Announcement: Official Retirement of the OG Online VLs

[IronHelixx]

Howdy!

I wanted to take a moment to recognize our two, now officially retired, Online Venture-Lieutenants, Arthur Perkins and Brandon Cecil.

For those who have come to online play in the last year, or so, who may not have seen the hard work these two guys put in before their sabbaticals, just know we would not be what we are today without them.

Brandon was instrumental in the coordination and Overseeing of most of the early Multi-Table Specials at our major online conventions.

And Arthur has been a whirlwind force in Online Play from the very beginning. Working tirelessly to recruit Online GMs, to create training materials and videos for new players and GMs just starting out – even hosting live online seminars to help GMs get started running games online. Arthur also ran tons of Online PFS sessions - running daily at times for long stretches. (Leaving a trail of deceased PCs in his Nat20 wake. =b) And it was Arthur who pushed me to up the time-line for running the first Online Multi-Table special to an earlier date – which turned out to be important to the creation of the Official Online Region. And there are a ton of other things he did in the background that I could not list here or I would be typing all day.

So, PFS Online Play would definitely not be where it is today, as an Official Region, without these two guys. So thank you both.

Brandon can now be found playing the role of Proud Papa to his new son.

Arthur can still be found online in his role as a Twitch Streamer, where he regularly runs loads of different RPGs (including Pathfinder) with an entertaining revolving cast of fellow streamers as players. (As well as streaming whatever PC games suit his fancy between GMing sessions.)

You can catch Arthur's Twitch Streams at http://twitch.tv/APGamingReal.

I am forever indebted to you both. We were lucky to have you while we could.

Best of luck in all of your future endeavors.

I'm proud to call you both fiends.

- Jesse

Jesse R. Davis [IronHelixx]
PFS Venture-Captain, Online Play
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[Cronge]

Thank you both for your service in pioneering this great game in a great format, guys!!!

[Coraith]

Thanks!

[DragoDorn]

Does this mean that Paizo has given up on their VTT?

[IronHelixx]

I might even call you both "Friends" too. ;b

Jesse Davis wrote:

... I'm proud to call you both fiends.

- Jesse

[IronHelixx]

Are you referring to the "Paizo Game Space" VTT?

This post is not really related to that... :)

But, I am pretty sure that is dead at this point: http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5ldzj&page=9?More-About-Paizo-Game- Space#430

DragoDorn wrote:

Does this mean that Paizo has given up on their VTT?

[JSRoberts]

Had the pleasure of sitting at tables with them both as a player and as a GM. Kudos are more than deserved. Best of luck to both of them.

[GM Lamplighter]

Thanks, both of you, for your service to the campaign.

[TriOmegaZero]

Many thanks for giving me the opportunities to reach 5 stars.

[thunderspirit]

A fair number of my tables are a result of online play.

Thanks for your hard work, Arthur and Brandon. :-)

[chris manning]

thanks for all your hard work guys, enjoy your retirement

[Shifty]

We've had some good people putting in some great hard yards in the Online space to keep it thriving!

[bdh]

Didn't know Arthur retired. He was great. That's a bummer