Chicago Gameday XV is Oct 21st: Planning thread

[highlight]This thread is for planning purposes only. A separate thread will be created for player sign-up closer to Gameday. A link to that thread will be posted here.[/highlight]

This is the planning thread for Chicago Gameday XV (Xtra Volatile? Xtreme Violence?). If you're interested in running an event for Gameday, or just have planning help to offer, this is the thread for you. If you're confused, learn more about Chicago Gameday.

[h1]The Time and The Place[/h1]
Gameday XV will be on [highlight]Saturday, October 21st[/highlight]. Events start at 9:30am. Gameday XV will be hosted by Games Plus, a.k.a., Earth's Greatest Game Store™.

[h1]Events[/h1]
If you would like to run an event for Gameday XV, please post your event proposal in this thread and indicate when you would like to run it. An event title and short description should be provided for use in the sign-up thread. You don't need these in order to volunteer an event, but I'll need them eventually.

Gameday has two event slots that are 4-5 hours each: a morning slot from 9:30am to 2:30pm, and an afternoon slot from 4:00pm to 9:00pm (and beyond). We try to run 6-8 events in each slot, with 4-6 players plus GM in each event. GMs may request more/fewer seats in their event.

If you do not have an ENWorld Community Supporter account with Private Messaging enabled, please make sure I have your email address. You can contact me at buzz[at]buzzmo[dot]com.

Once the sign-up thread begins, GM volunteers have until one week before Gameday in which they may remove their event from the schedule. After that point, the scehdule is set in stone, and you come to Gameday prepared to run your event, regardless of whether anyone has signed up for it.

Pre-approval of player sign-ups is not allowed. By volunteering to run an event, you're agreeing to run it for whomever signs up.

[h1]Current Event Lineup[/h1]
[h2]Morning[/h2]

1. The Iron Heroes vs. The Isle of Dread, Iron Heroes d20 w/ Skull & Bones d20, Pbartender
2. Minis Open Table, Sqwonk and Mark CMG
3. Hero's Banner, Hero's Banner, Tim C Koppang (the author!)
4. The WolfRiders, D&D 3.5, Redwind
5. TBD, D&D 3.5, Mark CMG (private room)
6. Ghost Toasties, Ghostbusters RPG, TracerBullet42

[h2]Afternoon[/h2]

1. TBD, Burning Empires, buzz
2. The Staff of the Seven Winds, D&D/Arcana Evolved, William Ronald
3. Minis Open Table, Mark CMG
4. The Unlucky Dragon, Feng Shui Trevalon Moonleirion
5. Jupiter City #5: Trick or Treat?, M&M2e, Reidzilla (table by the door)
6. Excuse Me, But I Believe I Ordered the Pinapple Special , D&D 3.5, TracerBullet42 (private room)
7. Crisis In Fruitdale, SD, Supers, Inc (Iridium Lite), HinterWelt (the author!)

[h1]Prizes[/h1]
Gameday features a prize giveaway between the morning and afternoon slots. If you have a connection to a game company or other organization and can obtain prize donations, please let us know so that efforts are not duplicated. Otherwise, all prize solicitations from publishers are handled by myself. GMs and attendees are also welcome to donate prizes from their own collections.

[h1]Suggestions[/h1]
If you have suggestions, reccomendations, or ideas for enhancing the fun of Gameday, please feel free to post them here and we'll open up discussion.

Buzz.

Put me down for the AM and PM #1 slots.

AM will be HEX or Hollow Earth Expeditions. In the Private Room please.

PM will be "To Be Determined" for the next day or so. I'd like one of the "Tall Tables At The Back" for this game please, this way someone else can use the Private Room.

I'll post descritpitons in the next day or so.

Thanks!

FCWesel said:

Put me down for the AM and PM #1 slots.

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You're in the #2 slot in the afternoon, suckah! Ha!

Anyway, done!

"HEX" Scenario

Okay Buzz, here's my AM game...


“ARKHANGELESK”
FCWesel ~ Hollow Earth Expeditions by Exile Games
(Private Room)

In 1919, at the end of the Great War, a force of elite from America, Britian and Canada, secretly invaded Russia in order to help the White Russians against the Communist regime. They failed.

Now it's 1936. And another team of American and British are being sent to Russia to find out why Adolf Hitler has recently sent a team of his special "SS Bodyguards" into the heart of the Soviet Union. These SS are sent only when Hitler has found something of the Occult that he's interested in. The heroes' objective: find out what the Nazi's are doing and stop them.

Hollow Earth Expedition is an exciting new pulp adventure roleplaying game inspired by the literary works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jules Verne, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Play a two-fisted adventurer, eager academic or intrepid journalist and explore lost civilizations, fight dinosaurs, and foil Nazi schemes! The subterranean action is powered by Ubiquity™, a cinematic roleplaying game system that is fast, intuitive, and fun!

No experience with HEX is needed, I will teach the game as we play. Come ready to have fun and have a good time. I will provide characters and the adventure type stuff. Bring a bag o' dice.


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Awesome! Can't wait till October!

Okay Buzz, here's my PM game...

“THE SEVEN GUNS OF WARLOCK”
FCWesel ~ SERENITY RPG by MWP
(Tall Table At The Back)

The Old Man looked about at the children arrayed before him. In the light from the fireplace their faces were eager for escape, for a tale of heroes. They needed heroes these days. He leaned forward, almost whispering, “I once heard tell of a story from Earth-That-Was of seven men, warriors of honor, who stood as one against the evil of men to defend a small, poor, community. These men were called “the samuray”…

Story long told, children put away to their bed, the old man was cleaning up his bar when he noticed one table still had some folk sitting at it. Funny, he really hadn’t noticed them still being there. Walking over, explaining that the bar was to close in a few minutes, he was surprised when a young woman, a petite slip of a girl, stood up and said, “Old Grandfather, we are not the Samurai of your story, but we are here to help you in your time of darkness.” When the old man asked them who they were, the Captain of them stood up, his browncoat falling to its length. “We sir,” Captain Reynolds smiled. “Are what you might call ‘Big Damn Heroes’.”

Yup. “Firefly/Serenity meets The Seven Samurai.” No experience with Serenity the RPG is needed, I will teach the game as we play. Folks are encouraged to have watched the TV show or the movie however. Come ready to have fun and have a good time. I will provide character sheets and the adventure type stuff. Bring a bag o' dice, Serenity likes to use d2, d4, d6, d8, d10 and d12. Two sets are best, but not mandatory.

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buzz said:

Gameday XV will be on [highlight]Saturday, October 21st[/highlight]. Events start at 9:30am. Gameday XV will be hosted by Games Plus, a.k.a., Earth's Greatest Game Store™.

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Woo-hoo!! Barring any unscheduled last-minute family events, I shall return to Chicago Gameday in fine form.

Now, to decide if will run a game or not....or just be greedy and play cool stuff all day!

Barendd,

Psst! Barendd...

You know what you should run?

That one game that I'm not supposed to say the name of, which happens to start with an "S" and ends with an "r."

Nazriel said:

That one game that I'm not supposed to say the name of, which happens to start with an "S" and ends with an "r."

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Sorcerer?

Nazriel said:

Barendd,

Psst! Barendd...

You know what you should run?

That one game that I'm not supposed to say the name of, which happens to start with an "S" and ends with an "r."

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I can not run God's game, for only his avatar MattyHelms has the power to do it justice.

However, I could run a four-hour character creation seminar. We might even get done on time!