Paradigm Concepts

[PCIHenry]

Hello everyone,

We're rolling out the Harvester Regional Coordinator Program.

Details below:

Paradigm Concepts, Inc.’s

Harvester Regional Coordinator Program



I. Legalese

a. To volunteer for this position, you must be 18 years of age or older.

b. One must be willing to sign an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) with Paradigm Concepts, Inc., hereinafter referred to as PCI.

c. This position is a volunteer position and being accepted into said position does not in any way, implicit or explicit, signify that you are a PCI employee.

d. A person is this position must always act in a courteous, professional and friendly manner to all those persons that they may be in contact with during their time as a Harvester volunteer.

e. The volunteer must be able to comply and fulfill their monthly duties and report their completion to PCI.

f. Applying for this volunteer position means that you understand these restrictions and agree to perform the duties as described below.

II. What is a Harvester?

a. A Harvester is a regional coordinator for the Legends of Arcanis Organized Play Campaign who arranges and coordinates play opportunities at local stores and conventions, as well as act as a point of contact for local players, Chroniclers and Store Owners.

III. Duties and Expectations

a. Organize and facilitate a minimum of ONE Legends of Arcanis games a month at a local Game Store and/or local convention in your area. Home games are NOT an acceptable substitution for this requirement.

b. Build a positive relationship with local game storeowners, managers, employees and local players.

c. Create and maintain a report (EXCEL Spreadsheet would be best) of your local game stores including contact information (Name, Address and phone number), manager’s name, Point of Contact (if different from Manager), what, if any PCI products they carry, and if they are running In-Store Gaming of Legends of Arcanis. These reports are due at the beginning of each month.

d. Create and maintain a list of players (names and email addresses, if possible) and make sure they are aware of the PCI forums and Yahoo Groups. These reports are due at the beginning of each month. Once again, an EXCEL spreadsheet would be best.

e. Provide your PCI liaison with feedback on the Campaign and products from the game stores and players.

f. Become the Point of Contact for local Convention Coordinators, gaming clubs, and game days in your area.

g. Assure that these Coordinators have the materials that they need, have requested premieres in a timely fashion (if available), and that they have the GMs necessary to run the games.

h. Create and maintain a list of the local Conventions, gaming clubs and game days, including the name of the Con/Event, the days when the event takes place, the location and Point of Contact.

i. Ensure that these events are entered in the PCI Forums in a timely fashion.

j. Provide feedback about and from the event and their coordinators.

k. Run a minimum of one Legends of Arcanis session per month at either a local game day or convention. Home Games are NOT an acceptable substitute.

l. Participate on the PCI forum or LA Yahoo group at least once a week.

m. Become familiar with the entire Arcanis Product Line and system and be comfortable speaking about the system and campaign to others.

n. NEVER speak ill of other Campaigns, games or game companies. Doing so is grounds for immediate termination from this program.

o. Please give notice to your liaison should you no longer wish to participate in this program.

p. Note that these requirements may change in the future, but ample notice will be given should you feel that you can no longer fulfill your duties.

IV. Rewards for the Harvester Program

a. Free PDFs of all Arcanis products before they are released to the public.

b. Special PCI Forum “Tag� that is only available for Harvesters

c. Invitation only dinner for Harvesters at Origins or Gen Con. Please note that members of the Harvesters organization that wish to attend this function will be required to provide their own transportation, rooms, and badges to the Convention.

V. Regional Areas

a. Only one person per region will be selected.

b. Only a limited number of Harvesters will be selected at the beginning of this program. Others may be added in the future.

VI. How to Apply

a. Send an email to pciharvesters@gmail.com and attach a document (.doc, .docx, .rtf or pdf) with you full legal name, physical mailing address, phone number and email address.

b. Additionally, this document should list your experience with the Legends of Arcanis Campaign or the previous Living Arcanis Campaign.

c. Whether you are currently active in another company’s or Campaigns organization.

d. Your level of experience and comfort with the new Arcanis RPG.

e. Other RPGs with which you are very familiar with running/playing.

f. Any conventions, events, game days, etc that you have organized.

g. A list of any conventions, events or game days that take place in your local area and indicate which you attend regularly.

h. A list of local game stores in your area and whether they provide space and time for in-store gaming.

i. A short summary of your roleplaying experience.

j. A list of any criminal convictions since the age of 18, if any.

k. Any additional information that you feel is relevant to your application.

VII. No purchase necessary; void where prohibited.
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Henry Lopez
President
Paradigm Concepts, Inc.

[Archangel]

I have a few questions about this.
1) How big are the regions intended to be? (50-100 miles, the state, multiple states, etc...) I know this will probably vary a lot on area and circumstances, but I was wanting to know what you guys had in mind.

2) Is it possible to have a group of people team up to provide the required actions? For example 2-3 guys rotating the responsibilities so they each have some time to play as well. Obviously they would have to only send 1 to the dinner and each sign an NDA.

3) Will there be ample modules to run? I figure the Living Arcanis modules would all be fair game to use in these game sessions, but we could quickly run through those if someone runs more than once a month. A regular campaign probably wouldn't work out to well either, assuming the intent is to try and get new players and not exclude people unless absolutely necessarily.

[PCIHenry]

Hello,

1 - We left the meaning of local ambiguous on purpose. Obviously we'd like it to cover more than a five block radius, but we don't expect you to cover an entire state, unless you live in Delaware or one of the other relatively small states.

2 - No, we'd rather have one person so as to avoid the whole, "I thought you were going to run there..." However, if you want to have unofficial helpers, that's up to you, but only one Harvester per region.

3 - The idea is to run the adventures provided from the Campaign. Whether you re-run adventures because you have new players or run the new ones, there should be enough for a monthly game day.

Also, note that you don't have to be the only one running. We'd hope that local GMs would step up and help run multiple tables at any particular game store or convention.

Where are you from?

How many local Cons and Game stores with gaming space are local to you?
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Henry Lopez
President
Paradigm Concepts, Inc.

[Archangel]

I'm from Lafayette, LA. While it is a decent sized city there isn't a whole lot of pnp gaming here. There is only 1 gaming store that I can think of that is still open and would allow this, there may be others that I just hadn't heard about yet (it is sad when Books a Million and Barns and Noble are 2 of the best places for getting your gaming books).

We had a Con that was here in town for years but last year they moved to New Orleans to get a bigger space, and it was mostly an anime based Con rather than gaming. The next closest Con I had found was DragonCon.

Now as to your answers. 1) I figured that a whole state was a bit much, but wanted to make sure I knew what the expectations were before I started down that road. 2) I completely understand your stance on there being only 1 and let them decide if they need helpers.

[PCIHenry]

Hello,

Well sounds like you have a foundation upon which to build.

If you want to test the waters before committing to the program, ask the store owner/manager if you can run an LA game there.

Then announce it a few weeks ahead of time in whatever manner is allowed by said store - flier, bulletin board, etc.

Then run a game, even if its just the Fast Play game.

All you need is three or four people to run it. Hopefully they'll have a good time and talk their friends into playing and before you know it, you'll have six people at you table (although you really don't need that many to run a game).

Just some thoughts for your to consider.
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Henry Lopez
President
Paradigm Concepts, Inc.

[deguello]

Might I suggest an online Harvester..

Someone familiar with online gaming, the technology, and mustering requirements.

Russell

[PCIHenry]

Sorry - that's not what we had in mind for the program.
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Henry Lopez
President
Paradigm Concepts, Inc.

[mith_narya]

Henry,

I too have a handful of questions, if you have a few minutes to reply.

1) It wasn't stated, so I'll ask - is there a minimum timeframe commitment you're looking for, e.g. 6mo, 1yr, etc.

2) Beyond the one game day a month, are you looking for a quota of tables run, players active, new players, etc?

3) How exactly are you defining 'game day' and what are the minimum number of tables run for the event to qualify?


Reasons for asking:
2) I ask this because SW Michigan has, to my knowledge, been notoriously rough for RP gamers. There's really only one convention in the area all year and it isn't generally a huge deal for RPGs. In fact, right now I couldn't name another LA gamer within 50miles of me - not that I couldn't get any converts if I didn't try really hard.

3) One of the major colleges in the area does have a gaming group and last I heard they met every Friday. It's pretty informal, just show up and play. In all likelihood until LA got moving, only 1 table would be run (at best) during that Friday meeting. Would one Friday be acceptable to meet the minimum (obviously any Harvester worth their salt would do MORE as possible)?

[EddieS]

Will there be a list of these coordiators by regions listed? In case one wants to apply for a region and it (might) be covered already?
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[deguello]

I know that, that's why I suggested it.

I will say in the original Arcanis. The only reason I found you ( to your surgrin) was online play. Now, Hauptman and company did you a huge service offering games. Even so far as to offer 7 days and 20 plus games within a week.

In northern Virginia. I have found only one group, and not seen your merchandise anywhere.

[Nierite]

I believe that the point of the Harvester program, to an extent, is to remove the need to find someone via online gaming by providing a real-life contact person in your area. I always personally enjoyed real-life interactions than ones through a computer for gaming.

In a way, this message board is effectively a Harvester (Online) already
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