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Post by scalydemon on Mar 13, 2013 17:51:37 GMT -6
I salute you.
Please post pics and/or game summarys etc.
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Post by rjkuntz on Mar 13, 2013 18:06:42 GMT -6
I'll probably post a synopsis of each adventure into LCotE, but not wanting to give away too much of its mysteries, they'll be short ones.
"For those [PCs] who are about to die, we salute you!"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2013 19:52:35 GMT -6
As a Gary Con referee,
"Your tears of impotent rage are sweet, sweet nectar upon Crom's lips, little man!"
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Post by Aplus on Mar 13, 2013 22:03:32 GMT -6
I get to play in games run by both of you fine gentlemen, and am very much looking forward to it!
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Post by scottenkainen on Mar 16, 2013 9:53:24 GMT -6
I was only there for Friday, so I'm back already.  It started out rocky for me and my girlfriend, Megan. We got there late, just after 10, and then could not even find the game we had wanted to play at 10. We wound up having to kill lots of time in the open gaming area. We found that: Blokus is boring with just two people. We invited this nice guy named Stephen to play Tech Support with us. Stephen's complaint that the game was too random to use strategy had merit, but a game that didn't require too much thinking hit the spot for me and Megan just then. Megan and I played Gold Digger one-on-one. I liked it. At the Black Blade booth in the exhibit hall, I got to scold Allan Grohe for doing his pre-gen generating at the last minute before his Castle Greyhawk game. Also in the exhibit hall, we got to play a really fun demo of a brand new board game called Hirelings: the Ascent. I really liked it, though at $35 I thought it was awful pricy for what you get in the box. By 2 pm, we were back on schedule, playing Dungeon! with David Megarry. Megan and I played different boards so we both had a chance to win, and then both lost anyway. Though, to be fair, my superhero had to sit out because of traps half the game and I was still second closest to winning. David found Megan's feedback valuable because she had just played the brand new version of Dungeon! after playing on the original board last year and she preferred the original board to the busier new one. At 4, we were offered the chance to play in the Caverns of Thracia game, but when I said we could only play for five hours the offer was rescinded. That seemed like a fair time investiture to me, but it was just as well because we had a good time playing Chainmail. It was Megan, me, and Allan Hammack playing the British, hopelessly outnumbered by orcs in a strange but compelling mash-up of Zulu and Lord of the Rings. Harold Johnson stopped by and I got to talk to him too. At 7:30 we took a late dinner break and were starving waiting for our pizza. We had skipped eating in the Lodge's restaurant last year, fearing it would be too pricy for us, but splitting a pizza two ways was quite reasonable and the pizza was good. At 8:30, I was set up to run a pick-up game of Hideouts & Hoodlums in the open game area. After 15 minutes of waiting and no one showed up, I discovered that some other people had picked up a ridiculous 18 people for a game of Werewolf just a half-hour earlier and had swept the open gaming area clean. I got to hand Ernie Gygax some printouts of the Castle Greyhawk webcomic I write. I stopped by Rob Kuntz's Lost City of the Elders game to listen in, but the room was so noisy I couldn't hear anything going on at the table. I was offered a chance to join the EPT game of The Jakallan Underworld, in progress, at 9. I was psyched and would have played, even though it would have meant driving home from midnight to 1:30 am, but Megan was worn out and wanted to go soon. Instead, we returned to open gaming and tried playing Fluxx and then played a game of Munchkin with a huge deck of new (to us) cards. We left at 10, with some wonderful memories and determined to come back next year. Bonus content: Ways to know when your girlfriend is a gamer chick - When she hears that Noble Knight Games is selling the new Dungeon! board game, and she offers to give up our dinner budget so we could buy it. When her favorite moment at the con was playing Chainmail, when she still thought we had a chance of winning before the orcs swarmed over our second defensive wall. ~Scott "-enkainen" Casper |
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Post by Finarvyn on Mar 16, 2013 14:00:58 GMT -6
Very cool, Scott! Every year around this time I kick myself for not attending. Heck, I can't be more than 2-3 hours away at the most. I just keep having family things that pop up. |
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Post by Falconer on Mar 18, 2013 21:31:16 GMT -6
Marv, I go up every year on Thursday night after work, and get back to Chicago in time for work the next day (hopefully in time for a little sleep first!). It’s worth it, man. I think the drive is only an hour and a half each way.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Mar 19, 2013 0:20:57 GMT -6
Sounded fun! I would have loved to play Dungeon! with Megarry himself! Sweet!
And who was the d-bag who said that 5 hrs wasn't enough?! Five isn't enough of a commitment anymore? *puzzled face*
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Post by Finarvyn on Mar 19, 2013 4:15:57 GMT -6
Marv, I go up every year on Thursday night after work, and get back to Chicago in time for work the next day (hopefully in time for a little sleep first!). It’s worth it, man. I think the drive is only an hour and a half each way. Maybe next year we can hook up and you can drag me there kicking and screaming. I know I'd enjoy the thing, but somehow it just doesn't get planned. |
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Post by thorswulf on Mar 19, 2013 7:27:48 GMT -6
Sounds like you had a great time. One thing about living on the west coast is that there are not as many cons, and honestly raising a family cuts into what little time I do have for gaming. I usually save up my ducats for Enfilade! our big wargame convention. I help John McEwan set up his Reviresco tables, and play a few games, connect with folks I haven't seen for a year and so on.
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Post by scottenkainen on Mar 19, 2013 8:23:40 GMT -6
>And who was the d-bag who said that 5 hrs wasn't enough?! Five isn't enough of a commitment anymore?<
Caverns of Thracia was being run as an 8-hour event. If forced to put on my empathy hat, I'd guess he didn't want to adjust the power scale of the encounters for the last three hours after being used to having two extra players.
But, yeah, the situation struck me as wrong. I would have loved to have had two players show up for my game.
~Scott "-enkainen" Casper
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Post by Falconer on Mar 19, 2013 11:31:02 GMT -6
Maybe next year we can hook up and you can drag me there kicking and screaming. I know I'd enjoy the thing, but somehow it just doesn't get planned. Mark March 27, 2014 on your calendar, now.  |
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Post by welleran on Mar 19, 2013 13:28:57 GMT -6
But, yeah, the situation struck me as wrong. I would have loved to have had two players show up for my game. I've been to the past 4 Garycons now and never had anything like that happen. I like to think there was a good reason, but it is certainly not the norm, in my experience. As always, a great time! |
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Post by Falconer on Mar 19, 2013 13:41:41 GMT -6
At my first LGGC, my wife and I played in a game run by Bill Silvey that lasted probably about 10 hours, split into at least 3 sessions. That was cool — we got to really establish a rapport with the group, and to really get into the meat of his dungeon. So I guess don’t find it hard to understand someone wanting to run a group that made a longer time commitment. Of course, LGGC had a much looser format — I don’t think there were formal time blocks per se.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2013 15:56:06 GMT -6
So what do some of you buggers look like, anyway?
Friday was my "Death March" day at Gary Con. Playing "Siege of Bodenburg" from 8 to noon, running "Return to Ram's Horn Castle" from 2 to 6, and "Battle on the Ice" in CHAINMAIL from 6 to 2 AM.
*dead*
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Post by increment on Mar 19, 2013 18:32:26 GMT -6
So what do some of you buggers look like, anyway? I was the guy wearing the pork pie hat and glasses who looked like he spent most of the Con waiting for something. True story. |
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Post by chrisj on Mar 19, 2013 20:43:25 GMT -6
Michael, your Ram's Horn castle game was great. We had a lot of fun. If anyone has an opportunity to play in one of Michael's games, do it.
--Chris (tall guy from Minnesota)
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Post by welleran on Mar 20, 2013 9:36:45 GMT -6
I am tall and handsome, or so says I!
I was running a game of AD&D Thursday (1000-1400) and a game of Jutland in the lobby area the same time Friday morning.
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Post by Aplus on Mar 20, 2013 11:13:53 GMT -6
So what do some of you buggers look like, anyway? Friday was my "Death March" day at Gary Con. Playing "Siege of Bodenburg" from 8 to noon, running "Return to Ram's Horn Castle" from 2 to 6, and "Battle on the Ice" in CHAINMAIL from 6 to 2 AM. *dead* I was the dude with the funny hair that played in your Ram's Horn castle game on Friday, complimented you on your fine-quality OD&D books, and bullshirtted with you for a spell late Saturday night. It was great meeting and playing with you. I'm really glad you made it to the con, and I hope you enjoyed yourself. |
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Post by scottenkainen on Mar 20, 2013 12:34:54 GMT -6
I was the bald guy next to the hot-looking blonde.
~Scott "-enkainen" Casper
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Post by stormberg on Mar 20, 2013 21:07:29 GMT -6
Howdy All, Fantastic Gary Con, as always, thanks to Luke, Chris, Dale, Jeff and son Bryan especially, and Harold. Special thanks to all of my Legends of Wargaming VIP referees: Tim Kask (Classic Warfare), John Bobek (Action on the High Seas, Little Wars), Bill Hoyer (Diplomacy, Sturmgeschutz & Sorcery), Jim Ward (Sturmgeschutz & Sorcery), Jon Pickens (Remagen Bridge), David Megarry (Dungeon!), Mike Reese (Tractics), Mike Carr (Fight in the Skies, Don't Give Up the Ship, Giant Le Mans), and Michael Mornard (Chainmail). We had an amazing line up of games (20 in all!) and an amazing turn-out for players - nearly 300 convention participants played in Legends of Wargaming events! Extra special thanks to Mike Reese (co-author of Tractics)! In the crush of new events for this year the all of the infantry and much of the equipment for Tractics and Remagen Bridge still needed assembly. Mike sat down with modeling supplies and proceeded to put together dozens of tank, artillery, and infantry models. (If you can picture the characters from The Matrix using their superhuman movement speed to assemble plastic models then you have it.) He had a great time talking tanks and the old days with Ernie Gygax, Michael Mornard, Rob Kuntz, Bill Hoyer, and John Bobek. Great to see old friends get together. The Jousting Tourney was better than ever with participants from 6 to 76 years old. Nearly one hundred knights participated with the Red Knight Champion being Harry Maltsby and the Black Knight Champion (only Gygax family, TSR folks, or Gary's gaming buddies from the 60s and 70s) was Mike Gygax (Heidi's son). The Gygax family turned out in raucous numbers as has become a tradition with them and the joust was on. Cheers for Sir Mike and Jeers for Prince Harry (Sir Harry didn't seem right to this herald) was the course of the match until Harry's supporters chimed in at the close match. A well ridden championship ended up with a close victory for Prince Harry and a very honorable Black Knight Sir Mike. In the end, all cheered as the trophy helm was passed from two former tourney champions, and Black Knights, Luke Gygax and Jon Pickens (TSR). So without further ado here is the photo album of Legends of Wargaming events:  Viking Raid - Chainmail Man-to-man - Paul Stormberg        Battle for the Moathouse - Chainmail Fantasy - Paul Stormberg    Jousting Tourney - Chainmail Jousting - Paul Stormberg    Battle on the Ice - Chainmail Historical - Michael Mornard    Don't Give Up The Ship - Mike Carr   Dungeon! - Dave Megarry    Iron Bottom Sound - Action on the High Seas - John Bobek   Little Wars - John Bobek    Classic Warfare - Tim Kask    Remagen Bridgehead - Jon Pickens     Siege of Bodenburg - Siege of Bodenburg - Paul Stormberg        Sturmgeschutz & Sorcery - Sturmgeschutz & Sorcery - Jim Ward & Bill Hoyer              Tractics - Mike Reese    |
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Post by rjkuntz on Mar 20, 2013 22:16:53 GMT -6
What? No comments? A fantastic array of miniatures games and people. I wish that I had not been so busy with my own events and the D&D Doc. I would have played in any one of them (except the BftMoathouse--twice w/that already). Great stuff as always, Paul. "Tanks" for the memories!
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Post by scalydemon on Mar 20, 2013 22:59:51 GMT -6
Did wargames out number RPG games at the CON overall?
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Post by fullerton on Mar 20, 2013 23:35:22 GMT -6
RPGs outnumbered wargames. Guesstimating 2.5 rpgs for every 1 wargame. The rpg halls combined had probably 3x as many tables as the wargame hall, and the wargame hall got pretty vacant after 10 pm or so. That said, I had a total blast in both types of games. Top notch referees, DMs, and GMs, all around. Best convention I've ever been to. I learned a lot, got to talk to a bunch of great people, and I hope to return next year. There are well over 100 photos in my Gary Con V set: www.flickr.com/photos/63744171@N07/sets/72157633035192971/Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get a package ready to send to Rob |
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Post by rjkuntz on Mar 21, 2013 0:24:36 GMT -6
Great bunch of pics, Sir Guy! You will be rivaling the current pict-master, John Bobek, in no time!
I am currently on 500 words of my GC5 write-up. I'll post the link here to the blog-post soon enough.
It was great gaming and cavorting with you and Josh!
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Post by rjkuntz on Mar 21, 2013 8:48:47 GMT -6
So what do some of you buggers look like, anyway? I was the guy wearing the pork pie hat and glasses who looked like he spent most of the Con waiting for something. True story. I hope you played some games while waiting, Jon! I ne'er got to play, except for one with Grodog at our room that I have now titled, "Nasal Assault". |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2013 22:13:20 GMT -6
Rob, I hope you get to play more next year.
Playing TRACTICS with Mike Reese was a BLAST!!
....actually, since my T-34/76 took 9 penetrating hits in one turn, yeah, it was.
(Playing Russians as though they don't have radios and have two-man turrets is a real challenge. I wouldn't have missed it!!)
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Post by rjkuntz on Mar 21, 2013 22:54:03 GMT -6
Yeah, Michael! You were able to relate briefly, as we were both on the run, how you became a hero of the Motherland! Great stuff. One of my greatest highlights of the convention was, in fact, reuniting with Mike Reese. We dined at the Next Door Pub and talked at the con as much as I could, exchanged contact information and are talking about chumming to a wargame convention or two. Like old times! BTW: My convention report is up at my blog (see my forum here for the link).
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Post by tog on Mar 22, 2013 9:08:14 GMT -6
Aaaaah! Sturmgeschutz & Sorcery! WOOT. So who won? Is there an AAR somewhere? The EHP's pet looks like it had a sorry meeting with the Nazi's halftrack... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2013 11:43:29 GMT -6
So what do some of you buggers look like, anyway? I was the guy wearing the pork pie hat and glasses who looked like he spent most of the Con waiting for something. True story. Since no one else has yet asked: what's the rest of the story? |
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