ENWorld Gameday Minneapolis/St. Paul - any interest?

[HinterWelt]

For me, the Source is the better location, so I went and talked to them about hosting a gameday on either Sunday, April 20 or Sunday, April 27, starting at 12:30pm.

Now we just need some people to come and some events to play!

I'll start off the list with:

Round Robin DMing. We sit down, pick a level (fairly low to keep things simple), roll up some characters, and take turns DMing - the entire game is made up on the fly.

I used to live in Minneapolis and attend the Chicago Gamedays. I would suggest pregenerated characters and blocked out time slots. So, have a morning session and afternoon session, slots to accommodate the amount of space you have (with the Source probably 3-4).

Just some suggestions. Glad to see something like this starting up there. Have fun!

Bill

 

[Piratecat]

We've had Boston game days that were one single game for six people, and game days where we filled a house with 35 folks (and could have gone much higher if we had more space.) I'd recommend not worrying too much about logistics to start off. Pick someone's house, or a good game store, and give folks at least a month advance notice to sign up.

Definitely use pre-gen characters and 4-5 hour time blocks.

 

[scholar]

and if it were to happen some time around CONvergence con, I bet I could name two east coasters who might be able to make it out there

 

[Elephant]

@ Winterhelt: The Source is only open from noon to six on Sundays, so we can't really have a morning time slot unless we host it elsewhere.

@ Piratecat: When I played a Round Robin game at Gencon, we just created characters on the fly in the first half hour of the game. It worked pretty well, so I hadn't been considering changing that format.

@scholar: I suppose we could be doing Minneapolis ENWorld Gameday II around then, depending on how it goes.

 

[Primitive Screwhead]

I can only make it on April 27th...

But for Sh&Grs I could bring Paranoia XP and some pre-degenerated characters

However I would prefer to play ...

 

[Firevalkyrie]

I'm down with the Source.

 

[resistor]

I'd come.

 

[mcrow]

Is it possible to do this on a saturday? I think they're open 10 am to 9pm on saturdays.

That way we could meet at 1030, start session #1 at 11am, break for lunch @ 3pm, start session #2 @ 4 and clean up at 830.

 

[Elephant]

@ mcrow: Saturdays are less convenient for me, so I'd really like to stick with a Sunday.

@ Primitive Screwhead: I'll check with the fine folks at the Source to see about the 27th. When I reserved tables, I wrote "20th or 27th", and they called me back saying "We have you signed up for the 20th".

@ everyone: I'm definitely going to run *something* - if a Round Robin DM game doesn't appeal, I'd be happy to run something else. Lone Wolf RPG, Eberron, or maybe something focusing on dragons. I have several scenario ideas

Edit: The 27th is RPGA day at the Source, so they have a shortage of open tables that day. We're definitely on the 20th.

 

[Elephant]

Okay. So far, the following people have expressed interest:

sjmiller
mcrow
morgul97
masshysteria
Firevalkyrie
resistor

Should I sign you all up for the Microlite20 game?

Alternatively, is anyone else interested in running something? It would be nice to have two events available; I'm hopeful that we can get more than half a dozen people together

PS I've updated the first post with date, time, and the Microlite20 event.