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KublaCon is the little Con that the big guys pay attention to.
KublaCon is gamer’s paradise!
Every year during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, a couple thousand gamers invade a 5-star hotel next to the airport, for the sole purpose of getting our game on! KublaCon is the premiere game convention of the San Francisco region and I wanted to plan something special for my first KublaCon as Venture-Captain. I’m thinking it needs to be something big. How about instead, someone big?!
The Bay Area Pathfinder Society is very pleased to announce that Jason Bulmahn will be our Guest of Honor for Kubla! Meet the man who made the game. Maybe even play with him!
Exclusive Northern-Cal Debut @ KublaCon!
The 5-star GM/Venture-Captain Pathfinder Society Module entitled, “The Midnight Mauler” will be played on all PFS tables Saturday night May 28th. Do not miss your only opportunity to play this special, rare content.
Check back to this thread for updates and schedule of scenarios calendar..
For more information on Society play @ Kubla or in the SF Bay area: pathfinder (at) justiceradio.net
Or visit http://bayareapathfinder.com
KublaCon -- Memorial Day Weekend -- May 27–30, 2011
Register online at www.kublacon.com
Book your room at the Hyatt: 800-233-1234
Ask for the KublaCon rate of $ 112 per night.
4 day pass registered before April 15 = $ 40
4 day pass registered before May 9 = $ 45
On-site 4 day pass = $ 50
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Oh hecks yes!
My local convention! w00t!
I'm looking forward to this and putting on a great convention for our players. We have some really dang good judges here in the Bay Area and they are probably going to be at Kublacon:
VC Azmyth!
Euan (awesome)
DJ Cherry Pie!
Josh Archer (new gameday coordinator!)
Chris S. (aka the yahoo who got me started in Organized Play, blame him!)
JerDog (most elaborate maps ever when he judges)
Branar!
And that's just the start...oh yeah, I'll be throwing down dice as well.
I'm stoked about our judging crew for this con.
This con is going to be a good one.
-Pain
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I'll be there with my game face on, ready to persecute the peasants... I mean provide a fun and exciting adventuring experience to the players. :)
Josh Archer (new gameday coordinator!)
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KUBLACON!!!!
More information to pass along!
Our Warhorn is here: http://warhorn.net/kublacon-2011-lfr-pfs/
It should be open for sign ups later this week.
Our schedule of modules includes the following:
1-36:Echoes of the Everwar, Part 1: The Prisoner of Skull Hill (7-11)
1-40:Hall of Drunken Heroes (7-11)
1-42:Echoes of the Everwar, Part II: The Watcher of Ages (7-11)
1-44:Echoes of the Everwar, Part III: Terror at Whistledown (7-11)
1-50:Fortune's Blight (5-9)
1-53:Echoes of the Everwar, Part IV: The Faithless Dead (7-11)
1-55:The Infernal Vault (1-7)
2-01:Before the Dawn, Part I: The Bloodcove Disguise (1-7)
2-02:Before the Dawn, Part II: Rescue at Azlant Ridge (1-7)
2-03:The Rebel's Ransom (5-9)
2-08:The Sarkorian Prophecy (7-11)
2-11:The Penumbral Accords (1-5)
2-13:Murder on the Throaty Mermaid (1-7)
2-15:Shades of Ice, Part I: Written in Blood (1-5)
2-16:The Flesh Collector (7-11)
2-17:Shades of Ice, Part II: Exiles of Winter (1-5)
2-19:Shades of Ice, Part III: Keep of the Huskarl King (1-5)
2-00:Year of the Shadow Lodge (1-11)
2-VC/4*:The Midnight Mauler (1-7)
SM-A:Master of the Fallen Fortress (lvl 1 only)
And some of the best judges in Pathfinder will be running them.
-Pain
I hear Jason is going to be at this Con Might have to drive out for a day what is the one day rate?
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I hear Jason is going to be at this Con Might have to drive out for a day what is the one day rate?
1 day = $30, if I read this correctly.
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I hear Jason is going to be at this Con Might have to drive out for a day what is the one day rate?
Yes, Jason B is scheduled to attend.
Yep, $30 is the single day rate.
Also, Joey Virtue, BAPS covers your area. We have local PFS games in Tracy if you are interested. See the home page for details.
-Pain
I hear Jason is going to be at this Con Might have to drive out for a day what is the one day rate?Yes, Jason B is scheduled to attend.
Yep, $30 is the single day rate.
Also, Joey Virtue, BAPS covers your area. We have local PFS games in Tracy if you are interested. See the home page for details.
-Pain
Cool I run a Second Darkness game every friday in Manteca. My players are not to into organized play
How do I sign up for the Pathfinder games? They don't seem to be in their "event shuffler"? This is the first time I'm going to be at a con, but I really want to play as much PF as I can (be there all three days).
Love any help! I'm signed up for the sign, just want to make sure I get into the games - especially the multi-part ones.
How do I sign up for the Pathfinder games? They don't seem to be in their "event shuffler"? This is the first time I'm going to be at a con, but I really want to play as much PF as I can (be there all three days).
Love any help! I'm signed up for the sign, just want to make sure I get into the games - especially the multi-part ones.
I think these guys use Warhorn, just like the RPGA do.
Yup. Painlord above has it. Linked below.
Thanks - this is all so new for me. Looks like I have to say what type of char I'm bringing. Um, so, that means I have one more dumb question - how do I know how to create my char? Standard point buy....?
EDITED: Oh, look, there's a handy PDF on this site for organized play! I'll use that! If there's anything else I should know, though, I'm all ears.
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Thanks - this is all so new for me. Looks like I have to say what type of char I'm bringing. Um, so, that means I have one more dumb question - how do I know how to create my char? Standard point buy....?
EDITED: Oh, look, there's a handy PDF on this site for organized play! I'll use that! If there's anything else I should know, though, I'm all ears.
Oh yeah, Gonzo! Kublacon is going to be fun.
If you've found the PDF to the Pathfinder Society Guide to Organized Play, then you're on your way.
I've sent you a personal email so you can ask me questions directly.
-Painlord
Thanks - this is all so new for me. Looks like I have to say what type of char I'm bringing. Um, so, that means I have one more dumb question - how do I know how to create my char? Standard point buy....?
EDITED: Oh, look, there's a handy PDF on this site for organized play! I'll use that! If there's anything else I should know, though, I'm all ears.
Oh yeah, Gonzo! Kublacon is going to be fun.
If you've found the PDF to the Pathfinder Society Guide to Organized Play, then you're on your way.
I've sent you a personal email so you can ask me questions directly.
-Painlord
I am going to KublaCon on that Saturday. But as I am going with a friend who doesn't do organized play, I won't be signing up for any event. I'll still try to swing by and say hi.
this is a friend of scott's, who got a message from him, who is pretty ill, and cant now make it to kubla con - he needs to cancel from all his games, and i just went through the warhorn site, and can't un-register him. if anyone knows how, he won't be able to attend.
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KUBLACON!
Piddlespottingly Awesome. I had a great time and was happily stunned by the turnout, enthusiasm, and good humor of both our players and judges.
Let this internet hall of records accept the following Kublacon Report:
69 tables of Pathfinder Society run (we had only 19 last year...+50 tables!! w00t!!)
42 new players cards handed out (my hand count has 38 new players at the tables...many fewer will actually register with Paizo)
1 Jason Bulmahn in attendance
24 Awesome Judge Rewards handed out (only 25 were minted)
Thanks to all the stellar judges (# slots judged):
Joshua A (3) (Awesomely ran a few tables in the kids room at the Con as well.)
VC Azmyth (3) (Lead an awesome 6 table running of Shadowlodge Special.)
Aethelwulf (4)
Verdigris (3)
A Hired Goon (1) (Was an amazing, open, approachable, and friendly Paizo ambassador. Thanks again.)
John C (4)
CherryPie (3)
Jerdog (2)
Morgan C (1) (Stepped up to run a table of pure new players/walk-ups through Frozen Fingers...they had a ball.)
BK Dibble (3)
Alex Draconis (1)
Chris Evans (2) (First time PFS judge and was great.)
Euan! (4)
Charlie-Boy (5)
A Pirate (1)
Jesse Heinig(1)
Bruce H (1)
Will K (2) (First time PFS judge and was great.)
Will LaCross (4)
Some Yahoo (2)
Larpguide (1) (Stepped up to run a table of pure new players/walk-ups.)
Brian O'Hare (3)
Darrell Pugh (2) (Stepped up to run 2 tables of walki-ins. It was deeply appreciated.)
A Merry Prankster (1) (He's both merry and a prankster...loved meeting him.)
Cergon (3)
Thamius (3) (Flew in from Maryland to play and judge with us. It was great to meet him.)
Zees (2)
Kelly Youngblood(4)
We handed out a slew of flyers touting our local Bay Area Pathfinder Group as well.
Wow. What a weekend.
-Pain
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Ya thanks Pain for being the butt of so many of my jokes. Even though they're pretty easy slow pitches. Seriously though well done you topped last year and that was a pretty high bar.
Some highlights for me
Best game of the con: John Cramer's Everwar 4. My last regular society mod with Alysia. Great way to cap advancement off.
Impressive tweaking of the mod on the fly. Challenging, great players. So good, I wish that was a regular campaign. Got a notarized IOU from Thorne for a free lapdance which I plan on trading to some slimy tentacle monster as soon as I can. Alysia was traded to a sphinx by Lord Sobek for a day for the low low price of some snacks. We won't mention the insanity gas trap. }: P
Most impressive move: Pirate Rob's jumping off a boat in the middle of a lake successfully attacking (crit I think?) a giant snake then bouncing back into the boat all Final Fantasy style in one turn. But then again he's a pirate and they all learn that move? Or perhaps it's a pirate that's playing a sneaky ninja type that is the source of his powers. Lose the shadow and get a dinosaur then you'll have the triumvirate of awesome.
Cleaning up a room full of advanced barghests while Jason Bulmahn was sitting at the table was fun. That table was about as elite as you get player wise by the way. Well except for Painlord that is, but that's a given. }: P
Watching Thorne the most annoying mage in all Absalom kill innocent TV watching ropers and losing my faction point, not so much fun. But then he made up for it by later helping me turn some monkeys into suicide bombers. Detonating primates is one of my favorite hobbies.
Scariest moment and closest my characters have ever been to dead: My new character Lady Nocturne getting dropped to two hit points by a golem. But I stuck it out and set up the flank next turn anyway which helped it go down that same turn. It did a boatload of damage on its dying strike and put me a hair's breadth from being dead. Luckily I was revived just in time. Kelly Youngblood did a good job with that mod.
The coin is cool too. I'm playing with it at work now. You realize though that someone will have to murder us all in turn now one at a time to re-assemble all 25 coins back together to revive something or someone and take over the world or something? Well at least that's how it works in Pathfinder.
I just became a Pathfinder Society member, and KublaCon was the first convention that I started playing any characters at. I was a RPGA member for many years, until they converted to 4th Edition, which in my opinion totally killed the spirit of D&D. I thought that the Pathfinder part of KublaCon was very well organized and run, so lots of Kudos to the Pathfinder Society coordinator and all the people who volunteered to judge the modules. I had fun at every table I sat down at. The judges were great, as were the other players whom I adventured with. I think the judges went out of the way to ensure we all had a good gaming experience. All in all, this was one of the very best RPG conventions I've ever attended, going back to the mid 90's :)
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I'm flattered to be in so many of your highlights Alex and to be included in your description of an elite table.
I too loved watching Alysia's Eidolon trade her to a Sphinx for some food.
I mentioned this on the other thread but I'm really excited to have had my 100th chronicle sheet be from such a special mod as Year of the Shadow Lodge.
Yay for 400 hours of PFS goodness!
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Awesome job Painlord, Euan, Azmyth, Marc for the awesome coins, Painlord's better half for the great cookies, judges, great players, and others I'm surely missing. Thanks to Jason Bulmahn for being there.
I enjoyed this con as a judge--feeling supported and appreciated. I enjoyed this as a player--feeling welcomed and challenged. I enjoyed it as a father and husband as I brought my wife and two kids for their first Pathfinder experience. Both the boys loved it and are hooked. My lovely non-roleplaying wife came to help out our 7 year old. She said next time he's on his own because she's bringing her own character.
Chris Shannon
aka Maverick Means, Zees, Gunnar, and "that judge"
Venture-Captain, Texas—Waco
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Awesome con, many thanks to Rand, Azmyth, Euan, Cherry Pie, Chris, Brian, and the entire crew for making us strangers feel so welcome! And when your wife goes into business selling those cookies, let me know... yummmmmmm.
I can't make it to PaizoCon :( but at GenCon I hope to hang with as many of you as make the trip.
Piddlespot!
Dan Simons
Director of Games
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I had a truly great weekend at Kublacon, playing games and giving some fun seminars. Special thanks go out to Azmyth and Cherry Pie for arranging my appearance and showing me around. If you have never been to this show, I highly recommend. I know I hope to go again next year.
Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing
I am so late in adding my post to the mix ... I'm very glad I got convinced by Painlord to attend this con, as my first ever.
Conventions are super fun.
I got to meet Pain, Euan, Cherry, and Marc ... and taste awesome cookies.
I got to have breakfast (!) with Jason Bulmahn himself, and attended a couple of his seminars ... which I recommend you all do next year. I'd tell you what we talked about at the first one, but I legally can't. <grin>
And despite ALL the fun I had at the convention, I was just a tad bit jealous of the awesome, well-organized fun the PFS people were having. You all did a great job, and I'm glad you all had such fun. From how things flowed and how prepared Pain was, I really would have assumed PFS had been at KublaCon at that level for the past 10 years.
I find I am rather okay with being introduced as "Dumb Paladin" to a bunch of people. :P
--D.P.