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Please join me in welcoming Michael Labny as the new Venture-Captain of the United Arab Emirates. He will initially be focusing efforts to get PFS up and running in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
He also advised that he could possibly support PFS games (initially via email or other electornic means) in Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia if things line up and there are interested players that can assist in those regions. But, that depends on how things go, how involved he can be, and if there are others that can step up to help him out in those regions.
Welcome to the team, Michael!
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Hello everyone. I am really excited to get PFS organized play going in the Middle East. I am a long time gamer but have no experience with organized play. I have a not even participated in a PFS event in any capacity and only rescently started. This is going to be a trial by fire, but I see there is a lot of support out there.
@June, good catch on the military guys. I am working on the civilian side and don't have a lot of contact with military guys. Anybody with any military contacts over here please msg me so I can get in touch with them.
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We are the Gulf Roleplaying Community. We have active forums and an active Facebook page. If anyone is looking for a game in this area, sign up for the forums and/or the Facebook group (they're linked from the club's main page).
Mike, our new Pathfinder Venture-Captain, is one of us - and, in fact, he plays in my Pathfinder and HarnMaster games. He's a top bloke, and I look forward to playing and/or running Pathfinder Society games under his guidance.
Over the last couple of years, we've been building up quite a thriving little roleplaying community here in the Arabian Gulf. Our heartland is definitely the UAE, in particular Dubai and Abu Dhabi, but we have gamers in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain as well. Pathfinder is one of the few games actually sold here (for the record, we've seen Pathfinder, D&D4 and a fair amount of Warhammer/GW stuff).
Most of our supplies we have to buy online; much of my gaming budget goes on postage. Polyhedral dice are in short supply - occasionally we order in bulk to sell on to players.
But we are here. We game. We game A LOT. We run 2-3 mini-conventions a year to show the public waht tabletop RPGs are. We pay a small fortune for tables at the Middle East Film and Comic Con so that we have a visible face in the geek community at large (and there are many geeks here).
We have a lot of young people who have heard about tabletop RPGs and are trying it out for the first time. We have veterans in their 40s and 50s. We have people who've been to Uni in the US or Europe who discovered it there. I haven't seen a gaming community as active and as exhilerating since the heady days of the early 1980s.
We have Americans, Brits, Emiratis, Syrians, Indians, Filipinos, French, Kenyans (and that's just MY two gaming groups)... All the myriad nationalities, races and cultures who live in the Middle East.
We play D&D, HarnMaster, Fate, Burning Wheel, Vampire, Dresden Files, War Machine, Dark Heresy, Hero System, GURPS, AD&D2 (and occasionally 1), and more.
We play Pathfinder. Lots of us play Pathfinder.
Roll for initiative!
Mike, have we picked the same avatar? That's creepy...
Welcome, Michael!
June - no, I'm not a pilot.
Avatar-1, we've joked a couple of times about taking the folding tables out into the desert and having everyone wear their national costume, purely because we think the resulting photo will go viral. We will almost certainly do this soon, but summer has been lingering - it's still pretty hot out in the sand.
My actual set-up is probably like most people's. Here it is. Sessons are definitely more multi-cultural than I'm used to back in the UK, and that just adds to the pleasure. Golarion's a good gameworld to use for a multicultural party - people can come from pretty much anywhere, and there's enough ethnic options that no one's forced to play a character they don't connect with.
Congrats Mike - look forward to your appointment expanding things here in the UAE.
Jericho
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