New PFS Organized Play Coordinator

[IronWolf]

Paizo announced the new Organized Play coordinator for the Pathfinder Society their blog today.

Paizo Publishing has named Mike Brock as Pathfinder Society Campaign Coordinator, overseeing the massive Pathfinder Society Organized Play worldwide shared-world RPG campaign. A former Pathfinder Society regional coordinator from Atlanta, Georgia, Brock brings years of local campaign management experience to the international stage. Brock’s tenure will begin in October of 2011.

“Mike has done a wonderful job managing the Pathfinder Society program in Atlanta,” said Paizo Publisher Erik Mona. “He has a list of ideas as long as a greatsword he’d like to implement to make the campaign even better, and we are thrilled to have him as a member of our adventuring party.”

Mike Brock said, "It is a privilege to have been chosen by Paizo to oversee Pathfinder Society, and I'm very excited about getting started when I arrive in Seattle. I'm looking forward to working with the Paizo staff, venture captain coordinators, and the Pathfinder Society community to help improve and grow."

Now in its fourth year, Pathfinder Society Organized Play is a massive, worldwide shared-world Pathfinder RPG campaign with more than 10,000 participants. Players create their own characters and run them through sanctioned Pathfinder Society events at game stores, conventions, and in their own homes.

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is a fully supported tabletop RPG, with regularly released adventure modules, sourcebooks on the fantastic world of Golarion, and complete campaigns in the form of Pathfinder Adventure Paths like Carrion Crown and The Jade Regent. The Pathfinder RPG is also compatible with the 3.5 edition of the world’s oldest roleplaying game.

Great to see this! I have heard excellent things about the Atalanta area PFS growth. Should be fun times ahead!

 

[MichaelSomething]

For reference, here is said guy's (at least I think it's him??) first post here on Enworld.

Hello everyone,

I am a PFS organizer in Atlanta, Georgia. I have read all of the negative feedback on this forum and I wanted to know that I completely sympathize with you. I know there is always the risk of having bad experiences when you are walking in to a game at a FLGS. All I can tell you that the kind of behavior that you see is NOT acceptable everywhere. Atlanta has had a huge boom in PFS, I think it's largely because we have a venture captain who has held both poor players and poor GMs accountable. I hope you don't let these bad experiences that you've had stop you from organized play forever. For everyone here, I recommend hooking up with your local venture captain if your region has one, or contacting a group on the boards (here or on paizo.com), to feel them out. Please know that these kind of bad experiences are not everywhere, and there's a lot of GMs who will do everything in their power to serve their players.

Seems like a dude who has his act together! Calling [MENTION=6682200]NaniOPratt[/MENTION]! Come here so we can all congratulate you on livin' the dream of working in the gaming world!

 

[Steel_Wind]

For reference, here is said guy's (at least I think it's him??) first post here on Enworld.

NaniO is an event organizer and GM in Atlanta -- she is not Michael Brock (though she may well throw her hat in for the soon to be vacant VC in that area).

 

[IronWolf]

The first blog post is up by Mike Brock at the Paizo site for those curious.

 

[coastiemike]

Come here so we can all congratulate you on livin' the dream of working in the gaming world!

I'm here. I've been a member for 6 years though I have mostly been a lurker. Thanks for the congrats. I appointed Nani and her husband, Kyle, as the new Atlanta Venture-Captains when I was hired by Paizo.