I bought tickets for myself and my daughter. We can't use the buddy system because she needed her own Paizo account. OK so I created an account for her (she's 11). Then I get the error message that she needs a ticket with her account . . . but I bought her ticket - because she's 11 ;)
So while the instructions say the buddy feature makes it easy for families to use the lottery, it's not going to work for families who buy their tickets under one account (which I suspect is most).
Any way we can still participate in the lottery?
The lottery is important because looking at the events there are a limited number appropriate for my daughter. I bought us tickets for 3 days . . . should I be concerned that I won't get us into (age appropriate) events together?
Thanks!
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If you go to your My eTickets page you should be able to transfer her badge to her account. Please keep in mind, the kids badges are only able to register for events during open registration and are not eligible for lottery events until after the lottery has been run. https://secure.paizo.com/paizo/account/etickets
Do as Sara Marie says and all will be well! I did it last year with my son (and I know of several others who did also), and we got into some great lottery events together (though past performance is not a guarantee of...etc.). Then just make sure you sign up for the same PFS tables when the open sign-ups start. I've also set up my son as my buddy this year without a problem.
Edit: It's funny, though, looking at the PFS events this year, the ages all seem to say at least 13+. But my son was 12 last year and we played lots of PFS. Did the PFS minimum age change, Sara Marie?
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I have one lottery event listed on Saturday afternoon: Slaughter River using the Swords and Wizardry rules (Old DnD). If you sign up as yourself and your daughter can't, come by my table anyway. I'll give her a character to play.
Thanks for the information. And Dark Sasha, thanks for the invite.
I have to admit though, the event posting this week has really sapped my enthusiasm to attend PaizoCon. Months ago I saw that there was a "kids" badge and thought - awesome, this will be a great time for my daughter and I (we play Pathfinder weekly) to spend our 4th of July weekend. And I bought us tickets.
But here's my dilemma - the few beginner box games are in the lottery, which is closed to your biggest group of beginners, kids, because they can't join the lottery. Which begs the question, why are the beginner box events in the lottery???
If Pathfinder wants to bring a new generation of gamers in their ecosystem (I'm doing my part by running a kids group each month), it seems really odd that this event would put up barriers to kids joining *beginner* events, as well as time with some of the best DMs.
Maybe I misunderstand the structure.
Sincerely.
D6 - try to hang on to that enthusiasm, as I think there's good cause for it. I took my son for the first time last year, and at 12 years old he felt welcomed at all the PFS tables and we had a fantastic time together.
If your daughter only plays beginner box, it may be a bit trickier, but I bet she could easily play a lower-tier PFS character of one of the classes found in the beginner box, and that opens up a whole bunch of play options, especially given Sara Marie's comments about the ages given being recommendations.
It does seem a bit odd that the kids' badges work out the way they do - it's a new thing, so I expect they didn't have all the implications sorted out. But I'll say again, kids are welcome and have a lot of fun at PaizoCon, and I think the PFS tables will work okay for you. If you'd like to be even more sure of that, I'd be happy to coordinate our selections for a couple of low-tier PFS games and you'd be sure to have another kid and dad at your table. We're very understanding of beginning players (and beginning kids are much quicker to learn the game than beginning adults) and would be happy to help, or just sit patiently if that's what's needed.
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This is the first year that we've had Kids Badges and they were mainly intended for young kids who wouldn't be doing a lot of gaming but who's parents were attending and planned on signing up with them for a PFS session or two. In the past, we had feedback that a full badge was too expensive for 1 PFS event for a kid but that without a badge they couldn't really do much. After the lottery runs, games with open spaces open up for general registration. Last year the scheduling was pretty chaotic and most of the kids events (which I think Paris and Bill Webb's daughter ran the bulk of) didn't get on the schedule in time for the lottery so it wasn't an issue. This year I was much more organized in the approach for events run by 3rd parties but didn't work out the kid's events vs lottery issue until about the same time you did. Right now, whether an event is lotteried or open is based on hard coded data (by how many seats are available and if its PFS). I'm hoping for next year I can get a toggle button instead so I can pick and choose if something should be lotteried or not.
That being said, I think you have a really good point. And I'm looking at two options:
Option 1: We could take the Beginner Box games and Paris's Wayfinder Adventure games off the schedule so they aren't part of the lottery and put them back up when Open Registration begins. Unfortunately the side effect would be that these won't be visible on the online schedule until then.
Option 2: Reduce the number of seats available for the lottery to 1 or 2 and then put the quantity back up to the correct number when Open Registration begins. This allows the event to be visible on the schedule and still leaves some seats open for open registration.
What do you folks thinks?
Option 2 seems like a good compromise. I'm curious to see who signs up for the beginner box events if it isn't kids. I guess I didn't consider that the beginner box is also for adults who are migrating to Pathfinder or it is their first RPG.
Thanks for the reply Khelreddin - maybe I'm making too many assumptions about the general tables being 'accessible' to me and my daughter.