NC Game Day XIII (April 21-22): aka "Mini-GenCon"


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Dremmen said:
It seems that if a running tally was developed and listed either on the website, or here, of the players signed up versus the DM/GMs/Games signed up, it might be helpful. A ratio maybe - that way if we have a 2:1 Players signed up to DM ratio, maybe a few of the DMs would want to play instead of run to get that closer to say 4:1 (giving room for walk ins).

Or simply a tally - if we had 9 games confirmed and 22 players confirmed, maybe DMs could rethink whether to play or run.

Generally speaking this is a self correcting problem. If we have a ton of games being run and not enough players, you'll see that number of games shrink until we have the right fit. If somebody wants to track it and post the numbers here then feel free.
 

Agreed - it's mostly self-selecting. You start with lots of games, and some get dropped as time goes on. The GMs who drop their games end up selecting the other unfilled games. Everyone wins!

I just re-registered after the crash. Once I have GM access, I'll add my games.
 
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I just submitted my game for the Saturday 3-8 time slot:

The Fall- January 2036

WRAL-News at Five-- "…and now the top story of the night. Officials at the U.S. Department of Energy have announced that the Shearon-Harris nuclear power facility in Raleigh, NC has been granted permission to begin construction of the first nuclear fusion reactor in history. They have complied with all safety measures, including the construction of a 50ft. earth and stone wall that completely surrounds the plant. Officials say that this one facility could power the entire southeast for…… oh god….. this just in! A large meteor has impacted the Pacific. Reports indicate a tidal wave approximately one mile high is threatening the entire Pacific Coast…."

From the private journal of Dr. John Packard, Kennedy Space Center-- If only it was one. In a few hours, the first impact will hit the Pacific. Projections show that the damage to nations bordering the ocean will be catastrophic, but the world could still recover from that one impact. Soon, they will find that the meteor is only one part of a much larger rock. Who would have thought that the comet would shatter Ceres or that the debris would head towards us….

From the Diary of Senator Ralph Dole-- I guess we’re lucky in that it will not all hit at once. While the debris will play merry hell with our satellites, it will take nearly a year for it all to fall and calculations show that the largest pieces should enter a stable orbit. God, the devastation! Civilization cannot, will not survive, but maybe humanity will. If only Congress has not slashed the last appropriations bill. Those power sats could have turned the rocks away…

After the Pacific strike, pieces of rock, some the size of baseballs others houses, peppered the entire Northern Hemisphere. Much of western society collapsed. Even the US with its mighty ability to deal with natural disaster could not begin to deal with the damage and loss of life. It did not take long for the cities to fall into barbarism as the food and water stopped. The South and Midwest of the United States seceded to avoid having to provide relief to the North and West and civil war erupted soon after.

In the Middle East, a brutal war began, and ended, in a few short hours as Israel, India, and Pakistan proved their nuclear capability. Few survived the nuclear exchange to see another meteor devastated the region.

China, too, suffered an attack as the Russians attempted to move south. The Russo-China conflict lasted for a few short months, until a scattering of small meteors ripped into the region.

The final rock fell in late 2036 impacting the Atlantic Ocean. While not as large as the meteor that fell into the Pacific, it had the same effect. In most areas, the ocean spread two, three hundred miles inland. However, the Outer Banks of North Carolina helped alleviate some of energy of that final strike…for a while, Raleigh, was beach front property.

Even so, the rains were incessant, and little sunlight broke lighted the devastated world. And it grew cool on a world gone dark…

The Roads have birthed a nightmare. Can your group of ragged refugees make it inland? Rumors tell you that the nuclear power plant, Shearon-Harris survived. A garbled military transmission indicates a food cache in Dunn.

Can you avoid the Eaters? Can you survive the Long Road?
 

Henry said:
YEE-HAW! Rel must be a psion, because I was just thinking about this earlier today!

For anyone interested, I will be running "The Fire Giant King", an AD&D expedition, as the final chapter in the Against the Giants Series. Those who want to see Rath, Arkayn, Silverleaf, Aggro, etc. meet their end... er, I mean, end the threat to the Lands of Mankind, are welcome to sign up. I'll post when the registrations open.

I'm also thinking of running a game Sunday as well, perhaps Arkham squad, or perhaps something in the Feng Shui vein.


I'd like back in to reprise my "role" as 'Sister Rebecca'. :)
 

Rel said:
Morgenes fixed a lot of stuff today and (obviously) added back the GM field. Post here if you have any further problems with any aspect of the site.

BTW, during a LONG, BORING deposition today I came up with my Sky Galleons adventure that I'm going to run this time around.


I hope he fixed the slow loading of the main login page. It ran slooooow for me the last time.
 

So, when I tried to add my game, a weird error page popped up saying there was some kind of PHP error... I tried to reload the page, but the error persisted. Then when I went to the "My Events" page, I had 2 instances of my game!!

Is it possible for Rel or Morgenese to delete one of the instances, since I only intend on running Halfling Musketeers once this Gameday?

Thanks!
 

Similar thing when I was adding characters yesterday -- it gave a PHP error, but added the character anyway. :)
 

Henry said:
Similar thing when I was adding characters yesterday -- it gave a PHP error, but added the character anyway. :)

By the way, I posted my game for the 3-8 slot and I am going to take you up on that giants offer.
 

Belen said:
By the way, I posted my game for the 3-8 slot and I am going to take you up on that giants offer.

Woo-hoo! And stay away from those diseased Floridians, this time! ;)

...or get a pre-emptive blood transfusion from Alenda, who seems to kick butt at disease immunity AND alien-fighting... :lol:
 

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