Like on roll20? If so, where do you sign up for games?
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There are plenty of games posted down below in the PFS Online Play section of the boards. Also, there's the Pathfinder Society Online Collective which has games going all the time. I would recommend starting in one of those two places.
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Register yourself on pfrpg.com.au to get invites to games; if you're in the chat room, you'll get into games that are mustered on the fly whenever people just feel like playing.
Registering is quick; if you fill in the scenarios you've played, we'll tailor upcoming games to something you're more likely to have not played before.
Wow, cool. Even though they are played online, your character still advanced and everything counts? How does the GM sign your character sheet and all that?
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Signatures can get a little bit more complicated. Here's what I've seen:
Most often, GMs will mail you a PDF of your chronicle sheet with your name and PFS # at the top, with the grey "GM only" boxes signed and initialed, and the lines at the bottom filled out, including the signature. You then fill the rest out yourself. According to the rules, you're not supposed to do this... but in my experience, this is also what face-to-face GMs do (except they hand you the sheets, rather than emailing them).
In the past, I've sent a partially completed sheet -- with the grey boxes filled out, but NOT signed, to the players, asked them to fill the rest out, send it back to me, signed it, and sent the signed version back.
Most recently, I sent them a *blank* chronicle so they could see what the boons are. I asked them to email me with what they wanted in every box (including purchases and such). I filled the whole thing out, signed it, and sent them the PDF. (This was a VTT game two days ago; I'm still waiting for the info from one player.) This is more labor-intensive for me, but I don't mind. Most GMs probably would not want to do this.
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If you're curious what it all might look like, here you can find a character sheet and a collection of chronicle sheets that includes a mix of sheets from PbP games, FtF games, and GM chronicle sheets for one of my PFS characters.
In an online PFS game now :D
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Are there any online games that are tailored to helping newbies? I could definitely play a game or two before playing in person at my FLGS. Thanks!
If you find one that says they are playing First Steps Part 1, that is specifically what it is intended to do.
Thanks Kydeem, will look for that!
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With signing chronicles, I'll just initial the initialed and signed parts; the player can fill in the rest however they wish.
There's never any sending-forward-and-back-and-forward-and-back-again.
Technically they could be forged, but so could pen and paper chronicles. There's the honour system and the reporting system to cover it.