New Players Registration

[Sharkbite]

So for Free RPG Day, I was able to run the Starfinder 2e table a couple of times. Several new players tried out the game, since our local lodge of existing players overwhelming have rejected the 2nd Edition rules.

While introducing new players into Organized Play, I ran into the same problem multiple times.

I hand them the business card with the organized play number that they can register. It has a code on it that they can input to register the number.

It does NOT have:

The Website where they need to go to register it.

So on every card, I have to handwrite www.paizo.com on the back.

And then I get players who go to the website, create an account, and that's it. By registering their email and making a Paizo account, they think that they are done, without entering their Organized Play code.

Would it be possible to put the full link to the Register Your Organized Play Code page on the card?

Already with more than half of my players, I have to keep their Organized Play numbers recorded in my binder of players at the comic shop for the purpose of reporting, because they don't frequent the website. But the way those cards are laid out actually causes many of the players to fail to even register it in the first place, thinking they are done just by logging into the Paizo website.

It feels like a small ask. Can we put the website on those cards, so that new players know WHERE to go to register, instead of just what to enter after blindly stabbing around hoping to find it.

[Sprinklenoice]

Sharkbite wrote:

So for Free RPG Day, I was able to run the Starfinder 2e table a couple of times. Several new players tried out the game, since our local lodge of existing players overwhelming have rejected the 2nd Edition rules.

While introducing new players into Organized Play, I ran into the same problem multiple times.

I hand them the business card with the organized play number that they can register. It has a code on it that they can input to register the number.

It does NOT have:

The Website where they need to go to register it.

So on every card, I have to handwrite www.paizo.com on the back.

And then I get players who go to the website, create an account, and that's it. By registering their email and making a Paizo account, they think that they are done, without entering their Organized Play code.

Would it be possible to put the full link to the Register Your Organized Play Code page on the card?

Already with more than half of my players, I have to keep their Organized Play numbers recorded in my binder of players at the comic shop for the purpose of reporting, because they don't frequent the website. But the way those cards are laid out actually causes many of the players to fail to even register it in the first place, thinking they are done just by logging into the Paizo website.

It feels like a small ask. Can we put the website on those cards, so that new players know WHERE to go to register, instead of just what to enter after blindly stabbing around hoping to find it.

We were able to figure this out and get registered, BUT idk if we got Abraham's character signed up? It does have his session listed, which is good.

[Super Zero]

Go to the My Organized Play section (either My Account > Organized Play or Organized Play > My Organized Play). From there under the Summary tab there are buttons to create a new character.

Give them a name and a faction--filling anything else out is optional. Your first PFS2 character will be number 2001, so the credit will show up for them once the character is created in the system.

[Sharkbite]

If feels like just putting the URL on the new player cards would be an easy fix and great courtesy to those players, so they aren't stuck stabbing around blindly through a website they've never visited.

A very small quality-of-life change that would help new players to get registered for organized play.

[JohannVonUlm]

A great idea. Meanwhile, what I've done locally is put together a one page "Welcome to PFS" letter with the instructions. It also contains local information, like how to find our games on Warhorn. I staple those business cards to the welcome letter.