80 hours of Cyberpunk 2020?

[Shadowdancer]

I know this isn't D&D, or even d20, but I'm curious about this event I saw on the Gen Con registration. It's an 80 hour gaming session for 300 people using the Cyberpunk 2020 rules. And it's apparently not a LARP of any sort -- just people sitting in a room for 80 hours playing a game.

I love Cyberpunk 2020, but this just seems a bit much. Are you allowed to leave at any time (to eat, sleep, bath)? Do you have to remain in the room the entire time?

I can't see going to Gen Con, with all it has to offer, and playing only one marathon session of one game the entire time I'm there.

Has anyone signed up for this?

 

[Maldur]

Not me, it sounds a bit excessive. Even for me, and I love Cyberpunk (ask HellHound).

 

[Numion]

80 hours, 300 players? Are they trying to set a new record for '10.000 PC deaths in one session' or something?

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Sounds like a waste of a trip and $ to me. But I though the same thing about those people that stayed the entire Con in a locked room last year. If I wanted to do that, I could just stay home. If I'm going to pay to go, I want to experience things.

It would really suck to come home and say "I just spent 4 days in a locked room eating bad food and playing games." Uh, actually, thats not that far off from the actual experience, except we get to sleep in a hotel... Never mind :\

 

[Shadowdancer]

Does Gen Con give some sort of discount/free registration for people who run game sessions? I'm wondering if the guy who is running this thought, "I'll agree to run this, because I know NO ONE will sign up for it, and then I'll just get the freebie."

I participated in a Cyberpunk LARP at a convention once -- four hours, and it was all done in one room. The room was supposed to be a night club. If you left before the session was over, you were finished for the night. It was a blast; most people were in costumes and really had fun playing their characters. But 80 hours, even if you're playing at a table rather than LARPing, would be too much.

It would be cool if it were some sort of information "scavenger hunt" where it starts at the beginning of the convention and runs until the end. People who sign up have that length of time to find certain people and ask them the answer to certain questions, or get certain passwords or phrases from them. Then at the end of the convention, you turn in your form or whatever containing the information you found.

That might be fun, if run right. You would have to obtain the information in character, but wouldn't necessarily have to be in character for the entire convention.