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Well, I bought a ticket without any of the guff. Here's hoping I still live in the area when November rolls around!  e: Since I'm at the top of the page, let me stress again that transportation into Philly from NJ suburbs is super easy and you shouldn't try to get a hotel room in Philly. The PATCO line runs from Lindenwold to 15th and Locust, so see if you can get a room somewhere close to the spurs and almost certainly save some money.
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Bogart posted:Well, I bought a ticket without any of the guff. Here's hoping I still live in the area when November rolls around! Then again, those prices might have only seemed reasonable to me because I go to Gen-Con. Edit: Oh looking again, I at least understand the dice now--they say P A X on the probably "6"-faced side. I mean that does not make them useful but at least it makes them display-worthy if you are into that. Actually good lord I just realized that is the obvious solution as to what to do with my infinite assortment of dice, MAKE SHADOW BOXES Dr. Quarex fucked around with this message at 20:59 on May 3, 2017 |
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May 3, 2017 20:37
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Got a Saturday pass. I live nearby and would have had to work on Friday for most of the day. Looking forward to it.
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I'm conditionally in assuming here's no work issues on my end. Should be fun to hit this and Gencon this year!
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FYI, the Reading Terminal Market is right below the convention center. Get ready for some good eats, the place is stuffed with Amish Delis
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BlackIronHeart posted:I'm conditionally in assuming here's no work issues on my end. Should be fun to hit this and Gencon this year! JerikTelorian posted:FYI, the Reading Terminal Market is right below the convention center. Get ready for some good eats, the place is stuffed with Amish Delis
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Yeah, that olive oil place is still around. Sits next to the best grilled cheese place I know of. 
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I thought to myself "surely something interesting must have happened in the last month?" and I found this hilarity https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/25/15693682/pax-china-gc-play-guangzhou PAX EVERYWHERE I am still sort of surprised there is apparently money in running conventions. I always figured they were loss-leading events, so to speak.
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Dr. Quarex posted:I am still sort of surprised there is apparently money in running conventions. I always figured they were loss-leading events, so to speak. Being an exhibitor at a convention can be a loss-leading thing, since you in theory might make enough outside of the con through additional buzz, product awareness, new customers to pay for any losses that exhibiting cost, but if the con itself is losing money it's going to shut down quickly unless they have a plan to change that.
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Oh, hey, there's a thread for this! Me and a couple buddies have our badges ordered and hotel booked. We'll be road tripping in from St Louis. Hope it doesn't eat! (Really hoping I'll be able to pick up my copy of Thornwatch at the con, but figure that's a pipe dream.)
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I am still excited for this con  still hasn't sold out of any passes yet which tbh might be nice? not super crazy popular so far it seems I don't hear much buzz
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They are way too quiet on it imo. People have no clue what to expect.
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I really think this is a like...I doubt "soft launch" is the right term when talking about something obviously planned to be an annual event, but I am sure they are curious to see whether they can compete with the handful of established big tabletop-focused conventions on name value and nothing else. No huge loss if it ends up being a one-off, in other words. Though I hope it lasts just so I can feel cool having been at the first of its kind ;(
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Jul 17, 2017 16:29
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Is there an events listing anywhere or a listing of what vendors to expect?
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I can't believe you would question the integrity of the knowledge repository that is this thread, which contains all of a single link to an offical site, which itself is berefit of any info How dare you nobody knows anything, its pretty weird. We're all gonna show up and there will just be refugee tents and cheese sandwiches Fyre Festival style
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I'd say it's weird but then again for PAX East people barely had any idea what was happening until like 2 weeks before other that "ITS PAX EAST!!!" so I expect it to be October and still being like "hm wonder what's gonna happen there"
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PARTY IN MY ROOM just kidding you stay the hell out of my room I am glad to know this is a common issue with PAX. Though confused that this does not seem to negatively impact attendance.
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Supposidly the main guy heading up the D&D events had a phone call with them this past weekend. He was supposed to email me about how that went but I haven't received anything yet, so who knows if it even happened. Its pretty late to be pulling game stuff like that together IMO, especially with having to gather DMs and everything.
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Dr. Quarex posted:PARTY IN MY ROOM The other PAX Events can get away with it because people know that regardless of what is actually there, there will be a lot of stuff there. This event is so new that I am worried that their last minute approach will not be good for attendance, since right now nobody even knows if there will be a lot of stuff there. e; Also, the other PAXs have hype built on name alone because of their juggernaut status in the videogame industry. They don't have that here, not really, and after the initial hype of the event going radio silent hurts hype more than builds it. Kashuno fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jul 20, 2017 |
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Fellis posted:We're all gonna show up and there will just be refugee tents and
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Just saw a list of vendors, though Geek Chic is on it... •9th Level Games •Academy Games •Albino Dragon •Alderac Entertainment Group •Anvil Eight Games •APE Games •Arcane Wonders •Arcknight •Ares Games •Asmodee •Atlas Games •B & B Games Studio •Baba Geek Games •Black Oak •Blind Ferret Entertainment •Braine Games •Breaking Games •Broken Token •Brotherwise Games •Calliope Games •Capstone Games •Carolina Game Tables •CMON •Cool Stuff Inc •Copper Frog Games •Crimson Night Studios •Critsuccess •Cubicle 7 •Cyanide and Happiness •Daily Magic Games •Devir Americas •Dized •Dog Might Games •Dwarven Forge •Eagle-Gryphon Games •Elderwood Academy •Elzra •Emergence Team •Fantasy Flight •Foambrain •Forged By Geeks •Fowers Games •Fun to 11 •Gale Force 9 •Geek Chic •Geeknson LTD •Gigamic •Goodman Games •Golden Bell Studios •Grand Gamers Guild •Greater than Games •Grey Fox Games •Handelabra Games •Hero Forge •Iello •Indie Boards and Cards •Indie Game Developer Network •InIt Gear •Intoxicatingly •Ironmark Games •Jason Anarchy Games •John Wick Presents •Kickstarter •Lay Waste Games •Leder Games •Level 99 Games •Level Up Dice •Liveware Lab •Lone Shark Games •Lone Wolf Development •LongPack Games •Looney Labs •Magpie Games •Mantic Games •Mayday Games •Mayfair Games •Metallic Dice Games •Mind Bottling Games •Monocle Society •Monte Cook •Nailed It •Nauvoo Games •Necronamicards •North Star Games •Onyx Path Publishing •Orange Machine Games •Paizo •Pandemonium Books and Games •Passport Games Studios •Petersen Games •Portal Games Company •PulsArt Studio •Quick Simple Fun Games •Q-Workshop •Rather Dashing Games •Reaper Miniatures •Renegade Games •Restoration Games •Rob and Dave Games •Seventh Sphere Publishing •SFR Inc •hoot Again Games •Skybound Studios •SlugFest Games •Smirk and Dagger Games •Space Goat Productions •Steamforged Games •Steve Jackson Games •Strange Machine Games •Stronghold Games •Studio 2 Publishing •Studio Woe •Studio Wumpus •Table Titans •Tabletop Co-op •Tasty Minstrel Games •The Burning Wheel •The Compleat Strategist •The Creativity Hub •The Indie Bazaar •TheWarStore.com •Thompson Productions LLC •ThunderGryph Games •Twogether Studios •Underbite Games •Wizards of the Coast •White Wolf Entertainment •Wolff Design •Wyrd Games •Wyrmwood •Yanaguana Games •Zafty Games •And more...
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https://twitter.com/TT_HQ/status/890608895525126145
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When did Geek Chic go bust? Like three weeks ago? Just curious when that initial list of vendors was set. I heard that BGG con in Texas was this same weekend, but attendace is capped at 3000. I can't imagine vendors would choose that over PAX unplugged, and that list seems to prove that assumption. Pretty sweet vendor list, dealer hall should be excellent for getting stuff you missed at Gencon. Max posted:With Fantasy Flight going there I hope they have L5R ready to go by then. L5R is coming out at Gencon in three weeks. Dunno when it will hit stores but should be before late November.
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Yeah that list already suggests to me I will probably end up enjoying this more than Origins, not that that takes much.
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Oh I just realized if FFG doesn't have their new Genesys rpg at Gencon, they'll definitely have it at PAX-UP!! Hell yes!
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Fellis posted:Oh I just realized if FFG doesn't have their new Genesys rpg at Gencon, they'll definitely have it at PAX-UP!! Hell yes! I'll buy into Genesys on the spot if the books cover running a game set in either Android or Twilight Imperium. And, yeah, I know I could run it in whatever but I want their setting material on the matter.
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I wonder if unplugged is going to mean a reduced or absent amount of tabletop gaming at the other PAXes. I hope not.
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alchahest posted:I wonder if unplugged is going to mean a reduced or absent amount of tabletop gaming at the other PAXes. I hope not. It's the opposite. There is so much request for more tabletop gaming at other PAXes that they made one just for it to handle the overload.
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Max posted:Oh, well then. They'll probably have a cool event at PAX-UP though! Promos, hell yeah! ZorajitZorajit posted:I'll buy into Genesys on the spot if the books cover running a game set in either Android or Twilight Imperium. And, yeah, I know I could run it in whatever but I want their setting material on the matter. FFG has this out and I bought it last year. Definitely worth it if you like the Android universe: https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/10/21/the-worlds-of-android/ There's a huge fold-out in the center for a schematic of the Beanstalk and how it connects to Heinlein! I don't know if they'll have any setting stuff specifically in Genesys, but they may have a few dozen pages in the back with ideas for specific genres. I'm looking forward to running a Weird West thing in it myself.
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Have any of you attended the other PAX conventions and if so, do you mind explaining a bit of how they work as conventions? I am use to table top cons. Gen Con, Game Hole Con, Origins, Gary Con, etc., and all of these are ticket driven. From what I understand, PAX is totally line driven and I can't really conceptualize of how that is possibly a good idea for a tabletop con. How do the PAX cons work for events? How dealer hall based are the PAXs? What other quirks do they have compared to other tabletop cons?
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nesbit37 posted:Have any of you attended the other PAX conventions and if so, do you mind explaining a bit of how they work as conventions? I am use to table top cons. Gen Con, Game Hole Con, Origins, Gary Con, etc., and all of these are ticket driven. From what I understand, PAX is totally line driven and I can't really conceptualize of how that is possibly a good idea for a tabletop con. How do the PAX cons work for events? How dealer hall based are the PAXs? What other quirks do they have compared to other tabletop cons? We know very little of how PAXUP will actually work. Our current info seems to be that, similar to all other PAXes, PAXUP will be line driven. No idea how this will work for a tabletop con, but it seems like a pretty dangerous ground to walk. From my experiences with PAXEAST, basically each event/panel has some tape on the ground marking where the line can be and if you can't step into line behind that tape you aren't in line. It's not great. Dealers are on the exhibition floor mixed in with the exhibitors. Basically, PAX is usually a clusterfuck and waiting in lots of lines. But who knows how it will actually be. As is normal for PAX, they are giving basically no information and probably won't until the PAX before it ends (WEST runs Sept 1-4), so maybe the week after that we will see some useful info.
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This sounds terrible, I am so excited! My strategy of "never actually gaming at a gaming convention" sounds like it will work out great though.
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In the spirit of how goons organize at gencon, i created a groupme for Pax unplugged: https://app.groupme.com/join_group/33309759/qHSJ5d it will indeed likely be a clusterfuck this year and gently caress waiting in lines. I'd rather just play games after doing gencon. The exception is the FFG line if they haven't already released Genesys or the 30th anniversary edition of Star Wars d6 roleplaying
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Sweet. Fellow goon Ilor and I will be there and neither of us hung with goons as much as we wanted to at Gencon.
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FYI, for those of you clueless on PAX cons like I am, I watched TheOneTar's videos on PAX prime from a couple years ago and feel better now. Really not looking forward to line based events though. I can't imagine them going to a ticketing system this late in the game so I am just going to assume this is how it's going to be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNx4IRzcGqE
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nesbit37 posted:FYI, for those of you clueless on PAX cons like I am, I watched TheOneTar's videos on PAX prime from a couple years ago and feel better now. Really not looking forward to line based events though. I can't imagine them going to a ticketing system this late in the game so I am just going to assume this is how it's going to be:
Also the video makes me wonder if this means the PAX Unplugged thing will be focusing everyone on actually engaging with playing tabletop/board games, which, you know, could be an interesting alternative to the things to which I am accustomed. Being the attendance of gaming conventions to do everything relating to games other than actually playing them. Also I think she just said "olivator"
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