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Thanks for that info, Toras.
I've got a bit of info regarding the next NC Game Day. I'm not quite ready to start a new thread for advertising it yet, but I figured I'd share some of the particulars about the space we're going to be in and our involvement with Trinocon and Gamer:
Following on the great success of NC Game Day III, we are going to again have a partnership with those other groups for NCGDIV. I wanted to be right up front in talking about the fact that our plans previously were to only hook up with these other groups once a year. But it now appears that they will be able to participate on a somewhat more frequent basis than previously thought.
From my perspective, the involvement of Trinocon and Gamer in NCGDIII was a tremendous asset. I know that a good number of ENWorld folks participated in some of the board games they offered, especially those who found themselves at loose ends during some portion of the day due to a cancelled game or a game wrapping up early and so forth. I don't know whether any of you entered the dark recesses of the LAN gaming room but it looked like there was much fun to be had there as well.
The availability of snacks and drinks nearby without having to go all the way down to the first floor was also very handy. The auction/drawing thing was neat and I know that a lot of ENWorlders walked away with prizes there. And, perhaps most of all, there were lots of nice new folks for us to meet and game with who share in our common interest in gaming. With all of that to the good, when Neal asked me about doing something similar for NCGDIV, my gut response was an enthusiastic "YES!"
However, I want to be clear on one thing: You folks did not elect me to the position of "Grand High Poobah of NC Game Days". I kind of fell backwards into being the "lead organizer" of this event when I first said, "We NC ENWorlders should have a game day like those Boston and Chicago guys." and folks responded with "Yeah! So when are you setting that up, Rel?" My point here is that I am only too happy to continue my role in helping to organize the NC Game Days. But I'm not a dictator.
A few people expressed reservations about getting involved with these other groups when the idea was initially put forward. As it happens, I did not overhear a single negative thing about having Trinocon and Gamer there, nor has anyone said anything specifically to me about it being a bad experience. But if you do have such feelings, I'd like to know about it. So either post it here or send me an e-mail.
With that business out of the way, let me give a few specifics about NCGDIV:
We are definately going with May 8 and our time frame will be approximately the same (9 am to 8 pm) in terms of the gaming. I'd still like to do a dinner on the night before and a post game meal of some sort as well since I enjoy having occasional conversations with you folks that don't involve me saying, "Roll initiative."
We'll be in the Talley Student Center as usual but the space we occupy will be a bit different. We have secured a room on the 3rd floor that is reputedly somewhere between the Walnut Room and the Blue Room in size. Additionally, Trinocon will be using some of the same rooms they were in last time (Blue, Brown and Green) but we've agreed to kind of cohabit between whatever room they set up as their RP room (the Blue room I think). What this means is that we're sort of considering our 3rd floor room and the Blue room to be common roleplaying space for both groups and the games can be placed wherever there is space for them.
I'd like for us to use the page that Neal has set up as the sign up area for NCGDIV (that address again is http://ncgameday.dhorizon.org/ ). There are two good reasons for this.
1) It gives you guys greater control and quicker access to signing up to run or play in various games. It means that you are no longer dependant on Henry or me checking the thread, accurately determining what games people want to sign up for and correctly adding them to the schedule. I think this will alleviate some confusion and cut down on errors that inevitably crept into our previous method.
2) It encourages crossover between the Trinocon gamers and the ENWorld gamers. Recall how we had a fair number of folks who were without a game for some portion of the day? Well we're hoping that by having more open access between both groups that there will be plenty of interesting RPG games for everyone. According to Neal, there are a great many folks in Trinocon who are heartily interested in running games and I'd like to see the largest possible pool of games for everyone to choose from.
There will still be a thread here at ENWorld for purposes of advertising the event and obviously you can discuss anything related to it here. I just want to try and keep the scheduling part at the NC Game Day website because that's what it is designed for and it does that job very well from what I can see.
My thinking right now is that I'll start a thread about it somewhere around the first week of March, giving us a solid two months to get things organized. Hopefully this will cut down on us needing to bump the thread every day to keep it visible.
That's all I've got for now. Again, if you have comments or concerns about any of this, please feel free to give them here or e-mail me. I'm really thrilled about how well all the Game Days up to this point have gone and I think that NCGDIV will be even better. Until then, good gaming!
I've got a bit of info regarding the next NC Game Day. I'm not quite ready to start a new thread for advertising it yet, but I figured I'd share some of the particulars about the space we're going to be in and our involvement with Trinocon and Gamer:
Following on the great success of NC Game Day III, we are going to again have a partnership with those other groups for NCGDIV. I wanted to be right up front in talking about the fact that our plans previously were to only hook up with these other groups once a year. But it now appears that they will be able to participate on a somewhat more frequent basis than previously thought.
From my perspective, the involvement of Trinocon and Gamer in NCGDIII was a tremendous asset. I know that a good number of ENWorld folks participated in some of the board games they offered, especially those who found themselves at loose ends during some portion of the day due to a cancelled game or a game wrapping up early and so forth. I don't know whether any of you entered the dark recesses of the LAN gaming room but it looked like there was much fun to be had there as well.
The availability of snacks and drinks nearby without having to go all the way down to the first floor was also very handy. The auction/drawing thing was neat and I know that a lot of ENWorlders walked away with prizes there. And, perhaps most of all, there were lots of nice new folks for us to meet and game with who share in our common interest in gaming. With all of that to the good, when Neal asked me about doing something similar for NCGDIV, my gut response was an enthusiastic "YES!"
However, I want to be clear on one thing: You folks did not elect me to the position of "Grand High Poobah of NC Game Days". I kind of fell backwards into being the "lead organizer" of this event when I first said, "We NC ENWorlders should have a game day like those Boston and Chicago guys." and folks responded with "Yeah! So when are you setting that up, Rel?" My point here is that I am only too happy to continue my role in helping to organize the NC Game Days. But I'm not a dictator.
A few people expressed reservations about getting involved with these other groups when the idea was initially put forward. As it happens, I did not overhear a single negative thing about having Trinocon and Gamer there, nor has anyone said anything specifically to me about it being a bad experience. But if you do have such feelings, I'd like to know about it. So either post it here or send me an e-mail.
With that business out of the way, let me give a few specifics about NCGDIV:
We are definately going with May 8 and our time frame will be approximately the same (9 am to 8 pm) in terms of the gaming. I'd still like to do a dinner on the night before and a post game meal of some sort as well since I enjoy having occasional conversations with you folks that don't involve me saying, "Roll initiative."
We'll be in the Talley Student Center as usual but the space we occupy will be a bit different. We have secured a room on the 3rd floor that is reputedly somewhere between the Walnut Room and the Blue Room in size. Additionally, Trinocon will be using some of the same rooms they were in last time (Blue, Brown and Green) but we've agreed to kind of cohabit between whatever room they set up as their RP room (the Blue room I think). What this means is that we're sort of considering our 3rd floor room and the Blue room to be common roleplaying space for both groups and the games can be placed wherever there is space for them.
I'd like for us to use the page that Neal has set up as the sign up area for NCGDIV (that address again is http://ncgameday.dhorizon.org/ ). There are two good reasons for this.
1) It gives you guys greater control and quicker access to signing up to run or play in various games. It means that you are no longer dependant on Henry or me checking the thread, accurately determining what games people want to sign up for and correctly adding them to the schedule. I think this will alleviate some confusion and cut down on errors that inevitably crept into our previous method.
2) It encourages crossover between the Trinocon gamers and the ENWorld gamers. Recall how we had a fair number of folks who were without a game for some portion of the day? Well we're hoping that by having more open access between both groups that there will be plenty of interesting RPG games for everyone. According to Neal, there are a great many folks in Trinocon who are heartily interested in running games and I'd like to see the largest possible pool of games for everyone to choose from.
There will still be a thread here at ENWorld for purposes of advertising the event and obviously you can discuss anything related to it here. I just want to try and keep the scheduling part at the NC Game Day website because that's what it is designed for and it does that job very well from what I can see.
My thinking right now is that I'll start a thread about it somewhere around the first week of March, giving us a solid two months to get things organized. Hopefully this will cut down on us needing to bump the thread every day to keep it visible.
That's all I've got for now. Again, if you have comments or concerns about any of this, please feel free to give them here or e-mail me. I'm really thrilled about how well all the Game Days up to this point have gone and I think that NCGDIV will be even better. Until then, good gaming!
