Chicago Gameday XV: Thanks for the memories
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Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
w00t!!!11!!! Had a lot of fun running my first slot game! What a team of dwarves that handled The Taking of Giant's Reach! Plenty of role and roll, all around the table, and great teamwork! 
All the tables are in use for slot two and not too many empty seats, though a half dozen more players would have nearly packed the house.
Thanks to Mark and Curt, to all of my players, and to all of the other sponsors, supports, and gamers who helped make another gameday, yet another great gameday!
(The lunch from Kent was an added pleasure. Thanks, buddy!)
All the tables are in use for slot two and not too many empty seats, though a half dozen more players would have nearly packed the house.
Thanks to Mark and Curt, to all of my players, and to all of the other sponsors, supports, and gamers who helped make another gameday, yet another great gameday!
(The lunch from Kent was an added pleasure. Thanks, buddy!)
Nev the Deranged
First Post
And good times were had by all!
Great fun, guys. Thanks to Buzz & co for organizing and to Plus for hosting, and of course to our intrepid GMs. I got to die by poison and wrestle giant mutant space bears all in the same day! Rock!
Looking forward to next year.
Great fun, guys. Thanks to Buzz & co for organizing and to Plus for hosting, and of course to our intrepid GMs. I got to die by poison and wrestle giant mutant space bears all in the same day! Rock!
Looking forward to next year.
Barendd Nobeard
Explorer
Mark CMG said:Thanks to Mark and Curt, to all of my players, and to all of the other sponsors, supports, and gamers who helped make another gameday, yet another great gameday!
(The lunch from Kent was an added pleasure. Thanks, buddy!)
Any time!
I had a great time at the Gameday--it's good to be back after missing so many of them. Thanks to Games Plus for hosting, Buzz for organizing, and all the GMs for running games. I had a blast in TracerBullet's Ghostbusters game (where my character was the "best game designer ever'"), and we managed to save Fruitdale, SD (which did, however, involve venting radioactive gas over the town for 45 minutes) in Bill's Supers, Inc. game
Some sad news, though. Rob (TracerBullet42) won a copy of Synnibarr and then promptly gave it to me. Don't we have enough horror in America's dairyland?!?!!
And in even sadder news, I was forced to promise that I would run a Synnibarr game at one of the 2007 Chicago gamedays. The future players of said game (three players have committed to play in this game--or maybe they should just be committed?!) made me promise to have flying grizzly bears with laser beams shooting out of their eyes.
Oh, the humanity!
Trevalon Moonleirion
Explorer
Another successful gameday has come and gone. Damn that was quick!
Many thanks to our gracious hosts at Game's Plus (and at the same time, damn you for having a good store that makes me empty my wallet!)
Buzz, our gameday planning guru--you rock. This is probably the best organized gameday we've had in several years. (I especially dug the pictures in the planning thread).
TracerBullet42, thanks for running a great little ghostbusters game--and for putting up with our...interesting.... style of play. To my fellow Ghostbusters? Wow. Just...wow. What a blast. I look forward to gaming with you all again. Ze ghostbusters....ve vill ride again, ja!
The small gang who joined me for a wild romp through Chinatown--thank you. It was a blast for me, and I really hoped you enjoyed Feng Shui. I'm just sorry I couldn't give the game the treatment that *I* got when I was introduced to it (you just can't argue with a game run by Piratecat), but hopefully you at least got a bit of the flavor of the game.
Speaking of Piratecat, big thanks to him--he introduced me to Feng Shui at a gameday many moons ago, and his game (and the character sheet I still had from it) were vital inspiration for me. If my game had a bibliography, he'd be at the top of the list, alphebetizing be damned.
To all of the wonderful folks who brought prizes: THANK YOU. There seems to be more and more GOOD swag every single gameday, and this was no exception.
To everyone: because I'm dead tired and afraid I've missed someone important--thank you!
Hopefully I'll see you guys at the next one. This was a great day, and was well worth the 120 mile trip home from school.
Many thanks to our gracious hosts at Game's Plus (and at the same time, damn you for having a good store that makes me empty my wallet!)
Buzz, our gameday planning guru--you rock. This is probably the best organized gameday we've had in several years. (I especially dug the pictures in the planning thread).
TracerBullet42, thanks for running a great little ghostbusters game--and for putting up with our...interesting.... style of play. To my fellow Ghostbusters? Wow. Just...wow. What a blast. I look forward to gaming with you all again. Ze ghostbusters....ve vill ride again, ja!
The small gang who joined me for a wild romp through Chinatown--thank you. It was a blast for me, and I really hoped you enjoyed Feng Shui. I'm just sorry I couldn't give the game the treatment that *I* got when I was introduced to it (you just can't argue with a game run by Piratecat), but hopefully you at least got a bit of the flavor of the game.
Speaking of Piratecat, big thanks to him--he introduced me to Feng Shui at a gameday many moons ago, and his game (and the character sheet I still had from it) were vital inspiration for me. If my game had a bibliography, he'd be at the top of the list, alphebetizing be damned.
To all of the wonderful folks who brought prizes: THANK YOU. There seems to be more and more GOOD swag every single gameday, and this was no exception.
To everyone: because I'm dead tired and afraid I've missed someone important--thank you!
Hopefully I'll see you guys at the next one. This was a great day, and was well worth the 120 mile trip home from school.
HinterWelt
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Like wise, many thanks to the everyone involved. This was my first Gameday and my first contact with the Chicago gaming community and it was great. Buzz was very friendly (as was everyone else) and did a great job organizing. Supers Inc. was great and the team of death dealing supers "retired" a few undesirables saving the day for all. Next year I might have to run Squiirel Attack! since I seem better known as "That Squirrel Guy".
Thanks everyone,
Bill
Thanks everyone,
Bill
buzz
Adventurer
I'm sitting in my jammies recovering from Gameday, as usual. I keep having this nagging feeling that I ought to be prepping something...
First off, you are all very welcome. Gameday rocks, and I love helping make it happen.
Anyway...
Thanks as usual to Curt and the crew at Games Plus. Is this a great venue, or what?
Thanks to our volunteer GMs: Mark CMG, Pbartender, Reidzilla, Sqwonk, TracerBullet42, Trevalon Moonlerion, William Ronald, and first-timers (and hopefully future-timers) HinterWelt and Tim C Koppang. Without you, Gameday would be a bunch of people sitting around, wondering why they brought their dice.
Thanks to the players in my morning D&D game: spacepirat3, Gwen110, Yort, bigznak, Tekkmage, and Donna, our audience of one. Tekkmage: sorry about killing yoour bard. Mostly.
Thanks to the players in my afternoon Burning Empires game: Nev the Deranged, Tim C Koppang, and petenik. Having a chance to run this teh r0xx0rz RPG was awesome.
Big thanks to everyone who donated prizes! We had a HUGE lot this time around, spiced up by all the bright and shiny books from HinterWelt. It's always nice to see everyone go home with something.
And, of course, thanks to everyone who attended. I hope that you all had fun and will be back for future Gamedays.
First off, you are all very welcome. Gameday rocks, and I love helping make it happen.
Anyway...
Thanks as usual to Curt and the crew at Games Plus. Is this a great venue, or what?
Thanks to our volunteer GMs: Mark CMG, Pbartender, Reidzilla, Sqwonk, TracerBullet42, Trevalon Moonlerion, William Ronald, and first-timers (and hopefully future-timers) HinterWelt and Tim C Koppang. Without you, Gameday would be a bunch of people sitting around, wondering why they brought their dice.
Thanks to the players in my morning D&D game: spacepirat3, Gwen110, Yort, bigznak, Tekkmage, and Donna, our audience of one. Tekkmage: sorry about killing yoour bard. Mostly.
Thanks to the players in my afternoon Burning Empires game: Nev the Deranged, Tim C Koppang, and petenik. Having a chance to run this teh r0xx0rz RPG was awesome.
Big thanks to everyone who donated prizes! We had a HUGE lot this time around, spiced up by all the bright and shiny books from HinterWelt. It's always nice to see everyone go home with something.
And, of course, thanks to everyone who attended. I hope that you all had fun and will be back for future Gamedays.
buzz
Adventurer
Pictures!
You can check out all of these in embiggened format over on Flickr. Like an idiot, I managed not to take pictures of my games. I blame, I dunno, somebody else.
The prize table. Curse you, Synnibar, curse you!
Morning minis painting: Sqwonk, Shadowbane2, KnidVermicious, Kid Charlemage
Hero's banner author Tim C Koppang. Astrocat, Pbartender, and rvalle behind him.
Hero's Banner: Tim C Koppang, William Ronald (foreground), rvalle (background), pvt. patterson, Nev the Deranged.
Iron Heroes: petenik, Thorindale, Pbartender, Astrocat and ken-ichi.
Ghostbusters: TracerBullet42 is GM, Reidzilla is in the foreground. On the left, from rear to front, is Nazriel, Sarraunna, and waterdhavian; on the right, Trevalon Moonlerion and Barennd Nobeard.
Giant's Reach, left to right: Cyberknight's arms, Vyvyan Basterd's wife, Vyvyan Basterd, Mark CMG, socpsychguy, pucky, Dogreboy. Mark's giving me the secret DM hand-signal for, "Yes, I'm going to kill them all."
A Firefight! map from my Burning Empires event. No minis necessary, and the numbers all mean something!
The whiteboard from the same event, detailing some key NPCs and factions. Note that Synnibar is not the only game with giant mutant death bears. Take THAT, McCracken!
Afternoon Jupiter City: Reidzilla, pvt. patterson, ken-ichi, waterdhavian, Sharraunna, Nazriel, Kelleris.
Seven Winds: Dogreboy, Vyvyan Basterd's wife, Vyvyan Basterd, William Ronald, Cyberknight, Shadowbane2.
Feng Shui: Yort, Trevalon Moonlerion, Pbartender, and Shane L. BOZ didn't show until a little later.
Fruitdale, SD: HinterWelt, Barennd Nobeard, ssocpstchguy, Rakur.
"Pinapples" galore: spacepirat3, bigznak, TracerBullet42, rvalle, his buddy, and gperez1234.
You can check out all of these in embiggened format over on Flickr. Like an idiot, I managed not to take pictures of my games. I blame, I dunno, somebody else.
The prize table. Curse you, Synnibar, curse you!
Morning minis painting: Sqwonk, Shadowbane2, KnidVermicious, Kid Charlemage
Hero's banner author Tim C Koppang. Astrocat, Pbartender, and rvalle behind him.
Hero's Banner: Tim C Koppang, William Ronald (foreground), rvalle (background), pvt. patterson, Nev the Deranged.
Iron Heroes: petenik, Thorindale, Pbartender, Astrocat and ken-ichi.
Ghostbusters: TracerBullet42 is GM, Reidzilla is in the foreground. On the left, from rear to front, is Nazriel, Sarraunna, and waterdhavian; on the right, Trevalon Moonlerion and Barennd Nobeard.
Giant's Reach, left to right: Cyberknight's arms, Vyvyan Basterd's wife, Vyvyan Basterd, Mark CMG, socpsychguy, pucky, Dogreboy. Mark's giving me the secret DM hand-signal for, "Yes, I'm going to kill them all."
A Firefight! map from my Burning Empires event. No minis necessary, and the numbers all mean something!
The whiteboard from the same event, detailing some key NPCs and factions. Note that Synnibar is not the only game with giant mutant death bears. Take THAT, McCracken!
Afternoon Jupiter City: Reidzilla, pvt. patterson, ken-ichi, waterdhavian, Sharraunna, Nazriel, Kelleris.
Seven Winds: Dogreboy, Vyvyan Basterd's wife, Vyvyan Basterd, William Ronald, Cyberknight, Shadowbane2.
Feng Shui: Yort, Trevalon Moonlerion, Pbartender, and Shane L. BOZ didn't show until a little later.
Fruitdale, SD: HinterWelt, Barennd Nobeard, ssocpstchguy, Rakur.
"Pinapples" galore: spacepirat3, bigznak, TracerBullet42, rvalle, his buddy, and gperez1234.
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William Ronald
Explorer
I would like to thank Curt, Jeff and everyone at Games Plus for being such gracious hosts. Also, I would like to thank Buzz for organizing the Gameday.
I would like to thank Tim C. Kopang for running his game, my fellow players at that game, and the people who played with me in the event that I ran. Also, thanks to everyone who ran events, as I know it takes a commitment of time, talent, and heart. It was also fun seeing old friends and meeting new people.
So, let's look forward to the nest EN World Chicago Gameday!!!
I would like to thank Tim C. Kopang for running his game, my fellow players at that game, and the people who played with me in the event that I ran. Also, thanks to everyone who ran events, as I know it takes a commitment of time, talent, and heart. It was also fun seeing old friends and meeting new people.
So, let's look forward to the nest EN World Chicago Gameday!!!
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