Age of Worms in Tuscaloosa, AL
- Thread starter HeapThaumaturgist
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My group and I wouldn't mind taking part in any get-together that might take place. My gf and I would also be willing to help out.
HeapThaumaturgist
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I would certainly love to help out and attend a gathering in that area of the state.
Without a job I currently have a surplus of time, but a distinct lack of financial liberty.
So I can give some time.
--fje
Without a job I currently have a surplus of time, but a distinct lack of financial liberty.
So I can give some time.--fje
HeapThaumaturgist
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I've set up a messageboard website for Alabama Gamers.
I'm planning on printing out some flyers to go up in some campus buildings directing interested parties there, put some up in the local game store if they have a board, etc. Also I thought it might be a nice place to talk about a BamaCon type get-together. All of that could be done on ENworld, but I've sort of made the forum a sandbox that people can hop into and post quickly without doing the Email Registration Dance. I would have put up a wiki, but my webhost's Fantastico is acting funktastico. There are also forums for a few of the major cities like the 'Ham and Huntsville and Auburn.
The URL is: http://bamagamers.uneasyaccess.com
It currently just redirects to the forums, but the bamagamers subdomain is open in case I want/need to create more of a web presence.
So: BAMA GAMERS
--fje
I'm planning on printing out some flyers to go up in some campus buildings directing interested parties there, put some up in the local game store if they have a board, etc. Also I thought it might be a nice place to talk about a BamaCon type get-together. All of that could be done on ENworld, but I've sort of made the forum a sandbox that people can hop into and post quickly without doing the Email Registration Dance. I would have put up a wiki, but my webhost's Fantastico is acting funktastico. There are also forums for a few of the major cities like the 'Ham and Huntsville and Auburn.
The URL is: http://bamagamers.uneasyaccess.com
It currently just redirects to the forums, but the bamagamers subdomain is open in case I want/need to create more of a web presence.
So: BAMA GAMERS
--fje
Stormborn
Explorer
Heap, I have posted in the "Hi My Name Is..." and am going to try to mention the sight to some other gamers. Maybe we can build support for it. If Ledded and Co. would let you cross post the Medallions Story Hour - as a sample of gaming both set and played in B'ham that would be cool. Maybe some shop reviews or interviews for more local content. You know, Bobby Jackson who does minis for Reaper lives in Helena - that kind of thing might attract attention to the site.
HeapThaumaturgist
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Excellent. Thank you very much for the traffic and the ideas. I've been planning on doing some website building for a while now. I'll eventually remove the redirect from bamagamers.uneasyaccess.com and make it a website with reviews, interviews, maybe some resources for setting games in Bama, etc. Nothing dense, but mostly a content management portal.
Hopefully some content will help to grow the boards into something that'll be a resource for gamers all over the state. Ring a bell for Research_Monkey's current and future publications, other writers and designers in the state, etc.
But right now ... baby steps. Took me 20 minutes to wrangle the board into position and put the proper redirects in place. Maybe I'll use my meager photoshop skills to try and make it look a little custom. Never was much of a visual designer though, better on the theory end of it.
--fje
Hopefully some content will help to grow the boards into something that'll be a resource for gamers all over the state. Ring a bell for Research_Monkey's current and future publications, other writers and designers in the state, etc.
But right now ... baby steps.
Took me 20 minutes to wrangle the board into position and put the proper redirects in place. Maybe I'll use my meager photoshop skills to try and make it look a little custom. Never was much of a visual designer though, better on the theory end of it.--fje
ledded
Herder of monkies
Man, this is great stuff fellas. Thanks for setting that site up, Heap, I posted in one of the forums with a link to the Medallion story hour just to give folks an idea of a typical birmingham game.
Edit: Holy CRAP! Did I read that right? Bobby Jackson lives in Helena? I live off of Valleydale road very near there. I had no idea such miniature sculpting goodness was going on that close to me.
Hmmm... maybe I can sneak around his place and grab some of the new greens and... wait, did I say that out loud? Ahehheh. Never mind
Edit: Holy CRAP! Did I read that right? Bobby Jackson lives in Helena? I live off of Valleydale road very near there. I had no idea such miniature sculpting goodness was going on that close to me.
Hmmm... maybe I can sneak around his place and grab some of the new greens and... wait, did I say that out loud? Ahehheh. Never mind
atom crash
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I too posted over there. I'll try to spread the word among my gaming group about it next week (there's no game this week because the other DM is at Gen Con) and on our messageboard.
You've gotten the site up and running. That's the easy part. Good luck with keeping it going.
You might want to post something about your site on Meetup.com as well:
Birmingham D&D Meetup group
Huntsville D&D Meetup group
Columbus, GA D&D Meetup group (Columbus is right on the state line and about 20 minutes from Auburn; Phenix City is its sister city on the AL side of the AL-GA state line)
Tuscaloosa D&D Meetup group
Decatur D&D Meetup group (Decatur is near Huntsville)
I don't know how active any of those groups are, but there's the links anyway.
You've gotten the site up and running. That's the easy part. Good luck with keeping it going.
You might want to post something about your site on Meetup.com as well:
Birmingham D&D Meetup group
Huntsville D&D Meetup group
Columbus, GA D&D Meetup group (Columbus is right on the state line and about 20 minutes from Auburn; Phenix City is its sister city on the AL side of the AL-GA state line)
Tuscaloosa D&D Meetup group
Decatur D&D Meetup group (Decatur is near Huntsville)
I don't know how active any of those groups are, but there's the links anyway.
Stormborn
Explorer
ledded said:Man, this is great stuff fellas. Thanks for setting that site up, Heap, I posted in one of the forums with a link to the Medallion story hour just to give folks an idea of a typical birmingham game.
Edit: Holy CRAP! Did I read that right? Bobby Jackson lives in Helena? I live off of Valleydale road very near there. I had no idea such miniature sculpting goodness was going on that close to me.
Hmmm... maybe I can sneak around his place and grab some of the new greens and... wait, did I say that out loud? Ahehheh. Never mind
Yeah, he does. My wife has actually worked with him on something else, nongame related. I seem to recall that an issue of Casket Works (the reaper catalog) also mentioned it in one of those wierd little comments onthe margins.
HeapThaumaturgist
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ledded said:
*snif* This is exactly what Bama Gamers was designed to do ... I'm overwhelmed with emotion.
Hopefully by organizing information for and about gaming in Alabama we can get it out to people. I remember when I was an undergrad at Auburn, there just didn't seem to be much in the way of support or organization and most gaming was just happy (or not so happy) happenstance to stumble across a few people who played.LEDDED: When I get the site itself going do you think your group would mind if I placed the story-hour aside as content in the site proper? Drupal has a nice "book" feature which I think would be very interesting for story-hours. Sort of a more full-featured cross-posting/population.
--fje
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