So let's talk seriously about scheduling ENWorlder games at GenCon...

[der_kluge]

Um...der kluge? Yeah, I'll go with der kluge!

And you'd be right!! *grumble*

 

[der_kluge]

I'm now looking for 3-4 players for a short game of AssassinX, my new homebrew game. I would like to run it during the day on Thursday, but am open to run at just about any time we can get 3-4 people together for 3-4 hours.

My Thursday morning suddenly just freed up.

 

[fusangite]

Maybe gaming conventions are different than all the others kinds I've been to. If so, I'm SOL. I'm looking forward to gaming with a number of you on this thread. But it's just not my way of enjoying conventions to start figuring out my schedule this far in advance. Hopefully, the situation will be adaptable enough that I can still end up in good sessions.

 

[HellHound]

My Thursday morning suddenly just freed up.

Honestly, Curtis, too frickin' early on the first day of the Con.

How about you and I both prowl the dealer room Thursday morning, and figure things out from there.

I'm looking at noon or 1pm start time, give me enough time to see the Con first.

 

[Ghostwind]

That sounds good if it works for Ghostwind,

Rel,

can you shift my Spycraft 2e DI game to 5ish-9, and make sure d20Dwarf, Ghettognome, and Ghostwind are on the list. I don't recall Tom Knauss' user name, but I swear I was chatting with him in the Oathbound thread the other day... (well, it was someone who claimed to have worked on Wildwood and it wasn't Whisperfoot...)

We can jump in when we're done at the dealer's hall. I'll go ahead and make up 8 or so characters to give folks a choice. Psion, I assume you'll have the 2.0 book by then?

 

[d20Dwarf]

Maybe gaming conventions are different than all the others kinds I've been to. If so, I'm SOL. I'm looking \0\0
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Gencon is certainly different than all other gaming cons. You'll probably find the EN booth helpful in finding games, but there is SO MUCH cool stuff at Gencon that you can find you've wasted half your weekend toodling around...that's why most of the experienced Genconners you'll find actually plan MORE every year, not less.

And if not planning Gencon is tough, PLANNING your Gencon is a very tough art that takes a lot of experience. I've planned some real stinkers in the past, but luckily I think I'm past that. It'll take a couple of years just to figure out what you like, and then another couple of years to figure out that you don't *really* like half that, and things you'd overlooked are the most fun.

 

[Rel]

Maybe gaming conventions are different than all the others kinds I've been to. If so, I'm SOL. I'm looking forward to gaming with a number of you on this thread. But it's just not my way of enjoying conventions to start figuring out my schedule this far in advance. Hopefully, the situation will be adaptable enough that I can still end up in good sessions.

That's cool. I know that I'm a little anal retentive about scheduling stuff like this (which begs the question of why I can't keep my goddam office more organized! ). But I would humbly suggest that you look over the list of events (either here or official GenCon events) and perhaps pick maybe one or two that you definately want to be involved in and sign up for those. Then the remainder of your schedule could loosely revolve around those points.

It's a little like how I might plan a trip to New York. I might know that I generally want to visit some museums and the Statue of Liberty, but I DEFINATELY want to see a Yankee's game, which I can only do on a particular Thursday afternoon and see a concert in Central Park that is scheduled for Saturday night. The rest of the stuff can fit in whenever but I'd have those two events as fixed points in my itenerary.

I'm a GenCon virgin so I'm mostly talking out my ass here, but I would point to a recent post by Eric Noah who said:

Part of me thinks "Come on, man, it will be fun!" But the reality of it is that last time I went I spent 75% of the time just wandering around with nothing to do (though the other 25% made up for it).

See, I don't want that to be me. Iwant my whole trip to be the 25% that "made up for it". At this point my schedule is PACKED but it is packed with FUN. I'm going to be gaming almost non stop and when I'm not I'll be spending most of my time at parties with ENWorlders or manning the booth. With the 10% of my leftover time I'll try and find somebody to cruise the floor with and see the sights. I fully expect to come home exhausted and "gamed out" but I don't get to hang in person with all the cool folks of ENWorld every day and I intend to do as much as I can within the scope of my time at GenCon.

I don't want to show up to GenCon with hands eager to milk every drop of fun I can from the experience only to find that all the "fun udders" are occupied!

 

[DaveStebbins]

Honestly, Curtis, too frickin' early on the first day of the Con.

How about you and I both prowl the dealer room Thursday morning, and figure things out from there.

Yeah, I decided to leave all day Thursday open for the dealer hall, art exhibits, auction and just generally wandering around with a big grin on my face.

-Dave

 

[derbacher]

Yeah, I decided to leave all day Thursday open for the dealer hall, art exhibits, auction and just generally wandering around with a big grin on my face.

-Dave

Well, the RPGA slots pretty much dictate my schedule, but I did leave one slot open each day Thur thru Sat. I have to run during the Ennies though.

But hey, it's a free badge and hotel room, so I'll live with it!

 

[Psion]

We can jump in when we're done at the dealer's hall. I'll go ahead and make up 8 or so characters to give folks a choice. Psion, I assume you'll have the 2.0 book by then?

Well, if nothing else, I'll hit the dealer's hall first thing in the morning.