Chicago Gameday - 11/09/02 (now including the Castle Brawl photos link!)

[ejja_1]

Thanks

Deffinatley have too hook up when I get moved Paul, you will be one of the first people to play in the new digs.
Again thanks to Mark, Eric Curt and everyone else who attended it was way cool.

Ejja.

 

[Halma]

Game day was Great

I would just like to say thanks Mark for putting this all together, and having a very successful game day.

Thanks to all of my Players in the 2nd Session. I feel we had a very successful session. All of you are very incredible role-players and I had a great time running you all through my little homebrew. I am very sorry it took so long (12:00 am) hehehe, but I had the best time.

My thanks go out to,

Mark - for putting this all together, and running a good game.
Thalmin - for helping, buying the donuts, and playing
in my game.
DocMoriarty - For not killing me right away, and playing a very good Infiltrator, Now one of my new favorite chars.
Pbartender- Thanks for taking over the Character, and playing him as well as Doc.
Neg Var - for Printing up the sticky name tags, and playing in my game as the Elven Wizy, and staying as long as you did. I hope you didn't get into trouble with your wife last night.
Sebastian - For playing a non speaking Dejy character, which as you said wouldn’t have worked if you weren't tired already. Thanks for also helping during my session. That helped tremendously.
KnowtheToe (CT)...For playing the expert... which should have been a more effective fighter than your dice rolling turned out.
Also My cousin Paul Mandigo for coming all the way from St. Joe Michigan. I hope he gets to read this someday.


Also thanks to all for the great gifts, and prizes. It is very nice to see publishers support our local gaming habits.

Last but certainly not least thanks to Games plus for putting up with my late ass game session...

I can’t wait until the next one.

Halma the Dead Barbarian.........?

 

[thalmin]

You're welcome. I want to add my thanks to Mark and Eric. Thank you Trev and Halma for the fun games I played in. Thanks to everyone else who ran (or prepared to run) a game. And thanks to everyone who attended. I hope everyone had as much fun as I did.

 

[Mark]

What a excellent day!

I had a great time getting the chance to game with so many people that I normally only get to catch online. The castle brawl was a tricky game to pull off and watching as the participants subtly tried to out-maneuver one another was a treat (Congrats to Tim on his victory). I think one of the best parts of these events is when I have the chance to wander from table to table and just peek in on the many gaming styles that people bring to the table. What a blast we had in that pick-up game of Zombies (even though I was incessantly mocked! ) It always amazes me to see the varied ways that gamers can all approach running or playing the systems that we all generally only get to play at home, or occasionally at the bigger conventions. It was great to rejoin Ed and Jason in a game and to meet Paul, Kirt and Miccah. You guys are really fun and inventive role-players. That scenario is going to be much better for the paces you put it through.

Many thanks to give to everyone for coming out to Mount Prospect and spending their day with one another. You're truly a fun bunch of people!

Thanks to Morrus and all of the moderators for putting up with these threads as we coordinated these gamedays three times in 2002.

Thanks to Games Plus for allowing us to take over their whole game room for the day. Thanks to Curt (thalmin) and his partner Jeff (the man behind the curtain). It's a great place to play and we all appreciate it.

Thanks to all of the DMs who volunteer to run games and especially to those who are flexible when we combine a couple to build the full tables and make sure everyone has a good time. It gets a little tricky in the last couple of weeks of the organizing stage, but then the day comes, everyone pulls together and it all comes out well.

Big thanks to NeghVar for his badge design, to Shadowlight for stepping up and producing the badges, WilliamRonald for his on-site help with the drawing, and, of course, EricNoah for donating the additional prizes.

Speaking of prizes... Thank you to all of the publishers who donated prizes to the drawing. The goodwill and new customers that were gained by those donations go along way to cementing your companies in the industry, but even more importantly help to solidify in people's minds just how wide-spread and important our hobby is to our culture. It's always nice to hear the feedback from the attendees when they receive their prizes. Some mention having wanted to check out a company that they hadn't had the chance to check out yet, others are surprized by fine quality across the board of so many smaller or young publishers and most importantly each and every company that donates send a signel to the gamers that play their games how much they care about their customers. Hats off to all of you!

Thanks to all and we'll do it again after the new year!

 

[KnowTheToe]

I want to say thank you to Trevalon for his great morning game. I thoughly enjoyed the game, especially the cheesy flavored text, "I know what your thinkin. Is it magical? Well you got to ask yourself, do I feel luck. Well do ya, do you feel lucky, Punk? It was also fun playing a werewolf.

Not an axact quote, but close enough.

A thanks to Halma for running an excellent afternoon romp saving slaves in Kalamar. I thought he ran a great adventure and gave enough flavor to each character to add a lot of depth to the game. All of the players did a great job with them as well. It was worth getting home at 1 AM. Halma must not have known about my "To Do" list I had for today. I can always rest at work.

Thanks to Mark who, as always, did a great job of organizing the CGD and to all of the publishers who provided products. We poor gamers are always grateful for that.

Great time. I hope we have another in Feb.

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

Well another wonderful gameday has come and gone. I never thought I'd make it through the day yesterday, especially with the two hours of sleep that I got the night--err..morning rather--beforehand while hastily preparing for my first session game. Thank you, thank you, thank you my morning session players! I had a blast running the game; I was scared to death the day and night before, worrying that the adventure was going to be horrible, but you guys really helped make the adventure work well. KnowTheToe, thank you for appreciating the cheesy flavor text in the module--I've looked forward to saying that line since I bought the adventure 3 or 4 years ago! Now for the whole round of thank-yous that everyone else has been doing.

Mark, you're one of my GMing idols and a great guy in general, thank you for organizing this huge event and running a great game in the second session. It must have been good because otherwise I would have fallen asleep!

Eric, thanks for creating this wonderful place where we can get together, talk about games, and meet and game with each other at days like this. Thank you for bringing that huge box of goodies for us, and really, a d20 hardcover is not at all worth my little bit of menial labor helping you carry the box.

Thalmin, thank you to both you and your partner in crime Jeff for opening up your store to all of us hooligans; you're the only gaming store that I shop at, and you will always make me astound myself at how much money will very quickly leave my wallet. And damn you and your Krispy Kremes.....

ejj_1, "I shall call you Christy" You're a great roleplayer and a blast to have at the table!

Everyone who came--thank you! You all helped make this whole event a great day for everyone else!! I hope I have the pleasure of gaming with each one of you someday!

Mark, thanks as always for a masterful job of organizing, and Curt thanks again to you and your crew for hosting -- only a few short months until the next one. Hmmm.... should I run something??

And yes, Eric, you should

 

[Pbartender]

More Thanks...

Thanks to Paul and Omokage for being so thoroughly understanding about not playing Star Wars. Maybe we'll try again next time.

Thanks to Sebastian for including us in a thrilling Supers game... There's nothing like defeating the villains in a gratuitously spectacular display of wanton destruction of public and private property.

Thanks to DocMoriartty for leaving early , and thanks to Halma for letting me step in.

Thanks to Thalmin for a place to play... and excellent pizza.

Thanks to Mark for the organization.

And thanks to both Mark and Eric for a couple of prizes I will most certainly get some use out of.

I hope to see you all again next time.

Now then... back to the Star Wars Iconics.

 

[William Ronald]

Mark, thanks for organizing the game day. It was good seeing you again and I enjoyed the castle brawl -- despite my early elimination.

Curt, thanks for hosting the game day. It was good seeing you again.

Eridanis, thanks for running the Ghost Tower of Inverness. It was fun. I do agree with Eric (who should be thanked for starting EN World) that ours was a rather ornery group. However, I would say that should be expected from characters who are pressed into service.

The prizes were great, and it was good seeing some 43 people. One person new to the Chicago area heard about Games Plus and had no idea about the Gameday and was unfamiliar with EN World. Hopefully, he will stop by the boards.

Mark, I am looking forward to the next game day.

Fayredeth, expect an e-mail from me soon. (Trev will regret this idea.)

 

[shadowlight]

I'd like to throw in my thanks as well. Matty's Call of Cthulhu game was a lot of fun (who could turn down being eaten by a pack of crazed rats while your favorite professor is torn to pieces by Deep Ones?! )

Also, a huge thanks to Mike (mgrasso) for the d20 Modern game. It was hands-down the best modern-genre game I've ever played and up there with my funnest gaming sessions of all time (not to mention a great d20 Modern introduction)! There's nothing like a high-speed boat chase through 1960's Venice to get the adrenaline pumping!

I'll definitely be stealing some of you GMing techniques for my Shadowlight Chronicles game. I hope I can participate in more of your games in the future!


Thanks to all the organizers as well. The trip from Detroit was absolutely worth it!!

- ShadowLight (Troy Gomm) -

 

[Jovah]

Thanks a roo

Add my thanks to the well deserved pile.

Great murder mystery - Kid Charlemagne.
half-shadow demon swordmaker killers -- yummy

"No one fences with the dead."
"I flash him again."
"In order to lay the woman ghost to rest we must steal her panties"
"I have Search up the wazoo!"
"Drop the rat and step away from the shadow."

And the prizes....sweet!

Well worth the trip down from Milwaukee. This was my first
gamesday, but it will definetly no be my last.