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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Universe" data-source="post: 3048015" data-attributes="member: 8944">That's alright - that's why we just told you. As you'll note, nobody in this thread said "the UMD Gameclub Crew are jerks!" Well, at least not as of the time of the original posts. We did validly note, however, that there has a been a great deal less outreach from your community to ours since the event became TerpCon, rather than a joint ENworld/UMD event. And that's fine - as noted above, you guys are putting in the legwork, and you should be commended for it! However, in order to make it a more inclusive event in the future, we're hoping, as a community, to get a little/a lot more involved--rather than try to horn in on your action, it was suggested that we might resurrect the ENworld game day as a separate event. Certainly no malice toward you and yours.  I think people who frequent an internet messageboard are probably perfecly comfortable raising the issues on that self-same internet messageboard. It's kind of an intrinsic feature of the format.  I can't and won't speak for Xath, but the changing atmosphere of the event may have made it less desirable for some attendees. It's not like she lives in a bubble that prevents her from hearing about the event, even if she did not attend.  Rodrigo's game involved several people from the game club - he wasn't excluding anyone. The simple fact of the matter is that the "exclusion" factor has a lot more to do with who attends the event in the first place, and a lot less to do with who signs up for what games. I know I signed up for Rodrigo's game because it looked like the most fun that could be had in that particular time-slot. I certainly didn't do so out of any attempt to self-segregate. That's not the case at all. As you suggested to Cthulhu's Librarian, I would propose that you *ahem* "get your facts straight." TGC members have been a part of every game I have ever run at your illustrious event - I like to imagine that they had fun, too. My actual assertion was that all the Enworlders at the game day played in my game, which was true. The fact that there weren't enough of them to fill an entire game should give you an idea of how much attendance from our community has fallen.  It's not how many tickets you have. Hell, I've donated in the past so I could get more tickets. It's the fact that you're drawing from the hat, and you're a contestant. It's a fairly obvious conflict of interest. Nevertheless, I don't think we're asserting that you were cheating (I certainly saw NO evidence of that). It's just a little off-putting.</blockquote>

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