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JEThetford
Acolyte
USA
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 Posted - 01 May 2008 : 04:56:24
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Originally posted by Neriandal Freit
Memory serves right, Kuje stayed there two years prior.
The Hyatt is a fantastic spot to meet up at due to the fact it's connected three different ways I believe, or rather has three different access points. Main Entrance, through Convention Center and another I can not remember.
I vote for White Shirts and Stickers :D
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Originally posted by George Krashos
I stayed at the Conrad Hilton last year. It was about two blocks away from the Con. Nice hotel.
-- George Krashos
Hey George!!!! I am staying at the Conrad this year!! I need a roomy, are you coming???
Jeff |
The only good Drow, is a dead Drow.
Aaomas Balkrim, Drow Hunter
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monknwildcat
Learned Scribe
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2008 : 22:17:41
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Originally posted by Kuje
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Originally posted by monknwildcat
To previous attendees, how much fun would GenCon be for a 14 yo? I would have loved to have gone at that age! 
Hard for me to answer but he might enjoy the computer demos, uh, some of the other games, etc. I dunno. I didn't really look around to much for things that teens could do....
Thanks, Kuje! I suspect until I get there I can't completely feel the magnitude of the Con. But, from what you just posted, they'll feel right at home.
I just surfed GenCon's site, and, Sage, it looks busy. I'm sure she'll enjoy using you for locomotion.  |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Steven Schend
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
USA
1707 Posts |
Posted - 05 May 2008 : 04:36:24
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Originally posted by Kuje
Well guys, we need to decide this then.....
White name tags on the left shoulder
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black armbands
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both.
I don't care either way, either are fine with me but lets get a concensus before August so we get the supplies together.
Not to disagree with Sage or Lyrna, but I'd have to vote down the black armbands. Any other color, it's probably fine, but black could send a message easily misconstrued in far too many ways.
And as the opinions of many on these boards regarding the 4th edition changes to their beloved Realms are well known, that's another way that the black armbands could be seen as a political statement by WotC and others.
Can we do another color or simply shoot for the name stickers on the shoulders bit? Sorry to sound too sensitive, but as a professional who maintains a working relationship with Wizards, I don't want mine editors to get the wrong idea if they see me wearing a black armband around Gen Con.
If I can find it again, I'll be wearing my metal Forgotten Realms original logo pin to the show. I'd wear the baseball cap with the FR logo on it, but the darned thing's rather uncomfortable and I'd probably lose it.
If I'm the only one who doesn't want to wear the armbands, that's fine; I suspect enough folks have met me in the past to identify me from a few paces and if I'm looking for y'all, I suspect I'll find you.
Steven |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 05 May 2008 : 05:34:49
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| Nah Steven, I was feeling a bit apprehensive about the arm bands but I just didn't want to say anything about it. I'd prefer to just go with the name tags myself. :) |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 05 May 2008 : 07:00:53
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Originally posted by Steven Schend
Not to disagree with Sage or Lyrna, but I'd have to vote down the black armbands. Any other color, it's probably fine, but black could send a message easily misconstrued in far too many ways.
Actually, now that you mention it... you may indeed have a point there. I don't like the idea that this could be somehow misconstrued. Put me down for just the name tags. That fine. |
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Brian R. James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
1098 Posts |
Posted - 05 May 2008 : 14:28:57
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Just to throw out another suggestion…
Everyone attending the convention is going to be walking around wearing the Gen Con badge around their neck, secured in one of those plastic badge holders. It’s simple enough to slip a name tag of some sort into the reverse of the badge holder. If your name or Candlekeep alias were written large on brightly colored construction paper for instance, it would easily be visible at a distance with the badge flipped over. We would just need to agree on a color. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 05 May 2008 : 14:58:36
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| I think it's probably best to stay with the Candlekeep aliases for now. It's largely how we all recognise each other after all, and they're unlikely to be mistaken for other names tags used elsewhere. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 05 May 2008 : 16:32:31
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| Good point about black armbands, although I never really cared what color they are. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Neriandal Freit
Senior Scribe
USA
396 Posts |
Posted - 05 May 2008 : 17:14:10
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We all could go as Naruto wanna-be's and wear head-bands instead?
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
5402 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2008 : 00:12:54
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Hooray . . . I already bought my pass, but I didn't feel official until we had our hotel rooms, but its all good now.
I'm all for the name tags on the arm, but I'm thinking of getting some t-shirts with "KnightErrantJR" on the back so anyone from Paizo/Dragonlance Forums/Candlekeep that sees me can tackle me as I go by.
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2008 : 00:58:33
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| I'm not really good at tackling... so can I just whack you over the head with the specially crafted +5 Staff of the Irritated Moderator I'll be carrying with me? |
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EytanBernstein
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
704 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2008 : 23:40:23
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| Now I'm glad I went with my own name for my nick. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2008 : 23:45:36
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Originally posted by EytanBernstein
Now I'm glad I went with my own name for my nick.
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"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Pasta Fzoul
Seeker
USA
79 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2008 : 04:28:34
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Originally posted by EytanBernstein
Now I'm glad I went with my own name for my nick.
Candlekeep - the only place where it's the famous people who use their real names, and everyone else has an alias |
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Steven Schend
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
USA
1707 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2008 : 01:50:04
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Originally posted by Pasta Fzoul
quote:
Originally posted by EytanBernstein
Now I'm glad I went with my own name for my nick.
Candlekeep - the only place where it's the famous people who use their real names, and everyone else has an alias
And we're all secretly jealous we didn't think of your online nickname first.
Steven |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36781 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2008 : 02:02:17
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Originally posted by Steven Schend
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Originally posted by Pasta Fzoul
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Originally posted by EytanBernstein
Now I'm glad I went with my own name for my nick.
Candlekeep - the only place where it's the famous people who use their real names, and everyone else has an alias
And we're all secretly jealous we didn't think of your online nickname first.
Steven
Not so secretly, for me! I love that user name! |
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2008 : 02:41:53
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Maybe we should elect a standard bearer, who carries around a Candlekeep flag and is the automatic first target of high initiative monsters?
Cheers
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Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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Alexis Merlin
Learned Scribe
USA
115 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2008 : 16:08:33
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| You can put me down as a big "maybe" - I'll be done with Boot Camp by the end of July, and will be living in New England for the first posting, however chances are I'm going to be assigned to a ship and so could well be deployed....it'll be a bit last minute if I'll be able to make it (not to mention arranging the Drive West too) but will hopefully be able to make it! |
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36781 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2008 : 16:18:34
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
Maybe we should elect a standard bearer, who carries around a Candlekeep flag and is the automatic first target of high initiative monsters?
Cheers
High initiative monsters being furry fans, unwashed gamers, and the Man-Faye. |
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EytanBernstein
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
704 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2008 : 00:15:32
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
Maybe we should elect a standard bearer, who carries around a Candlekeep flag and is the automatic first target of high initiative monsters?
Cheers
High initiative monsters being furry fans, unwashed gamers, and the Man-Faye.
I don't know what "the Man-Faye" is but it sounds exceedingly disturbing. [makes note to put them in next monster product]. I picture the 40 year old 300 lbs. male sailor moon from Gen Con a few years back. I guess that might be a Man-Faye.
Ah, I have researched Man-Faye, and s/he truly is disturbing. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36781 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2008 : 02:08:59
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Originally posted by EytanBernstein
Ah, I have researched Man-Faye, and s/he truly is disturbing.
I'm active on another forum, where, a few years ago, I first posted the link to a Man-Faye website. Over the next few months, there were no fewer than three different threads complaining about it! For a couple of years, there were people that didn't trust any link I posted until someone else checked it out.  |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2008 : 03:11:35
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Oh, I remember that. Completely ruined how I looked at Faye Valentine. 
Though, I must admit, I've seen some pretty convincing Spike Spiegel and Jet Black cosplayers.  |
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Neriandal Freit
Senior Scribe
USA
396 Posts |
Posted - 11 May 2008 : 22:56:33
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Thought I'd let some people know that the Marriot at the Courtyard still has rooms avaiable it appears.
My friends and I just booked a room for four people (yes, thats real too. Not booking one for 1 person and putting 4 in there ;))
Here is the linkage
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/inddc-courtyard-indianapolis-downtown/
New question!!!!
How many people here are planning to attend the Midnight Costume Ball? I am as Neriandal Freit, The Guardian. |
"Eating people is wrong...unless it's on the first date." - Ed Greenwood, GenCon Indy 2006 |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 13 May 2008 : 02:34:07
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Originally posted by Neriandal Freit
Thought I'd let some people know that the Marriot at the Courtyard still has rooms avaiable it appears.
My friends and I just booked a room for four people (yes, thats real too. Not booking one for 1 person and putting 4 in there ;))
Here is the linkage
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/inddc-courtyard-indianapolis-downtown/
New question!!!!
How many people here are planning to attend the Midnight Costume Ball? I am as Neriandal Freit, The Guardian.
Ah, so you did get your rooms? At one point, the other night, you weren't sure.
As for the Ball, I have no idea if I'm going..... hmmm. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 13 May 2008 : 02:52:26
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Originally posted by The Sage
There's a costume ball? Neat. The Lady K and I need costume ideas!
Aye, sorry, I forgot to mention it the night we dicussed gencon. :) I never got around to going in 2006, so it completely slipped my mind. As for costumes, that was what my hmmmm was all about. HAHAH. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2008 : 21:06:09
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| Chris Perkins, yesterday, in his online journal, confirmed that WOTC will be at Gencon, btw.. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Edited by - Kuje on 17 May 2008 21:09:08 |
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
6648 Posts |
Posted - 19 May 2008 : 00:46:14
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Just don't forget the golden rule: whenever you see a game designer or author it is really important that you start a conversation with them with the following prefacing statement: "Let me tell you about my character ..."
-- George Krashos
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Steven Schend
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
USA
1707 Posts |
Posted - 19 May 2008 : 02:45:08
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Originally posted by George Krashos
Just don't forget the golden rule: whenever you see a game designer or author it is really important that you start a conversation with them with the following prefacing statement: "Let me tell you about my character ..."
-- George Krashos
Make sure said person is not holding any sharp implements (scissors, pens, forks, knitting needles, and the like) at the time. They may hurt themselves when they run away screaming, should they trip. |
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