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Pathfinders!
Tidings (and introductions) from the Icelandic lodge.
Hi! I’m Júlíus, the new Venture Captain for Iceland. Friends call me Júlli though and I’d encourage you to do so as well (us Northerners don’t stand on ceremonies). I’m a student, doing two Masters degrees: one in Scottish literature at the University of Iceland and the other in Library and Information Science at the IVA in Copenhagen.
That’s where I was introduced to PFS, in Copenhagen that is. I moved there last fall so that I could be closer to my son (who had moved there with my ex) but also to study library and information science. I didn’t really know anyone in Denmark; I left my gaming group of 11 years in Iceland when I moved (we started playing 3.0 back when it was first published) to Denmark which left me in a nasty predicament. I didn’t have anyone to roll some dice with!
I asked around in Fantask, arguably the best gaming store in Denmark, and they pointed me to PFS. After a quick email exchange with Diego Winterborg, then Venture-Captain for Denmark, I sat down with the local PFS group (with Diego as GM) and played Defenders of Nesting Swallow.
After that I couldn’t stop. I loved (still do) meeting new people, sharing crazy stories about characters and their exploits and most importantly I love the sense of community in the Pathfinder Society. I was accepted immediately by Diego and the rest of the truly awesome players in Denmark. They made me feel at home in a foreign city.
That’s why, when I had to go back home to Iceland for the summer I asked Diego if he could give me some pointers on how to set up the Society back home. He gave me some good advice (and posters) over a few beers and wished me good luck.
I figured that I would enlist my local (and only) game store to help, set up a few games and at most convince my friends to join me for a few games.
Well, things kinda snowballed. After a month of a few home games and a couple of store games (including a hilarious We Be Goblins Free RPG day session) I had a few people interested. Then a bit more, and after that just a little more than a few. Last night, my last PFS game in Iceland for a while, we had two tables playing Rise of the Goblin Guild (one TPK!), ten players in total.
What’s exciting to me though is that now I have GMs willing to step up and GM once a month. That means that the Icelandic lodge will have a steady schedule of at least two games a month. As soon as the new Venture Lieutenant, Ásgeir Hjaltalín, has settled down a bit he’ll start helping out as well.
Our plan includes a PFS stash box for GMs that includes printed scenarios (to encourage more players to GM), flip-mats, markers, a binder with rules for haunts and other more uncommon rules and Bestiary Pawns. We are also planning a PFS/Warmachine Con next summer as well as smaller game days (aside from the regular schedule).
With 15-20 players after just under three months we’re off to a roaring start and I have every faith that the groundwork laid down by me, Ásgeir and our fantastic players will ensure that the Icelandic lodge will grow and prosper while I’m in Denmark rolling dice with the Viking Lodge players.
And while I will not personally be in Iceland while I’m finishing my studies I will oversee the day to day operations via a complex network of underground spies. Like Grandmaster Torch, I have eyes and ears everywhere.
I'm excited about the future of the Icelandic lodge and I hope that I can roll some dice with you guys sometime in the future.
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Forgot to add the url to our shiny new website. Indiana VC, Tracy Windeknecht was kind enough to supply me with the header (before I was aware of the Community Use pacakage).
I plan on setting up separate tabs for players and GMs with links to various resources (Painlord and Mergy's articles spring to mind) as well as info on how to contact me or the VL about play.
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Hi folks!
I'm Ásgeir, the new Venture Lieutenant for Reykjavík, Iceland.
I'm a long time lurker on these boards though I tend to not post much. I was active back in the beta test for Pathfinder (with some strong opinions on multi-alignment paladins and shapeshifting druids, if you remember me from back then =D). These days I mostly hang out in the Adventure Path forums, reading obituaries and browsing fan made content! I'm currently preparing to run Rise of the Runelords AE and I'm playing in Curse of the Crimson Throne (We're at Seven Days to the Grave).
After participating in loads of PFS session with Júlli I figured I could help things along locally and took up the Venture Lieutenant position. I'm also a Press Ganger (Warmachine & Hordes promoter) and I work at the local (and only) roleplaying/wargaming/comic book/geek store in the country.
I won't be as active as I want to be immediately since I'm about to be a dad somewhere around mid-september! Once things have settled here though I expect to be quite active in the local scene.
As Júlli mentioned we're planning a Wargaming/Roleplaying convention for next summer and I'm already looking forward to it!
See you folks around the boards!
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Júlli, there's two characters in that list of names that I have no clue how to pronounce -- they might as well be cuneiform characters for all the good they do me :)
Júlli already mentioned Þ (called "thorn"), which usually sounds like the "th" in "thorn" or "think."
I'm guessing the second one is ð (called "eth"), which sounds like the "th" in "though" or "the."Also, welcome aboard, Júlli and Ásgeir, and thank you for your efforts and enthusiasm!
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You just ruined my cultist who has a name conceived of unpronounceable characters (which in reality manifest as a bunch of sounds from Icelandic).Try Þorkell, Steingrímur, Víðir or Langbrók. All the funnier if you don't really try to pronounce it correctly.
I speak Faroese moderately well and have no problem with Icelandic pronunciation. I was actually in Reykjavík on Saturday. :)
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I speak Faroese moderately well and have no problem with Icelandic pronunciation. I was actually in Reykjavík on Saturday. :)You just ruined my cultist who has a name conceived of unpronounceable characters (which in reality manifest as a bunch of sounds from Icelandic).Try Þorkell, Steingrímur, Víðir or Langbrók. All the funnier if you don't really try to pronounce it correctly.
Really? You should've sought us out! :)
