To Con or Not to Con
Dec. 2nd, 2004 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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jadasc has put out the call for Arisia Gaming. And as those who care about my curmudegonly ways know I have not had the best of thoughts for Arisia in recent years. I all stems from that time I showed up with three 4 hour games prepare (Unknown Armeis, Ars Magica and Nobilis) and was told I'd have to pay for my membership if I wanted to get in. Which I then proceeded to throw a tiny fit and left.I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you want me to provide program you give me the same consideration you give any panelist. Especially since I'm doing 5-10x the work of an average panelist. And Arisia panels tend to be horrible.
Now I trust
jadasc and I have confidence that this year Arisia's promise of complementary memebrship will happen. And I have made references last year that I'd help jadasc out. So I feel rather honor bound to run something.And it seems several of my friends are contemplating running, (head58 and
mgrasso at least. Which gives some impetus for beng there.But what to run? Most of the stuff I run tends to be rather esoteric and who knows if anyone beyond my circle of friends would be interested?
Maybe, and this is a big maybe, what could happen is something more structured. Maybe tied into the still forming 20x20 con idea.
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Date: 2004-12-02 08:20 am (UTC)Run something sort of esoteric and modern occult conspiracy based. Draw off the whole DaVinci Code/National Treasure vibe and show how it should be done.
hmm. It would be cool if the three (or more) of us coordinated that all our games tied together somehow across different time periods or something.
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Date: 2004-12-02 08:23 am (UTC)A multi-part, multi-GM conspiracy game? You task me,
Holy Foucault's Pendulum!
Date: 2004-12-02 08:25 am (UTC)Re: Holy Foucault's Pendulum!
Date: 2004-12-02 08:27 am (UTC)Re: Holy Foucault's Pendulum!
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Date: 2004-12-02 08:43 am (UTC)Although here's a thought: World's Largest Dungeon marathon. We rotate GMs, but the players are in for the long haul. Who can last the longest!?!?
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Date: 2004-12-02 08:53 am (UTC)It's probably related to my horrible urge to play in a regular, hack-n'-slash module of D&D that's been kicking around for the past two weeks.
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Date: 2004-12-02 09:18 am (UTC)Or, I could go dig through my parents' house and see if I can find my copies of the Slaver or Giants/Drow modules. hmm.
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Date: 2004-12-02 09:37 am (UTC)Don't tease me like that,
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Date: 2004-12-02 09:50 am (UTC)...I could be free Sunday.
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Date: 2004-12-02 09:57 am (UTC)D&D3/3.5 or old skool 1st edition?
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Date: 2004-12-02 09:58 am (UTC)But
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Date: 2004-12-02 01:04 pm (UTC)Come on,
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Date: 2004-12-02 09:56 am (UTC)I won't start it till after Christmas, because scheduling is a nightmare between now and then. But sure, I'd do it then.
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Date: 2004-12-02 10:03 am (UTC)Oh, and I'm in on some old school beer and pretzels hack n' slash!
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Date: 2004-12-02 10:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-02 10:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-02 11:09 am (UTC)I'm also a bit too cowardly to run anything at Arisia, but I might try to run something at Vericon, if I can get the darn writing done....
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Date: 2004-12-02 10:26 am (UTC)World's Largest Dungeon?
oooo....I've heard good things about it.
*tempttempttemp*
Keep me on your mailing list.
Tom
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Date: 2004-12-02 12:29 pm (UTC)...and every two hours someone gets voted out of the Dungeon and dragged away by Kobolds to be tortured! This part could be LARPed to the player by the off-duty GMs.
Or, y'know, not.
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Date: 2004-12-02 10:27 am (UTC)Also,
I'm thinking of running Dogs in the Vineyard for Arisia. I might also do Dying Earth.
Tom
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Date: 2004-12-02 10:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-02 12:32 pm (UTC)Regarding your question, I'd suggest running the three games you were going to run last year. They're already prepared, and call it poetic irony or something.