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In lugnet.fun.gaming, James Seibert writes:
> > I was specifically refering to a relationship in which a LEGO gaming area • was
> > set aside for the whole con and games were kept running in all 14
> timeslots.
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> I don't know if we could set aside a single room, but I know we could set up
> a semi-permanent display in the minis room similiar to MageKnight and
> Columbia Games demo set-ups. If we could find a good number of volunteers to
> GM. The area could run concurrent games a BrikWars and continuous pirates
> games. I will try to find more information about setting aside a room.
When you're talking about a room, you mean one of the small rooms at MWEC on
the second floor where they traditionally have ~14 RPGs running? Or a small
ballroom at one of the hotels? Or what? A corner of the big room might work
quite nicely. The "minis room" is the left half of the board-game room, right?
I think I'm revealing which half of the room on which I spend more time :-)
> You know, a small lockable room for storage would do just as nicely as a
> large room. My big problem at a con is set-up time.
Well, I'd rather leave islands and ships and terrain and stuff all set up all
the time rather than having to pack it up into some locked room. The hours
that the dealers room is open would suffice and that has fair security in
place. I guess that would cost an arm and a leg tough.
> The cost of GenCon would be another factor and the distraction of so many
> other activities to get involved with in a short period of time. I am
> partial to gaming in general and always view GenCon as a gambler views
> Vegas, overwhelming and addictive. There was a booth last year that demo'd
> the Bionicle card game and gave away masks for the avatars.
I've been wondering why LEGO doesn't have better presense there. Why not open
a temporary LIC or outlet or something for the con. Even without support,
they'd sell stuff. But if they also had a fleet of us AFOL/gamers "working"
for them, running games of all kinds, it would really promote their brand
generally, and specifically breed gamer-maniacs.
I have personally played with the idea of selling minifigs, elements, and
terrain modules of LEGO at a con with displays and demos of how to make it
work. They'd be in a much better position to pull it off.
> I would hope so. I brought my figs and material for terrian to last years
> GenCon. We played D&D d20 and had a blast.
Do you advertise in the book that you'll be using LEGO models, etc.?
Small group of two sessions.
> Someone else had a Lego set-up last year, a small graveyard and chapel,
> undead versus ninja. I did not get the persons name and the game was done by
> the time I finished my game.
I'll be keeping my eyes opened. I'm pretty sure that I saw a LEGO pirate game
at gen cone five years ago and that it was one of the contributors to my dark
age ending. I never had a gaming dark age. Actually, this will be a landmark
GenCon for me -- my 20th (having missed only '94 since '81 because my son was
due (the little punk was two weeks late and I could have gone!)) and the final
Wisconsin event.
> Have you seen the large scale Silent Death game? The ship models are
> approximately 6 to eight inchs long and about that wide. I believe we could
> do that in Lego.
Right! That's exactly the kind of thing that would show people that LEGO is a
real alternative to other modeling media. You can't get the precision, but
it's all reusable. More people than active AFOLs would appreciate the things
about The Brick that we take for granted.
By the way, I've added lugnet.lego.direct to this since I think it's relevant,
but I've set FUT back to .fun.gaming so that our conversation doesn't stray
over there for too long. If anyone's responding to this with stuff that should
go to them, set the headers appropriately.
Chris
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| (...) Yes, the Pirate Game needs to be able to be left set up. At a minimum, this allows set up the night before. (...) TLC will need structural changes to be able to run booths at events. Such things need to be staffed and they just don't have it. (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.gaming)
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| "Christopher Weeks" <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote in message news:Gs3oH2.FyJ@lugnet.com... (...) area (...) up (...) to (...) on (...) small (...) work (...) right? (...) :-) You are good man. I would prefer one of the medium sized rooms similiar to (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.gaming)
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| "Christopher Weeks" <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote in message news:Gs3C8x.2wJ@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) There (...) times (...) was (...) timeslots. I don't know if we could set aside a single room, but I know we could set up a semi-permanent (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.gaming)
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