Hello to everyone! I’m new to the site and a new author looking to share some perspective specifically on the growing Pathfinder Society Organized Play going on around Indy!

Pathfinder Society Organized Play uses Paizo Publishing’s Pathfinder RPG rules, which continues the rules traditions of Dungeons and Dragons 3.x rules. Sessions are 4-5 hour blocks and each module is designed to be played start to finish during that time block. Players create characters who are members of the Pathfinder Society, an organization in the world of Golarion who is dedicated to exploration, understanding and recovery of magical relics and ancient cultures for over the last 400 years. The Society maintains Lodge houses in many cities around the Inner Sea region of Golarion where members can receive missions from the local Venture-Captain to help further the Society’s goals: Explore, report, cooperate.

There is already a lot of Pathfinder Society (PFS) play going on at Arsenal Game Room downtown, and last week I kicked off a new group at Saltire Games in Lawrence.

Each PFS table is between 4 and 7 players plus the GM. The response has been awesome for the new location as well! We had 5 players last week, and I’ve got 7 lined up for a game this week but due to having only 1 GM I actually had to tell a few interested players that I’d have to get them into the next game. Another great feature of this Organized Play program is that all modules are designed to be played stand alone, so you can hop in and hop out of the action as your schedule permits. With the understanding, of course, that once you’ve played a given module you will not be playing it again. Since this is an Organized Play program where the published modules are balanced and your participation is logged via your player Chronicle sheets that also means you can play in a game anywhere with the same character! So playing games at different locations around Indy also becomes an option for players! Additional information for the specifics of the Organized Play program can be found in this handy PDF, the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play.

I’m going to be writing up some session reports based on the games at Saltire, so watch for them!

–Ziz

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