Ok, looking at the tally so far, we've got about 9 people who seem definite, a couple of maybes depending on exactly when it is held and somewhere around 10-12 other people who are in our various game groups. That doesn't include anybody who is brought aboard by reading about it at a hobby shop. If we assume full attendance (doubtful, but it could happen) we will have at least 20 people and some untold number of others.
Here's where my organizational skills start to break down. I've never been to a convention or gamed at one before so my experience with the environment is fairly limited. I can easily see that for those who post on the boards here and (by proxy) those in our game groups who would attend, we could organize and arrange everybody into pre-determined games. But if we have a lof of "drop ins" from the various hobby shops, how do we slot them into games?
Should we create a sign up sheet here on the boards and use it as the official head count? If anybody wants to post signs up at local hobby shops we could give them a contact person to call. Or we could simply tell them to log onto ENWorld and check in on this thread.
Thoughts on this?
As for me, I wouldn't mind playing in somebody else's game (and I'm intrigued by the Gladiator thing, but I'm fairly certain I'll get trounced). But I also have a ready-to-go module complete with pregenerated PC's that is made to run in a limited time span that (IMHO) would be a perfect module for this type of situation and I'd be happy to run that.