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With three different Starfinder shirts already available, along with the new PFS year shirt, will you be able to use a Starfinder shirt for a re-roll at at Pathfinder Society table?
Or once Starfinder Society starts will all those great PFS shirts floating around be good for the ever coveted re-roll?
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Or you get one of them two sizes too big and wear it over the other. Then you have BOTH shirts on!I would like you to be able to use the shirts from either campaign. Otherwise, you'd have to keep changing shirts in the middle of a day in a convention. It would be really confusing!
Hmm
It's kind of hard for some people to do that and have them both fit loosely.
In addition, *have* had some GMs insist on the shirt *being worn* versus 'on the top of one's bags', etc, etc.
Venture-Agent, Minnesota
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This is addressed to The PFS Team, Vic, and any other marketing aficianaodos that may be reading this thread.
My Basic Assumptions about Reroll Items
They exist to:
1) Sell product ("Want a nifty re-roll? Buy this shirt.")
2) Advertise Paizo & how awesome our games are.
3) Increase our visibility at events.
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Before Free RPG day, Bret and I went out to eat with Ray, another local GM. We were all wearing goblin shirts because we were doing "We Be Goblins (in Spa-a-a-ace)!" The theme seemed right.
Wait Staff at Good Earth: "Whoa, that's a lot of goblin shirts! You must be gamers!"
Us: "Yes, and we have an event today. It's Free RPG Day!"
I show them photos of the maps I drew (yeah, I take photos of my maps) from my iPad, and talk about PFS organized play, and about how Starfinder is launching soon. I tell them about our Meetup site.
Them: "Oh... That's so cool. I used to game, but I can never find a regular group to meet my crazy schedule... Maybe this could work for me!"
At Dreamers, the PFS crowd hangs out in the Dreamers Porch area, where we can have up to four tables set up. We are loud and we are happy. Other customers hear our laughter spilling into the rest of the store.
We've gotten people coming in to the room to check us out, and when they see the shirts, they suddenly realize that we're all one group. "Whoa. This is Pathfinder? Cool." Sometimes we can find a spot for these walk-ins and get them playing right away, but even if we can't, we tell them that we're there every Wednesday. We tell them about the Meetup site. They often find us again.
I think those shirts are part of our visibility, and part of the overall package that gets new people coming in.
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So we know the shirts work as advertising.
Why I Want Shirts to Work Cross-Campaign
I want to be able to wear Starfinder shirts to PFS events, so that I can get asked Starfinder questions! I want to be able to tell people about Starfinder and when we're having games. We're going to have Starfinder and PFS games in the same venues, largely overseen by the same Venture Crew, right? Our population of gamers will overlap a lot in the beginning of the two campaigns.
I want new Starfinder people to see PFS shirts and be able to ask about the game, and maybe try out a fantasy adventure for the first time.
I want to lighten my load for Convention travel and not have to constantly change shirts.
I don't want to have to mutter in frustration if the shirt from the right campaign is still in the wash because I was disorganized on gaming day, when I have other clean shirts available.
Also, Starfinder will be slow coming out of the gate. I may not be able to GM enough Starfinder to satisfy myself as a GM, but I can at least wear the T-shirt on non-Starfinder days at my store, and fly my colors proudly.
Hmm
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Wear one on your torso and wear one on your head?
(T-shirts can easily be tied into a ninja mask ;) )
If I hadn't the experience of GMs that wouldn't accept that as an option with one shirt, I'd think this could be a solution.
But nooo. Some are stubbornly insistent that it MUST BE WORN PROPERLY.
/me got a messenger bag and folio to stop dealing with that.
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/me got a messenger bag and folio to stop dealing with that.
But that too begs the initial question of cross-campaign usage. Especially since there are no SF messenger bags or folios yet. Some of us don't do the shirts, but rely on other merchandise options for a reroll.