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One of the great highlights from last year's PaizoCon was getting to see dozens of different gamemasters and burgeoning writers put their spin on the setting with cool custom adventures and even new takes on the system. Let's start a running list of what will be run this coming year and who might be interested.
Last year's format was very effective, s let's just borrow from that. Be sure to include the following in your pitch:
Title of the game
Description of the game (the back cover kind of text)
Minium/Maximum # of players
Gaming System/edition
Maturity rating (G, PG, R)
Player experience req. (None/some/walking PHB+DMG)
For what Character levels, or will characters be provided?
Return to Chinatown
...a man would have to be some kind of FOOL to think we're alone in THIS universe. - Jack Burton
July 14th, KSFX News - Historic downpours have flooded San Francisco's Chinatown, washing away some of the oldest structures built by Chinese immigrants, including the historic Golden Jade Temple. Meterologists are cautioning everybody to stay inside and stay dry, because San Francisco is in for another dark and stormy night.
100714 20:17:39 - PCX Underground - Golden Jade wasn't just a temple, you know. Word is, Old Man Egg built that place to keep things out and down, you hear me? With it gone...who knows what can crawl out? Keep your eyes open - some things shouldn't come back on this night.
Players: 2 to 4
System: PFRPG/d20 Modern/Ninjas & Superspies Hybrid
Maturity Rating: PG 13
Player Experience: Some
Character Level: 7th
Wait, is that a repeat of last year's game? Yes. Yes it is.
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Starfinder: Hephaestus on the Drift
The UNSF Hephaestus has seen better days. The freighter has gone adrift in the Polaris system, dangerously close to the border with the marauding Stryfe warlords. With the freighter's crew unresponsive and her orbit quickly decaying, a crack response team is needed to investigate the ship and rescue her crew and valuable cargo. Starfinder is a homebrew sci-fi version of the Pathfinder RPG; take control of one of the UNSF's crack emergency response teams in hostile space fight aliens, save lives, and unravel a dangerous plot.
Minium/Maximum # of players 2-6
Gaming System/edition homebrew Pathfinder sc-fi system
Maturity rating PG
Player experience req. sme Pathfinder experience would be helpful
For what Character levels, or will characters be provided? 5th level characters will be provided
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I've been mulling over doing a game at PaizoCon, and inspiration struck during some commenting on my DeviantART page and here on the boards. Combined with my now-defunct 4th Edition campaign, set in an Andoren town known as Blissford, I figured I could make a nice little Golarion-themed one-shot adventure.
With kobolds.
Dungeon Keepers (tentative title)
Description: The kobold tribe, the Dwarf Eaters, has been working for a mysterious and dangerous longshanks female named Misra Ebonshear for the better part of two years now, and while the spoils have been steady, King Chaagaak hungers for more. Several devoted clutch-mates and servants of this mighty kobold king have stepped up to draw unwary adventurers into their trap-filled lair, like pigs to the slaughter.
You are these kobolds.
Using time-tested methods of pink-skin butchery, you and your fellow kobold allies use traps, stealth, guile, and the power of sheer numbers to overpower, rob, and murder as many low-level adventurers as you can before your exploits draw too much attention from the forces of civilization or your murderous employer.
Minimum/Maximum # of Players: 4-6
Gaming System/Edition: Pathfinder RPG
Maturity Rating: PG
Player Experience: Some
Character Levels: 1st-3rd (undecided); characters provided
I might also run a 4E-based Gamma World game, if the book comes out in time. I don't recall if it does.
Return to Chinatown
...a man would have to be some kind of FOOL to think we're alone in THIS universe. - Jack BurtonJuly 14th, KSFX News - Historic downpours have flooded San Francisco's Chinatown, washing away some of the oldest structures built by Chinese immigrants, including the historic Golden Jade Temple. Meterologists are cautioning everybody to stay inside and stay dry, because San Francisco is in for another dark and stormy night.
100714 20:17:39 - PCX Underground - Golden Jade wasn't just a temple, you know. Word is, Old Man Egg built that place to keep things out and down, you hear me? With it gone...who knows what can crawl out? Keep your eyes open - some things shouldn't come back on this night.
Players: 2 to 4
System: PFRPG/d20 Modern/Ninjas & Superspies Hybrid
Maturity Rating: PG 13
Player Experience: Some
Character Level: 7th
** spoiler omitted **
I hope I can get lucky with the lottery this year and play in this one. :)
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I might also run a 4E-based Gamma World game, if the book comes out in time. I don't recall if it does.That won't be coming out until this fall, unfortunately.
Well, that sucks. I thought it'd be as such, but I always hope my Swiss-cheese brain missed the good news.
Maybe for PaizoCon 2011, then? Hmm...
I might also run a 4E-based Gamma World game, if the book comes out in time. I don't recall if it does.That won't be coming out until this fall, unfortunately.
Well, that sucks. I thought it'd be as such, but I always hope my Swiss-cheese brain missed the good news.
Maybe for PaizoCon 2011, then? Hmm...
I would definitely sign up for that game. :)
Is there an official schedule somewhere, or is it all open gaming?
Either way, I plan on having two games prepared to run, depending on if I get any players this time :)
I imagine there will be an official schedule closer to the con date.
Title of the game: Risen Beneath the Ice
Description of the game: February, 1941. The Axis war machine is on the march in Europe, and Japan and China are battling in the Far East. Meanwhile, US army intelligence intercepts a radio distress signal from a previously unknown secret Nazi base in Antarctica. Unwilling to risk war, yet unable to pass up the opportunity, president Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes a secret expedition to discover what the Nazis are doing. Awaiting them is a horror awakened after 60,000 years beneath the ice.
Minium/Maximum # of players: 4-6
Gaming System/edition: D20 of some sort, probably modified somewhat
Maturity rating: either PG-13 or R, depending on how sensitive you are to "Fantasy Violence"
Player experience req.: some
For what Character levels, or will characters be provided?: Characters will be provided, although they will be fairly low level.
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"You heard me right! my troll Bertha here can tear your stupid beast apart in a heartbeat. Yeah, I’d bet my entire hull on it!”
No monster-fighting tournament is more barbaric and senseless than the annual Green Blood on a Black Rock. You play a dastardly Free Captain ready to bet his hull full of captured goods that your enslaved beastie can shred all comers. Come to this event with a cool pirate name and shrewdly draft from a list of available critters. Then play your beasts in a bracketed, one-on-one, anything-goes death match. Bring your luckiest die, 'cause there will be a lot of green blood on everybody’s favorite black rock. The captain whose monster survives to the end gets the honor of having one of the most famous monsters of the Sodden lands, the monster to win Green Blood on a Black Rock for 4710 A.R.!
No characters required – just bring lot’s of energy and, if handy, perhaps a Bestiary. You may wish to read up on the Sodden Lands in the PCCS (hardcover) book on p. 135 for flavor. Note this is an elimination game and it won’t fill the time slot for everybody. Some people are either going to wind-up spectators or enjoy a long lunch! Spectators welcome for side bets and cheering!
Alrighty ladies and gents and things from another plane, time to make this thread !
Here's what I'll need from you, if you haven't provided it already:
- Event Title: What's your event called?
- Description: Short n' sweet, K.I.S.S.!
- Slot: Give me TWO times you'd like to run your game, first choice and an alternate. Available slots are:
Friday June 18th: Afternoon, Evening
Saturday June 19th: Morning, Afternoon, Evening (this slot coincides with the Banquet)
Sunday June 20th: Morning
- Min/Max Players Solo to small army?
- Event Category: Game? Contest? Seminar? Etc!
- GM Name If I don't already have it. :D
- Game/Rules/System
- Game Edition
- Materials Provided: Y/N?
- Game Rating: G/PG/PG-13/R
- Experience Needed: None/Some/Veteran
- Prizes Awarded: Y/N?
- Additional Notes
I don't have a list of staff events yet, so I'm hoping that listing an alternate game time will allow for some flexibility in your schedules. Let's get crackin' with those events and games, people!
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• Event Title: Green Blood on a Black Rock 4710
• Description: No monster-fighting tournament is more barbaric and senseless than the annual Green Blood on a Black Rock. You play a dastardly Free Captain ready to bet his hull full of captured goods that your enslaved beastie can shred all comers. Come to this event with a cool pirate name and shrewdly draft from a list of available critters. Then play your beasts in a bracketed, one-on-one, anything-goes death match. Bring your luckiest die, 'cause there will be a lot of green blood on everybody’s favorite black rock. The captain whose monster survives to the end gets the honor of having one of the most famous monsters of the Sodden lands, the monster to win Green Blood on a Black Rock for 4710 A.R.!
• Slot: Friday June 18th: Afternoon; Saturday June 19th: Afternoon
• Min/Max Players 8 players, spectators welcome
• Event Category: game/contest
• GM Name Adam Daigle and Brandon Hodge
• Game/Rules/System Pathfinder
• Materials Provided: Y
• Game Rating: PG-13/R
• Experience Needed: Some
• Prizes Awarded: Y
• Additional Notes No characters required – just bring lot’s of energy and, if handy, perhaps a Bestiary. You may wish to read up on the Sodden Lands in the PCCS (hardcover) book on p. 135 for flavor. Note this is an elimination game and it won’t fill the time slot for everybody. Some people are either going to wind-up spectators or enjoy a long lunch! Spectators welcome for side bets and cheering!
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Lilith is organizing all attendee-run events this year! So this is your chance to get your event to count officially! Another sentence that ends in an exclamation point!
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Lilith is organizing all attendee-run events this year! So this is your chance to get your event to count officially! Another sentence that ends in an exclamation point!
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES! I want your gaaaaaaaaaaaaames! *bribes with cookies*
Wayfinder, PaizoCon Founder
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Howdy Folks! PaizoCon Dictator-Emeritus Timitius, here.
I am seeing several great games being proposed! This is GREAT. I want to play in all of these! However, what I am not seeing is these proposals taking that next step to becoming OFFICIAL. By my count right now...we have two. TWO.
We need more. LOTS more. Josh explained to me that each day is going to have upwards of 36 gaming slots. Of these, PFS scenario sessions will take up half. So....that's quite a lot of slots left open.
Sure, there will be Paizo staff run games in the mix, too, but not everyone can get into these. In fact, a lot won't. There are going to be 200+ gamers looking for a game each day. We just cannot have folks milling about, looking lost and bored. We need them to park their butts at YOUR table, playing YOUR game.
So, if you are a contributor, follow the examples of Adam and Greg, and submit a game or two to run at PaizoCon 2010. The fans know you, and they WANT the opportunity to play with you. I myself got to play some "Slumbering Tsar" preview action last year with Greg. It was so much fun! And, I also found myself sitting next to Lou Agresta and Sean Patrick Fannon as well! Bonus!
If you are a fan, PLEASE PLEASE submit your one-shot game here as well. You are needed! Convert an old D&D module to PFRPG...modify a module to run in 4-5 hours...heck, run some favorite, nostalgic game for your fellow nerds!
Bottom line here: Some of the most memorable times at the past two PaizoCons have been at the tables run by your fellow Paizo fans. You are playing with a pool of people that you just won't find anywhere else, during a weekend that is jam-packed with awesome.
So, heed the call of Cookie Mistress Lilith: fill up that lottery with more Paizo fan-run games!
Event Title: "The Harrowing"
Description: The ever-shifting territory known as the Worldwound spews forth countless demons, but the times a powerful entity of the innumerable layers of Abyss arrives on the Material plane can be counted on one hand. When a high-ranking member of the Iomedean faith goes missing with tell-tale signs of demonic attack, the adventurers are drawn into an extraplanar power struggle, the aftermath having unknown and far-reaching effects on Golarion as they know it.
Slot: Friday afternoon, Friday evening
Min/Max Players: 2 - 4
Event Category: Game
Game System: Pathfinder RPG
Materials Provided: Y (pregens will be available, but I will accept characters with prior approval)
Game Rating: PG-13/R
Experience Needed: Some
Prizes Awarded: Maybe
Additional Notes:
An adaptation of Monte Cook's "The Harrowing" from Dungeon #84. This is for four 15th level characters.
"You heard me right! my troll Bertha here can tear your stupid beast apart in a heartbeat. Yeah, I’d bet my entire hull on it!”
No monster-fighting tournament is more barbaric and senseless than the annual Green Blood on a Black Rock. You play a dastardly Free Captain ready to bet his hull full of captured goods that your enslaved beastie can shred all comers. Come to this event with a cool pirate name and shrewdly draft from a list of available critters. Then play your beasts in a bracketed, one-on-one, anything-goes death match. Bring your luckiest die, 'cause there will be a lot of green blood on everybody’s favorite black rock. The captain whose monster survives to the end gets the honor of having one of the most famous monsters of the Sodden lands, the monster to win Green Blood on a Black Rock for 4710 A.R.!No characters required – just bring lot’s of energy and, if handy, perhaps a Bestiary. You may wish to read up on the Sodden Lands in the PCCS (hardcover) book on p. 135 for flavor. Note this is an elimination game and it won’t fill the time slot for everybody. Some people are either going to wind-up spectators or enjoy a long lunch! Spectators welcome for side bets and cheering!
Yarr! If'n I can make it back to the Eye in time, ye kin bet yer bodkins I'll be bringing some beasties that'll assure me the winner this time around!
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2008 Top 6
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Late entry...
Creeps of the Borderlands II: Creeps in the Keep
Seizing the Keep was only the beginning. Betrayed by your allies, far from reinforcements, you and your fellow monsters must find a way to escape...or to hold the Keep against impossible odds. A loose update of the classic "Keep on the Borderlands" adventure, using monster as characters.
4-6 players
Pathfinder RPG
PG rated
Some experience recommended
Monsters provided
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Apparently I need to add some more info, as I expected the first post with the template to be complete. Afraid it will probably have to wait until Monday as I am headed to a con to run some PFS...just putting out there that I'll complete it as soon as is feasible.
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I'm thinking about running something with the Mouse Guard RPG system, either an actual Mouse Guard game, or using it to whip together a TOS Star Trek game based on ideas my room mate had about how to adapt the rules.
Still getting my crap together, but will be posting shortly!
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I'm thinking about running something with the Mouse Guard RPG system, either an actual Mouse Guard game, or using it to whip together a TOS Star Trek game based on ideas my room mate had about how to adapt the rules.
Still getting my crap together, but will be posting shortly!
DO IT, Ben! I'd sign up in a heartbeat. Especially the Star Trek one. Can I be a bunch of expendable redshirts? :P
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Liz, would it be okay to propose a game for Sunday afternoon or evening? I am running Society Scenarios all weekend, and therefore don't know if I would have time to run anything during the con. However, as I posted elsewhere, when Paizocon ended I wasn't ready to stop yet. I'm sure I wasn't the only one! Therefore, I would happily run a game or two later on Sunday if there is interest.
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I think the convention ends officially Sunday afternoon, so there wouldn't be an official slot with tickets or anything. If you want to run something unofficially after hours, that's fine, but I would wait to announce it until the during-hours games are over.
Edit: What? Only thirteen events so far? Come on people, I know you can bring the gaming to PaizoCon! Do eet! The power of the Golem compels you!
Ouch. If there's only 13 attendee-run games this year, many of you are going to be very, very disappointed when it comes time to lottery for seats. Let's see some more action!
As for Sunday night gaming, we won't have official rooms for you, but nothing stops you from gaming in the lobby, the lounge, or your hotel rooms. :-) I just can't put those locations on a schedule or put them in the lottery. Perhaps a Sunday night events thread ...
I will certainly run something but haven't had a chance to put anything together yet. What's the deadline for getting on the official calendar? I ran a Star Wars game last year but didn't get it 'registered' for the list.
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Is anyone interested in a Wheel of Time adventure? I have modified the D20 system based off of the book published by Wizards of the Coast in which spells are more like the weaves mentioned in the stories written by Robert Jordan. I can whip up more specifics by this weekend if there is demand for this non PFRPG kind of event. The game itself would have to be Saturday or Sunday since I can't take enough time off to make it to Seattle by Friday in sufficent time to register for a room and be prepared (unless I drove all night on Thursday).
Propose it and I bet you get 4-to-6 people signed up for it. :-)
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Event Title: "Skin Deep"
Description: In Varisia, a strange cult has appeared that espouses the virtues of inner beauty. However, the cult is not as virtuous as it may appear, and the PCs are called to investigate.
Slot: Sunday Morning
Min/Max Players: 4-6
Event Category: Game
Game System: Pathfinder RPG
Materials Provided: N
Game Rating: PG-13/R
Experience Needed: Some
Prizes Awarded: Lunch
Additional Notes:
This is for 6th level characters.
Event Title:
Description: Trapped within the Fellnight Realm, Rhoswen the fey-queen has long sought to escape her planar prison, growing ever more hateful of those living freely in the natural world. Now, her recent mastery of shadow magic has given her the means to extend figments of her true self beyond the faengard, where she seeks allies to undo the dimensional anchors separating her from Golarion and the First World. Meanwhile, in the nearby Andoren town of Bellis, an annual honey-harvesting competition has led many of its citizens into the forest to gather honeycombs and colonies of bees for their hives. But when one of the beekeepers fails to return, his desperate fiancee calls on a group of adventurers to find him. Can they brave the wilderness in time to save him from the shadow of the Fellnight Queen? This adventure is for 5th level characters.
Slots: Friday afternoon, Saturday morning
Min/Max Players: 3 - 5
Event Category: Game
Game System: Pathfinder RPG
Materials Provided: Y (pregens will be available -- however, I may accept characters with prior approval, but I won't accept APG classes at this time)
Game Rating: PG to PG-13
Experience Needed: Some
Prizes Awarded: Doubtful
Additional Notes: Shadow of the Fellnight Queen is a prequel adventure to the current Pathfinder module, Realm of the Fellnight Queen now available from Paizo. I'd like to run this adventure twice (i.e., for two separate groups)...once on Friday afternoon and once on Saturday morning, if possible.
Ouch. If there's only 13 attendee-run games this year, many of you are going to be very, very disappointed when it comes time to lottery for seats. Let's see some more action!
It might help for a blog post to tell people to get on this.
• Event Title: “A Conspiracy in Shadows” (by Phil Norfleet)
• Description: Baerlon, an Andoran town at the base of the Mountains of Mist, is a place of sheep herders, sheep’s wool merchants, sheep’s wool weavers and the occasional miner from the nearby mountains. Baerlon is a simple town, the last place anyone would find Darkfriends, minions of the Dark One. Your characters will discover that nothing is ever simple, as an easy trip to Baerlon becomes complicated and sinister. For those familiar with the books by Robert Jordan, this is set a few weeks after the main characters of the stories left the town in Eye of the World. (This adventure is for 1st level The Wheel of Time D20 characters.)
• Slot: Saturday June 19th Morning or Evening; or Sunday June 20th Morning
• Min/Max Players: 4 – 6
• Event Category: Game
• GM Name: Dawn Fischer
• Game/Rules/System: D20 The Wheel of Time - customized
• Materials Provided: Y (Pregen characters provided, others allowed upon approval)
• Game Rating: PG-13
• Experience Needed: Some D20 preferred
• Prizes Awarded: N
• Additional Notes: A sequel is possible later Sunday if folks are interested, titled “The Trouble with Tinkers”
"You heard me right! my troll Bertha here can tear your stupid beast apart in a heartbeat. Yeah, I’d bet my entire hull on it!”
No monster-fighting tournament is more barbaric and senseless than the annual Green Blood on a Black Rock. . . .
Very glad to see Green Blood on a Black Rock return in 4710 A.R. I have to insist that someone please post a tournament report after the Con as the suspense is already killing me!
In case it assists, here is a light-hearted thread on how 4709 A.R. played out.
::points to the title of this thread and the original post::
Once you propose your game in this thread, using the template of information requested, the powers-that-be at Paizo (mainly, Josh, I believe) will ensure your game gets listed in the lottery sign-up they'll be using later to assign players to events/seminars/games overall.
Hm. OK, so does that mean mine's already in the list? The post I was responding to mentioned Adam's and Greg's games, but said those were the only two. What makes those different than the proposals by Lilith, Crystal Frasier, N'Wah, Me, and Jeremy Walker, all of which were also posted in the same format in the same thread?
You're in the list, but I need to know your preferred time slot from the given available slots - see this post here. Pretty much the same, but preferred time slot is necessary!
While we're at it, Crystal, Ashton, Jeremy and Russ need to give me the same information. :)
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Hm. OK, so does that mean mine's already in the list? The post I was responding to mentioned Adam's and Greg's games, but said those were the only two. What makes those different than the proposals by Lilith, Crystal Frasier, N'Wah, Me, and Jeremy Walker, all of which were also posted in the same format in the same thread?
Pat,
Your info is almost all there, but there is a very important extra bit we need to get you into the line-up (and this goes for everyone else who posted early):
Slot: Give me TWO times you'd like to run your game, first choice and an alternate. Available slots are:
Friday June 18th: Afternoon, Evening
Saturday June 19th: Morning, Afternoon, Evening (this slot coincides with the Banquet)
Sunday June 20th: Morning
Other items you could provide in addition to your previous post:
Event Category: Game? Contest? Seminar? Etc!
GM Name If I don't already have it. (And you probably want to convey a REAL name, because those are kind of default when you are not online ;-))
Prizes Awarded: Y/N?
Edit: NINJAED BY LILITH HERSELF! Missed it by that much....