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Please Welcome the new Venture-Lieutenant from Portugal - Aveiro : David Foley.
In the continuous effort we are going thru to implement PATHFINDER , and especially PFS , in Portugal, I´m in condition to announce a new VL for Portugal , in this case for the Aveiro City/Region.
David Foley is an Irishman living in Portugal, and he is one of my trusted GM´s .
He is a very experienced GM ,and has been playing RPG´s for a lot of years, and PATHFINDER in particular . In fact , he was one of the first that showed PATHFINDER to me some years ago.
He is starting this month a regular monthly public event in Aveiro. And has the will to make it grow.
The Aveiro city/region is 70 Km´s from Porto , and thus is expensive to the players and GM to go from one region to the other regularly ,so this will help us get into an area that has lot of potential , having already some PFS players and being a region with interested Rpg ´s foreigners , Universities , and a thriving and young gaming community.
I´ll let David say a few more words and introduce himself....
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Thank You, Raul for giving me this opportunity to help in the growth of our Hobby. Thank you fellow pathfinders for your congratulations.
My RPG career began way back in Ireland of 1982 when my brother responded to an ad at the back of 2000AD and bought himself the 3 original tomes of AD&D. When he got bored of them about 3 years later there was a group of people meeting in our house every Saturday who needed a GM. So I sort of inherited the group. We played D&D, we then claimed to grow out of D&D, we played a ton of other games and then we all drifted our own separate ways around about 1992.
Then followed many years without RPGs until I found myself living in Portugal with kids the same age I was when I started playing.. One day, about 4 years ago, my kids found my old 2nd edition D&D books and asked to play with them.. I had a go GMing it for them, but maybe the old brain cells were not firing so well as they used to or maybe back in the day we never tried to read each and ever line of Mr Gygax's wisdom, I found the old rule books not at all user friendly. So I had a look around to see what were the modern equivalents.. the current version of D&D just didn't seem like D&D, get your computer game out of my RPG please!.. the other, Pathfinder, not only seemed to have the best of D&D but had it organised in such a way that some of the rules made sense for the first time. I can't overstate the fact that IMHO one of the best things about Pathfinder is its index.. oh and the fact you can search on the net and have access to lots of well written resources AND adventures.
I was very happy to find that Raul, Bruno and the rest of the Pathfinder Porto team were organising PFS in Porto and now my kids and myself go there each month to play. I was able to get involved with our very first and successful National Pathfinder Convention.
Now there are sufficient players in Aveiro for us to start running games here too on a monthly basis. I am confident enough in my Portuguese to play but not GM, but we hope to have some Portuguese speaking GMs soon too. Amusingly enough when I first started going up to Porto, two of their campaigns were run in English because of one Scotsman.. I personally had delayed contacting RPG players in Portugal until I felt confident enough in my Portuguese to play and then I got there and everybody was speaking English! so international visiting PFS member never fear there is a game waiting for you in Portugal should you care to join us.
I will make myself available to assist any pathfinder player in Aveiro. The best way to find other role players in Aveiro is to join our fb page https://www.facebook.com/groups/708098852547932/
