Community Update to the PFS Guide to Org Play - DONE!

[Painlord]

Hey All--

Done for now, that is. We can still make updates.

But here you go: Community Updated Guide to PFS Play. It should load quickly and nicely to your browser.

You can also download a copy from this PFS Yahoo Group from the files section.

You'll see that it's both hyperlinked, has a linked table of contents, and has changes documented with links and highlighted in red print. We also appended a useful cheatsheet.

Rumor has it that another version of the PFS Guide will be released by Paizo soon. I can only hope that the Powers That Be release any new Guides in formats that can be hyperlinked and have new changes marked in red so that our community can easily highlight and discuss changes.

I found that this Community was receptive to a draft process--allowing for feedback before it was released. I would love to continue that.

Thanks to community members: Verdigris, 0gre, and Zizazat for their help in making this happen.

Enjoy the Guide peeps. I'll be passing the link on to my players.

-Pain

[DarkWhite]

Great work, Painlord! It's particularly useful seeing the changes highlighted in RED, so you can easily familiarise yourself with clarifications/changes since your last reading of the Guide.

Cheers,
DarkWhite

[Azmyth]

Wow!

This is excellent stuff.
I hope (they) gain from it as much as we will!

Thank you Painlord for all of your effort!

[Thod]

Pain

I just wanted to add my voice and say that it is work and dedication of volunteers like you that help to make PFS the community I like to play with.

Thod

[Kyle Baird]

*clap*clap*clap*

This is my first time even looking at this endeavor. Well done everyone.

[ithuriel]

The way you have the 6.2 replay section written now, it does not make it clear that you cannot put both the GM and Player credit on the same character.

It makes it clear that the GM credit has to go towards a character who has not played the scenario, but leaves open the possibility that someone will read it and decide that taking a GM credit first and then playing it for player credit with the same character is legal. As far as I have understood, the two credits cannot apply on the same character.

Just a heads up.

EDIT: But this is an impressive piece of work. I love it :)

[sanwah68]

Thank you, that is fantastic, as I only DM PFS about once every 3 months I was really dreading having to troll through the threads to find the updates...but you have made it so easy. I love the little cheat sheet at the very end.

[W. Kristoph Nolen]

This is quite possibly the best resource that I have seen for PFS ... one of the only and *biggest* things that I hate about DMing for the PFS is trying to keep up with the forums to kow all the latest stuff. If this becomes an important tool for us, hopefully Paizo will realize that it's an important resource for them!

This is a great way for them to not have to sift through all of the forums too. This fan-based work greatly reduces the amount of research they have to do in putting out a new PFS Guide.

[Mark Moreland]

W. Kristoph Nolen wrote:

This is a great way for them to not have to sift through all of the forums too. This fan-based work greatly reduces the amount of research they have to do in putting out a new PFS Guide.

This.

Thanks for all the hard work, folks. While our revised guide will look very different than this one in terms of presentation, having all the faqs and rulings that have been made on the boards for the past three years compiled into one place will certainly help as we implement a new and improved system that should preclude the need for this sort of community effort in the future. In the meantime, keep up the good work!

[Kyle Baird]

Mark Moreland wrote:

Thanks for all the hard work, folks. While our revised guide will look very different than this one in terms of presentation, having all the faqs and rulings that have been made on the boards for the past three years compiled into one place will certainly help as we implement a new and improved system that should preclude the need for this sort of community effort in the future. In the meantime, keep up the good work!

Why is it so hard for Paizo as a company to ask for this type of help to begin with? (no negative connotations implied)

[WelbyBumpus]

Very handy. Well done.