GenCon 2021 and PFS / SFS

[Dork Dad]

Gamers,

Sorry if this a redundant, but I couldn't find a thread about it.

What is the status of in person GenCon gaming? I see a specials for GenCon on the Pazio calendar, but what about the rest? Is there going to be gaming at GenCon?

Sincerely,

-DD

[Blake's Tiger]

Someone quicker on the search will find the verified answer, but I believe I read in the blog that there would not be any in-person PFS/SFS at Gencon this year.

EDIT: Not the blog where I read it, but the convention calendar, if you advance to GenCon, lists it as "GenCon Online."

Convention Calendar

[Dork Dad]

Blake's Tiger wrote:

Someone quicker on the search will find the verified answer, but I believe I read in the blog that there would not be any in-person PFS/SFS at Gencon this year.

EDIT: Not the blog where I read it, but the convention calendar, if you advance to GenCon, lists it as "GenCon Online."

Convention Calendar

Thank you for the clarification. Guess its a cyperpunk/shadowrun/D&D weekend instead.

[CigarPete]

To be clear, there is no Paizo run PFS/SFS. If anyone else wants to run PFS/SFS games, they can do so.

Given Paizo doesn't appear to have interest in promoting any organizing at GenCon this year, I'm with you that I will be playing different games at GenCon certainly.

[Grimlik]

I haven’t been able to go to Gencon the last couple years and was able to move things around to make it to Gencon 2021 even with the schedule change.

I was so excited to get to play Pathfinder again at Gencon. I didn’t even consider that Paizo wouldn’t have any in person representation. I guess D&D 5e it is unless we manage to organize some individual games.

[caps]

Organizing in person PFS/SFS amongst yourselves seems like a great idea. I don't know what would be entailed in getting an event registered with Gencon but if nothing else you could probably advertise here on the boards?

Also to be clear for any readers, I believe Paizo *will* be hosting online PFS/SFS events at Gencon.

[Blake's Tiger]

They are, indeed, hosting tables at GenCon Online.

[Leomund "Leo" Velinznrarikovich]

caps wrote:

I don't know what would be entailed in getting an event registered with Gencon but if nothing else you could probably advertise here on the boards?

To my understanding, any pick-up games put together at in-person GenCon will not receive any special event. It will be the same as putting a game together randomly at any other place and time.

[tcamero1]

It is a shame that there won't be any in-person offerings from Paizo at GenCon. I'm in a group of 4 people who live across the country. We play pathfinder online together every week. Once a year we are able to take the time to attend GenCon in order to play pathfinder together in person. Even though we are all still going to be attending and are now planning on putting together our own game each day in the afternoon/evening one of us will have to DM the game (just like we do online), so we won't be able to play together as we had hoped.

Don't get me wrong, we are all looking forward to GenCon and spending time together again. We just wish that there were still some in-person offerings from Paizo for Pathfinder.

[CigarPete]

tcamero1 wrote:

It is a shame that there won't be any in-person offerings from Paizo at GenCon. I'm in a group of 4 people who live across the country. We play pathfinder online together every week. Once a year we are able to take the time to attend GenCon in order to play pathfinder together in person. Even though we are all still going to be attending and are now planning on putting together our own game each day in the afternoon/evening one of us will have to DM the game (just like we do online), so we won't be able to play together as we had hoped.

Don't get me wrong, we are all looking forward to GenCon and spending time together again. We just wish that there were still some in-person offerings from Paizo for Pathfinder.

Shoot me a PM and let me know what you are looking for - we can probably work something out. Given we are outside the purview of official channels, we can do AP books or modules as well as scenarios. I'm well versed in PF1, SF and PF2, though mostly PF2 these days.

If you are interested, we do need to talk pretty quickly as event registration starts Sunday, so I will need to know what block(s) to keep free.

[Grimlik]

This guy is right up there with Dorothy Mantooth

[caps]

Leomund "Leo" Velinznrarikovich wrote:

caps wrote:

I don't know what would be entailed in getting an event registered with Gencon but if nothing else you could probably advertise here on the boards?

To my understanding, any pick-up games put together at in-person GenCon will not receive any special event. It will be the same as putting a game together randomly at any other place and time.

I mean registering the event with GenCon so that people can look it up in the catalog, etc.

[CigarPete]

caps wrote:

Leomund "Leo" Velinznrarikovich wrote:

caps wrote:

I don't know what would be entailed in getting an event registered with Gencon but if nothing else you could probably advertise here on the boards?

To my understanding, any pick-up games put together at in-person GenCon will not receive any special event. It will be the same as putting a game together randomly at any other place and time.

I mean registering the event with GenCon so that people can look it up in the catalog, etc.

GenCon is not letting individuals register games in their event catalogue, so any tables being set up are between individuals.