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nesbit37 posted:of course definitely still happy to talk to Mudcrab Merchant if she has any time. I got pulled into doing a HUGE industry presentation thing, and will not be free until after July 5th. If that's still good, please feel free to PM me or email me again! Read: I'm the worst. EDIT: New Page! How about them board games youz guyz? I'm playing Seafall and can't decide if I love it or hate it.
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Mudcrab Merchant posted:EDIT: New Page! How about them board games youz guyz? I'm playing Seafall and can't decide if I love it or hate it. Big same on this. I've had it since GenCon and still only halfway through the campaign and I spend a lot of time just kinda frustrated at every thing
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Mudcrab Merchant posted:I got pulled into doing a HUGE industry presentation thing, and will not be free until after July 5th. If that's still good, please feel free to PM me or email me again! Thats still good! Will pm you and sit tight till July, thanks!
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i'm late but Dice Tower Con is okay. went a few years back. it's run pretty well, but that's mostly because it's 90% open gaming space and a board game library (with barcode checkin/checkout!) tom vasel is a homophobic shitlord. probably wouldn't go again. Although I did get a laugh, I was teaching Space Alert, and one of the guys asks me: "Are you going to be teaching the entire game, like, in character like that?" "Yes, crewman! Now on your very safe journey where nothing bad will happen you'll need to know what happens if something bad happens..." And then he got up and walked away.
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Deviant posted:i'm late but Dice Tower Con is okay. went a few years back. If you can't handle the gallows humor charm of teaching space alert in character, the game is not for you. You did everyone a solid. Also, drat I haven't played space alert in forever. Nobody local to me finds the real time stress of the game fun. You're supposed to fail damnit! It makes winning all the more satisfying!  E: But people love Fuse what the heck
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Deviant posted:i'm late but Dice Tower Con is okay. went a few years back. Glorious.
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You kind of have to teach Space Alert in character. It comes with a separate rulebook that's written like that.
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I'm excited to play some Arkham Horror LCG and Dark Souls, but after about 5 games of Dark Souls, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it: Pros - Sculps look amazing A clutch Dodge roll really has a Souls feel to it The bosses are proper scary Complacency can and will get you killed, even by normal mooks Victory after a tough encounter feels awesome Cons - We felt the need to house-rule the amount of Souls you get after an Encounter so there isn't so much grinding We also felt the need to house-rule the gear i.e. we laid out some "basic" upgrades that could be bought without the RNG of the Treasure deck. I know I know, sorry. It was sure just slight upgrades over the starter gear Without the house rules, grinding/RNG can be pretty tedious The boss arc/movement system is sort of confusing and in my opinion not explained very well in the manual While you can theoretically build whatever you want, you don't necessarily get a "blank slate". You have to start as one of the classes, and those classes each have a unique cap for each stat. If I choose a Knight, he can only accrue so much Dex and therefore will be locked out of the really high Dex weapons. I don't know if this is really a con or not, but it does make each person sort of adhere to their archetype. I really enjoy it but it's not a game I could play all of the time. I'm excited about the kickstarter expansions adding some further wrinkles into the game. Maybe some goon games will help.
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nesbit37 posted:The Gen Con vomit treat at the end is making me rage internally about everything I hate about gamers. I can't tell if thats a joke food or they are seriously suggesting people eat that thing but I wouldn't put it past several people to do so. ALSO HE SAID "REE-SEES" INSTEAD OF "REESE'S" SO I WILL END HIM I am a little torn, I appreciate that they at least tried to make something like "the least healthy trail mix" instead of just buying a bag of bite-size Snickers. But what they ended up making also seems like the worst thing ever, so there is that. Also hey wow, this OTHER video actually has things being discussed I did not know about! (Even if it is because he lists a few things that take place at specific times and locations rather than all general tips) (O.K. maybe just #10 and #7, still noteworthy to my overinformed self) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW1w2ff3Pw8 Alsoalso good lord our conspicuous consumption as nerds is going wonderful places https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXcnJ_oeIyw "Should be reminiscent of an old dank basement with a dead squirrel stuck in the wall." "Oh wow!" "There's a bit of decay in there along with the mold" Edit: Oops I should have maybe not started a post yesterday and then not checked the thread before posting it Deviant posted:tom vasel is a homophobic shitlord. Edit: Important update on why a member of the Gen-Con Forums had a late place in the events registration list
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So... Gen Con may sell out now? That is both awesome and terrifying. I also don't know what that means, like they are about to hit fire code max for the convention center and stadium and there will be no onsite badge sales or just that pre-show badge sales will need to stop.
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Adrian Swartout posted:To continue providing the best attendee experience we have decided to carefully control badge sales, and we will begin capping badges when we reach our internal attendance estimates. Regardless...ugh. I genuinely thought this would never happen. It terrifies me to imagine a future where I might hype up Gen-Con to someone and have that person be like "drat, I could not get a badge this year!" 
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Dr. Quarex posted:Regardless...ugh. I genuinely thought this would never happen. It terrifies me to imagine a future where I might hype up Gen-Con to someone and have that person be like "drat, I could not get a badge this year!" You have already hyped up Gencon to everyone you know, Quarex. If they haven't figured it out by now, perhaps scarcity will increase their desire to attend next year.
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Deviant posted:"Are you going to be teaching the entire game, like, in character like that?" You are a hero
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I don't know why but I am having a paranoid moment about housing. Does anyone knows what happens if they try to charge your credit card on august 1 for the 1 night room deposit and the card is declined? For some reason I keep freaking out that is going to happen (there is no reason it should) and that they will just cancel the reservation if that happens.
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nesbit37 posted:I don't know why but I am having a paranoid moment about housing. Does anyone knows what happens if they try to charge your credit card on august 1 for the 1 night room deposit and the card is declined? For some reason I keep freaking out that is going to happen (there is no reason it should) and that they will just cancel the reservation if that happens. i had to deal with it last year regarding a card expiration date, they just called us and told us it, they don't just cancel it.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:I can't wait until the year I get to play a game of something or an RPG in the baseball stadium. Victory Field, the AAA baseball stadium next to the JW seems a bit more... sunny than your typical Gen Con attendee would prefer. 
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So what happens if an event runs beyond its allotted time? There are tickets for a 1844/1854 event for a 2hr time slot which seems absurd. That game is a behemoth. Is it just to trial the game?
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I am so glad I decided to check last year's Gen-Con Forums posts for amazing quotes. I am going to do this in two parts because I keep finding more and I do not want everyone to skip this post like I totally would if I saw a huge wall of quotes for no reasonSomeone Smarter Than You posted:People saying that the lottery system is "fair" are either new attendees or don't know what fair really means. It would be fair if your housing priority was based on the number of years you'd been attending Gencon. A Strange Person talking about which food trucks are best posted:We literally only came to Gen Con last year to eat two meals at the food trucks. Ending up spending a few hours in the dealer hall and buying a bunch of stuff, but that was not why we made the trip. Bigger Picture Man posted:(Grabbing women's asses) is totally inappropriate behavior and unacceptable, but unfortunately not shocking. Just liked I'm not shocked that you are blaspheming my God in your response to this situation. Unfortunately, we live in a society where evil has become good and good has become evil. The King Of Excellent Opinions posted:Gencon is succeeding despite itself. It's to bad really, the Con itself used to be much better than it is now.... I still believe the Big Bang Theory effect will fade away and the demand will tail off over the next several years so the housing deal might fix itself.
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Dr. Quarex posted:I am so glad I decided to check last year's Gen-Con Forums posts for amazing quotes. I am going to do this in two parts because I keep finding more and I do not want everyone to skip this post like I totally would if I saw a huge wall of quotes for no reason For more quotes like these visit the Gen Con forums at GenCon.entitlednerd.fart
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Moriatti posted:Any goons signing up for Artemis Bridge simulators or some of these 4e games? Paging cell block or ego trip to discuss our trip through bridge simulation.
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Artemis is fine, but they seem to charge a lot for their events (and the software is free, so if your friends want to play, you may as well just all get a copy and play at someone's house or something). (Fake edit: It looks like the Artemis events are mostly $12 for an hour, which is fine. In past years, they had some really expensive sessions where there were costumes and stuff.) Deviant is talking about when we played Horizon, and I was the comms person, basically harassing space movers and taunting enemies (and possibly swiping right on space tinder). We managed to hit a planet.
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Deviant posted:Paging cell block or ego trip to discuss our trip through bridge simulation. Paging, mostly.
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CellBlock posted:Artemis is fine, but they seem to charge a lot for their events (and the software is free, so if your friends want to play, you may as well just all get a copy and play at someone's house or something). (Fake edit: It looks like the Artemis events are mostly $12 for an hour, which is fine. In past years, they had some really expensive sessions where there were costumes and stuff.) It jumped out in front of us.
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Deviant posted:It jumped out in front of us. As comms guy, I can confirm that it was, in fact, radio silent.
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Here is another assortment of quotes from last year's forums discussions because I find them endlessly entertaining and nothing else is happening in the thread now anywayThe End of Gen-Con posted:Choosing to stay with the failed housing method, huge increases in ticket price, reduction in service and events, and the growing apathy toward any opinions of the attendies and contributors, means no. Well, I NEVER! Man posted:I guess I need to read the forums more since a lot of what I am seeing here would have more than likely caused me to cancel (my badge) and simply met friends I wanted to see from out of town. Ultimately They All Say This I Guess posted:I have been attending Gen Con since MECCA and I remember going for the gaming and not because 100,000 other people now consider it a passing pop culture fancy. And yes, I find that part annoying (fine, that isn't PC to say but the crowds are interfering with my ability to do the gaming that Gen Con used to be about and there really isn't any argument to that)....I am sure there are 100,000 more people watching the Big Bang Theory who will take my place. Also, as they say, "just lol" at the repeated mentions of the Big Bang Theory I also like the utter lack of self-awareness on the guy who talked about how funny it was that his convention attendance overlaps with the surge in attendance from the fake gamers ... hmm. Hmmmmmmmm. No, Please, Why Must You Do This posted:I had been encouraging folks to reuse half used request slips by saying "Recycle and save the shrubbery." Someone at the front of the line heard me and started quoting Monty Python's "Holy Grail." When they faltered someone a little further picked it up. Soon we had the entire line reciting the movie line by line. There was lots of (bad) singing and lots of laughter over the next 2 plus hours while the board was reset. What To Pack For Gen-Con posted:KINDA NICE TO HAVE: For contrast, one item in his "required" list: "GenCon booklet maps"
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I remember two years ago when the Big Bang Theory mentioned Gary Con in the show and everyone at the con started freaking out that attendance might swell to some ridiculous sum. Everyone was quasi-panicking online in both good and bad ways. They even had a life size standee of Sheldon made up and put a Gary Con shirt on him. Con came along and sure, attendance was up, but no more so than was really expected for a growing convention in its 8th year. Still all you could hear in the hall was the sound of some grognards blaming the growth of the show and how they couldn't get tickets to Ernie Gygax's game because of the Big Bang Theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9fADIP_6eM nesbit37 fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Jul 3, 2017 |
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nesbit37 posted:I remember two years ago when the Big Bang Theory mentioned Gary Con in the show and everyone at the con started freaking out that attendance might swell to some ridiculous sum. Everyone was quasi-panicking online in both good and bad ways. They even had a life size standee of Sheldon made up and put a Gary Con shirt on him. Con came along and sure, attendance was up, but no more so than was really expected for a growing convention in its 8th year. Still all you could hear in the hall was the sound of some grognards blaming the growth of the show and how they couldn't get tickets to Ernie Gygax's game because of the Big Bang Theory. ... ...O.K. if it were a Big Bang Theory convention then I could see that being true though, to be fair. Thinking of my old supervisor who took her vacation every year just to go to a Supernatural convention. But yeah, it is wonderful to watch the process of "blame whatever remotely related thing you hate the most if something goes wrong with things you love" in the nerd world.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:The immense jump in ticket prices was like $5-10 right? Also I would like to point out that, though correct me if I am wrong, prices for events (as in the $4/hour baseline) have not changed in at least 20 years. Do you think maybe they are intentionally leaving those prices low for the benefit of gamers? WELL, OBVIOUSLY, NO, THAT IS JUST FURTHER PROOF THAT THEY ARE GREEDY somehow
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