Gary Con VIII
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Re: Gary Con VIII
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.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.
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No begging required, Keith. I'm sure we can work something out!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.
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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
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
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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
/shakes head
Hang with us man and you will have plenty of gaming options.
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Can you outshoot the Devil? Outrun his hounds?
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Re: Gary Con VIII
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.
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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
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Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
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Somebody needs to inform him about all the good gaming he's gonna stumble into.Chainsaw wrote: /shakes head
Hang with us man and you will have plenty of gaming options.
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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.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
Still searching for that walking treasure chest...
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Sounds like we're starting to have the makings for one helluva marathon game!
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The Twisting Stair
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
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Schedule for next year:Wheggi wrote:Sounds like we're starting to have the makings for one helluva marathon game!
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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.Chainsaw wrote:![]()
/shakes head
Hang with us man and you will have plenty of gaming options.
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.Wheggi wrote:C&D, you and I have almost the exact same schedule, except I'm not running a game. Uncanny!
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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: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.Chainsaw wrote: Hang with us man and you will have plenty of gaming options.
Probably true.Cloak n' Dagger wrote: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.Wheggi wrote:C&D, you and I have almost the exact same schedule, except I'm not running a game. Uncanny!
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Where ya gonna be when the hammer comes down?
Can you outshoot the Devil? Outrun his hounds?
Ain't nothing to it but to stay above ground.
Where ya gonna be when the hammer comes down?
Can you outshoot the Devil? Outrun his hounds?
Ain't nothing to it but to stay above ground.