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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1045357" data-attributes="member: 813">Well, I knew what I meant. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />By sponsorship I meant that GenCon would recognize that there are individual companies sharing a space so that if next year you parted company with the pavillion you would keep your priority points. (I KNOW how important they are.) But you would still be paying for booth space on your own. The benefit to the pavillion would be the visibility of the pavillion itself. Optimally, Wizards would allow the real d20 logo to be used on the pavillion. (Yes, I know, now I've added another company to the table.)Other things the pavillion could provide is a sales system similar to the art show so people could pay by credit card at even the smallest publisher's booth.I'm imagining a space with limited entry points with the publishers arranged around the edges with center tables for gaming. Pubs would put up posters on the outside to attract customers to find out what's going on inside.There might be a higher fee for getting into the pavillion. This would pay for the privillege of a better spot than you normally receive. It would pay for the lcentral area of the pavillion (the dead/gaming space area). It would pay for the large signs to attract people to the pavillion. Or the individual space in the pavillion might be 8x10 instead of 10x10 with the missing 20 square feet contributing to the common area.Again, this assumes GenCon would honor your priority points, be willing to create a high profile pavillion at the expense of other attendees with more priority points, and be willing to design the layout of the mini-exhibit floor that the pavillion becomes. Oh, and that Wizards allows the d20 system logo to be used.I doubt this will happen. If it isn't in place by Indy 2004, it will never happen because the bigger d20 companies will be too big join with the smaller companies.This idea is already on thin ice, several "major" d20 companies had 10x20 endcaps or larger booths. Optimally we'd want Mongoose (were they a 20x20 peninsua or was it even larger) and the others in the pavillion. The more core d20 companies outside the pavillion, the weaker it is.</blockquote>

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