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Are there Society communities out there that do not always meet on a regular schedule or at a regular location? I'm finding that our biweekly meetings in Portland will not always match up with my inconsistent work schedule. I have an idea of establishing a branch where players would be able to meet on any day or at any time by comparing availabilities for the coming days.
If this could work, is it all that hard to report sessions and generally head up a PFS community branch?
On that note, if anyone in the Portland, OR area is interested, please post here or email xebeche at me dot com.
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Are there Society communities out there that do not always meet on a regular schedule or at a regular location? I'm finding that our biweekly meetings in Portland will not always match up with my inconsistent work schedule. I have an idea of establishing a branch where players would be able to meet on any day or at any time by comparing availabilities for the coming days.
If this could work, is it all that hard to report sessions and generally head up a PFS community branch?
On that note, if anyone in the Portland, OR area is interested, please post here or email xebeche at me dot com.
I'm not exactly sure I follow you here. PFS play by it's very nature supports random/decentralized play. Each scenario is a stand alone game, so you don't "miss out" if you have to skip a week because something came up. There are people who only play at GenCon, etc. Play as much as your schedule allows. Run games as often as your schedule allows. It me it's about fining a way to communicate with your potential players and GMs to make sure games happen.
Though you should always report games as soon as they are completed, just because :)
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I mean that if I want to play once every week or two but miss the biweekly meetings that are established every other Friday then I'm SOL. I'd like more flexibility and wod be happy to put people together.
Thats fine with PFS. Real life happens.
There is nothing mandated about meetings. (there are no meeting in my area)
The Pathfinder Society Online Collective esentially works that way for playing on-line. I.e., GMs offer to run modules from time to time and players sign up for them.
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The Pathfinder Society Online Collective esentially works that way for playing on-line. I.e., GMs offer to run modules from time to time and players sign up for them.
+1 Definitly a great group of guys.
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The Pathfinder Society Online Collective esentially works that way for playing on-line. I.e., GMs offer to run modules from time to time and players sign up for them.
First time hearing about them. Sounds like a good group if it is being double recommended in a single thread. Online play doesn't seem as appealing though. Perhaps I just don't fully understand it.
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Just do it like this:
1) Get a group of friends together
2) Decide when and where you can meet
3) The GM prints off a scenario
4) The GM registers the game on paizo.com as a home game
5) GM runs said scenario
6) GM hands out chronicle sheets
7) GM reports the session.
8) ???
9) Profit
It's really that simple. You are not tied to a location or an "official" or "sanctioned" PFS event. PFS can be run anywhere, at Gencon, at a university society, at a school or even at home. That's the good thing about it, all you need is a scenario (which costs as much as a burger and fries), a GM to run it, at least 3 players and some dice.
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I think he wants something 'larger' than one group (which he has), such as a database of Portland players who mix and match as availability allows.
Create a chat group at Yahoo or your preferred chat site.
Advertise it here and, if possible, at your FLGSs (plural). Most have player boards to post notices. If you can, set up a calendar function (I don't know if this is doable, it may have to be manually entered) where people can mark slots where they'd like to play. When enough people match up to run a game, Waalahh!, you have a game.
It'll take some work on your part, unless somebody knows of a program for this, but it should work. (In my area, there's such a group. It takes a bit of chat to organize, but it works.)