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Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:14 pm
by Falconer
All they really need to hire is an arbiter of good taste. Then they can ban all the non-Gygaxian crap from the Con and reduce it back down to a manageable size.

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 10:14 pm
by TRP
Gary Con seems to have an unnecessarily gimmicky registration process. Gold pieces, silver pieces, shopping carts. Good gracious, it's a gaming con, not a Sam's Club. What NTRPG has going for it, is that it's a very straightforward process.

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 5:56 am
by Welleran
Now that the dust is (sort of) settled, I ended up with:

Thurs
0800-1400 Jutland (running it)
1800-2200 Light the Beacons

Fri
1000-1400 Sightless Sisters (running it)
1400-1800 Gorlim 3D OSRIC

Sat
1000-1400 Orcs Drift
1800-2000 <dinner at Medusa>
2000-2400 In For a Penny

Sun
0800-1400 Jutland (running it)

That leaves a lot of open gaming time, to be sure. I am going to beg Allan (really nicely, Allan) to get into at least one of his sold out games, but otherwise I'm just going to do more open gaming than I have in the past. I am up for running Sightless Sisters if anyone is interested and is not already in my regularly scheduled game (and I will accommodate any and all K&KA/LGLV walk-ups I can fit for that one).

Still a train wreck, still pisses me off, and still makes me wonder if I will even bother next year, but I will make the best of it and I know I will have fun regardless.

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 8:19 am
by Guy Fullerton
I'd love to jump into that extra Sightless Sisters game if possible! The scheduled one was in my cart, but got bumped out by the time the servers processed my attempt to check out.

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 9:56 am
by Welleran
Guy Fullerton wrote:I'd love to jump into that extra Sightless Sisters game if possible! The scheduled one was in my cart, but got bumped out by the time the servers processed my attempt to check out.
We'll work something out. I'm only to happy to run a second session. We'll try to work a mutual time and see who else might be interested.

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 11:59 am
by grodog
Welleran wrote:I am going to beg Allan (really nicely, Allan) to get into at least one of his sold out games, but otherwise I'm just going to do more open gaming than I have in the past.
No begging required, Keith. I'm sure we can work something out!

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 9:13 pm
by Cloak n' Dagger
Here's my schedule after they cleaned up and fixed everything, best event line-up EVAR!

Thurs:
8am - 2pm nothing
2pm - 6pm running my game
6pm - 12am more nothing

Friday:
8am - 12am still nothing

Saturday:
8am - 12am knock knock, who's there? nothing

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 9:14 pm
by Chainsaw
Cloak n' Dagger wrote:Here's my schedule after they cleaned up and fixed everything, best event line-up EVAR!

Thurs:
8am - 2pm nothing
2pm - 6pm running my game
6pm - 12am more nothing

Friday:
8am - 12am still nothing

Saturday:
8am - 12am knock knock, who's there? nothing
:lol:

/shakes head

Hang with us man and you will have plenty of gaming options. 8)

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 9:26 pm
by Wheggi
C&D, you and I have almost the exact same schedule, except I'm not running a game. Uncanny!

More and more I'm feeing I don't want to attend a con, but a weekend-long game session with a dozen good friends and a bunch of booze and grub. And I'm still trying to figure that one out.

- Wheggi

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 10:07 pm
by capitalbill
Chainsaw wrote: /shakes head

Hang with us man and you will have plenty of gaming options. 8)
Somebody needs to inform him about all the good gaming he's gonna stumble into.

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 10:08 pm
by capitalbill
Wheggi wrote:C&D, you and I have almost the exact same schedule, except I'm not running a game. Uncanny!

More and more I'm feeing I don't want to attend a con, but a weekend-long game session with a dozen good friends and a bunch of booze and grub. And I'm still trying to figure that one out.

- Wheggi
I'm pretty sure that is exactly what I've signed up for this year. And I've got a feeling that in future years it's going to be even more evident.

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 10:13 pm
by Wheggi
Sounds like we're starting to have the makings for one helluva marathon game!

- Wheggi

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 10:17 pm
by capitalbill
Wheggi wrote:Sounds like we're starting to have the makings for one helluva marathon game!

- Wheggi
Schedule for next year:

Wednesday 5 pm to Sunday 2 am: off-grid gaming

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 6:03 am
by Cloak n' Dagger
Chainsaw wrote: :lol:

/shakes head

Hang with us man and you will have plenty of gaming options. 8)
Yeah looks like that's the plan at this point, lol, I'm going try for a couple of games once registration opens back up so we'll see what happens with that.
Wheggi wrote:C&D, you and I have almost the exact same schedule, except I'm not running a game. Uncanny!
And yet for some reason, I still think you got the better deal, at least you didn't have all the crap to wade through to get that schedule. :D

Re: Gary Con VIII

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 6:11 am
by Chainsaw
Cloak n' Dagger wrote:
Chainsaw wrote: Hang with us man and you will have plenty of gaming options. 8)
Yeah looks like that's the plan at this point, lol, I'm going try for a couple of games once registration opens back up so we'll see what happens with that.
I think Dave Prata's Friday 12-6 Hyperborea game may have an opening. Plus, he has saved room for two walk-ups, so maybe if you reach out to him on DF (DMPrata) you can reserve one. I'm in that game!
Cloak n' Dagger wrote:
Wheggi wrote:C&D, you and I have almost the exact same schedule, except I'm not running a game. Uncanny!
And yet for some reason, I still think you got the better deal, at least you didn't have all the crap to wade through to get that schedule. :D
Probably true.