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8one6 posted:They have plans to fix the smell by 2025! http://www.citizensenergygroup.com/Our-Company/Our-Projects/Combined-Sewer-Overflow djfooboo posted:Worst smell was easily a man in a hoveround that had literally shat himself (I am a nurse, I can tell a fart and a shite). He made no move to go to the bathroom, but instead was continuing to browse old musty GURPS books...  SO HEY HOW ABOUT THAT OTHER TOPIC uhhh I am probably going to finally live my dream to get to Indianapolis on like Monday this year, I can hardly wait to find out just how overwhelmingly intense are the other nerds who do this too. If I do not get into at least one pick-up game of like 2nd edition AD&D played for ante, I will be disappointed.
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What would you possibly be anteing in a 2nd ed d&d game. Dice? Shaving rights for each others neck beards?
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Feb 17, 2017 00:25
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GenCon time already?! Hot drat
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Feb 17, 2017 01:31
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Well if you do get into town that early let me know. I'll take you to check out some places outside the normal area.
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Pez posted:What's the worst smell you've experienced at GenCon? Oh yeah, the intersection in front of Steak & Shake with the literal sewage leak was so bad I literally gagged and a cop laughed
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Bottom Liner posted:Oh yeah, the intersection in front of Steak & Shake with the literal sewage leak was so bad I literally gagged and a cop laughed My wife has experience in wastewater and sewer engineering, so last year when I complained about the smell she explained to me in great detail why it's an extremely difficult problem to solve. Why? Everybody hates the smell, but nobody likes the solution of 'well, we've got to shut down this intersection and other parts of the road for a few months to a year, and maybe more depending on the state of the sewer when we find it. In the meantime, we've got to build more tunnels to divert the flow while we...' Then, suddenly, nobody cares about the smell once they realize the solution interrupts their commutes.
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LuiCypher posted:My wife has experience in wastewater and sewer engineering, so last year when I complained about the smell she explained to me in great detail why it's an extremely difficult problem to solve. Anyone who rooms with a goon has experience in sewer engineering. 
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nesbit37 posted:What would you possibly be anteing in a 2nd ed d&d game. Dice? Shaving rights for each others neck beards? nope O.K. What would you ante for... hmm... AD&D 2nd Edition tournament ... BATTLE BEASTS
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Gencon is wothin 3 hours of where I live and I've never had a chance to go. What Warhammer 40k events go on there?
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Uroboros posted:Gencon is wothin 3 hours of where I live and I've never had a chance to go. What Warhammer 40k events go on there? The event tends to be "How Will GW gently caress Up At The Con This Year?"
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Uroboros posted:Gencon is wothin 3 hours of where I live and I've never had a chance to go. What Warhammer 40k events go on there? I've never actually played 40k there but they have tournaments, a good amount of free play areas with terrain, and some painting seminars and stuff. It's pretty much all you can eat warhammer games if that's your jam, and while I've never seen an apocalypse game going I'm sure those are going down too. Also, they have decent amount of entries from Warhammer figurine painters entered in the big miniature painting contest.
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Forge World will also most likely have a booth where you can spend way too much money on their lovely resin cast-offs. They sell shirts and mugs if that's also your jam.
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Double Agent posted:The event tends to be "How Will GW gently caress Up At The Con This Year?" Was it last year when they had one of the super tiny booths in the back of the vendor hall because they can't book correctly?
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Slandible posted:Was it last year when they had one of the super tiny booths in the back of the vendor hall because they can't book correctly? I know that they had a small booth, but I do not remember if it was because they messed it up or if that's what they wanted. I do remember that 2 years ago was when the booth staff flying in from the UK applied for the wrong type of visa and got sent back home right after they got off the plane.
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So excited for GenCon 2017. Last year was my first time, and this year we are going for Trade Day so we can get our store work & ordering done that day and have the rest of the con for actual con-stuff. Anyone here been to Trade Day? What should I expect and what's the schedule like for Wednesday in the dealer hall?
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I have been to Trade Day and presented there a few times as an educator, so my experience is a bit different. Personally it was a bit lack luster. Presentations were totally hit or miss, and as a presenter it really sucked to get an afternoon slot. Most people went to the morning stuff, but once the lunch break hit almost no one came back and you had a pretty sad audience at whatever you were presenting on.
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A friend of mine has gotten an artist table the last couple years. He mentioned this morning that they're doing their housing stuff today (his is just after noon). I'm not at all sure about this but it could mean that when their housing time ends, some unclaimed reserved rooms will get released back into the housing pool so it may be worth stalking the housing portal today or tomorrow if you were unlucky.
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Anyone know when the vendors do their housing stuff?
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nesbit37 posted:Anyone know when the vendors do their housing stuff? Edit: This just in from Mudcrabistan, they are live RIGHT NOW. Edit: Unrelated I am currently checking how far every one of the Indianapolis Top 25 Restaurants is from the convention center, trip update if any are closer than expected (besides the usual suspects of St. Elmo Steak House and Café Patachou) Edit: Hmm, interesting results... a few of these places are MAYBE close enough if you have a bold adventuring party willing to eat one of your fallen after walking three blocks in order to have the strength to make it six blocks. Dr. Quarex fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Courtyard Indianapolis Downtown (connected to the convention center) had a few rooms open today if anyone else is still looking.
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LLSix posted:Courtyard Indianapolis Downtown (connected to the convention center) had a few rooms open today if anyone else is still looking. They're gone now, I just looked. I'm looking forward to the convention and trying to set down the games I'm going to run. I took a break last year but I think it would be good to run again since it's going to be pretty hard to get a game this year, it was last year.
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The GroupMe is hoppin' already, if any of you are holding out on joining like weirdos. Classic instructions again if they got overshadowed in the opening posts: Lawen posted:Go here to download the app for your iOS/Android/Windows Phone.
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Any idea when/where the events list might be posted? This'll be my first year and I have only the vaguest idea of what to expect.
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LLSix posted:Any idea when/where the events list might be posted? This'll be my first year and I have only the vaguest idea of what to expect. It gets posted on the gen con site, usually about a week or two prior to opening registration for them e. i think anyway I don't pay close attention to events since i go to so few of them
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Regardless you have a while. Registration isn't until May something.
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Event submissions (i.e. GMs saying which events they want to run) are usually due by the end of March or so, then they take a couple of months to draw up the schedule before opening up event registration in May.
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I had this silly idea last year, but wasn't able to execute it. At the big Wednesday drunken meetup thing, I will be running an Ugly Dice Contest! Bring your ugliest dice, I will photograph them and send it to my panel of judges, and they will choose this winner. Winner gets an drink of their choice at wherever we meet up. Note that this is an ugly dice contest and not an ugly die contest, so you need at least two of them. More information as think of it.
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Maigius posted:I had this silly idea last year, but wasn't able to execute it. At the big Wednesday drunken meetup thing, I will be running an Ugly Dice Contest! Bring your ugliest dice, I will photograph them and send it to my panel of judges, and they will choose this winner. Winner gets an drink of their choice at wherever we meet up. Note that this is an ugly dice contest and not an ugly die contest, so you need at least two of them. More information as think of it.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Do homemade dice count? Asking for a friend also named Dr. Quarex. Let's say that if there is enough interest, at least 2 entries per catagory, there will be three categories: the full 7 set, 2d6, and exotics (anything else). I will, of course, post the winners in the thread.
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Ilor posted:Event submissions (i.e. GMs saying which events they want to run) are usually due by the end of March or so, then they take a couple of months to draw up the schedule before opening up event registration in May. Where do I submit events?
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SirPhoebos posted:Where do I submit events? https://www.gencon.com/event_submissions
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Thanks. I submitted two events for late night PRGs.
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WHAT'S PRGS PRECIOUS My ears (eyes?) perk up at any mention of late-night anything these days, as after a decade of trying to be good and going to bed early, last time I just went whole-hog and embraced my love for the night (thanks CaptainRat) and definitely ended up having a whole lot of fun between 11 and 3 every night when normally I would have tried to be in bed before Midnight.
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I'll def be running some goon catastrophy late night during the con so look forward to that
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:I'll def be running some goon catastrophy late night during the con so look forward to that As long as I get to be the truck again.
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Carteret posted:As long as I get to be the truck again. If I run a dungeon world game I promise I'll make a whole character playbook of THE TRUCK
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:If I run a dungeon world game I promise I'll make a whole character playbook of THE TRUCK You have no idea how happy that just made me. gently caress WHY IS GENCON SO FAR AWAY
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Dr. Quarex posted:WHAT'S PRGS PRECIOUS It's my oft-talked about Paranoia conversion of Tomb of Horrors.
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I will be trying to run some Delta Green for Arc Dream this time around. It will likely be nothing original since I'll have a difficult time creating and planning out something that can be run in 4 hours (i.e., I need to create a concept that I can playtest and run before the con), but they have plenty of content they've already created that I can run in that time frame.
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