VENTURE-OFFICERS RANKS
Regional Venture-Coordinator (RVC)
Services
- Act as the top authority regarding community building, responsible for oversight of all Venture-Coordinators in the region.
- Responsible for the promotion/demotion of all Venture-Captains and any Venture-Lieutenants/Venture-Agents that may report directly to them.
- Maintain a current roster of Venture-Officers (VOs) in the region.
- Identify potential VOs and consider them for positions within the Venture-Officer organization.
- Be an active participant in the Regional Venture-Coordinator Council, responsible for community development and advising the OPF leadership.
- Be familiar with regional Organized Play customs such as table variations and player travel patterns and identify them to the OPF leadership.
- Acknowledge different styles of role-play and their presence in the Organized Play Foundation (OPF).
- Schedule games catering to a variety of play styles, based on the needs and desires of the community.
- Act as the third step in the conflict-resolution process, working with VCs to resolve community issues utilizing established guidelines. Communicate any issue that cannot be resolved to the OPF leadership up channel.
- Attend teleconferences with the OPF leadership as requested.
- Meet with VCs on an as-needed basis, at least quarterly, to provide mentoring in running Organized Play activities, discuss local issues, and identify growth areas. Online/telephone meetings count for this requirement.
- Compile information from VC reports and submit this information to the OPF leadership on a quarterly basis due the last Thursday of April/July/October/January.
- Find conventions within the region which would benefit from a Paizo staff presence and submit this information to the OPF leadership by June to facilitate travel schedule planning.
- Ensure every Venture-Captain maintains a searchable online presence for their area.
- Coordinate Organized Play activities at regional premier and premier plus conventions. This can be in person or by mentoring area Venture-Officers through the planning and organizational processes.
- Assist GMs in achieving recognition requirements, including adjudication game(s) and evaluations. Ensure GMs receive feedback after the game and report the results to the OPF leadership via applicable forms.
- Provide historical context of the Organized Play campaign to the OPF leadership.
- Play at least one game at a public venue per quarter
Benefits
- Free PDFs of Paizo products added to user account downloads on paizo.com.
- Credit of $50 on paizo.com per qualifying convention run, maximum of $100 per calendar year.
- A status bonus toward qualifying for tier rewards at PaizoCon and Gen Con (bonus does not apply to convention housing benefits, if applicable).
- Invitation to a regional coordinators’ dinner at PaizoCon and Gen Con.
- Treated as two GM ranks higher for qualification to run Exclusive events.
- Regional Venture-Coordinator + region tag that displays when posting in the paizo.com forums.
- Access to the Venture-Officer communication tools.
- Custom paizo.com avatar image.
Venture-Captain (VC)
Services
- Oversight authority of Venture-Lieutenants (VLs) as delegated by the Regional Venture-Coordinator to whom they report.
- Responsible for the promotion/demotion of any Venture-Lieutenants and any Venture-Agents that report directly to them.
- Maintain a current roster of volunteer GMs, organizers, and store/community contacts in the assigned region.
- Identify potential VOs and consider them for positions within the Venture-Officer organization.
- Be familiar with local game stores or community organizations where Organized Play activities are conducted. Work with them to register as retailers on paizo.com/retailers.
- Acknowledge different styles of role-play and their presence in the Organized Play Foundation.
- Schedule games catering to a variety of play styles based on the needs and desires of the community.
- Act as the second step in the conflict-resolution process, working with Venture-Lieutenants to resolve community issues utilizing established guidelines. Communicate any issue that cannot be resolved to the RVC up channel.
- Attend teleconferences with Regional Venture-Coordinator as requested.
- Meet with VLs on an as needed basis, at least quarterly, to provide mentoring in running Organized Play activities, discuss local issues, and identify growth areas. Online/telephone meetings count for this requirement.
- Compile information from VL/VA reports and submit this information to RVC on a quarterly basis in the manner requested by the RVC. These reports are due the third Thursday of May/August/September/February.
- Compile a list of all conventions with Organized Play activities in the community. Provide this list to RVC on a quarterly basis to aid in planning.
- Maintain a searchable online presence for the area. This can be forums, social media, websites, or scheduling apps.
- Work with event organizers in the geographical area to submit support requests within established time frames using online forms. Follow up with event organizers to ensure filing of after-action reports within one week of convention end.
- GM one or more blocks of Organized Play events at two different conventions a year. These conventions do not need to be in the home region of the Venture-Officer.
- Assist GMs in achieving recognition requirements, including adjudication game(s) and evaluations. Ensure GMs get feedback after the game and report the results to the OPF leadership via applicable forms.
- Choose an activity path and complete the associated tasks:
- Take the lead organizing Organized Play activities at two or more conventions a year. Conventions must qualify for event support based on established criteria. These conventions do not need to be in the local community.
- Actively participate in a Task Force as created by the OPF leadership. Activity requirements are set by the Task Force Chair / OPF leadership and will be clearly communicated to Task Force members.
- Run an additional 6 games per quarter in the local community.
- Coordinate a Special Project with the OPF leadership.
- Translate Organized Play documents if translations are not already provided by Paizo-licensed translators.
- Coordinate one session a month at a public venue where any may attend. This may include running the sessions if no other GMs are available.
- Ensure games run at conventions are reported on paizo.com.
- Play at least one game at a public venue per quarter
Benefits
- Free PDFs of Paizo products added to user account downloads on paizo.com.
- Credit of $50 on paizo.com per qualifying convention ran, maximum of $100 per calendar year.
- A status bonus toward qualifying for tier rewards at PaizoCon and Gen Con (bonus does not apply to convention housing benefits, if applicable).
- Invitation to a regional coordinators dinner at PaizoCon and Gen Con.
- Treated as two GM ranks higher for qualification to run Exclusive events.
- Venture-Captain + region tag that displays when posting in the Organized Play forums.
- Access to the Venture-Officer communication tools.
Venture-Lieutenant (VL)
Services
- Oversight authority of Venture-Agents as delegated by the Venture-Captain to whom they report.
- Responsible for the promotion/demotion of all Venture-Agents that report directly to them.
- Maintain a current roster of volunteer GMs, organizers, and store/community contacts and supply this to the reporting VC.
- Identify potential VOs and consider them for positions within the Venture-Officer organization.
- In cases where you are a location liaison, build a positive rapport with the location group leadership.
- Acknowledge different styles of role-play and their presence in the Organized Play Foundation.
- Schedule games catering to a variety of play styles, based on the needs and desires of the community.
- Act as the first step in the conflict-resolution process, working with Venture-Agents and Location Operators to resolve community issues utilizing established guidelines. Communicate any issue that cannot be resolved to the area VC up channel .
- Meet with the regional VC on an as needed basis, at least quarterly. Online/telephone meetings count for this requirement.
- Meet with VAs on an as needed basis, at least quarterly, to provide mentoring in running Organized Play activities, discuss local issues, and identify growth areas. Online/telephone meetings count for this requirement.
- Compile information from VA reports and submit this information to regional VC on a quarterly in the manner requested by the VC. These reports are due the second Thursday of April/July/October/January.
- Support the regional VC in maintaining a searchable online presence for the local area.
- GM one or more blocks of Organized Play events at two different conventions a year. These conventions do not need to be in the home region of the Venture-Officer.
- Choose an activity path and complete the associated tasks: •
- Take the lead organizing Organized Play activities at two or more conventions a year. Conventions must qualify for event support based on established criteria. These conventions do not need to be in the local community.
- Actively participate in a Task Force as created by the OPM. Activity requirements are set by the Task Force Chair/OPM and will be clearly communicated to task force members.
- Run an additional 6 games per quarter in the local community.
- Coordinate two sessions a month at a public venue where any may attend. This may include running the sessions, if no other GMs are available.
- Ensure organizers report games run at supervised locations on paizo.com.
- Play at least one game at a public venue per quarter
Benefits
- Free PDFs of Paizo Organized Play products added to user account downloads on paizo.com.
- Credit of $50 on paizo.com per qualifying convention ran, maximum of $50 per calendar year.
- Treated as one GM rank higher for qualification to run Exclusive events.
- Venture-Lieutenant + region tag that displays when posting in the Organized Play forums.
- Access to the Venture-Officer communication tools.
Venture-Agent (VA)
Services
- Ensure venture-officer to whom they report has current contact information. Maintain a current roster of volunteer GMs, organizers, and store/community contacts and supply this to the regional VC.
- Maintain a current roster of volunteer GMs and location contacts and supply this to the reporting VL.
- Build a positive rapport with the location group leadership.
- Encourage stores to register as retailers on paizo.com/retailers.
- Acknowledge different styles of role-play and their presence in the Organized Play Foundation.
- Schedule games catering to a variety of play styles, based on the needs and desires of the community.
- Identify any issues to regional VL, so that they may begin the conflict resolution process.
- Meet with the regional VL on an as needed basis, at least quarterly. Online/telephone meetings count for this requirement.
- Submit monthly status reports to the regional VL including the number/type of sessions ran, current numbers of players/GMs, and other requested metrics. These reports are due the first Thursday of April/July/October/January.
- Support the regional VC in maintaining a searchable online presence for the local area with current game information.
- Coordinate two sessions a month at the location where you coordinate games. Run one of the sessions, but the other can be ran by any area GM.
- Ensure organizers report games run at supervised locations on paizo.com.
- Play at least one game at a public venue per quarter
Benefits
- Free PDFs of Paizo Organized Play products added to user account downloads on paizo.com.
- Venture-Agent + region tag that displays when posting in the Organized Play forums.
- Access to the Venture-Officer communication tools.