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I see lots of new players and DMs coming over from 5e all the time on Reddit for both Starfinder and Pathfinder since the OGL mess. I noticed a lot of them will say they are new to Pathfinder2e or Starfinder and then jump right into homebrew questions. Also a lot of the time it's a whole table switching over too, so not likely to be interested in organized play as much as an individual player.
So I'm curious if other areas are seeing growth in their organized play groups. Sadly the local organized play group where I live recently died out and is gone now, but I never saw many people playing 5e at any of the game stores either. Here Warhammer overshadows everything even Magic the Gathering.
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Hard to say, a lot of the players that have found us due to the OGL situation/with experience with D&D were looking for APs or other long-term groups.
Some played a couple of org play sessions, but then did not show up again, because they had found a permanent group.
That might be a local thing, a lot of RPG players just hadn't heard about the drama at the convention I attended early this year.
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Our group didn't get any new players from the convention here, which is odd because even after the remaster books were announced our local game store had just got a full bookshelf of just PF2e core rule books in, and they sold out in about 2 weeks.
I'm shocked people at your convention didn't know about the drama, according to the internet, it sounded like even wild animals were up in arms protesting the OGL mess.
Something that organized play is lacking, you never really hear any YouTube creators talking about organized play.
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Doesn't seem like ours have either.
A few tried out but had a difficult time onboarding (school items, downtime), struggled with more prescriptive rules of Org Play (can;t build high level PCs, book ownership, no evil pc's), and felt the scenarios were too strictly structured when compared to AL.
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We are just now starting to organize in Gettysburg PA. Yes it relates to the OGL Scandal (...and the many other acts by the creators of MtG and their overlords at the creators of Monopoly!) Admittedly it is going slowly. There is a fairly steep learning curve to running PFS, and we have no Venture Officers; but we are doing our best.
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The apocolypse did a number on a lot of location but The map has a number of locations nearish to DC. Some of them still look active.
Things like DC are half the point to the map: you could have three different states to look into for a gaming space.
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Venture-Captain, Virginia—Northern Virginia
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I'm in the DC area and can't find any local games to save my life.
The local game stores pretty much only offer D&D and MTG, it's a real shame because the NOVA/DC area is over 3.16 million people in an extremely dense region.
I tried reaching out to the RVO but never heard back and the only games firing off are a good 45 minute drive.
It's weird to me that there isn't a bigger push for PFS/SFS in our area given the demographics.
Thankfully online gaming fills that itch fairly well especially if you're a night owl..
Blakeg -
Please reach out to me directly. And maybe I can help. We have had issues with finding gaming space in the city proper. We just recently started (as of the 20th) started running in downtown Alexandria. We also have Game Kastle College park (it is one of the PaizoCon@ locations! Please email me and visit our meet up group novaorganizedplay@gmail.com
https://www.meetup.com/pathfinder-society-of-northern-virginia/