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Hello everyone!
I've moved to Windsor recently and have found the Windsor gaming community is vast and enthusiastic.
However, there are no local Pathfinder Society members, and specifically GM's.
I've applied to become a coordinator, and set up the first event to be run at Hugin and Munin, the long time flgs in Windsor.
Anyway, I created the event and added dates, description etc. How and when does it appear in the Paizo database as an event?
Thanks in advance! Looks like a friendly community!!!
Big Jay
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Big Jay, best of luck to you in your organizing! I'm not tuned into Windsor, but if you have the option to come across the border there's weeknight gaming going on in Warren, Michigan 30 minutes from Windsor (not including the border delay). I visited Hugin & Munin before they moved to the current location. I'd love to see a PFS community bloom in Windsor. Previously you'd have to drive all the way to Guelph to find any PFS going on. It's going to be rough being the only PFS GM in town, so if you need some relief you only have to make a border run :)
I checked the Event Page and I didn't see your event show up. Newly created events will post instantly, so you should probably go back and take a look at it. It's probably trickier than making a US-located event, but perhaps the international organizers can pipe in with some suggestions. Make sure that your event has a date and location completed.
Mason Whitlark pfs.detroit@gmail.com, the Detroit Venture-Captain, is also a great resource to call upon.
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Big Jay,
Welcome to the fold. While Mason is obviously much closer to you, and therefore a great choice for support and resources, we're also happy to help you out remotely as well. We're building a great community across Ontario slowly but surely! :)
If you'd like to make use of the Ontario Pathfinders website (ontariopathfinders.com) to advertise events and allow registration, I'm happy to set you up with everything you need. Feel free to get in touch: jeff@ontariopathfinders.com
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Thanks for the info everyone!
I must have done something wrong re creating the event - in any case, the schedule's changed, so it works out well!
The gaming community in Windsor is unusually large and vibrant, I've been all across Canada in my GW days, and this city really surprised me.
There's a website run by a gentleman named Moe, the Windsor Gaming Resource, and he's on Facebook under that name as well. He's been single handily promoting all games and events in any store, club etc in the entire region for the last 10 years! He's a great guy and I believe his efforts have made the gaming in Windsor so pervasive.
Getting players won't be a problem! I've already received 4 definite players from advertising on the above mentioned WGR website and Facebook page.
However, I WILL get the event registered here tomorrow after I work out a schedule with the store owner tomorrow.
And I'll get on the Ontariopathfinders.com as well!
Thanks again everyone!
Oh, and any opinions on the best Society adventure to start with? 1-5 or 1-7's I assume, but there are LOADS of them!
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First Steps is a good introduction to the world and the society, though if you're playing with players who are new to Pathfinder - not just PFS - they can be dangerous. As a piece of advice: when GMing new players, you are allowed to offer suggestions from time to time. If the players aren't sure about their characters' abilities, or if they are about to make a serious tactical blunder that might, say, get them attacked and dropped by AoO, point it out to them and give some options.
Other great places to start: Silent Tide, Mists of Mwangi, Frostfur Goblins, Rise of the Goblin Guild.
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Frostfur is my favorite to start, since it introduces the iconic Pathfinder goblin, but doesn't make you "be" one. It's a good one to hook new folks with. I bought an old Heroscapes castle set off a discount table at my FLGS for about $10 and used it for some terrain, and it works really well at attracting the walk-by crowd as well.
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Cool! I've got over 5000 D&D and Pathfinder minis, and can make any kind of scenery, so it'll all look AMAZING.
Also, I'll have dungeon wall molds ready in a month, free standing, painted, and magnetically receptive on one side so you can place fridge magnet stuff on the dungeon walls to customize rooms (curtains, paintings, chains for prisoners, anything that belongs to a wall.)
I'll post a new thread when that stuff is ready to go. I just put them on battlemats and it blows player's minds away.
ANYWAY, the first game is full, so I'm going to open a Saturday event as well. 8 people showed up today to create characters. Quite a turnout, and the event isn't even listed here! Which I will do right now.
I'll check out Frostfur and First Steps (it'd be nice to intro the players to the campaign setting). About half the players have never played, and the others are real nice and patient. It's gonna be great!
Thanks everyone!!!
Big Jay
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I was living in Windsor when the Beta rulebook became available. I had the hardest time getting the local gaming stores to get me a copy, or to find a group that was still interested enough in 3.5 D&D to give Pathfinder a shot. It's nice to hear that Windsor is starting to open up to Pathfinder.
Man things have really picked up here apparently! There are, at Hugin and Munin, 6 regular sessions of D&D during the week!!! Pathfinder is all full, not really open to the public. My Thursday event is booked way solid, so I'm going to start Saturdays now as well, starting in May, but still need to finalize that with the owner.
Sorry it was so weak when while you lived here!
