3. What is the Pathfinder Society?
In-game:
• world-spanning organization of
adventurers, explorers, and
treasure-seekers
• the player characters’
employer, who sends them on
exciting and diverse missions
across the Golarion campaign
setting
4. What is the Pathfinder Society?
Real world:
• worldwide organized play
campaign using Pathfinder
RPG
• More than 75,000
players in 33 countries
10. How do I start PFS at my store?
Minimum requirements:
•1 table and 4-8 chairs
•1 Game Master
•1poster in your store
•1 4-5 hour time slot
That’s it!
11. How do I start PFS at my store?
Free Materials:
PFS Guide to
Organized Play
• Contains character
creation rules,
factions, quirks of
organized play
campaign
12. How do I start PFS at my store?
Free Materials:
Series of six 1-hour
quests for beginning
characters
15. How do I sign up?
Go to
www.paizo.com/pathfinderSociety
•Have your GM download and read
the Guide to Organized Play and the
first scenario – he/she is the only one
who needs to know what they’re doing
to start!
16. How do I sign up?
Go to www.paizo.com/pathfinderSociety
•Sign up for a Pathfinder Society number
17. How do I sign up?
Under “My Pathfinder
Society”, click on
“GM/Event
Coordinator” and
reserve extra PFS
numbers for your new
players.
18. Promotion and Reporting
On the Paizo website, create an event.
This will add your game to the Paizo event
listing, promoting it to anyone looking for
Pathfinder Society games in your area.
It also assigns your event an event code,
which is used to report the results of the
game.
20. Venture-Officers
Venture-Captains and Venture-
Lieutenants are Paizo’s volunteer
regional coordinators for Pathfinder
Society Organized Play. They exist
to help you find players and organize
events. Contact the one nearest you
and ask for help!
23. Benefits for your store
• Regular player presence at your store
• To use a character option, player must own
the book it comes from
• PFS makes heavy use of Flip Maps, Map
packs, Pathfinder Battles miniatures
• PFS is a gateway for RPGs in general – a
great way for players to test drive the game
system
26. New for 2015
More play opportunities!
As of March 2015:
•199 available scenarios
• 30 sanctioned modules
• 36 sanctioned Adventure Path books
• 5 multi-table special scenarios
• and counting…
27. New for 2015
Introductory Play
• Nine 1-hour quests
using the Pathfinder
Beginner Box set
• Encourages beginning
players to become
customers of the full PF
RPG line
28. New for 2015
Introductory Play
• Seven 1-hour
quests using the
regular Pathfinder
RPG rules
• Can be run as series
or individually
29. New for 2015
New Faction Stories
• Factions have been
updated, will become
more important in
coming year’s plot
• adds diversity, depth
to the OP campaign
30. New for 2015
Core Campaign
• Players can replay
scenarios using character
options from the CRB only
• Addresses replay,
increases challenge level,
promotes new GMing,
recruits new players
31. New Ways to Play
Organized Play
Campaign for the
Pathfinder Adventure
Card Game
32. • Guide to Organized Play
• new scenarios every week
• character sheets
• templates and more!
At its heart. Pathfinder Society is a group of people around a table, playing a game. There is a Game Master and several players, they go through an adventure, hopefully they live but maybe they don’t.
At its heart. Pathfinder Society is a group of people around a table, playing a game. There is a Game Master and several players, they go through an adventure, hopefully they live but maybe they don’t.
