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Posted by: Mr. Man May 16 2005, 02:35 AM
In going over the official FanPro SR events I see several 4E games with the words:
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| Completion of booth demo required. |
Assuming these all refer to a single booth demo, how long will it take? Will it be running on a schedule and is that known yet?
Thanks
Posted by: GlassJaw May 16 2005, 06:23 PM
Good question. I was wondering the same myself.
I also find it interesting that there are very few SR4 games being run at GenCon. I hope to get into at least one...
There is also very little talk about GenCon on the boards. Curious.
Posted by: Lindt May 16 2005, 06:43 PM
AFAIK, there will be short 4E booth demos running most of the time. We just dont want to have to teach you guys EVERYTHING, if you look, most of the 4E games are in a specific area of tech.
We arnt running much 4e because most of the GMs wont have the rule book till we arrive, making it kinda hard to prep for a 4 hour con game.
Posted by: GlassJaw May 17 2005, 01:50 AM
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| there will be short 4E booth demos running most of the time |
Yeah, some of the SR4 game descriptions mentioned that completion of the booth demo was required.
Although as crappy as the GenCon registration was today, one of my friends tried to signup for one of the Sr4 games and it looked like it was already full. I might just check out the booth demo I guess.
Posted by: Lindt May 17 2005, 03:39 AM
Its scary how fast things book up. I was booked out of the 3 games I wanted to play in by 7:30 est.
Barring anything, try showing up on generics, it cant hurt.
Posted by: Mekalus May 17 2005, 11:40 AM
Well at least you were able to sign up for something. I am on a broadband connection and still couldn't get signed up for anything yesterday. Now I have to wait and see what is left this morning when they open up again.
Posted by: GlassJaw May 17 2005, 02:50 PM
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| Well at least you were able to sign up for something. I am on a broadband connection and still couldn't get signed up for anything yesterday. Now I have to wait and see what is left this morning when they open up again. |
Still no luck for me this morning. What a painful experience.
Posted by: GlassJaw May 17 2005, 06:19 PM
I finally got my registration done. As expected, I couldn't get into any SR4 games but I figure I'll just check out the booth.
I did sign up for one SR3 game though: Here Kitty, Kitty...
The description sounded really cool and I wanted to play in at least one game run by FanPro.
Posted by: Mekalus May 17 2005, 06:47 PM
I managed to get my registration one as well. No SR4 games here either but I did get signed up for all the other stuff I wanted. Guess I will have time to go buy the new core rule book
Posted by: Mr. Man May 18 2005, 05:24 AM
If you found yourself unable to get into the FanPro SR tournament (RPG01996) it could be because only 6 tickets were ever available...
I have one of them.
Hmm, time to visit eBay...
Posted by: Mekalus May 19 2005, 02:44 PM
Really? Wow then I feel lucky as I got one also.
Posted by: Lindt May 19 2005, 05:07 PM
Needless to say, it was a mistake that is either fixed or will be fixed shortly.
Posted by: Mr. Man May 19 2005, 08:36 PM
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| custom_game_id: RPG01996 title: Corporate Ghost, Round 1 startdate: 8/18/05 19:00 event_limit: 6 available: 2 |
This is from the .csv file with all events http://www.gencon.com/displayindy.aspx?file=indy-eventdownloads on the Gen Con site. Supposedly this file gets updated every day at noon Pacific.
Posted by: grendel May 19 2005, 09:40 PM
Keep trying for the tournament. Even if you don't get registered, show up with generic tickets. More likely than not there will be room.
Posted by: Mr. Man May 20 2005, 09:07 PM
They fixed it today.
Posted by: craigpierce May 31 2005, 02:13 PM
i see the official games list is up at http://shadowrunrpg.com/ (thanks adam)
everyone enjoy and i'll see you there!
Posted by: MooCow Jun 1 2005, 12:30 PM
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| Assuming these all refer to a single booth demo, how long will it take? Will it be running on a schedule and is that known yet? |
The plan is for short, 30 minute demos. They'll be less then 1 hour for certain. Our intention is to run fairly continuously, so basically whenever we have a free GM and a few players.
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| If you found yourself unable to get into the FanPro SR tournament (RPG01996) it could be because only 6 tickets were ever available... |
Yes, as noted that was a bug in the system. We got it fixed as soon as it was brought to our attention.
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| I also find it interesting that there are very few SR4 games being run at GenCon. I hope to get into at least one... |
For those of you looking for SR4 games, check the posted schedule at the booth periodically. I hope to be able to run more SR4 games, but that will depend on my pool of trained GMs. Right now we only have a few people confident enough with the system to run full games, but we're trying hard to correct that.
Look forward to seeing everyone there!
Brett
GenCon Event Coordinator
Posted by: SimpleRunner Jun 8 2005, 01:25 AM
MooCow,
Are you the one that posted this as well?
http://www.gamingreport.com/article.php?sid=17340&mode=thread&order=0
I sent you an email...
Posted by: MooCow Jun 12 2005, 05:14 PM
Simplerunner,
Not per sey, that' was copied from the main SR site. However, we did post it initially. I believe I've responded to your e-mail. If not, let me know.
- Brett
Posted by: Necro Tech Jun 13 2005, 10:03 PM
| QUOTE (MooCow) |
| For those of you looking for SR4 games, check the posted schedule at the booth periodically. I hope to be able to run more SR4 games, but that will depend on my pool of trained GMs. Right now we only have a few people confident enough with the system to run full games, but we're trying hard to correct that. |
I could be confident with a month's notice.
Posted by: Lindt Jun 14 2005, 02:21 AM
We really ARE trying to learn the rules before Gencon... sans the rule book of course. Us con GMs have this hive mind thing going on...
Posted by: craigpierce Jun 14 2005, 01:38 PM
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| We really ARE trying to learn the rules before Gencon... sans the rule book of course. Us con GMs have this hive mind thing going on... |
...yeah, that reminds me - would ya keep it down - some of us are trying to think...
Posted by: Necro Tech Jun 16 2005, 02:06 AM
Hey, I'd take a PDF or even a crumpled cocktail napkin. It sure will be fun trying to run a demo afer having the book for 5 minutes.
Posted by: Lindt Jun 16 2005, 02:24 AM
Try running the matrix introduction for SR4. I still wanna know who suckered my into that one...
Posted by: Bull Jun 18 2005, 07:38 AM
*points and laughs*
Speaking of.. I need to figure out what exactly I'm gonna be running at both GC and Origins.
And maybe try reading some of those pesky SR4 rules...
Bull
Posted by: Panzergeist Jun 24 2005, 10:05 AM
So will the SR4 book be coming out in stores at the same time as it sells at Gencon, or will that come later?
Posted by: Bull Jun 28 2005, 02:33 PM
Don't know for certain, but if past releases are an indication, it will ship right before or right after Gen Con. SO those going and getting a copy there will get a jump on things, and it will show up a couple weeks later in stores.
Course, I could be wrong. <shrug> I'm sure Adam will come in here in a bit and give more accurate info 
Bull
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