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Quarex posted:Yeah that makes sense. I think I turned my phone off every afternoon for that same reason. If only I were smart like Mudcrab Merchant and her Literally Endless Supply of Portable Chargers You too could have the power of... power. http://amzn.com/B00BQ5KHJW I get 12 full charges on an iPhone 6 out of one charge of this battery pack. Has two ports, so share your power with a friend!
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Quarex posted:And I never deleted your post from last year Thanks, will do. I look forward to meeting my fellow Goons in between what is turning out to be a buddy comedy road trip with me and my boss.
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Can anyone local to Indy recommend and popular hobby stores in the area? Ideally ones that actually sell a full selection of board games, and not just Magic or something.
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Merauder posted:Can anyone local to Indy recommend and popular hobby stores in the area? Ideally ones that actually sell a full selection of board games, and not just Magic or something. The one I'm familiar with is The Games Preserve
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Merauder posted:Can anyone local to Indy recommend and popular hobby stores in the area? Ideally ones that actually sell a full selection of board games, and not just Magic or something. Game Preserve, Saltier Games, Hero's Emporium to name a few.
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Just promoting a larp event that I'll be helping run at GenCon Here At The End - Combat Arena Post Apocalyptic laser tag! Choose one of the four factions and battle for honor, glory, and resources. Prove you have what it takes to survive! One faction will be declared Overall Gen Con Champion! Here At The End (H.A.T.E.) Combat Event will be running hour-long events/scenarios all 4 days. Plus, we'll be handing out Free Faction Buttons with your H.A.T.E. Combat Event Ticket. (offer won't be honored for generic tickets) Feel free to just stop by, make fun or ask any questions/clarification you may need. TheScaryDoor fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Jun 25, 2015 |
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TheScaryDoor posted:Just promoting a larp event that I'll be helping to run at GenCon Didn't know anyone else from the forums was helping out at HATE. While I can't make Gencon, I'll be contributing a good amount of props for the game itself. Plus, who doesn't appreciate post-apocalyptic games with an in-game radio station broadcast over the field? Good luck at Gencon. I think about 300 of the tickets have been sold so far, at least according to the last numbers I saw.
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Hedningen posted:Didn't know anyone else from the forums was helping out at HATE. Gonna go out on a limb here and guess... Og? That you? Hedningen posted:Who doesn't appreciate post-apocalyptic games with an in-game radio station broadcast over the field? Hedningen posted:I think about 300 of the tickets have been sold so far, at least according to the last numbers I saw. I'll leave this link here too, in case anyone wanted a quick event check-in/update. http://gencon.highprogrammer.com/gencon-indy-2015.cgi/event/LRP1569975
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TheScaryDoor posted:Me either, but we're all over the drat place gnawing on the wood work. Got it in one. Although it should be "Ög" - the umlauts are important. Reborn are best faction, after all, and you can't go forgetting umlauts. Who's this? For those who are on the fence: HATE is pretty great. Short rules, uses latex weapons and laser tag guns, and there are four factions: Old Guard (military, inspired by Fallout and other post-apocalyptic militaries), Elysians (nature hippies or fantasy-tinged post-apocalypse stuff), Edwardians (steampunk, but without the superfluous gear schtick), and Reborn (mutants, also the best). While Gencon is more of a "Try out the combat!" event, it captures the feel of things, and can be a total blast. Either way, it's a good game if you wanna shoot laser guns at people. I think the latex weapons are showing up as well, but I'm not sure; haven't been keeping up. They're a great crew. Gonna stop shilling now; I just wanted to keep things on topic.
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Merauder posted:Can anyone local to Indy recommend and popular hobby stores in the area? Ideally ones that actually sell a full selection of board games, and not just Magic or something. The Game Preserve is nice, they have location both North and South of the city depending on where you're staying. I'm out East, so Saltire Games is closer for me. Hero's Emporium is spacious and the people running it are nice, but compared to the others they have a limited selection of board games, and seem to be more card game oriented.
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A quick question for auction folks... for things like RPG licensed novels, is it generally better to put them in the store? I had a lot of success selling RPG books in the auction a few years ago, but not much with the novels. (Or maybe even at GenCon, people aren't that into RPG novels..)
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Are they out of print, worth a bunch or rare? If not then I would throw them in the store. If someone can easily grab them from ebay or amazon for a couple bucks then they probably won't bother at the auction and then have to haul them home and spend their budget. Also, there isn't a "novels and reading fiction" section so chances of having someone in the room with a bidding card when they come up that would be interested is fairly small.
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Mostly out of print White Wolf stuff - Dark Age Clan Novels, a few Werewolf tribe novels, and so on. I did a quick check online on Amazon and eBay and some of the prices are ... optimistic to say the least. Since I'm not really interested in trying to get $35 for a single paperback (no one's going to bite on that anyways) plus the reasons you mentioned, I think the store is indeed the way to go. Thanks!
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I'm a sucker for laser tag-based LARPs, so I'll probably check out HATE at some point. (I'm also staying in the Hyatt and don't have anything on my calendar for Friday, so there's that.)
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Crackbone posted:Hanabi I'd be interested in these, depending on what you're looking to get for them. Hit me up on PM and we can chat.
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So my job situation just changed and I can't go to GenCon this year. I see that it's a couple weeks past the refund date. Is there anything I can do to unload a couple of tickets?
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Did you get them shipped or will call?
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Will call.
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So, it looks like I'm in the market for a goon to host me. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to pull the time for Gen Con, but since it's confirmed I can, I'm looking to see if anybody else has a room / home / sidewalk tent for me to park myself in nightly. I'd appreciate it, and in the case of hotels and their ilk, I'd be willing to help provide my share of the cost. I stayed with Camoseven last year, who could attest that I am, in fact, somebody who showers and brushes my teeth, that I will not tell you about my character unless asked, and that I never use the term "Social Justice Warrior" except in jest. (He isn't hosting this year, for the record.)Sionak posted:A quick question for auction folks... for things like RPG licensed novels, is it generally better to put them in the store? I had a lot of success selling RPG books in the auction a few years ago, but not much with the novels. (Or maybe even at GenCon, people aren't that into RPG novels..)
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Get in line buddy! I'm still looking for a room partner/floor/balcony as well. I'm bringing my hammock and camping pad so I can crash comfortably anywhere.
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We may tentatively have room for people. I'll talk to the people going tomorrow but we've got a suite because we were originally expecting 7-8 people but now the number is 5. If the room were in my name I'd be okay with it because the room would be cheaper for sure. But since it isn't (right now) I'll have to talk to the guy in charge.
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Anyone that has a spot feel free to email me at defeldus@gmail.com and just tell me how much. I can paypal to reserve a spot or just bring you cash for beer money.
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Len posted:We may tentatively have room for people. I'll talk to the people going tomorrow but we've got a suite because we were originally expecting 7-8 people but now the number is 5. If the room were in my name I'd be okay with it because the room would be cheaper for sure. But since it isn't (right now) I'll have to talk to the guy in charge. I'd appreciate it, just keep us up to date.
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Alright talked to the guys going. They're perfectly okay with you two rooming with us. Shoot me an email at jzurcher89 at gmail and I'll give you more info.
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Sweet, emailed you back and look forward to meeting you dudes.
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We're a good batch. The heavy drinkers won't be there right away this year but we shower and take care of ourselves. If you play Magic we all have commander decks.
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Alright my goon room slots are full. Don't forget to bring your waifus guys!
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There's finally been some movement on our submitted Spirit of 77 events. They're now "Accepted for Consideration" Anybody have an idea how much longer it's going to take before they're actually on the schedule?
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Bucnasti posted:There's finally been some movement on our submitted Spirit of 77 events. It should be some time before the con, but this late in the process it might not get a final approval until the week before.
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I posted this more or less on the google doc, but if any of the board gaming goons want to play any of the longer games, I have a few in mind that I could bring. My packing space is limited so knowing if people want to try something before the Monday/Tuesday of would save me some grief. My collection is here. Stuff I have in mind is some Splotter games (Roads & Boats, Antiquity, Indonesia), High Frontier, DIe Macher, or whatever people want to try.
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Thanks to the goon who pointed out the Delta Green games. Managed to snag spots for my fiancee and I before anyone noticed!
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Hedningen posted:Who's this? CellBlock posted:I'm a sucker for laser tag-based LARPs, so I'll probably check out HATE at some point. (I'm also staying in the Hyatt and don't have anything on my calendar for Friday, so there's that.) 
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My publisher submitted some stuff for the Ennies this year, and my adventure was put on the ballot! I'm pretty sure I have basically no chance at winning, but it's still pretty cool to be nominated.
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Why is MILKTOOTH not mentioned in any of the food options! The head chef is a James Beard award winner who focuses on breakfast/brunch. Holy poo poo you should eat there dumbass!
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Probably because if I did not recognize you from previous threads I would assume you were making this entire thing up. GOOGIN', PLEASE HOLD Whoa, this sounds amazing "Food. Booze. Coffee." Thanks to me only understanding primacy and recency, it is nothing but things I want!!! Wait but uhh  Google Maps, when I type Gen-Con I want you to take me to the Indianapolis Convention Center Oh dang, only a mile away, too. Guaranteeing it is far enough to keep the Fathorde at bay but not so far that my Still Kinda Fathorde could not make it there. Intriguing. Though if I were being honest I would say I have an ingrained bias against breakfast/lunch/brunch places in my list just because I always stay at hotels with free breakfast and intentionally stuff myself silly so I can skip lunch for more conventioning. Oh and also, hello, this just opened in January, you Indianapolis Locals forget that we only have knowledge of Things That Existed Last Year for our purposes. That reminds me...I am also going to add the new place BACON LEGS & TURNTABLES for obvious reasons.
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First time at GenCon and I've completely ignored it so far other than getting a badge on a whim a couple months ago and a con-block hotel room so far away they don't even run a shuttle to it. Is there much in the way of just pickup board/non-collectable card game play going on? Trying to figure out what events to prebook now that I'm way late at looking at events. I'm used to gaming rooms at the small cons I've been to where it's a number of games there plus what people bring and tables to sit and play at which seems a tad bit less structured than this.
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There's a "free play" area where you can just check out board games and play to your heart's content. Grab generic tickets and show up at events that sound interesting; chances are, you'll still get to play. By the bye, the goon who ran the awesome Dungeon World game last year - are you doing that again this year? I'm gonna crash with a generic since I'm sure it's all full by now.
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Milktooth sounds good but I dunno if I'll be assed to walk that far first thing in the morning. We used http://indyallnightdelivery.com/ last year to get away from pizza every night and it's food was pretty drat good. I don't really remember how much it cost because I spent most of Gencon after mid-Friday drinking away family issues. But I and the sober people I was with all remember it being good.
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fordan posted:First time at GenCon and I've completely ignored it so far other than getting a badge on a whim a couple months ago and a con-block hotel room so far away they don't even run a shuttle to it. There's a group me thing people run where anyone who wants to play games or meet up just posts "hey let's play [thing]" and generally people will be down. The free play area is a good bet too, people put up little flags by their table for stuff like players/teachers needed, just keep an eye out for that.
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