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I'd like to welcome Andrei Buters as our new Venture-Lieutenant, Melbourne Australia.
Andrei has been making great strides bringing new players into our hobby with evening PFS sessions at Good Games Melbourne, regular appearances at Good Games Blackburn, as well as rallying GMs when scenarios need scheduling. Local players know Andrei for his impressive character sketches as much as for his entertaining character roleplay.
Andrei will be inheriting the position from RyanK, who I'd like to thank for his help over the past year in his role as VL. Ryan has been a key member of our Blackburn PFS community, known for his dreadlocks, gnomes and strong rules knowledge. Ryan will continue to be a regular member of our Blackburn PFS group, but less of an organising capacity, as he juggles a weekend work roster with his social life.
Cheers :-)
Stephen White
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Thanks guys :)
I've been playing PFS for two years, but I started gaming in 2000. Before that I lived in imaginary worlds, but it hadn't been made official. Like an arcane duelist with plenty of buff spells, the campaign has just been evolving and getting bigger and better every round. Season 4 has completely surpassed my expectations and I am incredibly excited and prepared (cold iron on EVERYTHING) for Season 5. Everything is in place for PFS to explode in popularity.
Thanks to Melbourne Venture Captain Stephen White for his many years of selfless dedication to growing Pathfinder in Victoria. The Know Direction podcast guys recently found out that Melbourne was THE most popular city of origin for listeners, and I've got no doubt everyone listening was probably introduced to the game through Stephen's hard work. We have three conventions a year, two venues for PFS every week and are getting new players every month. I go to a supermarket wearing my Ruby Phoenix shirt and the dude at the till tells me he's playing a home game of Pathfinder. It's nuts.
Thanks to the first Venture Lieutenant for Victoria, Ryan Koetsveld, who brings energy, gnomish enthusiasm and a razor sharp knowledge of the rules to every table he runs. I hope your work commitments even out soon so we can have Skerek and Kolfro back at the tables.
Thanks to Al Rigg and Buzzby for doing so well in their states and showing me how it's done. Thanks also to the Melbourne players who make every adventure memorable. We now have kangaroo stats, but Down Under will not rest until we have a sanctioned PFS scenario involving the perils of Dropbears coupled with heat exhaustion rules. A 'This is a knife' scene involving Titan Maulers would not go astray either.
(I will need to tone down my messageboard sass a little bit to retain a professional standard but if I see something that really annoys me I'll take 10 minutes out of my day to whine about it on the internet. Wah, Aasimars and Tieflings. Wah, darkness rules. Wah, Gunslingers with Deadly Aim. Wah, I broke a nail. Wah wah wah)
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Congrats Andrei and job well done to Ryan. I had the pleasure to have Ryan as my gm at Arcanacon 2012 for a majority of my games, and one in particular : Blakros Matrimony which counts as my fave pfs session so far.
Im due in Melbourne for Arcanacon again next year which should be good.
and Andrei: Whats wrong with the gunslinger and deadly aim? :)
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Incredibly well deserved. Nice one Stephen, nice one Andrei!
Andrei runs some of the best games of Pathfinder Society I have ever played in. He roleplays, improvises and rules well, and is fantastic at getting people organised.
There's no doubt he'll be a boon to the community.
Sidenote: he's also a really amazing artist and tends to come up with these brilliant drawings out of nowhere at some point during/after games. Find some way to get him to show you, seriously.
