Strange gaming & Con traditions

[WayneLigon]

Con traditions: This was for DragonCon, which was the only Con most of use could get to. Go up on a Wed, go to Six Flags or on a tour of the various bookstores, then to 'Sword of the Phoenix'. Go out to eat at a nice place. Generally we'd break up for the con things, and panels and such, then all meet back at the room about 5:00 to go out to a nice place to eat (like Annie's Thai Castle). Sometimes meet for lunch to talk about what we'd seen, where we were going, what games looked cool, etc. The tradition is that each night or lunch, one person pays for everyone, so eventually it all comes around equal.

 

[psionotic]

Hey, Psionotic, who has that Pikachu now anyway?

I snuck it into Tracy's bed during Not-A-Con.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Anyone else have any fun or funny Con or gaming traditions to share?

Well, some friends of mine played a round of Living Death once. This particular round had a real plot bottleneck--unless you asked a specific person a specific question about a specific object while in a specific room, you couldn't solve the mystery.

The object in question was a violin.

Ever since them, I carry a miniature violin in my backpack. If we're ever stuck wondering "what to do?" during an adventure, I pull out the violin and we all laugh.

 

[Larry Fitz]

She replied "He should be easy to spot, let me describe him. He's about 5'10", a little heavy-set, wears glasses, has a beard and mustache, has a slight receeding hairline, is wearing sneakers, jeans and a gaming t-shirt, and has a backpack full of gaming books."

Mom?

We did have a tradition of going to the Safehouse.... but I don't think that's going to work out. We also got tacit permission to use an idea by the 9th level game guys to give away free stuff using a box, a sheet with silly prizes and three oversized dice. I personally try pizza at every new city I go to a Con in, to further my research into the existence and validity of Pizza Nexi...

 

[Wolfspirit]

Since I've only really been to Dragon*Con before (I'd done a couple small one-day things, but nothing major), my group hasn't gotten any traditions yet. However I do say that a tradition will be having the Con pay for our hotel rooms, in the hotel. I'm not walking in downtown Atlanta at 2am after selling CDs for about 16 hours again if I can help it.

 

[megamania]

I have one "tradition" if you wish to call it that. At VT's Carnage Convention they have a wild group that overdo Vampire the Mascrade. Something about seeing several 30+ guys running full tilt outside at 3am is amusing- especially as they tumble down the hillside cursing- Extra XP for the roleplaying of being injured to the one that got a bad sprain and torn lip. Was it a parking meter or a metal post you ran into three years ago?

'course- the con organizers are trying to tone them down a bit now...ruining all of our fun!

 

[Alzrius]

I have a personal Gen Con tradition.

Every year, when the Exhibit Hall opens for the first time, I make sure I'm right there in the very front of the crowd in the middle. Since we can't go in until the metal door goes all the way up, I'll raise my hand and count down (with my fingers) the last five seconds before the door is fully up, and when it is, I flagrantly break the "No Running" rule and rush in, usually to a pre-planned booth selling a must-have product.

I have another one that I wish was a tradition: Once I played a sci-fi RPG game there (can't remember the name for the life of me) where we played the futuristic legions of humans versus a psychotic AI with its own tanks, banded together to destroy...a giant pikachu. We won, since the guys running the demo (the designers of that RPG) fudged some die rolls in my favor since they had to be somewhere else. We killed the yellow menace and I won a free copy of their game.