Out of curiosity, about how many players are under each VC?

[asthyril]

just wondering the populations of each VC area, does paizo like to keep them about the same? try to find another VC if areas get too large? not keep track at all?

[Coraith]

Usually a Venture Captain is one per area, like Los Angeles has one VC but has several VLs. The more people an area has the more VLs there are.

[Feegle]

Venture-Captains are assigned to geographical regions, and the size of the region is largely dependent on player concentration, but that's not Mike Brock's only criteria. He has a list of places he's looking to place Venture-Captains, but I know that he is willing to listen to arguments for the need for Venture-Captains in other places. The size of a Venture-Captain's local player population is flexible as they grow play in their area, and they're not consistent across the board. If I had to guess, I'd suspect that the largest populations are in Atlanta and San Francisco - but I have no data to back that up.

The number of VLs is not, strictly speaking, linked to the size of the area. VLs are nominated and assigned by the local VC according to their need. In some geographically large areas, there might be a umber of VLs to allow them to cover the area, while in an area with a concentrated population like LA might need a few VLs to cover a number of stores and a large player base. There are no hard and fast rules bout how many VLs are assigned to an area, though.

[Kyle Baird]

It depends on the size of the VC. The bigger the VC, the more players we can fit under them.

[Big Kyle]

Kyle Baird wrote:

It depends on the size of the VC. The bigger the VC, the more players we can fit under them.

Little Kyle is right. :)

[Kyle Baird]

Kyle Elliott wrote:

Kyle Baird wrote:

It depends on the size of the VC. The bigger the VC, the more players we can fit under them.

Little Kyle is right. :)

You mean Pratt?

[buzzby]

Take a look through some of the Pathfinder Society blogs on this site, they'll give you a pretty good idea of how the international VCs in particular are set up.

[Magical_Beast]

And, if we are doing it right, the PFS communities we serve are always growing.

An area may have potential, but very few players, and warrant a VC to try to help make it into something. There have also been some VCs appointed in areas that might not be top of mind when you think 'large population of potential players' that have raised up an active community and made it great.

Our areas of influence tend to bleed as far as we travel before we hit another VCs area. For instance, in Florida, I primarily serve Tampa Bay (which is geographically sprawling as it is), but I also go up to Gainesville, drive over to Orlando and the Space Coast, down to Sarasota/Ft Myers...