Aw, thanks for the kind words!
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One thing that might help your experience is to avoid repeatables unless the GM is limiting sign-ups (at least at first) to players who haven’t played that scenario yet. It sounds like you generally had more fun in the non-repeatable scenarios that you played. I know I haven’t enjoyed the experience very much if I’m the only person playing a repeatable for the first time while the other players have played it a bunch of times already. Did you take note of who GMed the games that you enjoyed the most? Different GMs have different styles, and as you find GMs who you enjoy playing with, you may have better luck with signing up for games that you’ll like. I think in particular, different GMs have different comfort levels with how to handle modifying the scenario for outside-the-box thinking from the players.
Happy New Year!
I am down for another if you don't mind another pregen!
Dennis and I would like to be at the same table if possible! Neither of us has played this before, and we could pick PCs for either subtier.
Congratulations to all! Linda, it has been a pleasure working with you over the years. I remember on the first scenario I wrote working with you, Beneath Unbreaking Waves, hearing your story of doing a dramatic reading with the placeholder NPC names: "Death could not stop Steve!" You have certainly left your mark on Organized Play, and I know you'll excel at whatever you do next. And I hope we haven't seen the last of your Queen Abrogail cosplay!
Scratch that, it looks like we don't have a pilot so that's probably the niche I need to fill. I could bring the envoy or the technomancer.
Two mystics, a witchwarper, and a soldier sounds like we might be a little light on skills? I could bring the mechanic or the operative.
I am planning to play a pregen for this, so I can bring whatever is needed to fill out the group!
I got so weird with those grenades, y'all.
Sure thing! Hop on in!
I’m so glad you all are enjoying the new grenades! That is the section I worked on. With so many grenades already in the system, I got to be creative about other things grenades could do.
Outside of the Perplexity scenarios, I haven't seen a PC death in actual SFS, but I did kill a PC in a playtest of someone's SFS scenario! ETA: I do remember one PC death at the other table at an IRL SFS night, actually.
No lottery needed! Will Kludde, Luke_Parry, joejungers, Redelia, and Will Huston check in here? We won't start for a few days (at least until the SFS special is finished), but we can start coordinating!
Sounds good, Redelia, we'll figure it out! And thank you, Shifty! While my break from both freelance writing and doing Org Play was for a good reason (I had a baby!), I'm pretty glad to be dipping my toe back in. I stayed on top of all my Gameday games as a player, so I'm feeling good about GMing again!
Dang, I thought I set it up correctly! I think it should work now? And thank you for the kind comments!
Hey folks! I haven't been around in a while, but I am looking forward to catching up on all the SFS that I missed! That includes running the scenario I co-authored with my husband, 5-13 Finding the Forgotten! This is a 7-10 scenario with the Faction (Second Seekers [ Ehu Hadif], Wayfinders), Metaplot (Redemption's Rise), and Starship tags. If you are interested in playing, please sign up here. If there are more than six players interested, I will run a lottery Thursday morning to choose players, so sign up by Wednesday night. I don't have an exact starting date, but it will be after the SFS Gameday special ends, so you can definitely bring a character who is currently playing in the special. I am looking forward to running this!
When my husband and I first started playing PFS at one of the venues that Pirate Rob discussed and Painlord wrote that linked thread about, the “everyone GMs” culture was very clear to us right away. I think I played for over two months before I had the same GM twice. Dennis and I had both GMed at home, so we stepped into GMing for PFS pretty easily. When that culture is present, it does a lot on its own.
This isn’t a silver bullet, but I have found that an important step is to tell someone to stop the behavior in clear, direct language. Even if it seems obvious to you that XYZ is annoying the other players, it really might not be obvious to them. Hinting may not get through. “I need you to stop doing XYZ.” It doesn’t always work, but it does sometimes! At the very least, it’s a good place to start. And their response can help you suss out if someone is just unaware of how their behavior affects others or deliberately provoking people.
I am so sorry. I can't imagine how hard this is for you and your family right now.
These all sound amazing and what an awesome group of authors!
Huge news!
As you make your plans, please remind me who all used to work for the Celestial Menagerie.
Congratulations, Vanessa! Well-deserved!
Thank you for this powerful statement.
As a GM, I would not be in favor of losing the bestiary stat blocks. Particularly when GMs are often asked to prep multiple tiers, that is a ton of extra work on top of the already large amount of work to prep the special. As a writer, I would not want anything to go straight from me to the GMs and players without going through development and editing. They do so much more than just fix typos that all makes the adventure clean, sensible, and easier to run.
Another Kate Baker masterpiece? I am excited! Aw, thank you so much!
So many great products!
Unset wallops the demon with a mighty blow from his tail! Prism digs into the same demon with her sickle! Her illness fades away. The demon Steps out of the flank and stabs at Unset!
Initiative!
Happy New Year! I hope that 2022 holds great things for all of us.
Andrew, this is amazing. Well done.
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