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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Humanaut" data-source="post: 4608880" data-attributes="member: 49498">Oh yeah, Geekfest was born 2003 when my high school DnD friends (Iowa City City High class of '89) and i decided we wanted to game together. We figured every other year would not tick off the wives too much since we were shooting for a whole week. My wife loves Ragbrai, so we're good since she wants a week to bike!  One guy lived in close enough to the Lake of the Ozarks that he volunteered to be Point Man and drive there, get the keys, fill the refrigerator with food and beer. Some of us flew in, others drove. Having at least one car to pick up those who flew and to resupply was handy, two cars even better. We found the house online, one of the wives loves to find deals and was super kewl about finding it for us. We kept track of how much we spent on food and drink and at the end of the week squared off the bill. We made a master list beforehand of initial food and drink we wanted, how many cases of beer, bread, meat and cheese, etc. Breakfast and lunch was grab and go, but we planned dinners, and that was fun as we each took one night to cook, to whatever skill we had. Later Geekfests one of the guys would take on the lions share of cooking dinners since he loved to cook! I made sure to bring my espresso maker as the houses don't come with one i've found. Must have Mocha! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> We knew we wouldn't play 24-7 so we bring DVDs, short things like Family Guy, Firefly, Rome. Video games are also a nice diversion for time not playing DnD. The rental is from Saturday to Saturday so we all show up and visit and catch up Saturday, then roll up our PCs. Since we only have the week, we usually start off somewhere around 2nd-4th level (last year was EtCR so we started 6th) and rule of Geekfest was gain 1 level a day. No matter how much we did, that evening before we went to bed we leveled up! So if we started Sunday at 2nd level, then Friday we started at 7th. The 2nd Saturday is for cleaning and getting outta there. One other thing we did was make a poster, one of the guys has access to a large printer at work so he'll print one with bold letters "Geekfest" with all our names on it, maybe some inside jokes or whatever. He's also our pointman so he has it hanging outside when we arrive, then when we're all there we bring it in and use it as a quote board. Whenever something funny or otherwise awesome is said, it goes on the poster. At the end of the week, one of us keeps it. I was last to get married, so for awhile I had them all posted up on my basement walls. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Yes, she still married me! That's all I can think of at the moment. All I can say then is it is SO much fun playing with the ol' gang. I can't wait for July '09 for Geekfest 4 !!! Good gaming all! Edit:  I'll add we don't play at anyone's house, or my place here in our hometown.  Why?  Family.  If their families knew they were in town for a week and didn't visit.  The shame.  :^)  Renting a house means isolation and focus on our gathering.</blockquote>

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