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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:For a brief moment today, the Hyatt Regency popped up today poo poo, the Hyatt?! RocknRollaAyatollah posted:but it was gone the second I selected it. Awww I've got a King room at the Hyatt, looking for a Double/Double. (Preferably, more than one, but I'll take one for now.) If a King is good enough for you, I'll keep you in mind if/when I'm ever able to upgrade.
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CellBlock posted:I've got a King room at the Hyatt, looking for a Double/Double. (Preferably, more than one, but I'll take one for now.) If a King is good enough for you, I'll keep you in mind if/when I'm ever able to upgrade. Thanks, I appreciate that.
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Dr. Quarex posted:I imagine this might be being talked about in some other place where people talk about things in this subforum but the TORG Eternity Kickstarter is live (and doing, uhh, about 10,000% better than I expected) and someone is Livetweeting the invasion of Earth! I played the TORG Eternity preview at last years con and wasn't very impressed!
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My favorite bathroom tip is to go to the various hotels. Their staff keeps them much cleaner and they don't get nearly as much traffic.
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Someone compiled the list of the most underserved games at Gencon this year. I'm surprised that CoC still tops the list, given that a ton of additional games got added this year.
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I would have jumped into a CoC (or SP2, for that matter) game in a heartbeat, and was disappointed that there were none on offer. EDIT: Oh, wait, you meant Call of Cthulhu, not Chain of Command. Still, I'd do both. 
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Haystack posted:Someone compiled the list of the most underserved games at Gencon this year. I'm surprised that CoC still tops the list, given that a ton of additional games got added this year. Starfinder and Mutant Crawl Classics aren't even out yet. Shouldn't they at least wait until they're on the shelf before putting them on that list?
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Derek, that posted that, is one of the data guys for Gen Con and I am sure he pulled those stats from what everyone tried to register for last Sunday.
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nesbit37 posted:Derek, that posted that, is one of the data guys for Gen Con and I am sure he pulled those stats from what everyone tried to register for last Sunday. Yeah, it came from ranking the unmet demand by looking at the number of wishlists a game appeared on in excess of the number of slots available. He said he pulled out the games that he didn't expect to be out before Gen Con, so I assume the RPGs RRA mentioned are coming out in the next month or two, although i couldn't say for sure; I'm way more a board game guy than RPG. I did find it interesting that Battlestar Galactica was on the list; I tried for a game on my wishlist and missed, but didn't think there would be that much demand for it.
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Cthulhu's demand will probably never be satisfied. I think the disparity between the number of people willing/able to run a game like that and the people who want to play is pretty great. Or at least in my experience I would not trust many gamemasters to do "spooky/scary" with any amount of fun involved at all.betamax hipster posted:I played the TORG Eternity preview at last years con and wasn't very impressed! I also refuse to believe Shane Hensley is capable of making a bad game (I would be interested to know how much has changed since last year though)
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Mr Quarex, tell me about pre-registering games for auction or that side market.
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djfooboo posted:Mr Quarex, tell me about pre-registering games for auction or that side market. Aw dang I thought I still had this in my Windows clipboard: http://www.livegameauctions.com/ Basically you go there and then go here http://www.livegameauctions.com/PreRegSite and then make an account and oh wow things have changed since I last listed items, let me use screenshots O.K. so after making your account click on one of "Your Auction Items" or "Your Store Items" and you get this:  Then click the counter-intuitively-placed "Add Item" to get this screen:  For the main Auction, there is no upper limit for how much you can charge for an item, though it is always better to place a reserve on something than to place a high minimum bid, because people get excited and start yelling out higher numbers if it starts low whereas if you start something at $100, even if it is worth over $100, you might only get one bid, from the dealer who is protected from human psychological instincts and is going to re-sell it for more anyway. As you can see in the screenshot, you can have something either be auction-only, so you get it back if it does not sell on stage, or let it go into the store, where it will be sold for whatever you listed as the minimum bid. So this is why you might want to start something at, say, $20, rather than $2, if you are worried as to whether it would generate enough interest to sell live or if you want to bank on the much larger number of people who will see it over the weekend when cruising the store. As for putting things in the store directly, you can have things cost up to $50 if listed there directly, including changing the price from a high on Thursday to lower on Friday and lowest on Saturday (or, for comedic effect, you can have the price go up over the course of the weekend). I think they should probably raise the maximum $50 store cost at some point incidentally, that cap has been the same since the days when you made a profit by listing something at $1 and having it sell, as opposed to now where you would owe them 10¢ if you actually put something in for $1 and it sold. Not that those things are specifically related You have until my birthday to register the games, as is tradition. Did I actually answer your questions or did I, as I am wont to do, fundamentally miss your simple question and launch into the complex explanation Edit: I could give further information on any of those item input fields that seem confusing (as most of them are, as far as I am concerned)
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The thing about the auction that confused me is that I don't think you have to print out separate store tags for the items that don't sell in the auction. But I feel like I should do that as I am bundling up all my books and stuff. Also I highly recommend selling stuff in the auction, I cleared out years' worth of White Wolf stuff from my house and helped pay for GenCon in the process.
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Is there any way to see a list of the pre-reg'ed store items before the Con?
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Totally answered my question, thanks!
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8one6 posted:Is there any way to see a list of the pre-reg'ed store items before the Con? That would be amazing, but even if it happened I don't think it would matter. They seem to cycle the store stock fairly regularly not to mention add in stuff that doesn't sell in the auction but marked to go to the store if that happens.
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Sionak posted:The thing about the auction that confused me is that I don't think you have to print out separate store tags for the items that don't sell in the auction. But I feel like I should do that as I am bundling up all my books and stuff. Sionak posted:Also I highly recommend selling stuff in the auction, I cleared out years' worth of White Wolf stuff from my house and helped pay for GenCon in the process.  8one6 posted:Is there any way to see a list of the pre-reg'ed store items before the Con? I have no doubt they could make this happen, as it would just ("just?") involve making everyone's inputted data publicly accessible...and then compiling it into a spreadsheet somehow, but then you get people's hopes up for items that do not actually necessarily show up (I cannot possibly be the only person who has registered more than a few items that either ended up lost or, in one delightful case, sold to an auctioneer before I made it to check in my items).
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Multi-posting as is my right as Threadmaker General I thought I had mined my personal archive of Gen-Con photos in threads past and present, but I just found my unsorted 2013 photos (in, of course, a directory labelled "unsorted") and decided to start posting them both because why not and to try to remind people that WE NEED GOOD GEN-CON PHOTOS FOR THE THREAD  HELLO!  I was playing with my camera's maximum zoom settings right after we got to town and into our hotel, and in the process I accidentally chronicled the First Guaranteed Convention-Goer Sighting 2013: a two-panel story about gamer stalking!   Someone always eventually asks about the schedule; it is never set until the convention itself, but this one is fairly illustrative of usual timing, other than that the last thing Thursday is usually "things that would probably be considered collectibles anywhere else, but here we have boatloads of stuff outclassing it"  Oh and while I am at it, an Assortment of Photos of the Auction Chamber, including more of those rarely-seen "before it opens" and "from the stage" vantage points!     An exciting photo of half the people offering Gen-Con Horticulture Hall tours this year (Jon Peterson of "Playing at the World" "fame" on the left, and William Meinhardt of "most ludicrous D&D collection in the world" "fame" on the right; also featuring Jayson Elliot, of briefly-relaunched-TSR/Gygax Magazine "fame" in the middle):  And of course Frank Mentzer, now bringing this post's Horticultural Hall Tour Guide total up to 75%, only not 100% because I have never actually seen Peter Adkinson at Gen-Con:  Ooh also featuring ("The") Dragon founding editor Tim Kask on the right, and on the left the guy whose name I never remember but who is one of the only people on staff at the Auction who can out-chipper me. Also starring Occasional Chainmail Bikini Caroline strolling across the stage in what I can only assume is a Cloak of Elvenkind.
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I love how you could have told me those photos of the auction pre-open were from any year in the last decade and I'd believe you.
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Any recommendations on what I should set for prices on a three foot tall stack of various near mint RPG books? Just check what they are going for on Amazon? I really need to get rid of this poo poo since I'm moving soon anyway.
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Anti-Bunny posted:Any recommendations on what I should set for prices on a three foot tall stack of various near mint RPG books? Just check what they are going for on Amazon? I really need to get rid of this poo poo since I'm moving soon anyway. If it's d20 then about $50-60 per milk crate from Half Priced books. If you just need to get rid of them maybe $5/book unless it's something really special like a first print/signed module or something like Dune that got almost immediately yanked because oops they didn't have the license so there are maybe 50 copies floating around. If it was just the complete book of butts that someone can buy in pdf for $5 it's not going to bring much unless it's in a big lot.
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Don't use Amazon. The prices are so inflated as to be unusable. Use eBay instead, and stick to sold listings for a reasonable idea. I generally figure out the recent average price for the book and then price accordingly. On Thursday, I list it for the average plus a couple bucks. There's no shipping, after all, and productive buyers get to look at the item in person, unlike eBay. Friday I list it for about the eBay average. And Saturday I drop it a few bucks below and/or the minimum I'd want. For RPG books, I've found it's not really worth putting them in the auction unless they're fairly rare. (That is often reflected by a $35+ average price on eBay or if you know it's something with a small print run). I know I probably overthink it, but this has worked well for me and is far more than you'd ever get from Half Price Books. Sionak fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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i plan to use the auction as my personal nerd thrift store donation center listing all my old stuff starting at 99 cents and not coming back for anything that doesn't sell.
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I need to do at least one more interview for this Gen Con project and I need someone who has been going for a few years mainly for cosplay type stuff. I was hoping to interview Mudcrab Merchant for this (and still totally will if she can) but I know she's been really busy and scheduling hasn't worked very well. Any of you here know someone suitable or know of someone in the general Gen Con community I should reach out to that might be good for this?
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nesbit37 posted:I need to do at least one more interview for this Gen Con project and I need someone who has been going for a few years mainly for cosplay type stuff. I was hoping to interview Mudcrab Merchant for this (and still totally will if she can) but I know she's been really busy and scheduling hasn't worked very well. Any of you here know someone suitable or know of someone in the general Gen Con community I should reach out to that might be good for this? Try contacting folks from And Sewing is Half the Battle. It's the most active cosplay group in the region, as far as I know.
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Carteret posted:I love how you could have told me those photos of the auction pre-open were from any year in the last decade and I'd believe you. Deviant posted:i plan to use the auction as my personal nerd thrift store donation center
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Has anyone ever done one of the "Totally not Star Trek" bridge simulations? My group of 5 is looking at doing either Spaceship Bridge Simulation or Starship Horizons, but as we've never done either it's kind of a stab in the dark for us. I'd be interested if anyone has any opinions on either, or even if the prevailing opinion is that both suck and don't waste your time with them.
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Assuming things haven't improved since I did it, I would advise against doing Artemis. My friends had done it for a couple of years and spoke very highly of it, and I was able to join them two years ago, but the set up was atrocious. It sounded like a lot of behind the scenes drama had resulted in things taking a nose dive from previous years. What had been a bridge set up with various stations and interesting missions for an immersive experience was replaced plain folding tables with broken inaccurate equipment that made it impossible to control and a poorly implemented Kobiyashi Maru knock off that ended very quickly. They apologized for their issues but it was small comfort for all the money we had just wasted. Our set up at home playing with each other on our laptops was far superior and didn't cost hundreds of dollars. It's possible they've fixed all these issues but I personally wouldn't want to gamble on it.
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Klungar posted:Assuming things haven't improved since I did it, I would advise against doing Artemis. *https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WPSibKCfNxB_PYHrnqLdBoZ5JJt5HE-QWIK3Nv6niIg/edit#gid=0
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Important Forums post update from the "Gen-Con Etiquette Tips" threadTotally Not Spam posted:hay all i want join this game because i see my friend say me this game really nice Anyway, RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Another downtown hotel popped up and sold out as I was taken to the buying screen. Agrias120 posted:Has anyone ever done one of the "Totally not Star Trek" bridge simulations? My group of 5 is looking at doing either Spaceship Bridge Simulation or Starship Horizons, but as we've never done either it's kind of a stab in the dark for us. I'd be interested if anyone has any opinions on either, or even if the prevailing opinion is that both suck and don't waste your time with them.
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Ok fam talk to me. I'm heading to GenCon, 'cause it's cool, and L5R is coming back. Not my first rodeo, Indy is my young life backyard, but it's been three-ish years. Does anyone have L5R tickets they want to share / give up? Consider also the awful Soylent for meals because it's easy peasy. That's what I'm doing. Any Goonmeets happening? Anyone running events? 'Cause I suddenly have a free weekend unless someone gives me L5R tickets. Mostly interested in RPGs and seminars, since I've dropped board and mini games from my repertoire. I used to hit the Egyptian hookah bar in Broadripple a lot when I was an edgy college kid, and their food was good. Assuming they are still around I can add them to the recommended list. Danny Boy in Carmel ain't bad neither, for beers and such. WerrWaaa fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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WerrWaaa posted:Any Goonmeets happening? Anyone running events? 'Cause I suddenly have a free weekend unless someone gives me L5R tickets. Mostly interested in RPGs and seminars, since I've dropped board and mini games from my repertoire. I used to hit the Egyptian hookah bar in Broadripple a lot when I was an edgy college kid, and their food was good. Assuming they are still around I can add them to the recommended list. Danny Boy in Carmel ain't bad neither, for beers and such. Gencon goons are a notoriously antisocial bunch and attempts to organize get-togethers have typically ended in awkwardness and early, excuse-making exits. For further proof of this you should go to our groupme and ask about Shot Wednesday, Fiasco, Camelot, or shamefur disprays.
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If any of you are interested in Gen Con/Gaming history you could totally do a related goon meet at my panel. I know it's sold out but I would be amazed if they are taking tickets for a free seminar event. https://www.gencon.com/events/116874
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saint gerald posted:Gencon goons are a notoriously antisocial bunch and attempts to organize get-togethers have typically ended in awkwardness and early, excuse-making exits. For further proof of this you should go to our groupme and ask about Shot Wednesday, Fiasco, Camelot, or shamefur disprays. SHOT SATURDAY is also going to be a thing. The True Dungeon is at the end of this bottle of lagavulin!
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nesbit37 posted:If any of you are interested in Gen Con/Gaming history you could totally do a related goon meet at my panel. I know it's sold out but I would be amazed if they are taking tickets for a free seminar event. They're mainly there to determine if they'll give you a bigger space next year. I think theoretically you're supposed to turn people away if you're at capacity for fire safety reasons or something but it's rare.
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Ive always found GenCon goons to be a social bunch as long as they arent going to 1000 events. Alcohol + games has a way of bringing folks together
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Unfortunately, st gerald was being sarcastic Last year Goonmeets happened every night at High Velocity, the hotel bar/resturant in the JW Mariott, where we took over a side area of the bar to play games and drink. There were a couple other impromptu gatherings, if you aren't in groupme you will miss out on 95% of goon things really E: High Velocity was mostly light boardgames, but you could also get one-shot/drinking friendly RPGs like Fiasco going
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WerrWaaa posted:Consider also the awful Soylent for meals because it's easy peasy. That's what I'm doing. Also yeah there are events...Nesbit37, is your Google Doc still around? Did anyone actually use it last year? I feel like the GroupMe has sort of stolen its thunder even though it is probably more useful for planning purposes. Fellis posted:Unfortunately, st gerald was being sarcastic And yeah now that the Colts Grille Nerd Trivia is seemingly permanently not on the Wednesday before the convention starts, I imagine all formal meetings will end up planned there. Though this year I am determined to log into the Forums on my phone to give others a fighting chance of knowing what is going on (but GroupMe really is great). Also more random photos            
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