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Author Topic: Any big announcements at Gencon?  (Read 5199 times)

Gronan of Simmerya

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« Reply #15 on: August 21, 2017, 03:12:11 PM »
Nobody brought me beer. :(
You should go to GaryCon.  Period.

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« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2017, 03:13:58 PM »
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Nobody brought me beer. :(

Go to TravellerCon this year. I'll be bringing a liquor cabinet.
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« Reply #17 on: August 21, 2017, 03:16:34 PM »
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They brought him on board?

I look forward to that project going south then

That's what it took for you to look forward to that project going south?!?

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« Reply #18 on: August 21, 2017, 03:39:45 PM »
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A tabletop boardgame convention.

Bingo. It's been that way for about 10 years.

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« Reply #19 on: August 21, 2017, 07:49:41 PM »
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Nobody brought me beer. :(

Sorry about that - health restriction in my case - not allowed to drink alcohol ever since August of 2012.

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« Reply #20 on: August 21, 2017, 08:34:33 PM »
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A tabletop boardgame convention.

Blurg. I'm sure there are plenty of people here who get off on these things, but I can't deal with them; the few I've checked out have seemed outrageously over complicated and fussy.

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« Reply #21 on: August 21, 2017, 09:27:53 PM »
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SJ Games did a surprise release of the PDFs for Dungeon Fantasy but that isn't new.


Yeah and they had a single copy of the unreleased product there just to tease me with.  Bastards.

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« Reply #23 on: August 22, 2017, 01:07:30 AM »
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Blurg. I'm sure there are plenty of people here who get off on these things, but I can't deal with them; the few I've checked out have seemed outrageously over complicated and fussy.

Lots of different kinds of board games, some are over complicated and fussy, just as many RPGs are but a lot are accessible and well designed.

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« Reply #24 on: August 22, 2017, 01:09:27 AM »
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There was this:
https://deluxetunnelsandtrolls.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/play-the-tt-phone-app-at-gencon-plus-get-a-new-grimtooth-solo-free/
which was pretty cool.

Yeah this looks cool. The intention with Metarcade is that you'll be able to design your own adventures for others to play as well. Look like a cool throwback to the Infocom games and there's already a pretty healthy Twine community out there.

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« Reply #25 on: August 22, 2017, 06:23:44 AM »
After the Ennies, the OSR had a party in the Presidential Suite so big 4 floors of the Marriott were complaining and we got kicked out.
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« Reply #26 on: August 22, 2017, 06:38:14 AM »
So Kiel's Blood and Chocolate and Patrick's Veins of the Earth won at the Ennies.

Kiel got trolled by one Jay Allen on Twitter (shocking!) and here's his response.

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« Reply #27 on: August 22, 2017, 06:42:04 AM »
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So Kiel's Blood and Chocolate and Patrick's Veins of the Earth won at the Ennies.

Kiel got trolled by one Jay Allen on Twitter (shocking!) and here's his response.
And Jeff Rients won for Broodmother Skyfortress and Mike Evans (WrathofZombie) won for Hubris
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« Reply #28 on: August 22, 2017, 06:45:05 AM »
Cool, Mike is a good guy. The OSR is cleaning up this year.

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« Reply #29 on: August 22, 2017, 06:51:47 AM »
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Cool, Mike is a good guy. The OSR is cleaning up this year.

It's more every year. And Stacy from Contessa was the Ennies host.
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