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Doc Chase
post Jan 22 2011, 05:29 PM
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It's the day before prereg opens, when all of us kiddies will get the group rate in the mail once we shell out our hard-earned ducats.

The Cantebury Hotel at Hotels.com right now is running a special. If you're staying more than 3 nights, it's 35% off. Near $200 rooms are going for about $120 right now - and the place is connected to the Convention Center.

Food for thought, anyway. I don't know if the group rate can top that.
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post Jan 22 2011, 08:08 PM
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My wife and I usually stay at a B&B right down the road from the center (2 miles / 3.22 km). And if I remember right it was right around $300 for 4 nights.

This year it looks like PCGen will be having a booth so I might end up with a room in the exhibitor's block.
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post Jan 22 2011, 09:14 PM
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BTW we should have a bit more organization this year for the meet & greet at Claddagh's (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Should we all just meet in the back and take it over?
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post Jan 23 2011, 10:21 AM
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I have a fairly decent shot at making the meet & greet this year. I'll be checking in Wednesday night, leaving Monday morning.
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post Jan 23 2011, 07:10 PM
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I'll be there again.
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post Jan 23 2011, 09:13 PM
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My buddies and I got our room a couple months ago. I got tired of their servers locking up on the first day of reserving group-rate hotel rooms, only to wind up a couple miles from the convention center, yadda yadda yadda. Distance to the con wouldn't be so bad if so many of us weren't wargamers and RPGers, with so, so, much crap to carry from game to game. After one of my best friends had a case full of 40k minis walk away (while we were playing something else), we make a point of going to and from the hotel room every chance we get, to stow our stuff. The extra couple bucks in order to get a close room, and get it early, is worth it, to us.

Lookin' forward to it, though, for sure! After missing last year, it'll be great to be back for 2011. The hard part's gonna be trying to see how many of my favorite games I can get into in just four teensy little days.
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post Jan 24 2011, 04:38 PM
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QUOTE (Critias @ Jan 23 2011, 03:13 PM) *
The extra couple bucks in order to get a close room, and get it early, is worth it, to us.


Quoted for Truth.

Having a locking door with a bed within walking distance of the Con is well, well worth the price.
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post Jan 24 2011, 05:12 PM
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Ahh yes. Tis that time of the year again. Badge on order.

I'll be at the Meet and Greet again as well.
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post Jan 24 2011, 05:25 PM
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Looking forward to the game demo extravaganza this year. Devoting at least a day to it, possibly two. Still not sure what I'll sign up for gamewise, but I'm gonna try to finish up an arc to run involving the Auchwitz information and run it while I'm there for some pals.
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post Jan 24 2011, 08:20 PM
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QUOTE (Doc Chase @ Jan 24 2011, 11:25 AM) *
Looking forward to the game demo extravaganza this year.


No kidding. As much as I like SR, the opportunities for playing NEW games (often with the actual game designers running it) tend to dwarf playing a game that I've got a regularly scheduled gaming group for.

That said, I'm running 2 homebrew Shadowrun events already submitted and will be annoying spamming this forum with once event registration begins.
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post Jan 24 2011, 10:02 PM
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Color me intrigued. I can probably pull together a four-man team. Going to see if I can get in on some Paranoia this year as well.

Mmmmaaaaybe even get an Eclipse Phase character made. Ve shall see.
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post Jan 25 2011, 01:18 AM
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QUOTE (Doc Chase @ Jan 24 2011, 06:02 PM) *
Color me intrigued. I can probably pull together a four-man team.


Did I just hear you allude to dragging me into something?
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post Jan 25 2011, 04:51 AM
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Ha ha! Yes you did.
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post Jan 25 2011, 06:11 AM
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QUOTE (capt.pantsless @ Jan 24 2011, 03:20 PM) *
No kidding. As much as I like SR, the opportunities for playing NEW games (often with the actual game designers running it) tend to dwarf playing a game that I've got a regularly scheduled gaming group for.

My general rule of thumb has been to shoot for a 50/50 split. I could reliably be counted on to snag new Warmachine/Hordes stuff (since it was launching then and there), I'd always try to get into a game or two of a reliable old system I know I love, and I'd always try to sling some dice and play stompy robot Battletechy goodness...but then I also tried to jump into some random homebrewed LARP from a setting I like (two Shadowrun, one Serenity, so far), and to visit demos that I saw going on, and to make myself sit down and play a few hours of a new wargame or RPG.

On the one hand, you always want to play games you dig, especially if it means you get to play those games with folks that write the books, folks you know from forums, and that sort of awesome stuff. On the other...dude, it's Gencon. Where else you gonna get this many great chances to try something new?! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)
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post Jan 25 2011, 07:06 AM
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Wait? People have time to game at Gen Con??? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Even for those brief, blissful couple years when I just was playing Tourist at the con, I still played maybe one or two games the entire weekend (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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post Jan 25 2011, 08:26 AM
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Weirdo.
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post Jan 25 2011, 11:18 AM
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Heh. Yeah, I know. I'm a social butterfly though, so to speak. A very large, ugly, orkish butterfly, but still... Probably too many years stuck running things, honestly. There's never enoughh time to see everything, see everyone, let alone get to hang out with everyone I want to. Every year I leave the con regretting the fact that I only saw a bunch of people fleetingly, that I barely talked to some folks, etc. And hell, some years I never even get the chance to walk the entire dealer hall. Last year I was parked behind the Demo Table so damn much, I only got to wander about half the hall.

I've just made too many friends at the con over the years, and even when I'm not tied up with running events all day, there's still not enough time to go and see everything.

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post Jan 25 2011, 12:15 PM
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We definitely need to get a Dumpshock meet n' greet thing going. I was going to the card get together we had a few years back, but ended up with a *very* tired significant other who just wanted to sleep. So I'm hoping that this year - now that I'm living in Kentucky - there'll be an opportunity for me to meet some of you fine folks. I swear, I don't bite!

And let me be a good buddy and recommend that if you haven't heard of Kentucky Fried Gamer's Wednesday Gaming At the Ram, well, now I'm telling you about it. Organized by the good folks of the KFG (of which we are friends and members of, my fiance and I) we basically take over the backrooms of the Ram and spend all of Wednesday playing random board and card and roleplaying games. There's going to be some good events coming up; a fellow Lexington-ian friend of ours is going to be running a zombie themed Dukes of Hazzard game that I'm looking forward to.
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post Jan 25 2011, 03:45 PM
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I'm hoping that's a tad better than the last type of gathering like that I went to last year. Red Dragon Inn took over one of the restaraunts in the...Mariott I think, only the staff took it as an excuse to be total a-holes and overcharge us for no service and bad food. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)
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post Jan 25 2011, 07:25 PM
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We usually do the Claddagh on Wednesday, but unfrotunatly we';ve thus far been unable to get them to "Reserve" us a section or anything.

How crowded does the Ram get? The Meet n Greet tends to be a chance to relax, hang out, and chat and get to know each other before the craziness and gaming of the con starts, so I'm hesitant to try doing something like this at an actual gaming event.
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post Jan 26 2011, 12:23 AM
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QUOTE (Doc Chase @ Jan 25 2011, 12:45 PM) *
I'm hoping that's a tad better than the last type of gathering like that I went to last year. Red Dragon Inn took over one of the restaraunts in the...Mariott I think, only the staff took it as an excuse to be total a-holes and overcharge us for no service and bad food. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)


Goddamned Rolando.
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post Jan 26 2011, 02:38 AM
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Ram gaming tends to be very casual, if a little noisy. But if you like just coming in, putting your stuff down, and messing around with some good natured folks, it's a good time. Also, the staff and crew seem to be very happy and excited to have them all there, and I've never heard about the folks in charge charging too much. So. Like I said, it's just a casual get together to get some gaming going on Wednesdays.

What about a Dumpshock meet n' greet though, Bull? Gonna kick those of us that have mebbe protested too loudly on here out? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Jan 26 2011, 03:41 PM
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QUOTE (ravensmuse @ Jan 26 2011, 02:38 AM) *
What about a Dumpshock meet n' greet though, Bull? Gonna kick those of us that have mebbe protested too loudly on here out? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)


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post Jan 30 2011, 01:20 AM
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QUOTE (Bull @ Jan 25 2011, 02:25 PM) *
We usually do the Claddagh on Wednesday, but unfrotunatly we';ve thus far been unable to get them to "Reserve" us a section or anything.

How crowded does the Ram get? The Meet n Greet tends to be a chance to relax, hang out, and chat and get to know each other before the craziness and gaming of the con starts, so I'm hesitant to try doing something like this at an actual gaming event.


I know what you mean Bull, the I'm a very social person at Con's also. And for the last couple of years I've been running the booth for PCGen, then last year we ran into some issues (mainly lack of some volunteer's to help the booth, and the application for the booth got messed up by the fax) and I just wandered around trying to figure out what to do with myself. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

BTW, we're going to have a booth again this year. I'll be at the meet & greet , but stop by and say hi. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpg-industry-...n-con-year.html
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Yet another thread I killed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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