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I'm a new Pathfinder looking for a group in the Macomb area. I will be at Michicon this Friday and Saturday for my first Pathfinder Society session as well as my first Pathfinder session. Old DD player and have taught my sons DD 4.0 but find it lacking and find my self missing the old days of DD.
Oh no! If you're playing Friday, that means you'll get stuck with the worst (and only) 5-star GM ever! Never fear though, on Saturday there's a 50% chance you'll get stuck with a good GM!
All kidding aside, welcome! I think Doug and I are the only one's running scenarios at MichiCon (I won't be there Friday). Doug is probably the best GM for new players as he's GM'd over 200 organized Pathfinder Society slots and understands the organized play rules better than anyone (even Josh).
Bit of advice for playing at Doug's table: Pay attention and you'll be just fine, and you might actually enjoy it. ;-) Otherwise, his enchanted dice will activate and you'll watch with horror as your brand new character is rent before your very eyes!
Have fun and see you there!
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Mac Boyce's post is two years old. If you want to find a regular group contact Kevin (kevin@revolvingdesign.com) or Devon (liair2@yahoo.com). They organize PFS games in Kalamazoo.I'm just south of you, in Three Rivers. Any interest from anyone from SW Michigan getting a regular PFS game day going?Go here:
http://dnd.meetup.com/790/
it's a D&D meetup group in K-Zoo, I don't know if they are going to play Pathfinder, but you could always ask!!
And if you're ever going to Grand Rapids, drop me a line.
The post is still valid. I'm coming to the next meetup on Aug. 27th.
http://www.meetup.com/dnd-790/calendar/14169288/
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Pathfinder Society Play in Grand Rapids, MI!
On October 23, 2010, 11:30 am check in 1:00pm start time.
I'm starting a new Pathfinder Society at White Cap Comics in Grand Rapid.
I will be running Season 1- S#29 The Devil We Know Part 1: Shipyard Rats.
If you are interested in playing Tier 1-2 Characters please let me know at:
grpathfinders@gmail.com
Space is limited and sign-ups end on October 20th. If we have intense interest I will try and get more GM's to run, right now 21 slots available.
Thanks!
Heather Goodman
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Due to a schedule conflict with D&D Gameday at the game store, I will have to cancel this event for now. I will post when the makeup date will be.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Heather
Pathfinder Society Play in Grand Rapids, MI!
On October 23, 2010, 11:30 am check in 1:00pm start time.
I'm starting a new Pathfinder Society at White Cap Comics in Grand Rapid.
I will be running Season 1- S#29 The Devil We Know Part 1: Shipyard Rats.
If you are interested in playing Tier 1-2 Characters please let me know at:
grpathfinders@gmail.com
Space is limited and sign-ups end on October 20th. If we have intense interest I will try and get more GM's to run, right now 21 slots available.
Thanks!
Heather Goodman
Venture-Captain, Michigan—Mt. Pleasant
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Our home PFS gaming group is about to see some rough times as one of us is taking classes on Monday evenings that interfere with the only time the rest of us can all get together. While another player's work schedule is getting screwed with and she's been having to work Monday evenings for a while.
So, we're looking at expanding and starting to open it up as a public game at a local library. We're still in the discussion phase just now, but I was wondering if there was any interested players in and around Gratiot. We've been playing in Ithaca, but we're looking to start playing at Alma Library. If anyone is close and interested, let me know. We've been wanting to expand to a game store, but that moved further away, so we're hoping the library pans out, and we can get at least a few more players. We've got 2-3 GM's willing and able to run, we just need players.
Thanks.
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Our home PFS gaming group is about to see some rough times as one of us is taking classes on Monday evenings that interfere with the only time the rest of us can all get together. While another player's work schedule is getting screwed with and she's been having to work Monday evenings for a while.
So, we're looking at expanding and starting to open it up as a public game at a local library. We're still in the discussion phase just now, but I was wondering if there was any interested players in and around Gratiot. We've been playing in Ithaca, but we're looking to start playing at Alma Library. If anyone is close and interested, let me know. We've been wanting to expand to a game store, but that moved further away, so we're hoping the library pans out, and we can get at least a few more players. We've got 2-3 GM's willing and able to run, we just need players.
Thanks.
What day are you looking at playing? I can probably get you 3-6 players if it's on a Saturday.
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Venture-Captain, Michigan—Mt. Pleasant
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We've been playing on Monday. Sundays three of us play a non-pfs game, while Saturdays one can't play until sundown for religious reasons, and two others work evenings. Up until now Monday has been the only day that has worked for everyone.
Where are you from Mr. Pleasington?
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We've been playing on Monday. Sundays three of us play a non-pfs game, while Saturdays one can't play until sundown for religious reasons, and two others work evenings. Up until now Monday has been the only day that has worked for everyone.
Where are you from Mr. Pleasington?
Alma. Just down the road from the library actually. Saturday is the only day that all of us have off, so if you can get one going then please shoot me a line. We'd love to meet some fellow PFS players.
LFG in northern/central michigan. From saginaw to tawas. Can play weekends.
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LFG in northern/central michigan. From saginaw to tawas. Can play weekends.
Off the top of my head, I believe there is/was a group in the Midland area. Which is in that "range" you provided. Also, due west of there in the Alma/Ithaca there are two groups.
Do you have anyone else that you play with, or is it just you? Have you considered trying to start up a group in your area, or somewhere in that range? If memory serves there is a game store in Midland as well, or maybe that was Bay City.
I had a group but i can't play friday nights any longer. It's just me now. I live in a small town and gamers r hard to come by. Got my pathfinder stuff amd love playing it kust have to find another group. Thanks for the info though! Will check it out
Sure. I would be happy to
Ok stopped there today before work. Nice store that does run pathfinder society. They have not run one since September though. Did not have a lot of pathfinder books and no minis in boxes. Had individual minis though. Said mini boosters go fast so i just assume the books do as well. Will definitely stop there again. Will bring in some kobold quarterlys for him to look at. He seemed interested in it
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If you other Michiganders weren't aware, we're starting to direct all session coordinators and in our region to Michiganpfs.org. The goal is to have one site for all of michigan to use as a reference for gaming instead of the dozen or so ways public games are used.
I would not count on Metro Detroit jumping in on this. I appreciate your ambitions to get the rest up Michigan up to speed as far as Pathfinder Society goes. We are doing fine with what we have over here.
You can throw a link to us athttp://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Pathfinder_Society_Southeast_Michigan/
on your page if you wish.
Den
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I have a different point of view on Detroit's status. From what I've been told about numbers of tables in 2011, and numbers of tables this year. There aren't as many being run, and less being run every month that passes. I can only find one group still running regularly (The Warriors). That tells me Detroit needs help. One of the reasons, I can personally citate due to my email and PM's being constantly pinged, is for people looking for games, but not knowing where to look.
Unless you know someone over there, who tells you about the yahoo group. You won't ever know it exists. That's not good, and is one of the reasons this site was built. 20 different groups using 20 different ways to generate interest in their tables is extremely inefficient. I can only see further use of that system as a detriment to PFS Statewide. The statewide website was used to great effect in Georgia (Mike Brock's original stomping grounds), and I look to emulate that success in Michigan.
So, here is what I ask. Help bring cohesion back to Detroit, and help Detroit be part of Michigan and not it's own little island. Let people know what tables are out there to be played. We've tailor built a website specifically for PFS and it's needs. To fight this, I can only see it as slowing down the growth of PFS in Michigan as a whole, and worst yet, specifically in the Detroit region.
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I have a different point of view on Detroit's status. From what I've been told about numbers of tables in 2011, and numbers of tables this year. There aren't as many being run, and less being run every month that passes. I can only find one group still running regularly (The Warriors). That tells me Detroit needs help. One of the reasons, I can personally citate due to my email and PM's being constantly pinged, is for people looking for games, but not knowing where to look.
Unless you know someone over there, who tells you about the yahoo group. You won't ever know it exists. That's not good, and is one of the reasons this site was built. 20 different groups using 20 different ways to generate interest in their tables is extremely inefficient. I can only see further use of that system as a detriment to PFS Statewide. The statewide website was used to great effect in Georgia (Mike Brock's original stomping grounds), and I look to emulate that success in Michigan.
So, here is what I ask. Help bring cohesion back to Detroit, and help Detroit be part of Michigan and not it's own little island. Let people know what tables are out there to be played. We've tailor built a website specifically for PFS and it's needs. To fight this, I can only see it as slowing down the growth of PFS in Michigan as a whole, and worst yet, specifically in the Detroit region.
The issue in Detroit has not been a lack of players. It is a lack of folks willing to organize a game day. That means finding a venue willing to host and finding enough judges. There is a fair amount of cat herding involved. I am aware of 5 different game days in metro Detroit. All can be found in the yahoo group I gave you before. A group with a current member total of 178. Obviously not all of these folks are active or even local. It is far from trivial to get that many people to move over to a new site without good reason. You have not offered a good reason.
My suggestion to you. Show up to our game days. Make the effort to find who is running them, and offer to run the special or some other thing. Or actually build play numbers in the part of the state that you DO represent before you try to horn in and claim our work as part of your success.
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Let me offer a reason. It brings your entire regional community together. It lets players in Detroit know when something is happening in Kalamazoo. If someone wakes up on a Saturday and sees that everything being run in their area has already been played, they can look at other areas to see if there is something they can play. It lets players talk about regional issues and build a community.
As Daniel is currently the only person in Michigan who has stepped up to be a campaign volunteer he DOES represent all of Michigan to me at the current time, not just western Michigan as you elude to. If a game day or convention in Michigan wants product prize support or special Chronicle sheets, they have to go through Daniel.
Daniel has done exatly what I asked him to do. He helped to oversee a website was built to try to bring all your regions players together. I don't think he is trying to claim your work to build PFS, Doug Miles work, or anyone else. I think he is trying to build one, complete community of PFS players in Michigan to make it a much better success instead of staying with the status quo of several pockets of players that don't know what the other is doing.
When I became a VC in Atlanta, we had scattered groups using Facebook, MeetUp, personal website, and various other means of coordinating PFS. When I had Georgiapfs.org built, it brought all of those players together. We went from 2-3 public game day tables scheduled each month to more than 30. Players were able to find a game at a different location, go there and meet new gamers, expand their personal gamer base for home games, and find new people they could play with at conventions as well as game days.
You say there are 178 people on the list and there is not a good reason for them to move. Isn't cohesion of your entire Michigan playerbase, instead of Detroit just doing its own thing, a good enough reason? Isn't offering up more options of game days to your local playerbase a good thing and not a bad thing? Isn't having 400 people, compared to 178, working together to coordinate and grow PFS an awesome reason to consolidate all of your regional players into one place?
Looking for a PAthfinder or D/D gaming group in Northwest Michigan, anywhere within an hour of Gaylord or Petoskey will do!
Message me or email me if you are looking for new players!
thanks
cymaddux31@aol.com
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*Rolls knowledge: Geography*
Well, I've heard of it, and I think I went there during a band competition...but where that is without google...dunno
*Takes a 20 on knowledge aka google*
Ok, memory refreshed. You're officially the furthest north pathfinder I know of. As of currently I am not aware of any others near you, but take heart, that doesn't mean you're the only one. Just the first to wander across us on the internet. If you find anyone, or know anyone else around you. Direct them to here and MichiganPFS.org. We'll all do our best to get you playing.
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Venture-Captain, Michigan—Mt. Pleasant
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Previously, I think the northern most PFS player I've known about is in Big Rapids. We're slowly spreading north. As the VCs have said, there's currently not much your way that we know of. All you need is three other players to make a legal table. That's how we started here in Ithaca and we've gotten 8 players the last two years. Now that I think of it, one of those 8 moved up to TC... Though he only played with us once...
I know there are Pathfinder players in the UP (Dot Games in SSM had way too much PF books for there not to be).
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Venture-Captain, Michigan—Mt. Pleasant
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If anyone is in the Midland, Michigan area, I'll be starting up a monthly (to begin with at least) PFS game at Collector's Corner in Midland on Friday, January 18th at 7 pm. I would have started in December, but its a crazy busy month so we'll start after the new year (assuming the world doesn't end in December...)
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In case anyone checking here isn't aware, this is what's going on in the Detroit Metro area. I'd love to see gamedays develop in Flint, Howell, Waterford and Mt. Clemmens/Clinton Twp. These areas are all under-served right now. The ground is fertile, it just needs a seed planted by someone.
Most Monday evenings and Sunday once a month:
RIW Hobbies
29116 5 Mile Road
Livonia, MI 48154-3850
Sign-up Here
Every Tuesday evening:
Ultimate Sports Bar & Grill
28202 Dequindre Road
Warren, Michigan 48092
Sign-up Here
Tuesday evening bi-weekly:
Collectible Treasure/Mythical Realm
31620 Grand River Ave
Farmington , Michigan 48336
Sign-up Here
Every Wednesday evening:
Warriors 3 Comics & Games
35613 West Michigan Ave
Wayne, MI 48184
More information here
Wednesday evening bi-weekly:
Mainstreet Billiards (in the Solarium)
215 South Main Street
Rochester, MI 48307-2033
Sign-up Here
Wednesday evening bi-weekly (opposite of Mainstreet Billiards):
Ultimate Sports Bar & Grill
28202 Dequindre Road
Warren, Michigan 48092
Sign-up Here
One Saturday a month:
Brandon Township Public Library
304 South Street
Ortonville, MI 48462
Sign-up Here
I'm running a private table right now, but after the holidays I'll open the event to the public at this location. I'm currently organizing volunteer GMs:
Tuesday evenings bi-weekly:
BC Comix
17125 Silver Parkway
Fenton, MI 48430
Sign-up Here
And for good measure I'll throw in Toledo:
Many Fridays and Saturdays:
The Game Room
3001 West Sylvania Avenue
Toledo, OH 43613
Sign-up Here
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We keep growing in Metro Detroit! Check out the action and get involved! If you'd like to get a game started in your neck of the woods, contact Venture-Captain Mason Whitlark at pfs.detroit@gmail.com. Here's the rundown nowadays:
Monday Nights:
Pandemonium Games
1858 Middlebelt Rd
Garden City, MI 48135
Sign-Up Here
Contact Brandon (brandon@pandemonium-online.com)
Tuesday Nights & Weekends:
RIW Hobbies
29116 5 Mile Road
Livonia, MI 48154
Sign-up Here
Contact Steve (stevenderouin@gmail.com), or
Contact Dennis (rubme68@yahoo.com)
Tuesday Nights:
Ultimate Sports Bar & Grill
28202 Dequindre Road
Warren, Michigan 48092
Sign-Up Here
Contact Bill (xathanos@att.net)
Tuesday Nights:
BC Comix
17125 Silver Parkway
Fenton, MI 48430
Sign-Up Here
Contact Doug (pfs.rc.detroit@gmail.com)
Wednesday Nights:
Mainstreet Billiards
215 South Main Street
Rochester, MI 48307
Sign-Up Here
Contact Alex (tooalex@yahoo.com)
Wednesday Nights:
Warriors 3 Comics and Games
35613 West Michigan Avenue
Wayne, MI 48184
Sign-Up Here
Contact Don (donald@donaldwilson.info)
Friday Night:
Gamer's Gauntlet
20564 Hall Road
Clinton Township, MI 48038
Sign-Up Here
Contact Bill (xathanos@att.net)
Weekend Games:
Get Your Game On
310 S State St
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Sign-Up Here
Contact Dylan (dwilso41@emich.edu)
Chidester Place in Ypsilanti
330 Chidester Street
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Sign-Up Here
Contact Will (xidoraven@yahoo.com)
Our House Games
403 E. Front Street
Monroe, MI 48161
Sign-Up Here
Contact Ricky (tacoscheap@yahoo.com)
Brandon Township Public Library
In the Community Room
304 South St
Ortonville, MI 48462
Sign-Up Here
Contact Doug (pfs.rc.detroit@gmail.com)
Next month we have two local mini-conventions:
BarbeCon
Saturday, September 21st
Independence Oaks Park
Sign-Up Here
Michigan PFS Gameday
Saturday, September 28th
Warriors 3 Comics & Games
Sign-Up Here
And for goodness sake, don't forget that U-Con is approaching... Roll a Perception check, November is sneaking up.
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I thought I'd update the list since we switched over to the new Warhorn in January: Check out the action and get involved! All Detroit Lodge mustering is done on Warhorn. If you'd like to get a game started in your neck of the woods, contact Venture-Captain William "Xath" Jones at xathanos@att.net. Here's the rundown nowadays:
Monday Nights:
Pandemonium Games
1858 Middlebelt Rd
Garden City, MI 48135
Contact Brandon (brandon@pandemonium-online.com)
Monday Nights & Weekends:
RIW Hobbies
29116 5 Mile Road
Livonia, MI 48154
Contact Steve (stevenderouin@gmail.com), or
Contact Dennis (rubme68@yahoo.com)
Tuesday Nights:
BC Comix
17125 Silver Parkway
Fenton, MI 48430
Contact Doug (pfs.rc.detroit@gmail.com)
Wednesday Nights:
Mainstreet Billiards
215 South Main Street
Rochester, MI 48307
Contact Alex (tooalex@yahoo.com)
Wednesday Nights:
Warriors 3 Comics and Games
35613 West Michigan Avenue
Wayne, MI 48184
Contact Don (donald@donaldwilson.info)
Friday Nights:
Flat Land Games
28990 S Wixom Rd
Wixom, MI 48393
Contact Grant (gnelson323@gmail.com)
Gamer's Gauntlet
20564 Hall Road
Clinton Township, MI 48038
Contact Bill (xathanos@att.net)
Weekend Games:
Stay & Play
31374 Harper Ave
Saint Clair Shores, MI, 48082
Contact Chris (cgderon@hotmail.com) or Brad (bpdlong@gmail.com)
Nerdageddon
117 E. Grand River Ave
Brighton, MI 48116
Contact Zak (zglade@gmail.com)
Brandon Public Library
304 South St
Ortonville, MI 48462
Contact Doug (pfs.rc.detroit@gmail.com)
from warren,mi..
would like to get a wrath of the righteous campaign going or join a group. anyone in the warren area?
from warren,mi..
would like to get a wrath of the righteous campaign going or join a group. anyone in the warren area?
my email is: magnusprime27@yahoo.com