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The dealer hall at Gen Con serves 3 purposes: Buy new poo poo that's being released at Gen Con, try to find deals on nerd poo poo, and play demos of games that might interest you. You could have a very fun time at Gen Con without ever stepping foot in the dealer hall but it is pretty fun to see what's on offer if you can stand the crowds.
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Magnetic North posted:I've never been to Spiel or Gen Con so I can't comment. However, you might get a little more traction crossposting this into the Board Game Thread since my understanding is that Spiel is much more strictly a 'board game convention' rather than 'gaming convention' like GenCon or 'nerd convention' like ComicCon or what have you. Just took a look at the convention center plan on the Spiel website and while it does seem to be majority board games, there seems to be a healthy enough mix:  Yellow is RPG/minis/collectible card games, blue is "family games" which I assume are Most Board Games, orange are hobbyist games (so I guess "intermediate"), purple is expert games, and white is for manufacturers and crowdfunding. So yeah definitely not huge on the non-board side of things, but it's probably also the biggest thing Europe has for those kind of games as well. Or are there other more miniature/RPG/card game focused shows elsewhere in Europe that I don't know about?
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My partner has been to both Spiel and Gencon, and says that they're pretty different. Spiel is apparently pretty focused on being a trade show. The event is set up to let people buy product, sell product, and network. Gencon is more of an all-rounder. It's very much a trade show with a bigass dealers hall, but there is also metric fuckload of events and panels and cosplay and other nonsense going on at any given moment, taking up the convention center, a football stadium, and most of the surrounding hotels.
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Sep 14, 2023 13:14
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I guess I just ignored most of the dealer stuff as a broke-rear end 20 year old then. 
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Haystack posted:My partner has been to both Spiel and Gencon, and says that they're pretty different. Spiel is apparently pretty focused on being a trade show. The event is set up to let people buy product, sell product, and network. Gencon is more of an all-rounder. It's very much a trade show with a bigass dealers hall, but there is also metric fuckload of events and panels and cosplay and other nonsense going on at any given moment, taking up the convention center, a football stadium, and most of the surrounding hotels.
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Kestral posted:One of the kids I run D&D for linked The Arcane Programmer, which is essentially a Turing Machine using Magic Mouths, which delights me. I mentioned some of the other crazy thought experiments in that vein, and they want to see them, but I'm having trouble finding them. Anyone have a link to the amazing hypothetical / thought experiment about an incredibly powergamed elf astronomer trying to kill Cthulhu by throwing boats at him through space, something along those lines? Also the Skeleton Computer. I bet that elf astronomer is really regretting not actually reading the Call of Cthulhu short story, because if they did they'd realize that tossing boats at Cthulhu doesn't kill it, it just presents a minor inconvenience that makes it harder for Cthulhu to swat at an annoying gnat. Unfortunately, a lot of the things I'm aware about (like the Peasant Railgun) are on 1d4chan and I don't really want to link to there.
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Sep 15, 2023 14:34
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Kestral posted:One of the kids I run D&D for linked The Arcane Programmer, which is essentially a Turing Machine using Magic Mouths, which delights me. I mentioned some of the other crazy thought experiments in that vein, and they want to see them, but I'm having trouble finding them. Anyone have a link to the amazing hypothetical / thought experiment about an incredibly powergamed elf astronomer trying to kill Cthulhu by throwing boats at him through space, something along those lines? Also the Skeleton Computer. Here you go
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Sep 15, 2023 18:00
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thinking of playing some trading cards irl this weekend folks
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Sep 17, 2023 22:01
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Not sure if there is a better thread to ask in, but is there anywhere to get a pdf copy JG 37 The First Fantasy Campaign book?
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Terrible Opinions posted:Not sure if there is a better thread to ask in, but is there anywhere to get a pdf copy JG 37 The First Fantasy Campaign book?  is about it, but it is not hard to find.
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I kind of want to know whether this is the kind of guy who's already written the entire campaign in his head and just wants someone else to act out the NPCs, or the kind of guy whose only creative contribution will be "this is Bob the Fighter, he thinks boobies are the most erotic part of the lady," but I also don't really want to know anything else about this guy at all
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Sep 18, 2023 04:32
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Antivehicular posted:I kind of want to know whether this is the kind of guy who's already written the entire campaign in his head and just wants someone else to act out the NPCs, or the kind of guy whose only creative contribution will be "this is Bob the Fighter, he thinks boobies are the most erotic part of the lady," but I also don't really want to know anything else about this guy at all the available hours are amazing he has literally a 40 hour working week (plus some* weekends) to talk about elf dicks
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Sep 18, 2023 05:00
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there was a fairly common thing going around on startplaying of a guy who really really wanted someone to run a game where all the other npc's were anime girls who slowly but surely turned into giantesses and he was apparently very stingy to boot! The detail that always gets me though is that the system he 100% wanted it in with no exceptions was, advanced dungeons and dragons second edition.
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Sep 18, 2023 05:06
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ItohRespectArmy posted:there was a fairly common thing going around on startplaying of a guy who really really wanted someone to run a game where all the other npc's were anime girls who slowly but surely turned into giantesses and he was apparently very stingy to boot! Well yeah. The different weapon damages by relative size was probably a plot point.
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Sep 18, 2023 05:17
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I'd do it for 20 dollars an hour. Man's gotta eat.
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Sep 18, 2023 05:34
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Plutonis posted:I'd do it for 20 dollars an hour. Man's gotta eat. "20 dollars is 20 dollars."
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Sep 18, 2023 06:05
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A long time ago when we used IRC instead of Discord, a guy turned up in an RPG channel I hung out in to advertise an erotic Pathfinder game. I ended up spectating (because why wouldn't you, obviously) and a lot of it was a bard DMPC crying because the elf warlock PC he was banging wasn't lawful good. I assume you gotta have D&D rules for a little extra spice.
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Sep 18, 2023 06:44
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It's really odd that this guy wants to be erotic with someone but apparently has no preferences about the exact kind of erotic he is going to receive. He's either very open-minded or is about to learn for the first time what homosexuals are.
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Sep 18, 2023 06:56
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The Whizzard's time has finally come
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Sep 18, 2023 09:07
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Well at least he's up front about what he's looking for, except for anything specific.
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Rand Brittain posted:It's really odd that this guy wants to be erotic with someone but apparently has no preferences about the exact kind of erotic he is going to receive. Oh no! I accidentally entered the futanari-only dungeon!
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Sep 18, 2023 12:11
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Dare you enter rear end-ererak's Tomb of Whores?
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Sep 18, 2023 12:52
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Some serious Fear of Girls Vibe here. But also, maybe this is a woman. Maybe
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The amount of people willing to do sex roleplaying with complete strangers, literally zero interaction beforehand, always astonishes me.
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Sep 18, 2023 16:53
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Youremother posted:The amount of people willing to do sex roleplaying with complete strangers, literally zero interaction beforehand, always astonishes me. I'm not throwing stones on that particular house but doing it on an actual tabletop campaign is kinda clunky.
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Sep 18, 2023 16:58
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Youremother posted:The amount of people willing to do sex roleplaying with complete strangers, literally zero interaction beforehand, always astonishes me. maybe its really fun
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Feels Villeneuve posted:maybe its really fun All the pregnancies are fictional and the only disease you might catch is cringe
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ive seen people do hosed up poo poo, like play contract bridge, or risk. nothing can faze me
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I mean at least roleplay buying them a drink first or something, you're just gonna get both feet wet from zero like that?
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Feels Villeneuve posted:ive seen people do hosed up poo poo, like play contract bridge, or risk. nothing can faze me
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Youremother posted:I mean at least roleplay buying them a drink first or something, you're just gonna get both feet wet from zero like that? wet from what
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One of my favorite grogs.txt moments was the group of like three guys and a girl doing ERP with one of the dude's lovely bog standard D&D3 settings. They posted hours-long YouTube videos of just the absolute most boring, normal, meandering D&D sessions that were occasionally punctuated by extremely awkward "I touch the bar wench's boobs and then we have an orgy" that technically weren't fade-to-black moments but were so devoid of horniness or detail before they just went back to regular old D&D poo poo, they may as well have never bothered. The only way anyone was getting off on that was if those extremely specific circumstances were their kink, and based on how bored all the people playing the game sounded, it sure wasn't theirs. It was an astounding demonstration of how feeling like roleplaying requires you to do D&D stuff is poisonous to actual fun in a lot of cases. I think they came to the thread's attention because the DM was mad about SJWs or something. That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Sep 18, 2023 |
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Plutonis posted:I'd do it for 20 dollars an hour. Man's gotta eat. Going rate for regular GMs is $10-15 per person per hour or 30-40 per person per session, so you’re way underselling yourself.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:Going rate for regular GMs is $10-15 per person per hour or 30-40 per person per session, so you’re way underselling yourself. I'm a third worlder, I am supposed to be working at exploitative rates!
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Back in the day, people I guess paid $2.99 a minute to call some 1-900 number to sex roleplay by voice only with random strangers.
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They have onlyfans and camgirls/boys/other for that now. But those chat lines must still exist somewhere. There'll be whole fetishes hanging on it specifically being a phonecall.
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Bucnasti posted:But also, maybe this is a woman. Maybe
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Feels Villeneuve posted:ive seen people do hosed up poo poo, like play contract bridge, or risk. nothing can faze me I read "contact risk" at first, and figured that yeah, that sounds dirty.
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Most games of Risk I have sat down for devolve into full-contact Risk after a point
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