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Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

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Hello, Everyone:

Thought we would share some dates to keep an eye on for PFS Online the next few months.

July 5th, 2014: PbP GameDay 2 Ends

August 14th-17th, 2014: GenCon 2014 - Start of PFS Season 6 (Not Online)

August 30th, 2014: VTT Game Day 4 (Labor Day Weekend)

October 5th, 2014: PbP GameDay 3 Starts

October 10th-12th, 2014: VirtuaCon 2014 [Currently not officially supported]

November 14th-16th, 2014: AEtherCon 2014

January 4th, 2015: PbP GameDay 3 Ends

February ?th, 2015: ContessCon 2015 (Exact Date not announced yet)

These are the online events we are currently organizing PFS for (with the one noted exception) - Let us know if we missed anything.

We will be posting out GM recruitment calls this weekend for a couple of the events, so keep an eye out for those.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Have Fun!

Liberty's Edge 5/5

Starfinder Superscriber

How is VTT GameDay 4 going to work? Any official organization, or will it be like the PbP gamedays -- report your game through the event, and boons might be available to some lucky players?

Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

Currently the plan is to have a web interface for GMs to submit games to. The games will then automatically list in a game registry, in a central location, for players to find sign-ups. GMs will then submit results from the same listing. That is the plan, at least. :)

rknop wrote:
How is VTT GameDay 4 going to work? Any official organization, or will it be like the PbP gamedays -- report your game through the event, and boons might be available to some lucky players?

Shadow Lodge 5/5

Hey Jesse ... you might want to consider waiting until next weekend for the GM Calls as some of us will in in Seattle

Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

This is a very good point

Wraith235 wrote:

Hey Jesse ... you might want to consider waiting until next weekend for the GM Calls as some of us will in in Seattle

Scarab Sages 5/5 5/5

Just wondering..what is the chance of the next pbp gameday to feature one of the specials?

Shadow Lodge 4/5

Also let me know if you need any help with things. Especially on the PbP side.

Thanks for doing all of this, too. It's awesome to have online play being supported.

2/5

How does one get involved in VTT Gameday 4 as a GM? Is there signups somewhere or something?

Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

We will be posting that info tomorrow evening.

technarken wrote:
How does one get involved in VTT Gameday 4 as a GM? Is there signups somewhere or something?

Liberty's Edge 4/5 RPG Superstar Season 9 Top 16

Looking forward to seeing signups. Had a great time at Conline as a player. Look forward to being able to "give back" at future cons GMing a table here or there for other players.

Liberty's Edge 5/5

Starfinder Superscriber

Did the VTT Gameday 4 GM info get posted somewhere on July 10? If so, I missed it; does anybody have the link?

Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

Sorry - No. I got a voluminous number of emails asking me to not post it out the weekend of PaizoCon so I delayed it until tomorrow evening.

Apologize for not making the new date clearer.

rknop wrote:
Did the VTT Gameday 4 GM info get posted somewhere on July 10? If so, I missed it; does anybody have the link?

Liberty's Edge 5/5

Starfinder Superscriber

Ah, cool, thanks.

Shadow Lodge 3/5

There are generally 4-10 conventions every weekend happening somewhere in the world

Someone is going to see the schedule the day after their con ends.

Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

Just a heads up:

GM registration for VTT Game Day 4 will go up the evening of Wednesday, July 16th, 2014.

Player registration will open for VTT Game Day 4 on August 2nd, 2014

Shadow Lodge 3/5

In what timezone?

Liberty's Edge 5/5

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Starfinder Superscriber

I would guess evening in North American timezones, so UTC-6 or thereabouts.

1/5

Jesse,

Are you guys compiling stats on what % of the total PFS games reported monthly/annually are PbP or VTT? I'd be curious if we are even a blip.

The Exchange

Let me know if you need Dm's for any of your online con stuff

Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

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VTT Game Day 4: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pathfinder-society-online-collectiv e/Z1lDwmpJ2y4

Will repost here in a more proper way when I get home, but the information is posted at the link above for now, since I could post that by email.

Sorry for the delay.

Shadow Lodge 3/5

This was sort of asked earlier and sort of answered - are these GameDays part of a con? And if so, is there boon support?

Grand Lodge 4/5

Pathfinder Adventure, Rulebook Subscriber

Yes.

Quote:

GMs running games will get one GM Boon (as yet, not determined what that will be until after GenCon 2014).

GMs will also be qualified to win regular boons and prizes along with the players, in addition to the GM boon they receive.

More information will come in the official open call for players and GMs in a couple of weeks.

Liberty's Edge 5/5

Starfinder Superscriber

Is there a cutoff for when we can advertise a game? I'm moving soon, and want to make sure I'm situated and so forth before I decide if it makes sense to advertise a game this day. (I'll probably also wait to see what other people are offering to make sure I offer a scenario that's not "saturated". Despite the encouragement to run late Season 5 and early Season 6, I might offer an earlier-season game... we shall see.)

Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

We will submit the session list to Paizo on Thursday, August 21st, 2014 at Noon EDT US [UTC -4] so GMs have a full week to prep. So, as long as it is submitted by then GMs will get scenario support and have the scenario added to their account.

People can still submit games at anytime after that deadline, all the way up to the day of the event, but you will not get the scenario added to your account if you submit after August 21st, 2014 at 12:00 PM EDT [UTC-4].

(Submitting by the deadline above will also help us determine if we can reach the table threshold to start adding Bonekeep 2 and 3 to the list.)

Older scenarios are very welcome and encouraged. Variety is a good thing. :)

rknop wrote:
Is there a cutoff for when we can advertise a game? I'm moving soon, and want to make sure I'm situated and so forth before I decide if it makes sense to advertise a game this day. (I'll probably also wait to see what other people are offering to make sure I offer a scenario that's not "saturated". Despite the encouragement to run late Season 5 and early Season 6, I might offer an earlier-season game... we shall see.)

Liberty's Edge 5/5

Starfinder Superscriber

OK, cool. I actually already own all of the scenarios from Seasons 0 through 4 (I can't resist buying them when one of the sales comes up...), and half of them from Seasons 5. But, in any event, an August 21 cutoff should be plenty of time for me to figure out if I'm going to be in a position to be able to run a game from my new location.

(Comcast willing.)


Virtuacon (Oct. 10-12) is now soliciting GM signups for time slots.

Signup Thread

1/5 Venture-Captain, Germany–Hannover

AH too bad VTT Gameday 4 is tomorrow!
Would have liked very much to run some season 5 or 6 scenarios, but alas no time. Sunday might have been better for me. Maybe next time again.

5/5 5/55/55/5

Does VTT day have a chatroom for picking up random people ?

Liberty's Edge 5/5

Starfinder Superscriber

That would have been a good idea...

(I ended up not running anything. Moving did occupy a lot of my attention all month.)

4/5 5/5

Jesse Davis wrote:

October 5th, 2014: PbP GameDay 3 Starts

January 4th, 2015: PbP GameDay 3 Ends

Is this still scheduled to happen?

Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

Indeed :)

Magabeus wrote:
Jesse Davis wrote:

October 5th, 2014: PbP GameDay 3 Starts

January 4th, 2015: PbP GameDay 3 Ends
Is this still scheduled to happen?

2/5

Great. When can we start recruiting?

Shadow Lodge 4/5

You can probably start recruiting a few months back when the last one ended. But there should be a new announcement for this soon, I would think, 2-3 weeks beforehand, if not earlier.

Any chance we can get the DM Star Refresh Boon here? Zero luck trying to trade for it?

Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

I will post up something official tonight - but you can start recruiting any time.

Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

Update: I am waiting to hear back from a couple of people, so I will post the event out in the AM.

Shadow Lodge 4/5

I'm here. That's all you need. :P

Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

Alrighty, the decision has been made to push the PbP Game Day back a little bit to give you guys more time to recruit and to give us some time to open us some dialogues with you guys about how to better run the PbP game days.

I will still post up the event tonight, but we will likely push the start date back about 2-4 weeks.

Thanks and talk to you guys soon.

Shadow Lodge 4/5

No worries. Fine tuning things is never a bad idea.

Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

OK - The new date for the next PbP Game Day is going to be Saturday, November 1st, 2014 to February 1st, 2015.

We will post a PbP survey by Monday evening.

Thanks Guys!

Shadow Lodge 4/5

Sounds good. As always, thanks for making this happen.

Liberty's Edge 5/5

Starfinder Superscriber

I don't suppose it's possible to edit the first post of the thread? I suspect some folks (like, say, me) might use it as a reference, and having that October 5 date still listed there even though it's wrong may cause confusion.

(I believe, though, that it's not possible to edit the first post of the thread, alas.)

Shadow Lodge 4/5

It can be done, but generally Paizo is a bit reluctant to do so unless its a major issue. For example, during the ACG playtest they did to incorporate a few changes, and doing so can cause just as many confusion issues as it solves. Doing it here may or may not, but we should be getting word on things fairly soon. Im not a VC/VL, so this is by no means official, but in the past there have been threads dedicated to the various individual online Game Days, which should help.

:)

Liberty's Edge 5/5 Regional Venture-Coordinator, Online

PbP Survey is being proofed by a few people from the community and will be posted tomorrow.

Lantern Lodge 3/5

Hey, I'm not very experienced PbP DM, but I'd like to jump in and participate games during PbP Gameday 3. How can I apply and what are criteria to be selected?

Shadow Lodge 4/5

Typically, a little bit before it is scheduled to begin, there will be an announcement post that clarifies it all. Not being experienced is not generally an issue, (though it might be a good idea to tell the players up front to avoid any possible issues later).

For example, HERE was the announcement for the last Game Day. It should be pretty safe to assume that most of the guidelines and assumptions will be the same or similar, (outside of the dates).

I would assume we will probably be getting some word around the start of October, give or take, but you are free to begin recruiting, thinking of a game or two you are interested in running, and prepping.

Dark Archive 4/5 5/5 ****

I think I will need to GM for this one... A game or two.

Have to decide on what, than!

2/5

That's good, recruited already with a full table plus one reserve waiting patiently until November. Do I get a cookie for the first full table at the PbP gameday? ;)

Dataphiles 4/5 5/55/5 Venture-Agent, Online—PbP

PbP gameday 3 starting November 1st.

If we can gather a couple of swift GMs (those that finish games within 5-6 weeks), along with daily (or faster) posters, I think there is a good chance to pull off a special. I'd certainly be game for running one.

Seeing as how PbP gamedays are the only 'convention' some people have access to, it would be nice way to include these people. I'd love to have a go at 6-00!

1/5 Venture-Captain, Germany–Hannover

I´m in on the game day.
Also ran 6-00 before. Would be a nice thing to offer that to a lot of people. Due to the nature of the scenario it might be difficult though.
Specials nearly always require communication and coordination. That could only be done with time frames and some extra reporting in between.

Then, running scenarios as fast as possible or in 5-6 weeks is not always a good thing. I´ve seen some terrible rushing there, just ushering people from point to point and fight to fight. Better have some roleplay and interaction in there, makes for a better experience in my eyes.
The quality of a GM is surely not measured in how fast one concludes the scenarios!

Shadow Lodge 4/5

I'll volunteer to DM a special if you need.

As for rushing the scenario, it doesn't need to be that bad. It's more on the DM to keep things moving and the players to post often, but also to be very proactive rather than waiting around for others to post or the DM to ask for things. It can go well, but it can also go very poorly. I agree, blitzing through a scenario is not a measure of a good/bad DM, and if done poorly, (letting the story and flow fall behind to push forward) it tends to be a very boring and unsatisfying experience.

If it is going to be 6-00 (5-99?), can I suggest that it is set up well before hand which Factions a particular DM will take, and make a large effort to coordinate with the players to get the right ones with the right DM's?

For example, one DM take Silver Crusade, Taldor/Sov .Court, and Andoran/Liberty's Edge (the ones I'm most interested in)

Another (just an example) take Sczarni/Qadira/Exchange, Cheliax/Darkive, and maybe one other as needed.

A third take Osirion/ScarSages, Grand Lodge, and maybe one other.

Other DM could take whatever Factions are most needed.

My understanding is that the Specials are all out of game timed events, so if the players are aware of this, it shouldn't be an issue. I also believe that they are sort of designed so that when it's time for everyone to move on, it sort of works with the story, (like something major happens that changes the scene rather than "ok, times up, lets move on").

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