Ah, asking permission rather than forgiveness...
An interesting approach.
It's the GM specific that's out of the normal W.E. :)
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W.E. - Every game has a discussion thread; if no one has started it, you will a link to "start the discussion". I've started one for every PFS game I am in. I don't know how easy it would be to link a group to a specific GM, but putting groups together ahead of time will speed up mustering. The Marshalls ask for full groups of six first, so if you walk up as a team, you get sent right in.
In at least some PaizoCons past, at the special if a group of 6 people wanted to play together, and they had a GM they wanted to play with (and who had agreed to this), they could muster that way.
Will that be possible again this year?
As the agitator behind this question (and wanting to have the noble rknop GM the special for me and my son again), I'm bumping it.
To reiterate: if we get a table of six together (already done) and we have a particular DM in mind (who has rashly consented to run a game for us), can we plan on making that happen, rather than having a randomly assigned GM?
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Khelreddin,
Rob Knop is DMing PFS 4-06: "The Green Market" on Thursday from 1:00 to 6:00. So far we have three PCs: my Lawful Good 9th level Diplomacy-Bluff-Knowledge Skills freak, a roguish 7th level Oracle of Super-Stealth, and an 8th level living-monolith Fighter. So there are a couple spots open if you're going to be at the Doubletree as early as Thursday at 1:00.
You can figure out how to register an account and sign up here on the Warhorn site.
Sadly, Mr. Wray, I won't be there yet at that time, but thanks for the invite!
Also (and maybe you knew this), rknop and I were specifically asking about pre-mustering for the PFS special.
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In at least some PaizoCons past, at the special if a group of 6 people wanted to play together, and they had a GM they wanted to play with (and who had agreed to this), they could muster that way.
Will that be possible again this year?
As the agitator behind this question (and wanting to have the noble rknop GM the special for me and my son again), I'm bumping it.
To reiterate: if we get a table of six together (already done) and we have a particular DM in mind (who has rashly consented to run a game for us), can we plan on making that happen, rather than having a randomly assigned GM?
Yes, just do it. Have rknop tell HQ, so they don't send a table his way, and then go sit and play. Having mustered before, any action like this makes life much easier.
I expect Mr. O'Lamb is quite right, but I'd love to get a Paizo person to confirm.
If they don't post here, should I just PM Sara Marie? Or is there a more appropriate person to ping about PFS in this context? Tonya?
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Slanky -- the real thing is making sure that it's OK for me to hold my table open until the group gets there. By default, the mustering officers will be slinging groups of players to tables as rapidly as they can, and will consider any GM who doesn't have a group yet as open to receive such slinging.
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Slanky -- the real thing is making sure that it's OK for me to hold my table open until the group gets there. By default, the mustering officers will be slinging groups of players to tables as rapidly as they can, and will consider any GM who doesn't have a group yet as open to receive such slinging.
I've mustered, I know.
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Slanky -- the real thing is making sure that it's OK for me to hold my table open until the group gets there. By default, the mustering officers will be slinging groups of players to tables as rapidly as they can, and will consider any GM who doesn't have a group yet as open to receive such slinging.
They have allowed this the last couple Paizo Cons and Gen Cons. Last I talked to Tonya, Bob Joquet, Todd Morgan, and a couple others who typically are leads on these large conventions (note this was like August or September of 2016) they were fine with doing this, as long as the GM was ok with it. They want the GM to go to the specific musterer and say they have a table all pre-mustered for them. So that when that group gets to the muster station, they can say, "Hey, we are here for rknop!"
As long as the musterer knows, they won't just randomly sling you a group of six, because they can note on their muster sheet that you have a pre-assigned table.
Now I don't know if this is still the case, and if this is still the way they are going to be allowing/doing things. But the worst that can happen is they say no when you go to the musterer and tell them what you want.
Thanky, Mister Slanky (Damn! Now I've put an old Smiths song in my head!)
I don't think it'll be a big issue. But, having corralled and cajoled rknop into agreeing to run a table, I wanted to get someone to officially lay to rest the one little doubt he raised, so he knows there's no hope of getting out of it.