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In-person play is picking up in our area, and it's so great to make new friends and reconnect with old friends.
Last week I gamed with someone I hadn't seen in over 2 years. We also have a couple of really awesome new locals coming into the store too. I find myself genuinely happy when I'm on the way to the FLGS, in a way that was missing from online games.
What's something you're enjoying about Org Play lately?
Venture-Agent, Indiana—Indianapolis
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I’ve always preferred running low level games, generally because that’s where I get new player and get a chance to teach them the game. I considering myself something of a “teaching GM” and I have had a chance over the past few months to bring in new players as we roll out OP back in a store we were in before the pandemic.
Happy to have new players to teach the game to, and to have veteran players come back!
Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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When we play a scenario and afterwards everyone's just really content that that was a good scenario, we'd like more of those please. And then since it's a bit earlier than expected we go chat at a sunny coffee place a bit and then have some really good dumplings together.
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For me, lately, the only organized play I get is running the Pathfinder Club at the middle school I teach at. I get to teach 20 or so young people the game, GM games for them, and teach some of them to GM. It's very rewarding, but I do need to find some local games to play in.
Have you tried online games? The apocolypse really expanded it.
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For me, lately, the only organized play I get is running the Pathfinder Club at the middle school I teach at. I get to teach 20 or so young people the game, GM games for them, and teach some of them to GM. It's very rewarding, but I do need to find some local games to play in.
We’ll just have to get the old gang back together.
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Venture-Agent, Online—PbP
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For me, lately, the only organized play I get is running the Pathfinder Club at the middle school I teach at. I get to teach 20 or so young people the game, GM games for them, and teach some of them to GM. It's very rewarding, but I do need to find some local games to play in.Have you tried online games? The apocolypse really expanded it.
It's not everyone's jam but if online is something you might be interested in, we have text-based games (Play-by-Post & Play-by-Discord) as well as real-time VTT (virtual tabletop) games with voice chat that happen across a couple of forums and Discord servers :)
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As both a player and a GM, I enjoy interesting encounters with elements that engage the players and challenge their characters in ways other than just HP attrition. Maybe they have to make a choice between NPCs to help, or they have to race the clock to finish a task, or the map is littered with hazards and items they can make creative use of. If the encounter rewards the use of skills, items, or boons that don't see much use, such as an unusual profession that you just took for a day job or background color, so much the better!
Similarly, I'm grateful for players who are just as interested in role-playing their character's personalities and quirks as they are at showing off their rules knowledge and killer builds. And when they can do it in ways that encourages the other players to join in the fun, rather than just hogging the spotlight, that makes the game better for everyone at the table.
I also love well-written NPCs that the authors give you ample reason to enjoy seeing again--whether it's an old friend with a new problem (Valais Durant, J Dacilane), or a much-hated villain (Thurl, Tancred Desimire), or someone who's a bit of each (Torch).
Getting glimpses of the bigger picture can be fun for both old and new players and GMs. Some of the ongoing storylines, both big and small, span several seasons, and it's very satisfying to discover something that provides new insights into those arcs. For example, I didn't start Starfinder Society until very late Season 1, so I was missing a lot of context whenever those events were referenced in later seasons. I've made a point of GMing a lot of the S1 scenarios that I never got to play when they were new, and I quickly latched onto the origin of the relationship between Celita and Ziggy--which coincides with the reveal of one of the biggest threats of that season! I ran a sort of curated tour of those interweaved stories, so that others who missed them could enjoy some pretty cool stories, and see how they inform events of later seasons.
