Are you planning on participating in Worldwide D&D Gameday 2007?

[Treebore]

Had a lousy turn out, but had fun with those who did show up.

It was a bummer when I told them they couldn't join my home game since I live an hour away.

It was nice that they still wanted to join even though my system at home is C&C.

We did discuss a once a month game session. So that may happen.

 

[Teflon Billy]

I held out to assemble a group of folks who had never played D&D before...just asked people if they were already D&D players. Anyone who said yes got sent off to another table.

It went pretty well with the noobs all things considered. I mean, they were dumb about things like AoO and kept asking which dice to roll...but what noob doesn't do that?

What seemed good was that the group--following othe lead of a dude named Sean who had played a lot of HERO system supers--made efforts to actually treat their characters as more than "Pieces on the Board". Tactically, they started playing safe pretty quick...and it worked for them. Readied actions to defend the spellcasters, charge as necessary.

It's standard but it worked for them.

They made it through without dying, yelled a lot, argued over treasure and highfived each other after kills.

I gave everyone their mini and copy of the 3.0 Player's Handbook (I picked up a few for basically nothing at a used book store where I was trading in a pile of stuff).

I have no idea if I brought anyone into the game, but the seemed to enjoy themselves a lot...that's always seemed to be the first step to me.

 

[megamania]

I held out to assemble a group of folks who had never played D&D before...just asked people if they were already D&D players. Anyone who said yes got sent off to another table.

They made it through without dying, yelled a lot, argued over treasure and highfived each other after kills.

I gave everyone their mini and copy of the 3.0 Player's Handbook (I picked up a few for basically nothing at a used book store where I was trading in a pile of stuff).

I have no idea if I brought anyone into the game, but the seemed to enjoy themselves a lot...that's always seemed to be the first step to me.

So far Teflon I believe you lived up to the spirit of the Game day the most. Kudos man. Kudos.

 

[RodneyThompson]

It's called Dubious for a good reason- it doesn't exist! Somebody is scamming wotc for swag and this is at least the second year that they have gotten away with it. Here's a local board where we talked about this-

http://www.knoxgamers.org/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,2/func,view/id,5131/catid,14/

Freaking bogus. Man, when I was living in Knoxville (from September '98 until February of this year) we had so many game stores come and go. There was KGB on the Strip for a while (where I rant 2nd Edition and the first couple of years of 3rd), then the Round Table (where I got started on Star Wars d20), and then the Gameboard stores in the mall. When I left there was a place in Knoxville Center called Sci-Fi city that had a huge gaming area, I can't believe they didn't have anything going.

 

[CharlesRyan]

I held out to assemble a group of folks who had never played D&D before...

Absolutely awesome. Great job!

 

[Teflon Billy]

Absolutely awesome. Great job!

Hey thanks

 

[mhensley]

Freaking bogus. Man, when I was living in Knoxville (from September '98 until February of this year) we had so many game stores come and go. There was KGB on the Strip for a while (where I rant 2nd Edition and the first couple of years of 3rd), then the Round Table (where I got started on Star Wars d20), and then the Gameboard stores in the mall. When I left there was a place in Knoxville Center called Sci-Fi city that had a huge gaming area, I can't believe they didn't have anything going.

Sci-Fi City and Gameboard (now called Nords, or as my wife says- "Nerds") are still there but neither of them have ever supported D&D gameday as far as I know. I only see minis games played at Sci-Fi City. I've never seen anyone play a rpg there.

 

[Scott_Rouse]

I held out to assemble a group of folks who had never played D&D before...just asked people if they were already D&D players. Anyone who said yes got sent off to another table.

It went pretty well with the noobs all things considered. I mean, they were dumb about things like AoO and kept asking which dice to roll...but what noob doesn't do that?

What seemed good was that the group--following othe lead of a dude named Sean who had played a lot of HERO system supers--made efforts to actually treat their characters as more than "Pieces on the Board". Tactically, they started playing safe pretty quick...and it worked for them. Readied actions to defend the spellcasters, charge as necessary.

It's standard but it worked for them.

They made it through without dying, yelled a lot, argued over treasure and highfived each other after kills.

I gave everyone their mini and copy of the 3.0 Player's Handbook (I picked up a few for basically nothing at a used book store where I was trading in a pile of stuff).

I have no idea if I brought anyone into the game, but the seemed to enjoy themselves a lot...that's always seemed to be the first step to me.

Thanks for doing this Billy.

Aside from the story I was told about the guy who gave CPR to the granddad who dropped in the store yours is the best. Real good of you to do that!

 

[Glyfair]

Absolutely awesome. Great job!

I agree. I would consider this for next year, but we never really had brand new players at either store I frequent. We did have quite a number of "I haven't played since AD&D" players though.

Next year I might arrange an ad in the local paper's "What's going on this weekend" section (as I pretty much am in charge of the organization of the smaller store's event). Unfortunately, WotC has been hit or miss in confirming support for some events and I can't count on getting the stuff until it arrives at the store just a week before the event (one year we never got the pre-event banners and such and weren't sure we'd get the event stuff).

Next year I'd love a two-tier event. A "introduction to D&D" event for the newer players and a "classic event."

One of the things that the first one seemed to push was "everyone plays the same scenario around the world." The scenarios have been lacking for that. The first year used the Eberron adventure from the back of the campaign setting, that a lot of people had been through. The others before this year were pretty bad. This year's I thought was OK ,although there has been a lot of criticism of it. Because of that, a lot of places didn't use the scenarios and instead used their own.

I personally would like to see the next Village of Hommlet, Steading of the Hill Giant Chief or even Tomb of Horrors come out of this event. Something memorable that players can really share their experiences for years to come. Of course, DMs will probably need more like 2 weeks to properly prepare.

As a note, next year the first Saturday of November is the 1st. The day after Halloween seems perfect for a very atmospheric adventure.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Thanks for doing this Billy.

Aside from the story I was told about the guy who gave CPR to the granddad who dropped in the store yours is the best. Real good of you to do that!

No problem, it's not like those 3.0 Players Handbooks were doing anything on my shelf