Since my first character is almost at tier 1 with the Wayfinders, I took another look at the boons that will be available to her soon. The Worldwide Explorer boon talks about playing "in a region with a different Regional Venture-Coordinator than your home region." I don't know if there's a technical definition of 'home region', but my guess is that it's tied to your permanent address.
Now that the Online region has its own Venture-Coordinator, technically it would seem to apply for this boon. I assume that it wasn't meant to, since that's the purview of the Dataphiles boon. Is that a good assumption?
In my case, I've only ever played SFS online, so that actually feels like my real home region, and the day I sit down and play with people face to face would be pretty outside my comfort zone. That doesn't sound in keeping with the spirit of the Wayfinders either though.
tl;dr Should the online region be excluded from the Wayfinders' Worldwide Explorer boon?
Starfinder Society Developer
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Official Ruling:Online will NOT count towards the Wayfinders' Worldwide Explorer boon.
Developer Commentary: This is more a result of how we initially rolled out these boons than anything else. At the time online was a region and we wanted to make sure they had something. Now, allowing them to benefit from the Wayfinders' boon would be double-dipping, which is not the intended goal. Expect this to be clarified in a future version of the Starfinder Society Roleplaying Guild Guide.
Makes sense. Thanks for the speedy response!
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Official Ruling:Online will NOT count towards the Wayfinders' Worldwide Explorer boon.
Developer Commentary: This is more a result of how we initially rolled out these boons than anything else. At the time online was a region and we wanted to make sure they had something. Now, allowing them to benefit from the Wayfinders' boon would be double-dipping, which is not the intended goal. Expect this to be clarified in a future version of the Starfinder Society Roleplaying Guild Guide.
Ah zut!
Time to rank up the dataphile!