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I am trying to make arrangements to attend GenCon. My Van is acting up and I'm not sure if it will make the drive. So I am seeking to share a ride from someone who lives close to St. Louis. I am on fixed income, so I would like to share a room and (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) For anyone interested, I've been running this game, and have put some stuff up on my web page: (URL) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I'm thinking about coming... can't commit yet but if I did I could run a Mechaton session for 4 hours if there was interest. Fun beer and pretzels game. Possibly combine it with the jumping frog game to fill out the track? (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3E5AA9B6.4475D4...ing.com... (...) soon) (...) fire (...) That is an excellent idea. (...) donate (...) and (...) crowd (...) is (...) I am not familiar with K-8, I assume it is basic sets (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3E5AB251.FDB27B...ing.com... (...) on (...) Pirate (...) the (...) Thursday would be a good day for a short orientation game ( four hours or less, small demos) (...) 16 hours divided into (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) A Good Idea. IndyLUG would also be a good candidate for contacting LD, as logic dictates leftover K8 goes to the "localest" LUG. (...) To the same end (and just 'cause it would be fun), I'd like to run a comparison game between Brik Wars and (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) It makes sense for the "most local" person to contact him, so that if K8's are in order, they aren't going to the hinterlands of Canada, say. (...) I've had very positive response from kids and parents about Lego Wars: TSV, and would be (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Sounds easy. (...) Are you refering to people joining in the middle as "picking up" or cleaning up the game in the middle because there's a gap in the sessions. (...) Yes. I suspected you at least might have an interest. I'm not sure it should (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I think we will need multiple boat owners, but I think it would be best to limit it to boats supplied by the organizers so we can keep track easily. (...) Hmm, I'm not sure how well that would work. Such a thing might be best handled by using (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Well, I guess that closes that deal. Of course if we have a firm plan, Steve will be happy to post about the game, which will attract folks. Perhaps we can even get him to donate something for a prize or do something to put his official (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Four, four-hour timeslots each day, but events can take any multiple of 1/2 slots. (...) It could be run as three (or four) successive time slots each as a seperate event, and people woudl be free to register for mutiple adjacent ones or not. (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I would suggest that we develop a web page with our updates so that people can stay up to date on us. And if all the events listed the same URL, we'd have cross-over enthusiasm. But do we really want multiple boat owners? How are we all going (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I shall enquire again. (...) I'm probably game (get it?) for 24 hours of various LEGO events -- organizing/playing/r.../whatever. (...) Sure, but he won't come. Gen Con already told me that they won't cover his room (and he expects travel, (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) When I first approached the event coordinator, I wrote something like "we have run a number of LEGO-related events in the past...." and she took that to mean that I was a LEGO rep and responded with more detail to me than she should have. I (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) That's fair. I had been thinking more along the lines of "Are you already" rather than "Would you consider?" since I figured he was already fairly booked - but I know that sometimes what he's booked for is the Pirate Game. (...) If we had a (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) An into battle game could be run in 4 hours. That might be good the day before the big campaign game. It would be cool to run the campaign game over two days. The other option is to run it longer than 8 hours all at once, but experience from (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) 16+ hours (...) I could fire Steve Jackson an e-mail. He expects to get paid to run the Pirate Game though. I'm not sure how that would run with GenCon. There's also the fact that presumably he's pretty tied up with SJG business at GenCon. (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3E5A5A10.A3E720...ing.com... (...) (snip) (...) set... (...) see (...) an (...) the (...) Evil Stevie's game would take much longer than the normal four hour time slot for an event. Usually (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) It's starting to sound like we can at least staff a partial track; you might want to revisit it with the organizers. At the very least, let's try and get all the games in the same place and maybe try for a consistent time slot. (Room X from (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Hmm, I guess we need to sell it as a "brick gaming track." Which we would probably have to do for trademark reasons anyway. I doubt TLC will "sponsor" the event, though we might be able to get some prizes out of them. (...) I'm becoming (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.gaming)
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