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I'll be setting up goon games every day Wed-Sun. I'm bringing the following games: A Feast for Odin Scythe Tak Arcadia Quest Battlecon Arkham LCG Keyflower and a bunch of small games, plus whatever I find there (mostly looking for out of print stuff like Dominant Species).
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That Old Tree posted:Don't forget, there will also be pickup games everywhere, and Games on Demand. We had a lot of trouble getting into games in GoD last year, because there weren't enough GMs and we had a somewhat large group (4). Just my wife and I this year, and I think we might try to do some Two Rooms & A Boom, but otherwise do you have other recommendations for getting into pickups at gencon (aside from the board game library)?
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Saturday Badges are sold out, folks. Hope you got your tickets while you could!
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I don't know what games to bring this year. Besides Avalon ofc. Last year was Scythe.
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Jul 18, 2017 00:26
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Bottom Liner posted:I'll be setting up goon games every day Wed-Sun. I'm bringing the following games: Is this a thing you just setup wherever you can find room?
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Is this a thing you just setup wherever you can find room? That's pretty much how we operate as a goon collective. get in GroupMe get in GroupMe get in GroupMe get in GroupMe get in GroupMe get in GroupMe get in GroupMe get in GroupMe get in GroupMe get in GroupMe get in GroupMe get in GroupMe
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I just bought Great Western Trail, Yokohama and Orleans to bring with me. Hopefully I can lear them in a month. I'm probably bringing a bunch of small games too.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Is this a thing you just setup wherever you can find room? Yeah, plenty of room in the gaming hall.
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Arkham LCG players : how is that thing? We're thinking about buying it and doing Gencon games of it as a group activity - last year was scythe (which drunk people got very salty at) and some dwarven drinking game.
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Jul 18, 2017 02:22
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Never forget: Bottom Liner <-> Carteret Keyflower rematch. Only one man leave.
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Yeah anyone here not using GroupMe...seriously. It is easy if you have a smart phone (or even if not, though rough as an SMS-based experience) and it is full of AMAZING GOON GOOD TIMES I will re-quote Lawen's foundational post from like uh the 2014 thread or something Lawen posted:Go here to download the app for your iOS/Android/Windows Phone.
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Anyone have hotel room/floor space available? Trying to figure out if ChiliMac and I should book a hotel room and find 2 more souls or if there are any goons with open slots.
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Ego Trip posted:I don't know what games to bring this year. Besides Avalon ofc. Just remember to bring Fiasco. Because Goon Fiasco is always a highlight of the con.
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More Gen Con videos from last year to get you excited (not like you need it) Day 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuLCIckUjiY Day 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ej2MJMLILU Day 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NBrrKKYMXs Day 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaoKTzE1-QI Day 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV01BbfHWkk
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Not going this year but I am surprised that badges are selling out. Is that a first time? Did they finally put caps on the #?
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First time selling out. I suspect there was always a cap, it just wasn't an issue until this year. I mean, at the bare minimum there had to be some sort of cap for fire code.
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If we're posting videos, here's my recap from last year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU003_nwA_o
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I am ALMOST ready to acknowledge that a convention occurred last year. I think by the time I arrive in Indianapolis I will perhaps be willing to say "I ..... I HOPE IT WAS FUN"Mr.Trifecta posted:Not going this year but I am surprised that badges are selling out. Is that a first time? Did they finally put caps on the #?
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Bottom Liner posted:Yeah, plenty of room in the gaming hall. Until they come and claim your table for a scheduled event after you spent an hour setting up Scythe and trying to figure out how to play. But that never happens.
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Jul 19, 2017 01:23
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We always steal tables in the hotels for gaming - almost always space for two groups of six.
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We'll always have High Velocity.
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Bottom Liner posted:I'll be setting up goon games every day Wed-Sun. I'm bringing the following games: I'd really like to try out Scythe and AFfO. Odin scares me a bit because I haven't played many heavy Euros so as long as you can be patient with someone new to that type of game I would like to give it a whirl.
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Rad Valtar posted:I'd really like to try out Scythe and AFfO. Odin scares me a bit because I haven't played many heavy Euros so as long as you can be patient with someone new to that type of game I would like to give it a whirl. I'm still down for learning Scythe. Sorry I missed you at DTC Bottom Liner, was going to send you a PM but you don't have platinum.
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Rad Valtar posted:I'd really like to try out Scythe and AFfO. Odin scares me a bit because I haven't played many heavy Euros so as long as you can be patient with someone new to that type of game I would like to give it a whirl. Odin is fairly forgiving. There's so many options that there's usually something worth doing.
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Yeah, Odin is very much an open playground and much more forgiving than Agricola. Not hard to learn either. Happy to play that and Scythe a lot.
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Someone split a nachos with me at HV.
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lmao just lmao if you waste your nacho time at HV and not at old point
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Did the 50th anniversary maybe have something to do with selling out?
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 This but for Gencon and for real. I think Gencon is going to level out at a point soon but its attendance is growing for a number of reasons. The hobbies Gencon caters to are becoming more and more inclusive for one, increasing the attendance base. The fact that Gencon has already reached gender parity is amazing and is very telling about the state of the hobby. The current renaissance in tabletop games, mainly RPG's and board games, is causing the hobby to become more mainstream and accessible too. The general state of the economy is good, it could be better in a lot of ways, but people tend to be more able to afford a trip to Gencon than 8 years ago. What's going to eventually happen is they're going to keep raising the prices and price out people to balance out attendance. It's the only thing they can really do until more hotels are built up downtown or another midwest city builds itself up to be a better location for Gencon.
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I think I read that there is a new hotel with room for 3,000 opening by next year? It will be interesting to see if they change the cap for any reason, though, or if it just becomes slightly easier to get a connected hotel next year for the people who get in under the same cap. Or whether the 50th anniversary is really somehow that big a draw (I can understand the 50th anniversary of something drawing people in, but once they see that this amazing thing happens every year I bet most of those people would be interested in returning). I thought it was going to level out when it broke 30,000, considering historical trends implied there was sort of a natural ceiling at that number. SHOWS WHAT I KNOW
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I'm extremely selfish and hope Gen Con stays in Indy after the current contract. It's really great, it's about the only big, expensive thing my fiancee and I do every year plus several friends attend. But the only reason we can do that is because we all live in Indy. If it moved, I doubt most of my friends would continue going just because paying for a hotel would suck for them.
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Bottom Liner posted:I'll be setting up goon games every day Wed-Sun. I'm bringing the following games: I'm in for Arkham LCG. I'll be bringing that and Dark Souls
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Skypie posted:I'm extremely selfish and hope Gen Con stays in Indy after the current contract. It's really great, it's about the only big, expensive thing my fiancee and I do every year plus several friends attend. But the only reason we can do that is because we all live in Indy. If it moved, I doubt most of my friends would continue going just because paying for a hotel would suck for them. Sweet, more Indy Goons!
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Dr. Quarex posted:I think I read that there is a new hotel with room for 3,000 opening by next year? I'd be kind of surprised if anyone who wasn't going anyway would care about it being the 50th anniversary.
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Backno posted:Sweet, more Indy Goons!  I should probably do more with goons who go, but honestly I end up just loving off in the exhibition hall for 2 or 3 days
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Skypie posted:I'm extremely selfish and hope Gen Con stays in Indy after the current contract. It's really great, it's about the only big, expensive thing my fiancee and I do every year plus several friends attend. But the only reason we can do that is because we all live in Indy. If it moved, I doubt most of my friends would continue going just because paying for a hotel would suck for them. Though, needless to say, it should also simultaneously be moved to (within 10 minutes' drive of the house of the person making the argument). Personally I love the "ROAD TRIIIIIIIP" aspect of attendance so much that I am not sure if I could handle it being in my hometown; I would not be able to literally forget my other life existed if I actually went back to my own home at the end of every day. The Moon Monster posted:I'd be kind of surprised if anyone who wasn't going anyway would care about it being the 50th anniversary. Though also worth noting that the 25th anniversary was not only a relatively uneventful year in terms of attendance, it was even one of the two times they teamed up to make it Gen-Con/Origins. Though maybe that muddied the waters of the anniversary in terms of marketing? Also did anyone actually understand the idea of marketing a convention in 1992? I am always pleased to see that the savage edits I made to the Gen-Con Wikipedia article to take out the "horribly boring people standing in hallways holding hentai signs" photos to replace them with "actual pictures of interesting convention things" are still in place years later.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Well plenty of non-Indianapolis people undoubtedly also hope it stays there. Having been to conventions all over the country, including Gen-Con in Milwaukee, I have not seen anything else to compare to the Turning-Into-A-Literal-Nerd-Kingdom nature that Indianapolis creates while we are all in town. To be honest, we would probably still go if it remained in the Midwest. I just don't think my friends would bother. But, you are right. It's amazing to be downtown and just see it flooded with nerd themed stuff. All the restaurants seem to really go whole hog on buying into the weekend, you know? They run specials with game references. The food trucks get lines that stretch all the way down Georgia Street. Honestly the atmosphere is really cool, and I've know people who say they won't go because there's too many people but I've never had trouble with anyone in my brief years of attending and everyone has been, for the most part, polite. I don't tend to sign up for random tabletop games though and that seems to be where most of the assholes are if listening to people talk is any indication.
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Skypie posted:To be honest, we would probably still go if it remained in the Midwest. I just don't think my friends would bother. But, you are right. It's amazing to be downtown and just see it flooded with nerd themed stuff. All the restaurants seem to really go whole hog on buying into the weekend, you know? They run specials with game references. The food trucks get lines that stretch all the way down Georgia Street. There are only two important nerdy events I experienced first-hand that I feel are not exaggerated much at all in the telling of how big a change it was: One of them was how much disdain many Milwaukee businesses/retail people had for Gen-Con attendees compared to Indianapolis' relentlessly sunny and welcoming nature, and the other was what happened to Usenet when America Online was allowed to access it. Kind of like the Milwaukee to Indianapolis change, but in reverse! Skypie posted:Honestly the atmosphere is really cool, and I've know people who say they won't go because there's too many people but I've never had trouble with anyone in my brief years of attending and everyone has been, for the most part, polite. I don't tend to sign up for random tabletop games though and that seems to be where most of the assholes are if listening to people talk is any indication. And that said--I agree with you, of the incredibly few not-good experiences I have had at Gen-Con, most of them are related to the people running random tabletop games in far-flung rooms of outside hotels. I will never forget either the gamemaster at the next table who was so loud that we could not hear our own gamemaster, or the gamemaster at our own table who was so quiet that we could not really hear even if there was virtually no other noise in the room. And if that is as bad as it gets... All the rest bad memories are about Claddagh. Screw you, Claddagh; running a limited menu of "nothing you would actually want from an Irish restaurant" during the convention and giving us wobbly stools to sit on is not a good method for attracting repeat customers  though I suppose if I went on the Monday before things started and demanded a booth seat it might be salvageable.
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