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Dr. Quarex posted:I Googled a couple of times until I got a link back to a picture I posted in the 2014 thread and thought "OOOH MAYBE IT IS THERE" and so it is. needed to show that to a gen con newbie. Want to get her psyched about JINKAWN
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Dr. Quarex posted:I Googled a couple of times until I got a link back to a picture I posted in the 2014 thread and thought "OOOH MAYBE IT IS THERE" and so it is. I actually looked to see if the original was still up on Google images but only that "FAIL" one was. I knew someone would have it and come through with it.
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loving Old Point Tavern is closed as well? Being replaced by some yuppie upscale ripoff version apparently. Gen con is dead ya'll
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What's parking like if you don't stay downtown? We're at a La Quinta near the airport which is only a short drive away but I assume parking is going to be a bitch?
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Parking actually seems fairly adequate from all the reports I have heard, particularly if you plan ahead and pre-buy it. It is even affordable, I think! ! !! !#$*!$ Meanwhile my dream to move to Indianapolis has died so I cannot preemptively offer my apartment to Goonz, alas. Then again I also secretly hated the idea of my annual pilgrimage becoming an annual 5 minute drive the other direction
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Mar 17, 2018 20:37
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Parking at the stadium was a loving BREEZE when I drove and didn't stay downtown. Cheap, and close with no fear of selling out. I'd look into it.
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I got a 4 day parking pass at a lot a couple blocks away, but if I was going to drive in again, I'd just park at the stadium. It would have been closer and cheaper. If I remember right, it was $20 a day. I wonder if you could just leave a car there all weekend. It would be cheaper then paying hotel parking/valet rates.
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Len posted:What's parking like if you don't stay downtown? We're at a La Quinta near the airport which is only a short drive away but I assume parking is going to be a bitch? I used Park Whiz and reserved a spot all four days, about a five minute walk from the Center. It was $6-7 a day. Kinda sucked at the end of a long day to walk back though. This year I think we're just going to Uber/Lyft back and forth, it's a ten minute drive.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I used Park Whiz and reserved a spot all four days, about a five minute walk from the Center. It was $6-7 a day. Kinda sucked at the end of a long day to walk back though. This year I think we're just going to Uber/Lyft back and forth, it's a ten minute drive. I've never used Uber or Lyft wouldn't that end up being on the pricey side because of surge pricing?
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Len posted:I've never used Uber or Lyft wouldn't that end up being on the pricey side because of surge pricing? It's been a while since I used it actually. If it's pricey the first day, we'll figure something else out.
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Last year Uber rides were dirt cheap. We had a crew of 4 in a 2 mile ride was like 2 dollars.
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Slandible posted:Last year Uber rides were dirt cheap. We had a crew of 4 in a 2 mile ride was like 2 dollars. That... is too cheap. I think now I see why the average person earns less than minimum wage driving for those companies, ha. BUT HEY, GOOD DEAL THOUGH! Have any of you considered walking to Gen-Con from your home states
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Uber from the airport hotels was around 25 one way. I just looked for parking every day. Sometimes I would find a spot quick, sometimes not. Around $20 for the day in all the ramps. We did take an uber to the restaurant that had Paizo Starfinder shirts and goodies from the Con, it was about a 5 min drive. Cost around $10.
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Len posted:I've never used Uber or Lyft wouldn't that end up being on the pricey side because of surge pricing? Surge pricing just means you have an excuse to keep playing games for another half hour while you wait for it to go away.
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Mar 18, 2018 03:32
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Rent van, buy parking pass, sleep in van. Save!
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edit: what the hell, this isn't the thread I was trying to reply to.
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I just wrapped up my winter convention tour. Hit up the Philadelphia Bee Keeper Symposium (not really a game convention but I was showing a game there so...), Dreamation, Gary Con and Unpub 8. Gary Con is still my favorite convention, Unpub 8 was absolutely amazing for someone putting a game out this year, Dreamation was... ok. Next up for me is Origins and then Dice Tower Con. It's great going to all these cons but it also shows me just how special Gen Con is to me. It's always there, pulling at me, in the back of mind... Gen Con is coming... and that anticipation is eclipsing the excitement for all of these other cons I am hitting.
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Has Gary Con threatened to overwhelm the confines of Lake Geneva forcing history to unironically repeat itself?
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Dr. Quarex posted:Has Gary Con threatened to overwhelm the confines of Lake Geneva forcing history to unironically repeat itself? Has the geneva convention stopped war crimes, herr doktor?
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Dr. Quarex posted:Has Gary Con threatened to overwhelm the confines of Lake Geneva forcing history to unironically repeat itself? It has. Attendance was at like 3000 this year and the hotel rooms for next year sold out in under 2 hours.
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GaryCon was still pretty cool this year. Didn't seem any worse than last year, tho. Got to play in the "We are Grung!" D&D Adventure League adventure with 200 other people. Everyone played with level 1 Grung pre-gens. When you died, you would randomly come back as another. They use a color caste and my table had a revolution because the worker/fighting class didn't like to be bossed around. This chick at the table was Princess Bubbles and being the Wizard I was higher caste, so I tried protecting her but she ultimately died and got all angry. But then she got her new pre-gen and was still angry and spent the rest of the game trying to sabotage the adventure for everyone else by not cooperating. It was all for fun and she just checked out. 200 people all making high pitched frog voices for five hours was insane. This is a Grung: 
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Yeah, the grung event was pretty cool. Some people got kind of drunk by the end of it and got a little annoying (mainly just because of how loud the whole room was growing) but it was great over all. A+++ would grung again.
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Did you get to play the event the night before? I forget what it was called, but it was 4-5 levels of puzzles and traps? We finished it almost an hour and a half before everyone else (The puzzles just clicked for us, I guess. Sudoku masters!) and the DM said we got close to full points. When we finished, we looked at the table next to us and they were on the first puzzle still. The people who ended up winning with something like 390 points and our DM just kinda raised an eyebrow and said she has no idea where they got those points from. I think we may have missed something in the middle somewhere...
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Do you mean the return to Tamoachan epic? I've DMed a bunch of a the competitive epics and the scoring system, frankly, is busted and a joke. There is no standardization to it and it entirely depends on both how generous your DM, how difficult they run the encounters, and how well they do book keeping. I was really strict about it and ran a tough table the first time I DMed one of these (the D&D Open 2 or 3 years ago) and the table I rand had a score of around negative 115 point. The winning team had something like 2000 points. I don't know how that was even possible, even if you went into the dungeon naked. Its pretty borked IMO.
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nesbit37 posted:Do you mean the return to Tamoachan epic? I've DMed a bunch of a the competitive epics and the scoring system, frankly, is busted and a joke. There is no standardization to it and it entirely depends on both how generous your DM, how difficult they run the encounters, and how well they do book keeping. I was really strict about it and ran a tough table the first time I DMed one of these (the D&D Open 2 or 3 years ago) and the table I rand had a score of around negative 115 point. The winning team had something like 2000 points. I don't know how that was even possible, even if you went into the dungeon naked. Its pretty borked IMO. No, that was last year I think. We had two people die in the first 10 minutes and then we just got analysis paralysis for the remainder and it wasn't much fun. I can't remember what the one I mentioned above was called, but we used pregens again. Kind of strange for AL games, but it was fun as hell!
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Yeah that was Return to Tamoachan this year.
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Ah, okay then. Those huge demon statues for prizes were cool, but I don't even know where someone would keep those things.
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nesbit37 posted:It has. Attendance was at like 3000 this year and the hotel rooms for next year sold out in under 2 hours. I am glad I went to Gary Con back when it was still new enough that I was assumed to be with the press solely because I was nicely-dressed and carrying a fancy camera.
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GEN CON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oh yeah i need to book a flight GENCON
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Funzo posted:Have they announced when the event catalog is coming out? Event reg. ends on May 6th, so after that?
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Funzo posted:Have they announced when the event catalog is coming out? Well, I haven't seen an official date, but event reg starts on May 6. They usually have the catalog out a couple of weeks before, so it should be fairly soon.
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I have possibly my best event ever planned out already and I've basically designed it for the Goon High Lethal Rotating Cast game. V Hype i may or may not be making a Cat and Truck player sheet for a certain two someones
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I'm kind of sad I won't be doing any game events this year. I need to actually see if I can find some podcasts to be on about the game I'll be kickstarting in September/October. Anyone have any good tips on how to go about that?
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Begging via email and twitter seems to be the way most manage it, other than looking for talks done by the podcast and handing out business cards
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:I have possibly my best event ever planned out already and I've basically designed it for the Goon High Lethal Rotating Cast game. V Hype I love you.
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