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Ego Trip posted:Come to Groverlunch I might this year! If I don't have an event scheduled over that slot I probably will.
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nesbit37 posted:I might this year! If I don't have an event scheduled over that slot I probably will. I stopped scheduling things on Saturday specifically because of Groverlunch. It's easier than hoping you can finish eating and settle up before your event.
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Ego Trip posted:Come to Groverlunch We'll need a volunteer to call Harry & Izzy's to make the reservation. Not it!
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Dr. Quarex posted:216A, you are the gatekeeper of all missing Indianapolis knowledge, thank you for this (also that makes sense about Bloomington, I am sure I have been to a town just like that one dozens of times then, not that this makes it bad) I think the loss of the conventions and sports started the trend. I know catering numbers shot up when those things did come back in an attempt to limit exposure. Many people were and still are convinced that downtown Indianapolis is now like Beirut 1980 and they have lost a lot of the suburban diners. There are a lot of great places fairly close, particularly if you have a rental car. Bluebeard and Milktooth over in the Fountain Square area are amazing. Hinata is the best semi-formal Japanese food I’ve had away from the West Coast, though reservations are needed months ahead. If you are willing to drive further afield, the southern suburbs have a surprisingly amount of great Burmese/Hmong places due to post-Vietnam resettlement policies. It’s still impossible to get a good pierogi but there are some ok kreplach.
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I mean part of the problem is its Gen Con, a lot of us won’t have cars or if we do they are stuck in parking we can’t take them out of. I guess Uber exists but that’s more time away from the con as well.
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Yeah, a first timer friend sought out a few restaurants in Indy and proposed hitting them up but I had to tell them 'This is a nice idea but I'm not taking two hours out of my Gencon time to eat somewhere.'
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CellBlock posted:I have still never had Island Noodles. The line goes on for days, and people say “but if moves fast”. Yeah, but I can probably get a table at a restaurant (or like at a hotel bar) and still be done by my next event. Or the food truck nobody else wants to go to.
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I consider Island Noodles to be walking food as well. I've dropped by, gotten my noods, and eaten them while on my way to events at the Marriot(s) to really save some time and get something in my belly.
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I’ve never eaten at any place in the ICC nor at any of the food trucks. I went to the food court in the mall once lol
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I’ll eat at the ICC from time to time but only when there is no line and I literally just need any food, and I mean any, to keep going. It’s expensive (though not food truck expensive) with a bonus of being not good. Though I have enjoyed getting the fancy reusable soda cups and just getting unlimited refills at the ICC food court near the food trucks. I am pretty sure you are not supposed to do that but they don’t care.
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216A posted:I think the loss of the conventions and sports started the trend. I know catering numbers shot up when those things did come back in an attempt to limit exposure. Many people were and still are convinced that downtown Indianapolis is now like Beirut 1980 and they have lost a lot of the suburban diners. What you say makes sense about people thinking downtown Indianapolis is a terrifying place; over the last few years I have seen a few threads on either the official forums or Facebook (probably both) where locals are like "I won't ever go down there except for Gen-Con anymore, it's not safe!!!" and other locals are like "literally what in the hell are you talking about" Bluebeard and Milktooth definitely used to be on the list of good Indianapolis restaurants I maintained in the yearly post, but basically as Nesbit37 and BlackIronHeart got at nobody is wandering outside the immediate radius of the convention center by Thursday morning, and Wednesday evening is Rathskeller Time which means for most people in this thread there is really no opportunity to explore elsewhere. This definitely might be my Milktooth year though!!! Though Hinata sounds awfully tempting. I did love Burmese food the one time I ever had some in the D.C. suburbs, as I did not realize I needed "kind of Indian and kind of Chinese" in my life. Unrelated if anyone is ever in Seattle you have to go to Pam's Kitchen because Trinidadian food is like Indian-Mexican and is also magnificent Fellis posted:I’ve never eaten at any place in the ICC nor at any of the food trucks. I went to the food court in the mall once lol They used to have a genuinely delicious Italian restaurant in the basement of the mall (well the pizza was good I do not know if the normal food was), yet another of the many restaurants I was sad to see disappear in the last decade Dammit why am I not in Indianapolis already
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8one6 posted:pizza di tito inside the PNC center/hyatt is legit good pizza. Tito's is also open for breakfast! Standard diner grill food is available (eggs, home fries, bacon, etc).
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Hello again everyone! I'll be GMing Starfinder in the Sagamore, masked, come and join me if you'd like some fun science fantasy games!
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OgreNoah posted:Hello again everyone! I'll be GMing Starfinder in the Sagamore, masked, come and join me if you'd like some fun science fantasy games! I was thinking about what RPGs I should try, and now Starfinder is on top of the list.
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nesbit37 posted:How do you feel about the whole note being able to require the other people playing at your table to wear a mask thing if your masking as a judge? I'm just doing it anyway. Anyone complains, cool, they win. Game's cancelled, good thing I have a Switch in my hotel room.
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nesbit37 posted:How do you feel about the whole note being able to require the other people playing at your table to wear a mask thing if your masking as a judge? I never run my own events, but if you put in your event description "masks are kindly requested" and you have a box of disposables at the table and someone buys a ticket and throws a tantrum that you can't make them put it on, then I guess whatever - take their money. If all the other ticket buyers aren't comfortable playing with someone who isn't masked, then I guess cancel their ticket and let them get a refund? I'd like to think that the people most adamant about not wearing a mask won't sign up for events that ask you to wear one, but most people don't read event descriptions at all (as evidenced by the people who show up to events with "materials not provided" or "Experience Required" expecting to be taught a game).
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Poor event HQ staffers are going to spend ~96 hours resolving masks disputes with the dumbest people in the world. Couldn't pay me enough to deal with that for 4 days. And by resolving I mean telling the people that ask others to mask that there's nothing they can do and shrugging.
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nesbit37 posted:How do you feel about the whole note being able to require the other people playing at your table to wear a mask thing if your masking as a judge? Requiring masks is a super hard sell, given that the public health emergency ends at the federal level come May 11. Edit: people should absolutely take the steps they feel appropriate for their own situation. Gen Con has legal obligations and administrative considerations that likely drive this outcome. Eastmabl fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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theironjef posted:I'm just doing it anyway. Anyone complains, cool, they win. Game's cancelled, good thing I have a Switch in my hotel room. To ward off idiots, messaging those who purchased tickets about your approach may get the CHUDs to stay away.
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Yes I think messaging in advance would be a good idea. I am not planning to run any events this year, but if I was and wanted people to mask I’d probably just walk away from the table and refuse to run it someone showed up and refused to put a mask on after being asked. I don’t see any other good solutions that don’t involve sitting their awkwardly with a dick for 4 hours.
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Eastmabl posted:To ward off idiots, messaging those who purchased tickets about your approach may get the CHUDs to stay away. I mostly just run a couple games for fans of my shows and books and stuff and the price point tends to keep out the worst. I will definitely still be doing this though.
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theironjef posted:I mostly just run a couple games for fans of my shows and books and stuff and the price point tends to keep out the worst. I will definitely still be doing this though. What are your shows and books? Asking for a friend.
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Eastmabl posted:What are your shows and books? Asking for a friend. Oh, I host a podcast where we review weird old roleplaying games called System Mastery along with a few other shows that grew out from that, and then my podcast partner and I have also written an RPG cocktail recipe book and cookbook, both under a brand called Dungeonmeister. We have more Dungeonmeister stuff coming, too.
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theironjef posted:Oh, I host a podcast where we review weird old roleplaying games called System Mastery along with a few other shows that grew out from that, and then my podcast partner and I have also written an RPG cocktail recipe book and cookbook, both under a brand called Dungeonmeister. We have more Dungeonmeister stuff coming, too. Are you guys doing any System Mastery stuff this year, or just running games? I haven't been able to get my James D’Amato brand live show fix since 2019. I imagine he's busy with a baby and all, at least.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Are you guys doing any System Mastery stuff this year, or just running games? I haven't been able to get my James D’Amato brand live show fix since 2019. We're doing at least a few things, most with James present as well. I assume we'll do our regular show live, probably one or two table games, and then because we're at GenCon as part of a book tour thing through our publisher, we're doing Dungeonmeister/Ultimate RPG stuff: a rebranding of a quiz show we ran in 2019, this time with audience prizes, and a panel about how to onboard your friends that are trying to get into non-D&D RPGs, I think? That one isn't finalized yet. But yeah, James will be there, and it would be wild if he wasn't doing some other panels/live shows of his own, I just can't speak to what they are yet.
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theironjef posted:We're doing at least a few things, most with James present as well. I assume we'll do our regular show live, probably one or two table games, and then because we're at GenCon as part of a book tour thing through our publisher, we're doing Dungeonmeister/Ultimate RPG stuff: a rebranding of a quiz show we ran in 2019, this time with audience prizes, and a panel about how to onboard your friends that are trying to get into non-D&D RPGs, I think? That one isn't finalized yet. But yeah, James will be there, and it would be wild if he wasn't doing some other panels/live shows of his own, I just can't speak to what they are yet. Sweet, sounds like I'll have more events than just Rude Tales this year.
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Ego Trip posted:Does buying everything Free League sells count as an event? The event of a lifetime.
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nesbit37 posted:I am not planning to run any events this year, but if I was and wanted people to mask I’d probably just walk away from the table and refuse to run it someone showed up and refused to put a mask on after being asked. I don’t see any other good solutions that don’t involve sitting their awkwardly with a dick for 4 hours. Ego Trip posted:Does buying everything Free League sells count as an event? I do yearn for the days when I had competitions to see if I could find and purchase something at the Auction that was hilarious to me and yet that nobody I knew thought was the least bit funny
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Admiral Joeslop posted:The event of a lifetime. It is usually broken up into a few events for me as my will slowly breaks down over the weekend.
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Well, we're hosed. I've got the earliest time in my group and that is loving dire as my best time in almost a decade has been 1:45pm.
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Historically speaking 145 isn’t terrible. Usually downtown hotels hold out till roughly 2pm. We’ll see if that holds true for this year.
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nesbit37 posted:Historically speaking 145 isn’t terrible. Usually downtown hotels hold out till roughly 2pm. We’ll see if that holds true for this year. Yeah but this year I have the earliest time of 2:59pm lol
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Alas. I wish we had picked up another half-dozen Goon VIGs in 2021, I feel like we could cover everybody with a few more rooms Alternately, we need to make EVEN MORE LASTING FRIENDSHIPS AT SHOTS WEDNESDAY
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I don't know if there are many new VIGs this year.
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There shouldn’t be, front the info I have they raised the number to 500 and want to keep it more or less there for the time being.
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nesbit37 posted:There shouldn’t be, front the info I have they raised the number to 500 and want to keep it more or less there for the time being. Got 1:15, that's cool. That's basically good for lovely downtown, right? I did Airbnb the last two times. Also when do they start approving events? My publisher won't officially start approving reimbursements and stuff until the two events they scheduled me for are official.
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