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Christopher Weeks wrote:
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> In lugnet.pirates, Frank Filz writes:
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> > I'm not sure if it's worth chucking just because we only have 6 players.
>
> If we can put something together with 6-10 players, I'm still wildly interested
> in playing. But the nature of the thing changes substantially.
Does anyone have a large living room or family room which most of the
furniture could be moved out of? For 6 players or so, a 15x30 living
room would probably work decently (the space we were in at Brickfest was
probably really only about 20x30, perhaps a bit larger).
It may also be worth finding out what the cost to rent the store space
would be. If it was 200ish dollars, 6 people chipping in $30 or so each
would basically cover it (and we can skip the free pizza etc). Perhaps
we could split the cost of the space with the store, and the store owner
can get various traditional games going in one half, and we run the
pirate game in the other half. Then, if Steve Jackson could be enticed
into coming on his own, that would be super cool. The other possibility
would be to have Steve run an GURPS or other Steve Jackson Games game
for a session or two, and then charge everyone who attends the mini-con
$5 or so, and then an additional $25 for the Pirate Game. 50 people at
$5 plus 8 people at $25 would be $450 which might be close enough.
What we're basically fighting is the fact that a FAN SF or gaming con
can not really fund guests just by charging admission for the events
featuring those guests. The reason a con can get folks to pay is that
they are willing to pay for a weekend of fun with a large number of
fans. The panels or game events are an important draw, but they
generally don't pay for themselves. In other words, cons mostly only
work using the socialist model.
Now a media con (Star Trek or whatever) can make itself pay, but that is
largely because the fan base is MUCH larger than a literary SF con or a
gaming con.
> I think it depends on their goals. It will be hard to get 30 hours of
> piratefesting in at Brickfest because there will be so much other stuff to do.
> I know a couple who fly to London for dinner once a year. My mind boggles at
> the conspicuity of the consumption, but whatever. My point is that for some,
> flying to the NYC area isn't that big a deal. Another option would be to push
> it back even closer to Brickfest so that visitors could make a longer vacation
> of it. I'm not sure how that works for the rest of us, but it might actually
> be better. (eg Frank, you could do Piratefest, head up to Boston for a few
> days, and back down to DC for Brickfest.)
Closer together in that time frame is probably bad for me. We have a
product release in the July time frame. Well separated weekends should
be easy to take, but two weekends back to back might not work too well.
> Oh, and the carpet is that short dense commercial stuff in a neutral color...it
> isn't blue.
The carpet need not be blue of course.
Another venue might be a local high school or so, though we probably
couldn't get all night access, and they would probably still want some
money.
Perhaps it's time for me to check into the possibility of using our
church. Of course that would put the 7 hour drive onto more people, but
it would also mean that my entire collection could be available. There
would be no problems at all crashing at the church. The venue would
still cost money, but it would be a modest amount. Raleigh Durham
Airport is a well connected airport with reasonable cost fares from
anywhere in the country (and I think we have some European flights, or
connecting down from NYC or DC wouldn't be too bad).
> For a less formal thing, we could meet at my house and sail on the lawn!
> Actually, that's a dumb idea for a pirate game. But our property (1.7 rocky
> wooded acres) has great terrain for land-based brickwars type events. Hmmm...
Steve has run the game outside, though on an outdoor carpeted area at a
hotel. Perhaps someone could manage to acquire an old carpet. Of course
if we have a rainy weekend, we're screwed, not to mention that I would
have a lot to deal with wrto avoiding sunburn.
Outdoors also has a much higher potential of loss of little fiddly bits.
Frank
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