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The correct email should be ironhelixx@orgplayonline.com it looks like, at some point, the updated addresses reverted back to the old one on the VO list - will have that corrected. You can also PM me on Discord at HTTP://orgplayonlinechat.com

Apologies for the confusion

I'm trying to get ahold of Regional Venture-Coordinator (for 'the' Online "region") Jesse Davis. However, all of my emails appear to be undeliverable. I have been unable to find any info on who else to contact, so I thought I would check here in case someone can assist me. Thank you so much, in advance, for any knowledge you can impart!

Always awesome to see you all fighting the good fight and supporting those who need our help. We can all do better. <3

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Online play does not, usually, have the time constraints of meat-space, in day-to-day play - so the time limitations are not as much of an excuse here - Beyond that, as stated above, it's our own regions requested SOP - there are no penalties for not doing it though - we are not going to be the chronicle sheet gestapo - ultimately, for day-to-day play, "you do you, boo"

To clarify, that was for your and Bob's mentioned context of "between sessions" - if you are purchasing "at the [virtual]table" then it would be on the chronicle being created at that session, not the next - whether those purchases are from before of after the actual game-play of that session.

It definitely gets missed for sure - no argument there - meat-space or online - and It's never been an "Online Thing", for sure - in fact Hilary likes to call it the "Omaha Method", or something along those lines, because it was more enforced there (I am assuming) - we're not going to be chronicle nazis about it though - we simply request cooperation on it within our own region, as a best practice - a lot of GMs gladly participate in that request, and we greatly appreciate it.

On the totals - I agree with Bob - recording of spending is not affected as it would be recorded at the next session on the next sheet, not the current one - so it has no affect there at all - and if people are keeping correct records those values would be recorded and available to total out on the next sheet - So, totaling out the current sheet would not be "incorrect way" or "detrimental" - that said - this very specific guideline is only for our own online region - the only reason it comes up more is that our region is so much more public and in the line of sight than other regions where only local eyes ever see anything - but we do appreciate people respecting our regional guidelines - if other VOs in other areas decide differently for their local or greater regions we will respect that in turn - in the end we're not the IRS here, just people playing games and volunteering to help others have fun.

Filling out chronicles completely is our suggested SOP and saves the community a lot of grief and heartburn down the line - forms like those mentioned above help collect data in the same way the sign-in sheets do in meat-space and leave a paper trail when (not if) questions come up later, and are very helpful in resolving those issues - we've been able to go back to those records to help resolve things on a number of occasions now and we really appreciate that GMs keep good online records. (The digital breadcrumbs are a positive aspect of online play that helps a lot.) Filled out chronicles save a lot of headaches down the line and we really appreciate the GMs who take the time and effort to help the player community maintain better records and experiences at events and in day-to-day online play.

Discord just posted this in today's update:

We’ve made several improvements to how Screen Readers interact with Discord. These include:

All the big parts of the main app screen are now region landmarks so you can jump between them more easily.

Things that kind of seemed like lists before are now actually marked as lists (whoops): Channels, Members, DMs, and Messages are more structured now. The whole server list is now a tree view to make it easier to find the server you want to view next.

You can now more easily tell when a server or channel has mentioned you or has unread messages, distinguish between different types of channels and categories, know how many people are in a voice channel, and more.

If they did not provide an email they do not show in the stat pool so the number looks lower. And a small percentage of people have responded to inquests.

If you do not see a session reported at this point either the GM has not reported the session to us, or it was reported and there was an issue, like your org-play ID was reported wrong, or what have you. (unless it is a VTT session reported in the last week.)

As far as the delayed reporting for PbP, it was a very specific, small set of PbP sessions that were not reported in the transition time between now and when Hilary stepped down. Those were hunted down and corrected yesterday. It, as stated, was a small set of sessions and only for PbP.

As far as winning OSP boons, a player has a 10% chance of winning a boon for playing and that is system "rolled" when the session is reported by the GM. Looking at stats, it's been roughly closer to 8% of actual players who have won. (and a number of those players did not provide an email address so that numbers drops a little more since that removes them from the stat pool since we have to look them up manually)

A lot of people have stated our emails go to spam, so it's possible some people have received boons and did not see them in spam.

If you're not seeing a session reported please talk to your GM, or email us the name(s) of the GM(s) , the scenario(s) played, as well as the date played (and include your org play number in the email)

As far as participating in OSP, it is optional.

Thanks

IronHelixx, RVC - Online Play

All the games have been reported, actually - so if you are not seeing something it probably is an error - drop us an email so we can investigate

Email has never been mandatory for players - the email field is only mandatory for GMs, and that's only so the GM can receive the confirmation email and so we know who to contact when there is an issue or questions.

If there is no email address for a player and the player wins a boon a single attempt will be made to contact the person via Paizo PM.

We're going to be moving to a different system - the current reporting tool is a stop-gap measure - the way the whole thing works will change soon enough. (The current process is very time consuming and needs to be streamlined quite a bit.)

As a side note, we have learned a lot over the first month+ of the inaugural OSP season and will be adjusting accordingly.

Prior to yesterday afternoon any games reported via the OSP form as of, roughly, ten days ago had already been reported to Paizo - as of yesterday everything more recent than that has also been reported to Paizo. If you are not seeing a session in your online records let us know so we can investigate.

PbP and VTT games count towards OSP boon rewards equally - there is no difference in that regard when it comes to the OSP.

Player boons have been going out in batches since it's currently a manual process - the last batch of emails went out today for those.

GM boons were originally to go out when a GM hit the minimum threshold for the initial reward on the boon, but we may change that and start sending them out after the first session is reported to make it more like meat-space RSP. [GMs are ultimately responsible for recording progress on the boons.] GM boons are also going out in batches and we should be caught up on them by this weekend.

Thank you, Tonya and everyone involved in bringing the OSP to Online play - it's greatly appreciated.

For those of you wanting to participate in OSP, we will have a post with links and details tomorrow.

Please check out http://orgplayonlinechat.com for more discussion and details as well. (We'll also link here in this thread.)

If anyone has any immediate questions before tomorrow, please contact me on Discord, or via the email address linked below.

We look forward to the OSP program and thanks again to everyone involved in making it happen.

Thanks!

- Jesse [IronHelixx]

Regional Venture Coordinator, Online Play
ironhelixx@orgplayonline.com

Valid point - I had added something about the RSP in my post above but took it out before posting - while I can't go into all the details on the delay - I will say that we should see something in place soon for RSP.

While I'm not really all that perturbed with the number of OP online conventions, what I am a fair bit perturbed by is the promise of the Regional Support Program for the online region back in November of 2017 and the fact that it is not yet available. See http://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lk8k?Extra-Life-New-Regions-and-Vo lunteer-Recognition

Back then it was stated that regarding the RSP for online "[w]e are currently fleshing out the details and will post them in the next few weeks." It has now been seven months.

I think that extending the RSP to online events beyond the nine which are authorized for convention support a year would do a lot to alleviate some of the concerns with the number of convention events in the online region.

Howdy - your concerns are not just your own - it is something that has been discussed and brought up a lot - luckily it has proven out over a goodly number of years now that Online Events have little to no (heavy on the "no") affect on meat-space events, at all. So, while I do understand the concern, it is not something that is an issue in reality. Online Play serves a community that, in many cases, has no access to other play opportunities at all. Many of the members of our community live in remote areas, live in an area of the world that has no organized play presence in any reasonable travel distance at all, many are deployed military who could not otherwise play, some have health reasons or other things that keep them from traveling or even leaving the house at all in some cases - a portion of the community are meat-space GMs who otherwise would never get to play because they only run in their local areas for various reasons - and of course a sub-set of the community plays both meat-space and virtually. So its a very diverse community with all kinds of reasons for playing online, and we love them all. :)

As a side note - while an internet connection is needed to play online, obviously - the only other "tool" needed is a web browser - so that is something that most people with an internet connection have already - and the web-based VTTs are free so there is no extra cost there, as a player. (And PbP is simply access to the forums) GMs do tend to incur extra costs, just like meat-space. (And there will always be limiting factors for any region, meat-space or virtual.)

Also - We, as Online VOs and GMs, incur a lot of expenses each season too - just like meat-space VOs/GMs, there are a lot of costs we eat on a bunch of different levels.

(We also help online conventions cover other organized play systems and non org-play game systems at events, helped bring in sponsors, and a ton of other things.)

I would not worry to much about Online Play messing anything up for regional events in meat-space. The two really have no affect on each other.

After seeing the earlier days of certain chat clients and the approach therein, I humbly request that the investment that folks who make in 'meatspace' convention work be considered in any such consideration.

Not only do volunteers sacrifice their time and effort to travel to physical conventions, but they also have to cover whatever bases the OPF is NOT covering for the larger conventions, or the convention is covering for smaller ones, usually on a very tight budget.

Too many VTT conventions will dilute the physical pool of conventions as well as discourage the investment in time of such a venue by players.

Please note I am NOT against VTT conventions.

However, they do not bring in all players, but only those who have the Internet, a means of accessing said Internet, and the time to do so.

The gaming community is a large and diverse group, and setting an arbitrary goal-post of 'Must have Internet' and 'Must have Internet capable of running 'X' system' is a hurdle that some folks cannot breach.

Sure, it's easier to access -- for those who have the means.

Please weigh carefully the needs of the entirety of Organized Play, and not one particular subset when laying out future concerns, but likewise please do not penalize or overly reward one means over another.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration.

Howdy - thanks for your post, CFoot - This is something that has been discussed on a number of occasions over a long span of time behind the scenes - so it's good to have a chance to discuss it with the community at large.

A few quick notes:

1) Indeed :)

2) The cap is actually nine total/combined online events per season.

VTT and PbP are already handled as separate entities in those decisions/counts. VTT has been allotted six events and PbP three.

The reason for three for PbP is that the PbP events can take anywhere from two to three months from start to finish, so that means six to nine months of the year the community is in "event" mode as-is. That's a lot of time and work invested by the community and venture officer crew in those events already - too much more than that would be perpetual event mode.

For VTT, seeing that those events run in real-time like meat-space events over a given weekend, it was decided six was a good number. Prior experience has shown that if you start running more than that each season there tends to be community fatigue and attendance numbers start to drop off. So six seems like a good number for VTT right now. That is basically a VTT event every other month, on average.

3) I could not agree on this point more :) - James, Richard, Helen, and the whole online community has done an excellent job organizing and running TPKon, and you will be seeing more focus on those in the coming season.

Once again - I appreciate the opportunity your post allowed - so thanks for putting it out there.

If anyone has any questions or concerns, please feel free to ask them here or email me HERE and I'll be glad to discuss further.

- Jesse

Jesse R. Davis [IronHelixx]
Regional Venture Coordinator, Online Play
IronHelixx@OrgPlayOnline.com
Discord Chat: PFSChat.com/SFSChat.com/AdventureCardGameChat.com

Our Mission: To Champion, Serve, Support, and Build the Online Community.

I became aware in the recent locked thread that the online region has a hard cap of 8 conventions that the VOs can offer. I would like to see this expanded.

1. The region covers the entire world and I would guess has one of the largest player bases in PFS.

2. PBP and VTT are different animals and each should be considered separately when determining the amount each should be allotted.

3. The online VOs have demonstrated a high level of quality in their TPKon conventions. Quite frankly, they put the other online conventions to shame with their organization and execution. They should be allowed to do as many as they would like. (They were doing them quarterly, which I always looked forward to.) I would much rather participate in TPKon than Roll20Con, Aethercon, etc.

I doubt Paizo would allow PF1 3PP material as part of legal PFS org-play as it would compete directly with their new 2nd Edition material, but I've been surprised in the past. I would not bet on it though, personally.

I am hoping PF1 PFS runs a good long while. I also plan to play and run games for a long while. Any chance Paizo would officially license a 3PP to publish PF1 PFS scenarios after they officially end production?

It will take PF2 a good while to build up enough material to support even small events, much less large ones. It's my current understanding that PF1 will stay in official, supported rotation for some time after PF2's release - Online and Meat-Space.

Yes, thanks for the clarification IH. Out of curiosity, how do you think PF2 will effect this? DO you think PbP will still get support for PF1 organized play past official release of PF2 in 2019? I know I am probably asking a speculative question here but just curious on the thoughts of the leadership on this issue.

Catching up on the forum back-log, been a busy few weeks. So forgive me for the late responses on a few of these topics. But I wanted to cover a few points...

On "Splitting" the Online Region:

Online was already split into three different regions.

PbP, VTT, and ACG (with ACG being an interesting Hybrid of VTT/PbP)

That's why three different Venture Captains were assigned, one to each region - so that has already happened.

PbP/VTT currently operate completely independently from each other.

ACG paddles around in both ponds. ;b

On Online "Boon Factories":

PbP, nor VTT, is anything near a "Boon Factory" - if you look at the total amount of boons given out from VTT and PbP each season, they are pretty much on par with each other - and FAR below the number of boons given out at large regional event like Gen-Con and Origins (with VTT/PbP combined).

[Much of that total is due to artificial limitations put on the online play formats and the caps put in place by campaign leadership- it could frankly be wildly higher.]

Comparing VTT to PbP event counts:

All four supported VTT events that we know will be supported this season, totalled together, will not have as many games offered as the PbP events will. (There are actually more artificial limitations placed on VTT events than PbP events.)

SIDE NOTE: The schedule posted above for VTT is not correct, btw - that was apparently taken from a draft of possible events - not the actual schedule. FGCon12 was not officially supported, and Roll20Con is probably not being produced by Roll20 this year for some reason (and if it does get announced it will likely not be supported, unless something changes real fast.)

On PbP event counts:

Shifty and Hilary, et al, touched on a lot of the issues already.

The bigger PbP Gamedays tend to run for three months, the shorter ones run for a month-and-a-half to two months.

Moving from our original one PbP event a year to two big PbP events a year meant three months on / three months off, per season. Adding a third big event would mean running events nine months out of the year with only 1.5 months off between them - which is rough, all around.

If switched to only running the smaller one-and-a-half month long events, if you ran four a year, that would be 1.5 months on, and 1.5 months off, year round, non-stop (running six months out of the year, but leaving very little time for non-event games in between and conflicting with all kinds of meat-space events and holidays to fit it all in).

For those reasons the decision was made to have a max of three PbP events per year. Which means a minimum of 4.5 months (roughly a third of the year) of total event time up to a possible nine months (three quarters of the year) of total events time, depending on what is scheduled.

Side Note: Scheduling these events around holidays, summer breaks, large/regional meat-space events, et cetera - and having some "down time" for the community between events - is the really hard part.

On The Regional Support Program:

A proposal for PbP (and a separate proposal for VTT) was submitted to Paizo months ago. We've not been able to get either approved as of yet. We hope to get a final decision made by campaign leadership by after PaizoCon. We're trying.

(And Thanks, Dire, for helping out)

Ouch - Hope you get to feeling better quickly, and glad it was caught early enough. Best Wishes

Congrats!

Assuming you have a zero XP "GM Blob" character and you are GMing higher level scenarios/modules/APs with no 1-2 tier and are not slow-track: You would apply the first three chronicles by reducing the awards, like you would do for a player using a pre-gen, as described in the guide:

You can apply credit from a higher-tier adventure to a 1st-level Roleplaying Guild character. When doing so, reduce the gp reward to 500 gp if the adventure grants 1 XP or 1,398 gp if it grants 3 XP. You do not benefit from any boons until your Roleplaying Guild character reaches the minimum level listed on the Chronicle sheet, unless otherwise noted.

Any sheets past those first three would be held until the PC hits the level minimum level on the chronicle sheet and you would get no access to anything on the sheet until then.

If the GM with a low-level character runs any higher tier scenarios that don’t include a subtier for her 1st-level rogue, she takes the lowest subtier Chronicle sheet from that scenario and holds it for her PC. Then, once her PC achieves the appropriate level for that Chronicle sheet to be applied, it is immediately applied at that time. For example, if a GM with a 1st-level rogue runs a Tier 5–9 scenario, she would take a Subtier 5–6 Chronicle sheet (the lowest subtier for that tier) for running the scenario and set it aside. Once her rogue reaches 5th level, she can immediately apply the Chronicle sheet to her character. This means that GMs’ characters can potentially level up in bursts.

And the chronicles must be applied in the order that they were earned as they are applied to the PC. (So First three reduced award sheets in order of GMing them/Date, and then as you hit the level that the other held sheets become applicable you would apply them in order of GMing them/date if more than one would become applicable at the same time.)

Edit: If you mix in player credit along the way, that will obviously change things slightly - but the principles are still the same.

Beyond your post here (which may be enough on it's own to get CS attention) - you may want to contact customer service at customer.service@paizo.com.

(Or call them)

I would include what event you received the book at, what the exact issue with the book is, and your personal contact information and Paizo account info, in the email to them.

(I'm surprised you received a physical prize as Paizo stopped doing that years ago now and went to all Gift Certificates for prize support.)

If you know who provided the prize at the event, the organizer or VO, you may want to copy htme on the email as well.

Good luck with it - hope you get it worked out.

Merci

I was suprised by this as well - pretty crazy in this day and age.

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Online will not be part of the boon rotations for the four mega-regions. The four Mega-Regions will cycle though the four boons listed above over the period of a year. Online will have a totally separate single regional boon (Ferran & Woioko) that the four Mega-Regions do not get access to during that time, and that single boon will be stable for the full year - online will not cycle, nor will it have access to the boons listed above.

- Jesse

Jesse R. Davis [IronHelixx]
Regional Venture Coordinator, Online
IronHelixx@OrgPlayOnline.com
Discord Chat: PFSChat.com/SFSChat.com/AdventureCardGameChat.com

Our Mission: To Champion, Serve, Support, and Build the Online Community.

I was a little confused--curiously confused--by the comment in the blog about keeping online unique. Does Region 5 have it's own rotation of "unique" boons or does it cycle with the other regions? E.g. Formian/Ikeshti will or will not eventually cycle into Region 5?

Regionally appropriate greeting, everyone.

There is no "double standard" when it comes to Online Play - and there is, and should not be, any special rules for Online Play when it comes to proving ownership for material and providing GM the necessary references for materials used.

The following methods are allowed to prove ownership of materials for Online Play sessions:

* Use Webcam to display books to GM during the gaming session.
This is no different than showing the GM the physical books at a "meat-space" table.

* Send screenshot of ONLY the watermarked pdf cover of the rulebook.
This is no different than showing the GM the physical book(s) [or watermarked PDF(s) on a tablet] at a physical table, and book covers are covered by the community use policy, and have your watermark on them showing ownership.

* Send snapshot of your Paizo downloads page showing the material being used. (Your name is at the top when logged in and you have to be logged in to show the page.)
This is no different than a receipt created in a physical retail location and even more specific and clear as to ownership, and it is already allowed in the relevant FAQ.

* Send scanned copies of physical, itemized receipts of purchases.
Also allowed by the relavent FAQ mentioned above .

* A contemporized photo with the physical book(s) in question (meaning made for that specific identifiable session - with session specific info in the picture to prove when it's taken).
The above methods should all be exhausted before this option is used, and a GM can chose not to accept this if they so choose not to allow it as proof in the same way as physically presenting the book(s).

All the above was approved by Mike Brock when he was the OPC and has not changed under Tonya; all of it is consistant with the Paizo Community Use guidelines; and the relavent FAQ.

The intention of Paizo's guidelines are two fold at the table: to show ownership of material used in the creation of the PC, and to provide the GM access to the rules at the table should they not own, or not have on them, all the material used at the table by the players.

The above guidelines allow GMs proof of ownership, satisfying the first need.

Being Online intrinsically allows GMs access to the rules in it's full breadth and width, so the second criteria is also met. (The Additional Resources page is also available to Online GMs in the same way.)

There is no conflict with existing rules, FAQs, or guidelines - nor any "special cases" for Online Play.

If any one has any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at the email address linked below, or on Discord (also linked below).

- Jesse

Jesse R. Davis [IronHelixx]
Regional Venture Coordinator, Online
IronHelixx@OrgPlayOnline.com
Discord Chat: PFSChat.com/SFSChat.com/AdventureCardGameChat.com

Our Mission: To Champion, Serve, Support, and Build the Online Community.

Indeed - was hoping maybe you or a VL had run it at another event and already had a copy - in that case, hope they get you guys worked out with Paizo soon - best of luck with it.

No, VC's don't get this Special. It is distributed only.

That's definitely a tough Special to run on a short prep period.

If you have not already reached out to Auke, y'all's RVC, please make sure that you do that ASAP.

Also, check to see if your VC has a copy of the special - worst case, your VC can print some physical copies and meet up with the GMs in person to help them prep ahead of time.

Hopefully you guys will get sorted out quickly.

Best of luck with your event.

Image files are already "flattened" by their very nature - so you're good. The issue mentioned above is related more to the distribution of fully editable PDF forms. Open PDF forms are, basically, like a chronicle written in pencil.

So.. I'm very crude with technology, used to print and scan all chronicles but found that tedious and moved to Microsoft paint, files saved as png. How do I make those files ineditable after completed?

As you mentioned, you can use "Sign&Certify" and then select "Lock Document After signing" in Foxit's tools.

You can also simply "Print to PDF" the PDF form and it flattens and optimizes the PDF - that works from, pretty much, any PDF editor and is straight forward.

Does FoxIt have a way to flatten things easily? How do others do this?

And to answer my own question: If I add a small signature and apply it, that does the flattening.

(yes, I know I add a sig, but I typically do this first into a blank chronicle which I then customize for each character in the scenario - one of those small efficiencies that reduce paperwork time)

Regionally Appropriate Greeting, TimeMage1.

If you received a PFS number but never registered it and no longer have the confirmation code (or never received one for some reason), you will need to contact Customer Service at customer.service@paizo.com. They should be able to help you out. (You'll probably want to include the PFS # and the email address attached to your Paizo.com account in the email you send to Customer Service.)

The only other option would be to register a new PFS number and then work with the people who issued the sheets to you originally, or your local Venture Captain or Regional Venture Coordinator, to re-issue the chronicles and update the reporting on Paizo to point to the new PFS number. [I would discuss the option with your regional Venture Officers before doing it to avoid any issues.]

If you need any assistance, feel free to drop me a line and I'll do what I can to help you get things worked out.

Best Wishes,

- Jesse

Jesse R. Davis [IronHelixx]
Regional Venture Coordinator, Online
IronHelixx@OrgPlayOnline.com
Discord Chat: PFSChat.com/SFSChat.com/AdventureCardGameChat.com
Our Mission: To Champion, Serve, Support, and Build the Online Community.

Regionally Appropriate Greeting, Astarotte - drop me a line at HERE and we can help you get things worked out.

EDIT: If local VOs are available to you, I am sure they will be glad to help too. Just let us know.

- Jesse

Jesse R. Davis [IronHelixx]
Regional Venture Coordinator, Online
IronHelixx@OrgPlayOnline.com
Discord Chat: PFSChat.com/SFSChat.com/AdventureCardGameChat.com

Our Mission: To Champion, Serve, Support, and Build the Online Community.

I have played a total of seven online games (Roll 20 - virtual tabletop), and the rest (29 based on Paizo website) was played in person for the character in question. The Slave Pits of Absalom scenario is one of those on the virtual tabletop which was played early on in this life. However, if I print out the chronicle sheet now and make all the necessary corrections, one of the chronicles from one of the tabletop games would be considered illegal (due to being out-of-tier) much later in the character's life.

Regionally Appropriate Greetings, Everyone.

Due to technical difficulties with the AetherCon ticketing module on their website, we have no access to see who is currently signed up at each table from a coordinator perspective.

AetherCon has stated this will not be fixed before the weekend is up due to lack of access to their website developer and Hosting Company.

This also means that we can not add, edit, or delete sessions on the site either.

The site seems to intermittently time out for players and GMs as well, and I expect it will only get worse as the event hits and the website is under more load.

If you sign up for a game please ping the GM on Discord:

http://PFSChat.com

http://SFSChat.com

... as they may not be able to see that you signed up in time.

If you cannot contact a GM please ping us and we'll do our best to make that connection for you. (Same if you need to drop from a game.)

We have made a spreadsheet with a list of the games and VTT links along with the GMs Discord aliases to help connect people as best we can:

Google Sheets List of Games

The games marked in red no longer have GMs and/or have no players signed up when we last had access to the data last Saturday. (Mainly due to lack of access to the ticketing website, sadly.)

We'll update the spreadsheet as quickly as we can as we get in new data from GMs - so please check back if you do not see what you are looking for right now.

I apologize for the inconvenience this causes - I know it's a pain (for all of us) - we'll do our best to help make this as easy as possible by channeling everything we can here to Discord.

Also, to answer a FAQ, Pick-Up-Games are allowed for AetherCon, and even encouraged, over the weekend - please submit PUGs to the PFSatAetherCon website (submission link at bottom of page), so that we know they exist and please post them in the appropriate LFG channel on Discord, pretty please.

We are trying to get one last database dump from the hosting provider AetherCon uses - if we can get that information, we will send out an email to everyone registered to Run or Play in a game this weekend with as much info as we can to help smooth things out.

I will also publish all new info on Discord in the #aethercon channel to make sure everyone sees the information.

Thanks for all your hard work so far, and we appreciate your patience/understanding with all of the tech issues we're all facing - it is very much appreciated.

(On a positive note - AetherCon has agreed to go back to WarHorn next year - so this will hopefully not be an issue again next time.)

Look forward to seeing you guys at a VTT this weekend - let us know if there is anything we can do to help.

Best Always,

- Jesse

Jesse R. Davis [IronHelixx]
Regional Venture Coordinator, Online
IronHelixx@OrgPlayOnline.com
Discord Chat: PFSChat.com/SFSChat.com/AdventureCardGameChat.com

Our Mission: To Champion, Serve, Support, and Build the Online Community.

I think I can speak for all of the Online Venture Officers in saying that we are super excited and very appreciative for this opportunity to serve the Online community in this new expanded capacity. And we all want to thank Paizo for their continued support for the Online Community - you guys have always been amazing.

And many thanks to the Online Community for being an Amazing Community to serve and support - you guys make our jobs a lot of fun.

All that said, It is with great pleasure, and excitement, that I present to you the Venture Officers of the New Online Play Region directly

Adventure Card Game (ACG)

VC-ACG: Tyler Beck (CartmanBeck) [email]

VL-ACG: Andrew Warner (Hawkmoon) [email]

Play-by-Post (PbP)

VC-PbP: Hilary Moon-Murphy (Hmm) [email]

VL-PbP: Gerard vanKonijnenburg (Magabeus) [email]

VA-PbP, Paizo (Flaxseed): Christine Bussman (Redelia) [email]

VA-PbP, MythWeavers: Michael Hallet (MichaelHallet) [email]

VA-PbP, RPGGeek: Phillip Wood (Woodenman) [email]

VA-PbP, Pathfinder-FR: Sylvain Corbaz (Zinou) [email]

Virtual TableTop (VTT)

VC-VTT: James Bartlett (Imhrail) [email]

VL-VTT: Helen Yau (Hels) [email]

VL-VTT: Richard Lowe (Suthainn) [email]

VA-VTT, German Language: Hannes Schunk (Bakamono) [email]

I could not be happier with the team assembled for the New Online Region - we are very, very fortunate to have such an amazing team of VOs and I look forward to the days ahead.

- Jesse

Jesse R. Davis [IronHelixx]
Regional Venture Coordinator, Online Play
IronHelixx@OrgPlayOnline.com
Discord Chat: PFSChat.com / SFSChat.com / AdventureCardGameChat.com

Our Mission: To Champion, Serve, Support, and Build the Online Community.

Etude Mirolo, Congrats - I'll have Hilary, et al, contact you to get you email info to send the boon to. Thanks for participating in PbP Gameday VI.

- Jesse

Jesse R. Davis [IronHelixx]
Venture-Captain, Online Play
IronHelixx@OrgPlayOnline.com
Discord Chat: PFSChat.com / SFSChat.com

Our Mission: To Champion, Serve, Support, and Build the Online Community.

PLAYER BOONS:

...
PFS: If you roll a 19 or 20, please roll a d4 to determine which player boon you receive.
The player boons this year are flavorful. We have two that are tied strongly to factions, a mounted tradition boon, and hang in there -- a boon that gives you a bit more time for another party member to revive you with breath of life.
...
That's it! Hope all your games are going swimmingly!
Hmm

gm: 1d20 ⇒ 71d4 ⇒ 3

Howdy

Boon for Boon trades should be the only exchange.

Paizo has added "Not Intended For Sale. No Cash Value" to all new boons in an attempt to clear up any confusion in that regard going forward.

Boons should be marked "Originally Issued To: <PFSNUM>" when you get them.

For older boons, they should be marked "Traded To <pfsnum> on MM/DD/YYYY>" when traded, or "Given to <pfsnum> on MM/DD/YYYY>" if given away.

Or, if they are the newer boons with the trade boxes at the top, those boxes should be filled out if traded or given away.

It is highly suggested that online trades occur through the trade forum here on Paizo so there is a record of it.

If you get PMs from individuals and they insist on doing things "off the books" it is probably correct to assume they are not legit.

If you ever feel like a trade needs to be examined before it goes through, we will also be happy to function as a VO boon escrow service of sorts too - just let us know.

If you ever have any questions feel free to drop us a line any time and we'll do our best to help keep things on the up-and-up.

- Jesse

Jesse R. Davis [IronHelixx]
Venture-Captain, Online Play
IronHelixx@OrgPlayOnline.com
Discord Chat: PFSChat.com / SFSChat.com

Our Mission: To Champion, Serve, Support, and Build the PFS Online Community.

besides i thought it was only boon for boon.....

Unfortunately, the person above tends to duplicate and trade the same boons over and over again to build their boon roster to then turn around and sell those boons on eBay or via private deals in PMs and such - often modifying dates, events numbers, and PFS #s, as well as removing trade notes, to obfuscate the sources/history. So it is an issue on multiple levels, sadly.

*AetherCon GM Registration is winding down!*

Registration Form can be found at:

HERE

Session list can be found at:

pfsataethercon.com

Slot E is reserved for the special: 9-00 Assault on Absalom.

Slots AB, DE, EF, and HI are for modules and AP chapters.

Anyone can list any regular scenario they wish for PFS/SFS, but please be cognizant of slots that are already very full of sessions and review the schedule for duplicates before submitting. If you wish to run one of the exclusives that have a star rating, please check with us first.

Sessions will be submitted to Paizo on the morning of October 12th, 2017, so submissions for support need to be submitted by Midnight PDT US [UTC-7]. You can submit sessions after that date but will not receive free scenario support.

Sessions will be listed on AetherCon's website on October 12th, 2017. Players may sign up then.

If you wish to GM, please DO NOT sign up on AetherCon's website directly on your own. (only use the form linked above)
All sessions will be bulk loaded by AetherCon when we submit them in bulk.

If you have any question,please email me HERE, or catch me on the Discord Server at pfschat.com / sfschat.com

Hope to see you there!

Concur on your choice of writers - that would be pretty awesome - and Harsk is always the correct answer. :)

Q.) If you could co-write an adventure/campaign with, or have an adventure/campaign bespoke written for you to play in by, any writer who has ever written (alive or not - and they are guaranteed to say "yes", even if from the great beyond in ghost form ;b) - who would that writer be?

When I feel burnout I turn to other things for a bit - Play some Savage Worlds, try Fantasy Flight Star Wars, attempt a Fiasco - play an old school cRPG for a bit - whatever catches your fancy - not only does it give you a change of scene, it opens up new ideas for running/playing org-play sessions when you come back. Diversity is the spice of life after all.

Samsaran for PFS / Legacy Heritage for SFS

Does anyone know what the race boon for this gameday is?

-Posted with Wayfinder

Hmm wrote a thing:
http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lk5b?Gaming-From-Afar20-Rova-4716

For the individual Tales boons that can be applied to multiple PCs you simply make multiple copies and apply the individual copies to the PCs. So each PC would apply it's own copy.

The Pathfinder Tales, Vol 4/5/6/7 boons are only a wee bit different.

Those you get initialed as you use the individual one-time use boons, without assigning the sheet to a PC, at first - then when it comes time to assign the Prolific Reader boon to the one chosen PC you then would then assign the sheet as you would a chronicle sheet to that specific PC, giving it a chronicle # and filling out the PC info, et cetera.

It's explained in the "HOW TO USE" section of the sanctioning document.

Or more specifically, we'll use Volume V as an example. It says that you can apply each one once per player for any of his or her characters, then if all four are initialed, the prolific reader boon can be applied to any one of his or her characters.

The issue is, if this is a chronicle sheet, then it should be recorded in a specific character's record, so how is one able to use a different boon from this sheet on different characters?

Some Tales boons are available to all your PCs, and others can be applied to one PC only. You usually find that information in each of the boons sanctioning document.

My understanding from some previous threads was that the original (single book) boons could be applied to more than one character, and that the usual protocol was to have a GM verify that you have the book, fill out a Chronicle for it, and then the player could photocopy that and apply it to multiple characters.