Paizo Blog: Paizo at Gen Con 2022

[Alex Speidel]

For those waiting on the details of PaizoCon 2022, we should have news to share next week! We appreciate your patience as we nail down some final details; we had to get this one out before the room lottery opened up this weekend.

See you all in Indianapolis, can’t wait!

[willfromamerica]

Thanks Alex!

[silversarcasm]

Good to hear there'll still be online shenanigans! Would love to go to gen con but alas the Atlantic ocean is vast and I do not have sailing lore.

Excited to see what will be revealed this year!

[Xathos of Varisia]

So happy to read this awesome news! I am ready to fill out the form to volunteer to run Pathfinder 2e at Gen Con in Indianapolis again! I love going to Gen Con and meeting so many of my fellow players and GMs.

Let's get this party started!

[redeux]

I appreciate the special premiering simultaneously at both the physical event and online component. Thank you!

[Psilo Anthro]

Very happy to hear thus. Super excited Paizo will be in person again. Can't wait for the GM volunteer request.

[John Godek III]

Thanks for the update Alex! I am very glad to see an online option for the special for those of us that are still prevented from going in person due to compromised immune systems. I am hoping a miracle occurs and I can go anyway, but not holding my breath.

[Elorebaen]

Great to hear!

[Rysky]

For those concerned, here is Gencon's health and safety requirements.

Aka proof of vaccinations and actual masks are required ^w^

[TriOmegaZero]

Huzzah for timely notice!

[The Raven Black]

Hybrid on-site and online activities are the way of the future, even beyond the pandemics. Good job.

[Lea - Cyerrah]

I am also very happy to hear that there will an online component for those of us that can't make it. Thank you!

[eiglos]

Is Paizo coming to the UK for the UK Games Expo this year?

[Cassi]

Oh, I love the continued online format! Thanks Paizo!

I'm sure looking forward to Gen Con Online. Even if it means more 4am game starts.

[TwilightKnight]

Typical Gen Con. All the hotels downtown are sold out less than two hours into their staggered lottery. Very disappointing.

[Gary Bush]

Awesome news...

And Twilight, yeah. 3:03pm... I may have gotten the last room in the block as I had only one choice.

And that hotel is 12 miles away! lol

[TwilightKnight]

Gen Con has posted a "sold out" notice to the hotel portal, but if you keep looking (refresh) at it over time, numerous options are popping up periodically. They don't seem to stick around very long and they aren't within walking distance, but if you want to go, there are options. A lot depends on when you want to arrive and leave. Good luck!

[Mark Stratton]

Any idea when the call for HQ and GM volunteers will go out?

[Tonya Woldridge]

Removed a duplicate post and one breaking our profantiy guidelines. We are working on the questions in the thread re UKGE and GM Call for Vol and should have more information on both of these shortly.

[Gary Bush]

TwilightKnight wrote:

Gen Con has posted a "sold out" notice to the hotel portal, but if you keep looking (refresh) at it over time, numerous options are popping up periodically. They don't seem to stick around very long and they aren't within walking distance, but if you want to go, there are options. A lot depends on when you want to arrive and leave. Good luck!

Good advice! I was able to snag a room at the Sheraton (4 blocks away) this afternoon. Big change from being 12 miles away.

Blind luck i know.

[Grcles de Cross]

Well, another year another missed F2F at Gen Con. But I am very happy that there is going to be an Online component to this year's gaming!!! I thank you very much.
Now I just have to get my act together and grab some slots before they all go away!

[Zergo78]

I'm really disheartened that the Saturday night Special is so limited. I couldn't get a ticket, and I look forward to this every year. Any chance that it will be expanded?

[Alex Speidel]

Zergo78 wrote:

I'm really disheartened that the Saturday night Special is so limited. I couldn't get a ticket, and I look forward to this every year. Any chance that it will be expanded?

We would be delighted to do so if we get more GMs! Right now they are scheduled based entirely on how many GMs we have for each tier; we have no room for expansion without additional volunteers.

[Hobbun]

Alex Speidel wrote:

Zergo78 wrote:

I'm really disheartened that the Saturday night Special is so limited. I couldn't get a ticket, and I look forward to this every year. Any chance that it will be expanded?

We would be delighted to do so if we get more GMs! Right now they are scheduled based entirely on how many GMs we have for each tier; we have no room for expansion without additional volunteers.

Count me as another who hopes to see you are able to get some more GMs/expand the tables (specifically for tiers 1-2).

This is my first year returning to Gen Con since 2019 and was an annual player to the Saturday special (or multiple night specials when that happened) and this is the first time I also wasn't able to get a ticket.

I fortunately was able to pick one up yesterday during the day in keeping watch as someone apparently returned one, but do need another one for a friend of mine.

Also, wasn't able to get into any of the normal PFS events, as well, which is very much out of the ordinary compared to prior years. Do you have less GMs/tables this year overall?