Announcing PfCon

sbaldrick · Post August 31st, 2020, 4:55 pm

Could we have a virtual convention? I have to admit that I am not planning on flying any time soon.

Necron 99 · Post September 1st, 2020, 10:23 am

sbaldrick wrote: ↑August 31st, 2020, 4:55 pm Could we have a virtual convention? I have to admit that I am not planning on flying any time soon.

I gave some thought to that initially, too, but I think the primary reasoning for PfCon was to get together in-person and hang out. Since I know many of us are already playing regularly online/virtually, I don't know if it's something we want to look at. I know for me, personally, I had planned to bring a board game or two, which are a bit harder to play online, unless you're using TTS or something.

grodog · Post September 2nd, 2020, 11:27 pm

I’m running some GH events in Virtual Greyhawk Con at the beginning of October, and will probably re-up them (or sims classics) for Virtual TsunamiCon 2 weeks later

Allan.

Necron 99 · Post September 3rd, 2020, 8:28 am

I've seen some of that floating around various FB groups, I'll have to check into a it a bit more. Thanks Allan.

Captain_Blood · Post October 25th, 2020, 2:44 am

So right now PFCon is in a holding pattern. There is too much pestilence and other ridiculousness going on. If we do get something to help reign things in I'll be looking to do something in February. Likely around Presidents Day, to help with those who get the day off from work. Since none of us knows how things are going to shake out please keep this in mind. If things are looking up I hope we can get together.

Ancalagon · Post December 5th, 2020, 12:19 am

Captain_Blood wrote: ↑October 25th, 2020, 2:44 am So right now PFCon is in a holding pattern. There is too much pestilence and other ridiculousness going on. If we do get something to help reign things in I'll be looking to do something in February. Likely around Presidents Day, to help with those who get the day off from work. Since none of us knows how things are going to shake out please keep this in mind. If things are looking up I hope we can get together.

If February doesn't work out, we can always eyeball another time in 2021. I still definitely want to get together and have some quality time and gaming!

Ancalagon wrote: ↑June 28th, 2020, 11:30 pm Hmmmm.... HârnMaster....

Or maybe.... Mythras....

IIRC I played a session of RuneQuest 6 back around GenCon 2012 and enjoyed it. Mythras is basically RuneQuest with the Glorantha stuff removed which is GREAT as far as I'm concerned. For a change of pace from (A)D&D and the horde of clones, I could see running a Mythras session for those attending a PfCon or similar such gathering. I think I'll start a thread over in roleplaying games that discusses Mythras....

Ancalagon · Post December 14th, 2020, 1:05 am

Ancalagon wrote: ↑December 5th, 2020, 12:19 am
Captain_Blood wrote: ↑October 25th, 2020, 2:44 am So right now PFCon is in a holding pattern. There is too much pestilence and other ridiculousness going on. If we do get something to help reign things in I'll be looking to do something in February. Likely around Presidents Day, to help with those who get the day off from work. Since none of us knows how things are going to shake out please keep this in mind. If things are looking up I hope we can get together.
If February doesn't work out, we can always eyeball another time in 2021. I still definitely want to get together and have some quality time and gaming!
Ancalagon wrote: ↑June 28th, 2020, 11:30 pm Hmmmm.... HârnMaster....
Or maybe.... Mythras....
IIRC I played a session of RuneQuest 6 back around GenCon 2012 and enjoyed it. Mythras is basically RuneQuest with the Glorantha stuff removed which is GREAT as far as I'm concerned. For a change of pace from (A)D&D and the horde of clones, I could see running a Mythras session for those attending a PfCon or similar such gathering. I think I'll start a thread over in roleplaying games that discusses Mythras....

.... or maybe.... Metal, Magic and Lore (MML)....

So many options!

Captain_Blood · Post December 14th, 2020, 6:39 pm

Well we'll have plenty of time to game so feel free to bring 2 adventures!

Necron 99 · Post December 28th, 2020, 4:05 pm

Caught a few posts from the Origins FB group and it still seems very much, up in the air about whether there will be a physical con next year, though some folks went on to say that GenCon is planning to be up and running but it falls at the end of summer and seems more likely a candidate for opening up than the beginning of the summer.

This may be reason enough to consider just going ahead with plans for PfCon or similar event, just forget about trying to deal with, and work around other convention schedule and "possible" running.

Ancalagon · Post December 28th, 2020, 5:31 pm

Necron 99 wrote: ↑December 28th, 2020, 4:05 pm Caught a few posts from the Origins FB group and it still seems very much, up in the air about whether there will be a physical con next year, though some folks went on to say that GenCon is planning to be up and running but it falls at the end of summer and seems more likely a candidate for opening up than the beginning of the summer.

This may be reason enough to consider just going ahead with plans for PfCon or similar event, just forget about trying to deal with, and work around other convention schedule and "possible" running.

Emphasis mine.
I agree. For 2021, why bother coordinating around maybes and unknowns? We have enough folks in our circle for gaming goodness. I'm thinking if we can get 5+ for a solid group (a DM/GM and 4 players) to commit then we should be able to do it. We'd just need to figure out the folks who can attend, determine a start and end date, where it will happen, who will run what, etc. I did this ion 2017 with OmaCon and it was a lot of fun. The hardest part was the scheduling.