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Michael Meunier wrote:

armac wrote:

Rachel Hill wrote:

... Should I not be selected to serve with the ACG or HQ, you can find me eating pretzel sticks at Scotty's Brewhouse, watching baseball at Victory Field ...

If you're looking for someone to catch a ball game with, come find me at HQ. I've been wanting to get to a game there for quite a few GenCons and just never seem to get to one.

Angus

Sadly, no dice on this again. They're out of town GenCon weekend.

I would wager they are out of town every GenCon weekend.

They've been in town a couple of times. They were in town a couple of years ago - I almost went to the game but was then convinced to stay and play in the kobolds special. I didn't realize that my wanting to go to the game was creating a bit of a stir behind the scenes because I didn't know I was going to be awarded a campaign coin that night. I heard after the fact that there was some relief when I decided to play.

... Should I not be selected to serve with the ACG or HQ, you can find me eating pretzel sticks at Scotty's Brewhouse, watching baseball at Victory Field ...

If you're looking for someone to catch a ball game with, come find me at HQ. I've been wanting to get to a game there for quite a few GenCons and just never seem to get to one.

Angus

Hilary Moon Murphy wrote:

PS Question: If you arrive on Wednesday, do you have to pay for that night's lodging? I was thinking of coming in early and leaving late so that I can get some downtime to meet people and help with set-up and take-down.

Yes, as I recall. The official roomblock was Thursday night through Sunday night, so if you are staying Wednesday night or earlier or Monday night or later, you will need to book a room somewhere.

Every year that I have volunteered for Paizo at GenCon has included the Wednesday night as part of the GM Tier package of rooms. I would count on that still being the same.

Angus

Buying HQ an extra box of paperclips if i ever get to do this again...

LOL! Don't worry about it! I brought a package of 1000 paperclips with me this year that I left with HQ and they didn't need to dip into them. I'll still probably bring more next year. I will never again run out of paperclips putting together the chronicle packages for GenCon.

And a big thank you to everyone who helped put Slot 1 chronicles together after I was delayed 7.5 hours by a blown tire while driving in on Wednesday!

Angus

I think Wizkids will show lots of actual minis next week at GenCon - they have too, because they haven't shown any actual production minis from the D&D set and only 10 renders - and the set releases on september 1st.
They will also have some PFB minis, i'm sure.

I don't think WizKids will be at GenCon. If we see minis they might have to be from other sources.

One of my local GMs has done this for his daughter at conventions. I believe that she even used her setup at GenCon. I'll try to point him in the direction of this thread.

Angus

And GMs--return those paperclips in the future if you can!

Oh, the memories.

Congratulations to the new Campaign Service Coin recipients, and to the new five star GMs!

All my papercuts have healed so I signed up to play with thousands of chronicle sheets again.

I used to go to ConCon, but it's become to expensive to volounteer there for my taste.

I'm sorry, but I just find this funny in regards to the whole thread.

Great Lakes?!? Bob, you got Toronto! Right on one of the lakes.

And you may be the closest to Ottawa. (Or it might be Art, but I'm calling it you.)

Oh, how Tonya suckered you.

Congrats to all!

Angus

Way to go Tonya! Glad you earned some of those stars helping out in Ottawa. Thanks for everything here, and all the best with the Coordinator gig in the future!

What?!? I don't see this as a good thing at all! We just lost a good Venture Captain in Ontario, and she's left me with just Glen as a VC. This isn't good at all!

Well, I guess what is best for the larger community is better than what is best for me.

Congratulations, Tonya!

Angus
(BTW: We still want to see you now and then in Ottawa.)

Thanks. Fixed.

From looking at the info at the linked site, and then looking for the other announcement threads in this forum:

701 Kyle Elliott
702 Kristie Schweyer
703 Stephen White
704 Allistar Rigg
705 Art Lobdell
706 Myron Pauls
707 Eric Brittain
708 Mike Azzolino
709 Robyn Nixon
710 Auke Teeninga
711 Dave Harrison
712 Rob Silk
713 Zrinka Znidarcic
714 Jon Cary
715 Steve Miller
716 Joe Jungers
717 Seth Gipson
718 Garrett Gottschalk
719 Dominick Trascritti
720 Todd Morgan
721 Bob Jonquet
722 Del Collins
723 Lucas Servideo
724 Andrew Christian
725 Dan Simons
726 Brent Jans
727 Jon Dehning
728 Jester Deren
729 June Soler
730 Michael McNerney
731 Karim Majeri
732 Benoit Gros
733 Mark Langereis
734 Chris Brockley-Blatt
735 Gael Aubort
736 Brett Sweeney
737 Eric Clingenpeel
738 Jason Roeder
739 Richard Gilbert
740 Michael Costello
741 Derek Boobyer
742 Seth Brummond
743 Michael VonHasseln
744 Daniel Flood
745 Martin Shelby
746 Dan Cornett
747 Chris Hays
748 Andrew Hoskins
749 Angus MacLennan
750 Tersha Choy

(edit: corrected spelling of Eric's last name)

I think there are threads for a couple of Toronto PFS stores on the Ontario Pathfinder Society website. Perhaps you might want to post something there as well.

Good luck!

Lucas,

You're awesome, and a credit to the community you're thanking.

Hope to see you again at one of the summer conventions.

Angus

Félicitations!

Look forward to seeing everyone again at GenCon!

Angus

We heard that from a few GMs that didn't print the updated scenario after having the PaizoCon one.

We had plenty of updated ones printed in the HQ area if he had asked.

Sorry that you didn't get to play that part.

Angus

I usually do a bit of copy and paste from another part of the map to remove the secret doors and rooms (sometimes put a logo on the covered room so that players don't realize that there is a blank space and metagame).

Must remember that. :)

I print up the map a second time with the secret doors and rooms indicated, cut them out, laminate and simply drop them in place when/if they are found.

That looked really cool when you showed it to me the other day.

Angus

Way to go Lucas! I'll echo what Todd said that many appreciative parents came up to thank Paizo for setting up the Kids Track, and how well things were handled there.

Thanks for the PFS portfolio.

Angus

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Who are you again? ;)

Look forward to seeing you at GenCon.

Angus

Congrats Tonya.

You guys in Canada don't know quite how good a VC you just got. But you will soon. :)

Well, I'm just glad that this means that Ontario gets a good VC now!!! :)

Congrats to my lovely wife and new VC!! I am still not saluting you.

I'm not getting involved in that.

@armac we will be based in North Bay.

Hmmm, about four hours away...and I think nearly the same from Toronto. Hopefully we'll see you here at some point, and if you organize something big up there I'm sure that VC Shackleton will decide he wants to go and force me to drive him there.

Welcome Tonya, and best wishes for dealing with those unruly Ontario players - especially VC Shackleton. I mean, you're a VC like him so he'll probably allow you to address him by name and not make you bow in his presence... ;)

Look forward to meeting you. Where in Ontario have you relocated to?

Angus

I still have a Cal Ripken baseball card with "f u" on the bottom of his bat :)

No, the obscenity card was of his brother, Billy Ripken.

Seeing threads like this make me wish that PFS would just remove factions.

I picked Taldor as my faction, and have kept all 5 of my characters in that faction. I much prefer the way factions work in Season 5, and I don't really care if a scenario that I get to play in has a link to Taldor or not.

Met a former Wizkids employee and picked up bunches of old Mage Knight minis that looked most excellent and unique, plus the secret to rebasing them. Turns out you freeze them and they pop right off the base.

Drogon, do you remember who it was you met? I miss my old WizKids friends...

Ah, I had forgotten about that trick. :)

Yes, I'm fine with the number of common / uncommon minis we are getting. My frustration is that for this set, those minis are all animals, and most have little or nothing to do with the AP.

Agreed, which is why I said they need to choose the figures right.

This sentiment gets compounded when the set was originally announced as 55 sculpts. I would be ok with this many animal sculpts if we had received 10 additional cool monsters from the AP. I just can't help feeling frustrated by how cool this set COULD have been.

Agreed here as well. I think that the animals might have been planned before the sculpts were reduced, and had things been known before the set was planned we might have had fewer animals.

I hope Paizo takes this feedback to heart.

I think they will.

I'm fine with the set size dropping to 45 figures, but don't think that I would like to see it drop any further without changing the booster/brick/case size, price and format.

If I recall correctly, Erik said that the reduction in sculpts was partly for WizKids to control costs. I'd rather see that, and keep booster prices the same, than have everything jump in price. It was already hard to justify buying a case of each set when I've got plenty of minis, and was able to play just fine without them in the first place. If their having to pay for less sculpts keeps them from raising prices, I am fine with that.

We're still getting the same amount of minis in a case, and with Paizo's subscription prices we're getting them cheaper. And if Paizo chooses the figures right, I like the amount of commons and uncommons we're getting with this set.

I had thought about letting Canada hinge their hopes on England but you can thank Thurston Hillman and Scott Young for helping to convince me otherwise ;-)

You know, I thought about taking a shot at those zany Manitobans but figured it is too easy so I let it slide. I'll just buy them a drink at GenCon if they're there. :)

As I'm biased towards the U.S., I'm drafting all of Canada to join us since we are your closest neighbors :-)

For the poor folks in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, you are going to have to hinge your hopes on England. Good luck with that ;-)

Darn North American bias! Here I was expecting to be able to hold out for the best offer as an undrafted free agent.

And as your northern neighbour (note proper English spelling) is a member of the Commonwealth we should also be able to pin our hopes to England.

But no, you insist on us remaining your hat.

Nice way to fit the World Cup into PFS, and I guess I'll have to cheer for the U.S. Sigh.

BTW, is there room for a Johnny Soccer? Since the Padres drafted him he must be able to play any sport. Just let him please have success in football. ;)

Do you have any suggestions about telling 11 year olds that spent their allowance on pathfinder stuff that what they bought may not work right and the only way to know is read every single other book (that she doesn't own) cover to cover to make sure there isn't a contradictory entry? That would be some super helpful advice for you to give.

I point out that over 99% of the book is accurate, and there are some little things that might have slipped through that we have to change, but it doesn't make the book bad. Tell the kid that mistakes happen, and we just have to change them when we find them. Point out other good options, and that the book she bought is still one of the best books out there in the game. Make her feel good about the purchase instead of feeling bad about it because of one thing that was missed when reprinting it due to the rush in reprinting.

Now, looking at that argument (and yes, I read the thread about the 11 year old), and seeing how a lot of people have played rules wrong over the years even when they were written properly, and then those people have to change when they are told the correct rules, well I'm willing to give the writers, developers and editors a break when they miss something. Players miss enough.

Angus

... and is oft rumored to be ...

I do love my Saskatoon Berry Pie, and fully support the "Canada First" sentiment that you are advocating, but I do insist that if you are serious in this sentiment, that you refrain from using improper American spelling in your posts. Don't forget your 'u's!

Or you can just bring the actual book.

-Skeld

Oh, I know, but I tend to bring just the watermarked pages that I need. I just don't want to see someone scan their own books and then bring only the needed pages without a watermark.

But, prior to this hadn't really thought of scanning in the books I have to PDF...that's an idea though. Is this something Paizo has no problem with, because if so I might do that!

Just a small aside:

If you are a PFS player, I don't believe that a PDF that you made yourself will be accepted to prove that you own an additional resource in the game. I believe that you would still need the watermarked PDF.

If Mike Brock had his way, I'm sure that it would be "The Year that the Falcons Win the Super Bowl", and that it would be that way every year.

I've spent a GenCon rooming with an awesome PFS writer...and I've also spent a GenCon rooming with Thursty! Now on to what he wrote above:

...it was a cold Canadian Monday when my local venture-officers told me to stop by the local game shop...

So that could have been any Monday of the year in Winterpeg. So, did you get to soak in any tears that night?

...sharing drinks and conversations with people like Liz Courts, Jason Bulmahn, Tim Hitchcock, Mark Moreland, and many more.

All good people, but us Canadians really have to work and get Jason to put out those Canadian pdf versions of all the books with the proper spelling of armour, colour, etc. And hey, you named the other PFS writer that I've roomed with: Hi Tim!

...I've made friends from across the world, and I like to consider this community more than just a game. It's a group of great people, and it's my pleasure to interact with them.

Agreed, and I'm glad that I've had the chance to meet and have a drink with you, even though you are from Winnipeg.

Congratulations on your spotlight this month, keep up the good writing, and look forward to seeing you again at GenCon!

Angus

*In past years we've had the first two slots back-to-back and a 1-hour gap between the 2nd & 3rd slot of the day. I haven't verified with Mike that we're changing that this year, but I'd like to.

Jon, in the slot listings in the call for volunteers it still shows the morning and afternoon slot back-to-back.

And about the shirts... Years ago, when volunteering for a different gaming company, some other volunteers wore their shirts out while going drinking and were not very good representatives of the company whose shirts they were wearing. I'm sure that Paizo would appreciate that if you were wearing your volunteer shirts with their name on them that you would not cause any negativity to their brand.

Angus

I'm also in Canada, and that seems off to me.

I just received my next subscription shipment notification for an AP book, a Companion book, a Flip-Mat, and an Adventure Path Card Game expansion, and my shipping is $21.40.

I'm sure they'll look at your account and figure things out. Good luck.

Too many negatives to list in my Brandon Weeden boon. :(

That's what I get for being a Browns fan.

I may be able to drive to Montreal for the Saturday. We'll see.

Angus

Congratulations Craig! ;)

His dad, Neil, must be so proud!

Really? Wow. There'll be no putting up with him now. ;)

Way to go, Glen!

Angus

ngc7293 wrote:

The one game I would really like to play again that I never really got to play enough of was RoleMaster. The guy who ran it used an amalgemation (sp) of different rules to make one set that worked for him. I tried to run it myself and it just didn't work. I am guessing it was because I didn't have the old rules like he had. It's a great system, none the less.

Yeah rolemaster is my favourite complicated system. I liked the fact the crunch was all "front loaded", so although it took ages to create a character and advance a level, that could all be done away from the table.

At the table, the DM typically had just one page open to resolve all manoeuvres (switching to the relevant attack table during combat). Each player had their weapon table and it ran very fast.

Ah, I loved the old Rolemaster campaign that I played in, and a big part of that was probably the GM and his story that merged so many modules together without us really realizing it. (I found out after he moved away and bought a bunch of RM stuff and started finding bits and pieces everywhere.)

I loved the first session of character gen, and the chore of levelling.

I was probably the first player in the group to discover all the skill synergies in Companion II. Enjoying the skills from RM is probably what really turned me on to 3.x and Pathfinder.

Now I want to relive the days of rolling open-ended (even though sometimes low), and rolling a 66 on the crit...

Angus

Is swashbucklers turning into the new armour spikes?

Hey, Jason! Look above. He spelled "armour" properly. Just sayin'. ;)

Angus

Way to go, Jon!

It was fun working with you at both GenCons, and also joining your group for a session in Arlington last year.

Angus

Konkrud for a convention exclusive?!? Great name!

Awww, man, but I'm not sure if I like the idea of going to a convention looking for Konkrud... ;)

Hope PaizoCon is going well. I'm jealous that I'm not there.

Angus