So Long and Thanks for all the Fish...

[TwilightKnight]

I'll post this here since I started with Pathfinder and we don't have a forum for general OP threads that apply to both Pathfinder and Starfinder Society Play...

Effective today, I have retired as Regional Venture-Coordinator of the Great Lakes region. It has been a great experience serving in that role for the past few years as well as going back to the many years as a Venture-Captain. I've been playing and GMing since season zero and volunteering for almost as long. It was time for a change and with the release of Pathfinder 2nd Edition, I though this would be as good a time as any.

To all the players, GMs, organizers, volunteers, and fellow Venture-Officers I have had the joy of working with over the years, I offer an enormous THANK YOU. I have met some of my best friends through this organization as well as the woman I love. Its been some of the best years of my life. You have all touched my heart more profoundly than you know and if I had even an inkling of positive impact on you and your experience with the campaigns, then I consider my time a massive success.

Along with this retirement, I also step down as the chairman of the organizing committee for Gen Con. Again, this has been a fantastic experience and I thank everyone I have worked with to make it such a great event.

However, this is not goodbye. While I will no longer be leading the Great Lakes region, I have accepted a new (volunteer) position within the OPF, that of Event Coordinator. I will be working as an advisor, mentor, and liaison (between the OPF and Paizo) with the organizing committees of the premier plus conventions: Pax Unplugged, Origins, UK Games Expo, PaizoCon, and Gen Con to help them coordinate show logistics, planning, and acquisition of support, etc. We hope to share ideas between the shows to improve best practices and bring some consistency so each show runs in a similar fashion. This will improve efficiency and reduce/eliminate problems that can occur. I am excited for this new opportunity and challenge and hope to see and work with all of you in the future. Until then...

Explore! Report! Cooperate!

[Wei Ji the Learner]

Bob Jonquet wrote:

I'll post this here since I started with Pathfinder and we don't have a forum for general OP threads that apply to both Pathfinder and Starfinder Society Play...

Effective today, I have retired as Regional Venture-Coordinator of the Great Lakes region. It has been a great experience serving in that role for the past few years as well as going back to the many years as a Venture-Captain. I've been playing and GMing since season zero and volunteering for almost as long. It was time for a change and with the release of Pathfinder 2nd Edition, I though this would be as good a time as any.

To all the players, GMs, organizers, volunteers, and fellow Venture-Officers I have had the joy of working with over the years, I offer an enormous THANK YOU. I have met some of my best friends through this organization as well as the woman I love. Its been some of the best years of my life. You have all touched my heart more profoundly than you know and if I had even an inkling of positive impact on you and your experience with the campaigns, then I consider my time a massive success.

Along with this retirement, I also step down as the chairman of the organizing committee for Gen Con. Again, this has been a fantastic experience and I thank everyone I have worked with to make it such a great event.

However, this is not goodbye. While I will no longer be leading the Great Lakes region, I have accepted a new (volunteer) position within the OPF, that of Event Coordinator. I will be working as an advisor, mentor, and liaison (between the OPF and Paizo) with the organizing committees of the premier plus conventions: Pax Unplugged, Origins, UK Games Expo, PaizoCon, and Gen Con to help them coordinate show logistics, planning, and acquisition of support, etc. We hope to share ideas between the shows to improve best practices and bring some consistency so each show runs in a similar fashion. This will improve efficiency and reduce/eliminate problems that can occur. I am excited for this new opportunity and...

No, Bob.

[u]THANK YOU![/u]

Your leadership has been significant and heartfelt, and the times that we've had a difference of opinion (very few that they were) we've always managed to reach an understanding and perspective of our origin points as well as why we were at the conclusion we'd reached.

Not very many folks in an over-arcing leadership role would take the time to talk to non-leadership members of their team in other organizations I've been affiliated with in the past, nor willing to discuss in such a manner.

[Xathos of Varisia]

I can only repeat what Wei Ji the Learner said, "Thank you!" My two trips to Gen Con have been great. My initial steps into the Venture Officer ranks for your region were great thanks to your support. You have a great wealth of knowledge which I hope to learn from in the future.

Thanks and good fortune in your chairman role!

[Jeff Morse]

THANK YOU, MY FRIEND, for ALL THE HARD WORK YOU PUT IN TO MAKE THIS GAME GO FORTH.

[Dragnmoon]

Though I am sad you a retiring, I am glad you are not disappearing.

Will we still see you at events?

[TwilightKnight]

Not sure what my travel schedule will be. It is still a volunteer position so expensive travel like UK, Seattle, etc will affect which events I can attend and when. Since the primary function of the new role is focused on the planning elements, actual attending the events is not required. Though I have always thought I can be more effective if I experience the events so I intend to attend as many as possible.

[William Ronald]

Thank you for all your hard work. You were very helpful when the Northwest Indiana lodge lost its long term store when Lightspeed Hobbies closed. Thanks for all the support to me as a venture agent.

[Kitsune Kune]

Hello Bob,

We have never met, and only spoken back and forth on the forums once in a blue moon. however, I still echo those above and thank you for all the work you have put forth. I have always enjoyed reading your take and opinion on any thread you chose to respond to, even ones where I had not had a chance to formulate my own. I hope life treats you well going forward.

[Gary Bush]

I will join the chorus of Thank You for all you have done for the GMs and players who attended GenCon.

I know we will still see you there but you work will be some very big shoes to fill.

[Hmm]

Bob you are amazing. I am glad that your retirement is not complete, because I would miss you if you disappeared from OPF entirely. Thank you for all that you do, and for keeping GenCon running smoothly.

Hmm

[TriOmegaZero]

Thanks for everything Bob! (And remember to step down next time, not up! :)

[Land Phil]

Thanks for all you've done, and for all that you'll continue to do!