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Elections

2026 Society Elections Coming Up

Call for Nominations: would you like to join the IFGS Society Board?

The IFGS Society board is officially accepting nominations and candidate statements to fill 4 open positions on the Board. Serving on the Board is a fantastic way to give back to our gaming community, help guide operations, and shape the direction of our future events. If you are interested in running, please review the submission details below:

Requirements & Submission Instructions

Candidate Statement: Provide a brief summary of who you are, your experience within the IFGS Society, and what you hope to contribute or accomplish while serving on the Board.

Where to Send: Email your completed candidate statement directly to elections@ifgs.org. Submitting to this address ensures that the Elections Office receive your entry promptly.

Submission Deadline: All candidate statements must be submitted by Saturday, October 17, 2026, by midnight to be included on the official ballot. Once all candidate statements are gathered, they will be compiled into the official election announcements.

[Webmaster’s Note: The Board seats that are up for election are those currently held by Hugh Greene, Melanie Greene, Olan Knight, and John Jones.]

Elections, Society Board

Call for Candidates

Hello IFGS members!

Society Board is looking for volunteers to be on the Board! If you are interested please send an email to elections [at] ifgs.org with a candidate statement stating why you are interested and any experience you want known to the electorate. Please have your email with candidate statement sent in by October 15th at 7 PM Central to be placed on the ballot!

We are also looking for a volunteer to take the role of Elections Chair, to run the election itself. If you’re interested, please contact the Society Board.

Thank you,

John Jones,
Society Board President

FRC, News, SSC

Society Committee appointments coming up

Seats on the Fantasy Rules Committee and Society Sanctioning Committee are coming up for appointment or renewal at the end of March. The committees will review applications and submit their recommendations to the Board for appointments in April.

The FRC is retiring the ad hoc seats added to help with the heavy lifting of drafting the 8.0 Fantasy Rules, so four terms are ending, but only three seats will be open. Members whose terms are at a close are Bush, Englerth, Gibson, and Seals. If you’d like to volunteer, or if your seat is up and you’d like to continue to serve, let the FRC know.

Two seats on the SSC are up this year, Jones and Knight. The SSC will be looking at updates to magic item prices stemming from the major updates to the Fantasy Rules rules. Please contact the SSC if you’d like to get involved in fantasy accounting without unfortunate legal entanglements.

Uncategorized

IFGS Home version!

With in-person events on hold, Dallas Chapter has turned to virtual IFGS. Henry Wood, Dallas member and former member of the FRC, has come up with a simple adaptation for playing games with the IFGS Fantasy rules at a tabletop or over Discord. Dallas members have been trying it out in their channel, and now you can, too, with Henry’s draft rules.

Safety, Society Board

Advisory clarification

With state-level restrictions loosening in some areas, we know that many of you are eager to get back to swinging foam. However, the advisory is still in effect, meaning that membership status is frozen and no sanctioned events can run. New infection rates are still high, so let’s stay safe.

Safety, Society Board

COVID-19 Advisory

David Gibson, LVN, has offered an advisory to the Society Board regarding the COVID-19 outbreak.


Amid the COVID-19 outbreak the CDC’s Official recommendations are as follows:  

  • Limit Group events to 10 or less.
  • Keep social distance (of 6 feet or greater).
  • Practice good hand hygiene.
  • Sanitize surfaces with high traffic, for example door knobs, countertops, and tables .

Given the nature of an IFGS event with large groups of people, some in the High Risk category, it does not seem feasible to follow the CDC’s recommendations at an IFGS event. The health and safety of our members is our highest priority as an organization, and for that reason, it is the recommendation of the IFGS Society Board to postpone all in-person IFGS events.

The Society Board will review these recommendations in May, then on a monthly basis going forward, as necessary.

News

New (Beta) Rules and New Toys!

The new Fantasy Rules 8.0 Beta update is up and ready for playtest! We’ve got two new playable classes, Alchemist and Bard, and new specializations for existing classes, plus a lot of other updates. Download the new ruleset now and get ready to try it out. Remember to send your feedback to the FRC!

The Blue Book has gotten an update as well. Blue Book 2.15 brings a new type of toy to the game: Focus Enhancements. Like weapon and armor enhancements, these boosts add a numerical bonus, this time to the effects of healing and damaging skills, abilities, and spells. Version 2.15 also features an overhaul of the Magic Item Activation section, aimed at clearing up some confusion about just how some items work, especially Autocast and Autoactivate toys.

FRC

Update from the FRC

The FRC wanted to make all the class changes available to as many people as possible. Here is all the current class spec, minus the monk which is being worked on. Additionally the fighter is due for major changes but here is the current version until those changes are done.

As usual, these are still in play testing so no magic items may be built off of them. Please provide any play test feedback to the FRC when you can and please post these so your individual groups can have them.

Document icon Update from the FRC 2018-05-08