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It's true that PFS is pretty hard to figure out, especially if you don't have a well established and consistent lodge near you.
Each region definitely has it's own style of doing things, and even playing in different regions can yield vastly different experiences. I occasionally play in a different state when I head into my jobs main office, and while the base game is still the same, it's not the same experience as when I play with my home lodge.
The best advice I can offer you is to google " pathfinder society" and figure out what they use to do signups. A lot of places use warhorn, but I've also seen BBS systems and even meetup.com.
If you have specific questions, I can try to answer them, or at least get you in touch with the VC (or one of the VAs) at my lodge and they might be able to help you out.
Thanks for the reply, don’t take the rest of this as an assault on you but as a commentary on the difficulty I’ve had trying to get involved- What’s a VC? Or a VA? What’s Warhorn? This is the difficulty because this is how the “guides” I’ve found (even Paizo’s) are written: full of acronyms and esoteric terms that are never defined anywhere. Surely there are common terms (like lodge?) that apply to every region, but there isn’t a glossary to even help with that.
I've gotten into PFS via conventions. GenCon Online and PaizoCon in particular. The instructions for signing up tend to be pretty explicit for those events. And there's a discord channel (a social network program) with people willing to help you in real-time.
Once I found my first game, I just asked (pestered) the GM. He was very helpful and understanding.
But I totally agree with you - getting started is super hard. I'm still working things out. The plus side it everything works on the honor system. The negative side is I'm always worried I'm doing something wrong!
p.s. warhorn is a website - warhorn.net - where you can search for and sign up for games or tournaments for all kinds of systems. It's popular with PFS. As is rpgchronicles.net which is PFS specific (I think).