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Dr. Quarex posted:WHAT'S PRGS PRECIOUS I suggest a quiet dinner for 4. 8. 13 but I swear this is is it. 19. At the tilted kilt "Can I get 23 shots of fireball? Thanks!"
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Deviant posted:I suggest a quiet dinner for 4. 8. 13 but I swear this is is it. 19. At the tilted kilt Shot Wednsday was one of my highlights at gencon
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Yo, anyone else staying at the Super 8 on Southport Road? Wanna see if anyone wants to split taxi fare to and from the convention centre.
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I am not going to lie, They Might Be Giants is probably the biggest band that is a perfect fit for Gen-Con. I have not seen them live since like 1998 but I AM GONNA GO HELL YEAH
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Dr. Quarex posted:I am not going to lie, They Might Be Giants is probably the biggest band that is a perfect fit for Gen-Con. I have not seen them live since like 1998 but I AM GONNA GO HELL YEAH That's pretty cool. I would probably go if it were not during Gen Con.
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where do I go to get cool gencon pictures? I want to get myself hype and sell one of my friends on going to gencon.
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Impermanent posted:where do I go to get cool gencon pictures? I want to get myself hype and sell one of my friends on going to gencon. 
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I already showed them that one and it did help but hasn't pushed them over the edge yet.
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Impermanent posted:where do I go to get cool gencon pictures? I want to get myself hype and sell one of my friends on going to gencon. https://www.google.com/search?q=gen...bih=901#imgrc=_
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What are the thoughts on taking kids to GenCon. The wife and I are looking to take the four year old. Will he have a good time, or should his first Con be something more like ComicCon?
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Uroboros posted:What are the thoughts on taking kids to GenCon. The wife and I are looking to take the four year old. Will he have a good time, or should his first Con be something more like ComicCon? From an interview I just did with Margaret Weis if it helps: Shoemaker: Sticking with that theme, how has your experience as a woman changed at Gen Con? Weis: There are more women! A lot more women. I remember my first Gen Con at Parkside, I remember seeing a young woman, she was walking down the hall at the college with a DMG in her arm and, like, men, following her. There were very few women attending the convention then. And I think most of us that were there were working for TSR. But there were a few. So yeah, what we're seeing now is more women, a lot more families, and I really like to see that. We see fathers playing games with their daughters, mothers playing games with their sons which is how I introduced my kids, they went to Gen Con the very first year, had a ball. And I think the advent of family day, on Sunday, has been really, really good for Gen Con. I can really see a difference, getting a lot more people on Sunday than we used to. And its families getting in for one price and its great.
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It's very child friendly and the kids really love seeing everyone in costumes and stuff.
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If anyone is interested in a free badge & swag, Chaosium is seeking people to run Call of Cthulu and/or nuRunequest games at Gencon.
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So one of my friends managed to snag a closer hotel location. I would like to transfer my current reservation instead of paying the cancellation fee. It is an airport hotel, so you are looking to drive, shuttle, or taxi back and forth, but it is also a guaranteed 4 day reservation. Here is the info. Hotel: Candlewood Suites Airport Check-in: 16-Aug-2017 Check-out: 20-Aug-2017 Room type: One Bedroom Queen Suite w/Pullout Sofa Number of rooms: 1 Guests per room: 4 Rate: $179 per night Total: $ 716 Anyone interested please Private Message me.
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Haystack posted:If anyone is interested in a free badge & swag, Chaosium is seeking people to run Call of Cthulu and/or nuRunequest games at Gencon. I guess that means I better figure out if I am Auction-Dude this year or if I want to become Dr. Cthulhu.
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I think you want to be auction dude. It's Kask's last year and I don't think Frank has many auctions left in him.
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OH poo poo KASK'S LAST YEAR WHYYYYYYY fair enough, I will check with Katie. Also...uh. Huh. Gen-Con E-Mail posted:To commemorate 2017’s historic Gen Con 50, the convention will create a showcase area on the [Lucas Oil Stadium] field that honors the first Gen Con, held in the 1967. In this space, attendees will get to see an homage construction of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin’s Horticultural Hall, located right on the field. I can take a selfie with this to go with my selfie from the real Horticultural Hall 
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I hope it's better than White Wolf's New Orleans salon or whatever from some years ago.
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I am not sure how it could be any worse than "a couple of pleasant-looking walls with mirrors and a banner telling you to go to another city."
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Hey ill be in Indianapolis on Tuesday, free on Wednsday. Any other goons going to gencon a bit early? Any touristy thing to do in Indianapolis?
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Exmond posted:Hey ill be in Indianapolis on Tuesday, free on Wednsday. Any other goons going to gencon a bit early? Extend your trip through sunday and go to gencon? Real answer: i think there are a fair few museums and parks in indianapolis to entertain yourself at. There will be a good number of goons in town wednesday night, i hope you like doing shots. Fellis fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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Fellis posted:Extend your trip through sunday and go to gencon? I am going to gencon, im just arriving a day early!
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My group will be there Wednesday
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Hey goons, I can't make it to gencon this year and was hoping to ask a favor from someone going. I was hoping to get a copy of the l5r lcg from fantasy flight. I'd pay face and shipping if someone was up to it. Pm me and we can discuss. Thank you
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Good luck, I'm sure FFG will have 50 a day as per norm for new hotness.
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Exmond posted:I am going to gencon, im just arriving a day early! Oh for some reason i interpreted your post as having other business in indianapolis that week and just looking for something to do 
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Exmond posted:Hey ill be in Indianapolis on Tuesday, free on Wednsday. Any other goons going to gencon a bit early? The military museum is entertaining. All the weapons are combat ready too as of last year so it's a good place to go when society falls apart in some cinema apocalypse. djfooboo posted:Good luck, I'm sure FFG will have 50 a day as per norm for new hotness. Did they start capping purchases? I remember VIG's buying giant stacks of Netrunner when it came out. On L5R, I'd honestly just wait. I plan on buying into it after official release and playing it a good deal but there's no real benefit to getting it at Gencon than waiting. It'll be the same box, probably cheaper elsewhere and you'll probably need to buy more copies. I think you'll be lucky to get one unless you know a VIG who is willing to get in line when the door opens for them. EDIT: As has been stated on the boards before, there will probably be a spoiler database before the game officially releases too. No real reason to get it then than waiting since they usually print enough for LCG releases. It's not Star Wars Destiny. RocknRollaAyatollah fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:The military museum is entertaining. All the weapons are combat ready too as of last year so it's a good place to go when society falls apart in some cinema apocalypse. Plus the shrine up top is pretty breathtaking.
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Haystack posted:Plus the shrine up top is pretty breathtaking. It is.  This flag is giant btw. I've also heard the Indiana State Museum and the Eiteljorg Museum are nice but I've never been.
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I have a badge purchase question: This year, I'm only able to attend on Sunday, but I don't see the option for a Sunday badge. Instead, I can buy a "Family Fun Package," which lets me buy 4 badges for just $45 (total, not each). Am I understanding that correctly? Are the badges restricted to parents and kids, or can it be, as in this case, for me and my girlfriend? Are these badges otherwise the same as a normal 1-day or 4-day badge?
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The Malthusian posted:I have a badge purchase question: This year, I'm only able to attend on Sunday, but I don't see the option for a Sunday badge. Instead, I can buy a "Family Fun Package," which lets me buy 4 badges for just $45 (total, not each). Am I understanding that correctly? Are the badges restricted to parents and kids, or can it be, as in this case, for me and my girlfriend? Are these badges otherwise the same as a normal 1-day or 4-day badge? To be honest I'm amazed they even charge for the Sunday badges. Most everything is done, and over and everyone is pretty much packing up to go home. That price seems reasonable, and 8-under are free so yeah, you should be fine.
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The Malthusian posted:I have a badge purchase question: This year, I'm only able to attend on Sunday, but I don't see the option for a Sunday badge. Instead, I can buy a "Family Fun Package," which lets me buy 4 badges for just $45 (total, not each). Am I understanding that correctly? Are the badges restricted to parents and kids, or can it be, as in this case, for me and my girlfriend? Are these badges otherwise the same as a normal 1-day or 4-day badge? Yeah, you're fine. I have a group of four friends who get that family package every year. They're not going to check to make sure you're related, or anything.
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I had not looked at the Gen-Con Forums for more than about five minutes since they switched forum software a couple of years back, but I was not disappointed by what I found when I jumped back in. Well other than almost immediately finding a thread where the guy who I can always count on to post ignorant shithead comments did, indeed, jump into and poo poo up a thread about sexual harassment. But here are some recent highlights:Internet Tough Guy posted:Only problem for anyone flying is dealing with the drat TSA. Friend of mine had an incident on his way to a convention where he had to open his miniature case so they could check it, and the TSA drone just started tossing the miniatures out as he conducted his search. METAL miniatures, so they were breaking as he tossed them out. My friend demanded the guy's badge number and to see his supervisor, and the TSA guy tossed him the "You can't talk to me like that!" attitude - until said friend told said drone that what he was doing was destruction of property, a crime. (Granted if the TSA person actually just treated the miniatures like stupid toys I can both understand why that would be infuriating and why it would seem entirely reasonable to treat tiny figures like toys) Sigh posted:I know it just reveals that I'm juvenile at heart, but whenever I see your name on the forums I think of Monty Python's Life of Brian - one of my favorite films. The Traditional Games Forum's Greatest Foe, Obviously posted:We play Pathfinder so we usually have an 8:00 AM, 2:00 PM, and 8:00 PM game scheduled Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and just an 8:00 or 9:00 AM one scheduled Sunday. Edgar Bergen posted:[What do you have in your Gen-Con bag?] Carteret posted:To be honest I'm amazed they even charge for the Sunday badges. Most everything is done, and over and everyone is pretty much packing up to go home. That price seems reasonable, and 8-under are free so yeah, you should be fine. Also...where is the military museum? The only ones clearly labelled that I am finding are not in Indianapolis, or even a suburb.
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Dr. Quarex posted:
If this ever happened at a table I'd just straight walk away, no words, no comment, just out. I don't have time to get murdered by The Puppet Master when I'm trying to play pretend here
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:If this ever happened at a table I'd just straight walk away, no words, no comment, just out. I don't have time to get murdered by The Puppet Master when I'm trying to play pretend here Little do you know you were the puppet the entire time
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Every time I read anything about the RPG stuff at Gen Con, it makes me happy I have no interest in the RPG stuff at Gen Con.
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Basically all I do at GenCon is play in RPGs (something like 30~ hours of them last year), and mostly they're awesome and I have a good time, but big yikes to the game last year that involved two people just constantly telling my wife exactly what she can and can not do in the game, at one point stopping the game in its tracks to delineate what "roll to shoot" means in gruesome detail. Or the Numenara game that the GM flew off the handle for when we wouldn't be corralled into a room and canceled the game right there.
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There are bad games of all kinds at Gen Con. My worst was when one of the friends I was traveling with had the brilliant idea to sign us all up for a game that ran from 8pm to 8am. We weren't thrilled with that to start, but it became clear pretty quick the GM running the game only had a game running this long, and with a dozen players, so he could get his room paid off for having enough player hours. It was easily the worst roleplaying experience I have ever had with one the DM encouraging one of the players to constantly shoot fire out of his characters cock. Took off pretty quickly.
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The only weird game I played in at Gencon was a CoC game where we played Nazis going to some island for something. No crazy Wehraboo or racist poo poo like you'd expect but one of the characters got some weird sexual psychosis thing and started screwing a character in the butt. I think the character was an NPC or a dead PC, I kind of blacked out as a defense mechanism, and my character immediately killed the crazy character, who was unplayable for the rest of the game. The GM was kind of a dick about it too, like "Why did you do that?" My character was among the surviving characters, which was a surprise because he was kitted out for tank killing or something like that, more in line with Kursk than an island investigation. He was the only actual German among the group of survivors too because the rest of the survivors were British or American spies. That's the one bad experience I've had but then again I'm a straight white male so I don't really attract standard gamer shittyness. Back when you could get into games half the time I picked games that seemed fine but that's a thing of the past. You're kind of lucky if you can get into a fifth of the games you want unless they're something obscure. EDIT: Dr. Quarex posted:Also...where is the military museum? The only ones clearly labelled that I am finding are not in Indianapolis, or even a suburb. The address is 431 N Meridian St, Indianapolis, IN 46204. It's the Indiana War Memorial so it might not show up in searches for a museum. RocknRollaAyatollah fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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enigmahfc posted:Every time I read anything about the RPG stuff at Gen Con, it makes me happy I have no interest in the RPG stuff at Gen Con. Or the I-seriously-cannot-believe-this-game-is-still-going-20-years-later-but-good-for-them "Totally Not Vampire: The Masquerade" live-action game where a couple of the guys in my group were so bored that after an hour or so we made the decision to go rogue and started randomly killing and eating important NPCs and trying to reveal the existence of vampires and werewolves to the public at large, and basically every other player banded together to stop us. It was a lesson for me in how you actually can be a productive member of a game as an evil character as long as you are not doing it because you are an rear end in a top hat ... even though I would also probably never do that again. RocknRollaAyatollah posted:That's the one bad experience I've had but then again I'm a straight white male so I don't really attract standard gamer shittyness. Back when you could get into games half the time I picked games that seemed fine but that's a thing of the past. You're kind of lucky if you can get into a fifth of the games you want unless they're something obscure. Also thanks for the Indiana War Memorial address, it is now duly added to my "things to do while in a half-crazed state before Gen-Con" Google Map.
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