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Great Tavis! I am looking forward to doing some serious gaming, if I can squeeze it in between my Gary Con organizer duties that is. I want to play Dawn Patrol with Mike Carr, then roll into OD&D with Tim Kask, then maybe a good game of Chainmail (ToEE Moathouse Battle). Get up and start...

Hot of the press: Early Bird registration for Gary Con II is now open. Gary Con II is set for Friday, March 19th through Sunday, March 21st, 2010 at the Lodge on Geneva Ridge in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The fun begins at 9am Friday morning and runs through 5pm Sunday. That's right, Gary Con II...

Melf was always scrounging for gold to pay for high costs of training. The fighter training was high, but not horrible. However the magic-user costs were crippling. Training fee from the higher level MU, spell research, spellbook construction costs, buying spells from your mentor- if he was...

Hi All, Gary Con II is going to be 19-21 March, 2010 at the Lodge on Geneva Ridge in Lake Geneva, WI. We expanded it to a full 3 days of old school gaming goodness. I invite you to come this year and join me in remembering my Dad and celebrating his contributions to our hobby in the best way...

Thats why I kick it old school, still playing AD&D or C&C. I am the Dm and I am spinning the setting for the players. There are too many rules in 3e and (probably) 4e (haven't read it). The players are going to argue regulations with you and you get tied up in the rules. It is good to see...

Nicely stated and great classic Sci-fi references. 4e is superhero fantasy miniatures with a splash of role-playing tacked on to it. It is not necessarily a bad game, but it looks very different tham the D&D I grew up with. I don't like it, but others are welcome to play what they like. It is a...

I would think that they would prepare for several days for a goblin funeral. I believe that there would be ritual poems written, music recitals, perhaps some artwork or sculpture commissioned for the poor Gru'ang Krunk that was slain so young in his life. Also a lot of wreaths and flower...

Boo- Lay

You can pronounce it however you like in your D&D world. But it rhymes with "throatwarblermango".

Bravo! I concur with you on this subject. Dice rolls are great, but they should not supplant the importance of role-playing in D&D ( an RPG!).

Next Door Pub Friday Night Hi All, If you are in Lake Geneva at dinner time Friday, stop in at the Next Door Pub. They have New Glarus on tap- so feel free to have a beer stay awhile. I believe that the Pub is the unofficial pre-Gary Con gathering spot. I will be ther with my family and...

Great. I will expect you next year! I notice you mention Goodman Games in your signature. I had the pleasure of running Joe Goodman through the Tomb of Horrors at Dundracon this weekend. He had a great time- so I wonder if it will spawn an uber badass 4e module from GG. I am running ToH at Gary...

I am actually a full time (AGR) National Guardsman. My wife is the one that works at the DLI. I am in charge of NG Recruiting from Santa Rosa west to Fairfield and all the way down past the Monterey Bay. I have my next assignment lined up and it is in the old Ft Ord (Seaside effectively). I...

Well we have 99 signed up on the eventbrite site and Tom Wham and Ernie have about 25 more people locally that are attending but did not register. Hopefully we have enough elbow room at the Legion Hall- praps I will do a satelite location if it is over 125. I am amazed- I guessed about 50 people...

James, Thanks for the kind offer of product for giveaways. Gary Con is a memorial gaming weekend- yes we are gaming Saturday and Sunday- with all open gaming. The original idea was to due an invitation only event, but I decided to open it up to all gamers (we are all comrades in games, right)...