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If there are only three people in our gaming group that are interested in the organized play portion of PFS will that work? Two of us plan on rotating DM duties. The three players that aren't really interested in the organized play portion and will never be attending cons will probably use pregens or their own characters. The problem is they really don't have any interest in tracking their characters within the organized play system and have even less interest in registering with paizo.com.
Will this work and is it acceptable?
Tam
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If there are only three people in our gaming group that are interested in the organized play portion of PFS will that work? Two of us plan on rotating DM duties. The three players that aren't really interested in the organized play portion and will never be attending cons will probably use pregens or their own characters. The problem is they really don't have any interest in tracking their characters within the organized play system and have even less interest in registering with paizo.com.
Will this work and is it acceptable?
Tam
There's no problem with the uninterested players using pre-gens to fill out the empty seats. They cannot use characters that don't comply with the organized play rules however. Even if they never come to a convention, your characters may and playing at a table of 'illegals' taints your PFS PCs. If the uninterested players just want to show up and play, but make no effort to learn the campaign, you still want to register them and conduct the game as official OP. Just manage the pre-gens for them, keep their records with your game stuff. Give the PCs a Chronicle, buy equipment and advance the PCs for the players because they may change their minds down the road.
If you end up tracking the characters for the uninterested players, be sure to remark to them that a lot of guys do this kind of stuff for their wives and children. Then give them a long, disdainful stare.
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I can register their characters under my account? I guess it really doesn't matter as long as everything is well and thoroughly documented.
Tam
No, don't put them under your account. If they don't want to create a Paizo account and register with the Pathfinder Society (it takes less than a minute) then go to the "Report an Event" page of My Pathfinder Society and at the bottom you can find a link to create a PDF of ten unassigned PFS membership cards. Choose a card for each player and report their character under that number. Then give the players another disdainful stare.
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Ok, that sounds easier than I thought it would be. And these numbers are permanent? I can use them for their characters over and over? And when I finally convince them to venture outside the state for a convention they will be good to go?
Tam
The unassigned PFS membership cards are intended for organizers to print off and hand out at conventions where new players show up without a character. They allow the new player to have a number to write down when the session tracking sheet gets passed around. The number is inactive until the player goes home and registers on Paizo using the confirmation code printed on the card. That way the organizer doesn't have to wait for the player to register to report the event in the system. The organizer can report the new player in the system even if the player never registers. If they register days, weeks or months later, the session information is in the system waiting for them to confirm it with the code off the membership card. Upon confirmation, the system will instantly "marry" the new account to the sessions the player has been credited for. Does that all make sense?
The benefit to attaching a real PFS# to the player's character is just as you guessed. If (hopefully) the player decides to embrace PFS and registers on Paizo, they can get full credit for all the sessions they played.
They could always come and play at a convention without a PFS#, but their GM would be skeptical if a players shows up with a 5th level character and no PFS#...
If you do generate a sheet of unassigned PFS membership cards, please be sure to save a copy of the PDF somewhere on your computer. Inevitably if you give a player a membership card and they don't register right away, they will lose the card--along with the confirmation code. If you can recover the confirmation code from the PDF it will save you a lot of headaches. An important part of organizing is good recordkeeping. Like I complained before, being an organizer is like playing mommy to a bunch of kids. They never listen, and whenever they lose something, they will expect you to be able to fix it.
Venture-Captain, Arizona—Tucson
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If you end up tracking the characters for the uninterested players, be sure to remark to them that a lot of guys do this kind of stuff for their wives and children. Then give them a long, disdainful stare.
Funny, that's about what I was going to suggest. I've managed the characters for my wife, my kids, and my SCA squires...
Yep. :-)