and Crypt of the Everflame.

We will also have several tables of the Adventure Card Game running as well. Currently I have chapter 3 of Skulls and Shackles (unlock role cards), and chapter 1 of Wrath of the Righteous planned, but we should have enough full sets present to run any scenario available.

We should have Convention Boons as well as physical prize support provided by Paizo again this year. Just to keep everyone on their toes, I am changing the way prizes and boons are handled yet again this year. The Harrow deck will be coming back, and silly red tickets are gone. Race for the Runecarved Key's competitive nature will be represented in prizes.
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If you would like to GM, please register on Warhorn and sign up as GM for the tables you would like to run. After you have selected your tables, please email me a list of those scenarios, including your real name and the email address used as your Paizo. com account, so that scenarios you run can be placed directly in your downloads. If you don't have a particular preference of tables or times, go ahead and register to attend on the Warhorn and email me your info and I can assign tables for you. My email is grolloc@gmail.com

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A few notes about the schedule:
I have a few specific tables in mind for certain GMs, those assignments should be listed in the scenario descriptions until I get those GMs signed up officially.

On Thursday the 4pm slot overlaps the 7pm slot, which in turn overlaps the 10pm slot. This is to accommodate late arrivals and work schedules.

On Sunday the slots also overlap with one starting at 10am and the other starting at 11am. The con officially ends at 4pm, although hotel checkout is much earlier.

If you sign up to run 4 or more slots, you will receive a free Play On Con weekend membership badge, free PDFs of the scenarios you are scheduled to run, and a full set of the available prize boons.

If you run 3 or less tables, you will receive a special GM only boon, plus one prize boon per slot run, and free PDFs of the scenarios you are scheduled to run.

All GMs are also eligible to win extra copies of boons and other prizes as if playing the slot they run. Full length modules count as 2 slots each, mini-modules (thornkeep, Emerald Spire, and free-rpg day mods) count as 1 slot.

Please give a warm welcome to the newest officer of the Alabama PFS Lodge, Tavis Turner!

Tavis moved to Alabama from Memphis a little over 6 months ago, immediately jumping in to help the community by GMing. Since then he has been instrumental in organizing game days in one store, and assisting in our flagship venue, Excelsior Comics and Games, which I currently organize with Tavis' help.

I became aware of his leadership potential when he stepped up to organize multiple stores while the original leaders were incapacitated due to illness over the holidays. Visiting VC Nick Greene asked me why I hadn't already promoted him, and after coughing up most of a lung (in the aforementioned illness) I agreed it was well overdue.

Thanks, Tavis for everything you've already done for PFS in the area, and congratulations on the promotion!

No dog in this fight, other than being an avid voter this year (life....ugh.)

Really looking forward to this. I think we will all learn much about the design process from the judge critiques for this round of entries.

My name is Mike Seales, the Pathfinder Society Venture-Captain for Alabama-Birmingham. With an invitation to this year's Play On Con, June 26-29. Play On Con (POC) is a family-friendly four day fantasy and science fiction fandom convention held each year in Birmingham, Alabama--the Magic City!

Last year at POC we ran 37 tables, including all of Thornkeep, two Modules, and one AP section. We had 62 total players, welcomed 13 new players to PFS, totaled one car, and broke one ankle.

This year we will offer 57 tables of PFS, including the 2013 Special: Siege of the Diamond City, and the Seeker level Module The Witchwar Legacy. We will also be running a non-PFS Live-Action Boardgame event, Lords of Absolom (Waterdeep). We should have Convention Boons as well as physical prize support provided by Paizo.

If you would like to GM, please register on Warhorn and sign up as GM for the tables you would like to run. After you have selected your tables, please email me a list of those scenarios, including your real name and the email address used as your Paizo.com account, so that scenarios you run can be placed directly in your downloads. If you don't have a particular preference of tables or times, go ahead and register to attend on the Warhorn and email me your info and I can assign tables for you.

A few notes about the schedule:
I have a few specific tables in mind for certain GMs, those assignments should be listed in the scenario descriptions until I get those GMs signed up officially.
On Thursday the 4pm slot overlaps the 7pm slot, which in turn overlaps the 10pm slot. This is to accommodate late arrivals and work schedules.
On Sunday the slots also overlap with one starting at 10am and the other starting at 11am. The con officially ends at 4pm, although hotel checkout is much earlier.
The live action board game is not sanctioned, sponsored, or in anyway (other than setting) associated with Paizo or Pathfinder. That slot overlaps (badly) with 2 PFS slots, but is scheduled by the con to work with other programming activities, not gaming.

If you run 3 or fewer tables, you will receive a special GM only boon plus one prize boon per slot run, and free PDFs of the scenarios you are scheduled to run. All GMs are also eligible to win extra copies of boons and other prizes as if playing the slot they run. Full length modules count as 2 slots each, mini-modules (thornkeep, and free-rpg day mods) count as 1 slot.
If you sign up to run 4 slots or more, you will receive a free Play On Con weekend membership badge, free PDFs of the scenarios you are scheduled to run, and a full set of the available prize boons.

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Please feel free to pass this along to any PFS GMs in your area. If they have any questions, please have them email me at grolloc@gmail.com.

Thanks, and hope to see you all at the Con!

Everyone welcome Joe Tremblay aka Lasoric as the New Venture Lieutenant for Huntsville and North Alabama!

Joe has already had a taste of the local organizer life, and just visited Play On Con 6 for a small sampling of convention craziness. After all that abuse, he was still interested in helping us grow PFS in Alabama!

Thanks for all the work, Joe! I'm looking forward to watching the Huntsville gaming crowd become more active with us!

Con Website
Host Hotel
Warhorn PFS Scheduling

The Alabama Phoenix Festival is a 2nd year, multi-genre convention held in Birmingham, Alabama at the Cahaba Grand Convention Center and host hotel, the Perimeter Park Hilton. All gaming events this year will be at the Hilton, where we are offering 12 overlapping slots, 39 tables of PFS including the 2011 Special Blood Under Absolom, and Birmingham's first batch of Seeker level play, Eyes of the Ten and The Ruby Phoenix Tournament.

Anyone who signs up to run 4 slots or more will receive a free con badge, a full set of available boons and possible crash/floorspace in the hotel (details still pending). If you sign up for at least 2 slots, you may receive a discounted con badge (details still pending) and a choice of 2 of the available boons. GMs are eligible to win further boons and other prizes as if playing the slot they run. When you register on Warhorn, please use the same email as your Paizo.com account, so that scenarios you run can be placed directly in your downloads.

If you have any questions please contact me at grolloc@gmail.com

Mike Seales
Venture Captain- Alabama-Birmingham

To avoid a derail from another thread:

Well, truthfully, it's not our job to keep track of any minor changes on a character record sheet. This is a matter for the good faith system.

All I know about my players' characters is that their stats add up for the characters' levels and races, that they have the appropriate number of skill points and feats, and that they've calculated their hit points appropriately. If I wanted to, I could probably put in an hour to make sure purchases and sales add up properly... I frequently remind ranged attackers to tick arrows off their inventory, but I suppose I could keep track myself, too.

Consequently, does anyone have a decent system for quickly checking characters over to ensure that they're on the level?

Depending on the time available, you're just looking for gross inaccuracies. It's pretty easy to review a character and chronicle record for the big errors, anything else you can spot later when you have the time to sit down and really crunch numbers. Most of the time, anything game changing wrong is going to be very obvious. non-20 point stats, weapons and gear over fame and WBL averages, too many feats and traits, missing or extra chronicles are all easy to spot. Everything else can wait until you have the time to sit down with the player and a calculator if you still think there is something wrong.

Unless there is a reason to suspect something, I would never do do a full audit on a character. The IRS may be able to get away with it, but a PFS GM who does this regularly has just demolished the trust of his players. The honor system goes both ways.

I am trying to organize some Pathfinder events in the Birmingham area stores: Bud's Place in Leeds, Legion in Cahaba Heights, and a new store, Excelsior in Hoover. We have already played one day at Bud's, and I will be at Excelsior on Thursday Jan 12 from 2-7pm. Come by the store and lets plan some game days!

Excelsior Comics and Games
3150-B Lorna Rd
Hoover AL 35216