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General Category => Community Conversation => Topic started by: BerkaZerka on February 13, 2015, 08:53:16 am
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GenCon 2015
AW YEAH! Going to GenCon this year! It's been way too long haha! Plus Lady Z and I want some of that authentic Korean cuisine at Mama's Korean Restaurant, where you get to cook your own food on a charcoal grill right in your table! PURE AWESOME! ;D
GenCon will be July 30 – August 2 this year and here’s what I’ll be tentatively submitting (keeping things sane again this year) ^v^
Thursday 30th
1:00pm Dungeons & Drag Queens PCs (http://www.bountyheadbebop.com/forum/index.php?topic=324.0)
You are the glamorous members of the Azure Moon Disco Cabaret - Drag Artists on the eve of a huge Pageant, when things suddenly go crazy and you find yourselves thrown into a fantasy world of swords and sorcery! Can you survive the perils, maintain your dignity, and find a way back to the real world in time to win the big show? (QAGS)
6:00pm Nazi Sasquatch Death Squad! PCs (http://www.bountyheadbebop.com/forum/index.php?topic=299.0)
Nazis in America at the height of WWII? Robbing Fort Knox with a Sasquatch Death Squad? Not if the Bureau of Unordinary Gentlemen have anything to say about it! (QAGS)
Friday 31st
6:00pm Sanitarium PCs (http://www.bountyheadbebop.com/forum/index.php?topic=1576.0)
Dark Gods whisper to the mad, only their fractured minds able to comprehend. It's time to make the world see what you see. Time to make them believe as you do. Time to make them pay for their hubris. (d20 CoC)
Saturday 1st
6:00pm Escape Facility Seven! PCs (http://www.bountyheadbebop.com/forum/index.php?topic=343.0)
Having been scientific experiments all your life, the time has come to throw off the chains of your captors and make a world for yourselves outside Facility Seven! Will you be a hero to many or the pawn of a powerful few? Brutally grim Superheroes in a dystopian New World Order. (BHB Superheroes)
Sunday 2nd
Open for Generics
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Fun! :D Is Sanitarium new?
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Yeah, it's a new d20 Call of Cthulhu Adventure, where you play maligned and abused inmates in the Insane Asylum.
You 'win' by successfully summoning an Elder God to prove to the Administrators that you weren't crazy this whole time. XD
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XD Thats amaizing. XD
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That sounds awesome lol
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I never go to GenCon, it's too far away!... However, I have been a faithful visitor of GaryCon for quite a while now.
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That's cool. Though one hasn't lived until they've been to the biggest gaming convention in the world at least once haha!
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Shame its an 8 hour drive.
And that i dont have a car, lol.
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6 hour drive for me haha!
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35 hour drive for me, give or take a few hours. 9 hours 35 mins flight...
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35 hour drive for me, give or take a few hours. 9 hours 35 mins flight...
holy Fark. XD
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Forge drives 35 in the fast lane with his left turn signal on! ;D
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Forge drives 35 in the fast lane with his left turn signal on! ;D
you forgot that is in the WRONG fast lane, I do it into oncoming traffic :)
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That's cool. Though one hasn't lived until they've been to the biggest gaming convention in the world at least once haha!
Drakoblare would probably argue the opposite. XD
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That's cool. Though one hasn't lived until they've been to the biggest gaming convention in the world at least once haha!
While video games may not be a sport, they sure do host an epic convention.
Sadly I won't be going since I'm to poor/lazy/ect... ::)
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GenCon is mainly RPG, Larp, Miniature, Card, & Board Games (though they do have a decent Electronic Gaming too). 8)
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How often do you LARP, BZ? XD
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How often do you LARP, BZ? XD
The movie Madagascar was not computer generated, it was BZ and his friends larping
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I tried it once when I was in college. XD
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I tried it once when I was in college. XD
It was a strange time, full of experiments.
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I regret that some of them did get away. ;D
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The movie Madagascar was not computer generated, it was BZ and his friends larping
XD.
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Got our Badges and Event Tickets in the mail today! ;D
Can't wait!
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Tell us how it goes, ha ha!
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I will - though it is still a month away ... ;D
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While video games may not be a sport, they sure do host an epic convention.
Sadly I won't be going since I'm to poor/lazy/ect... ::)
so cant call myself a jock? *gasps* :'(
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I think you get a lifetime pass for having you own 'dumb things I do' thread LOL! ;D
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;D
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Getting everything ready for leaving on Wednesday Morning! ;D
All I really have left to do, besides packing, is writing out my Sanitarium Notes into an actual Adventure Format haha!
Damn this year is gona be epic! 8)
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You playing in any cool games?
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Tell us how Sanitarium 2.0 goes.
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I'll give a rundown of everything when I get back ;D
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You playing in any cool games?
I hope so haha! But yeah, signed up to play up to two a day, plus what I'm running.
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Phew! Still sorting everything out and not even started packing the dang car yet! Going to be a late night and an early morning. :)
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Phew! Still sorting everything out and not even started packing the dang car yet! Going to be a late night and an early morning. :)
Road trips are fun XD
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Yup, I enjoy my ones down to vancouver, the lil guy made it a lil longer with the extra stops but he behaved like a champ so they haven't been ruined for me yet lol
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I'm still in awe about how awesome dante's name is.
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I'm still in awe about how awesome dante's name is.
There are few better names.
It's a shame he'll probably just be nicknamed Dan.
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There are few better names.
It's a shame he'll probably just be nicknamed Dan.
Don. It'd be pronounced Don-- unless you're saying it "Dan-tay?"
The only Dante I ever knew socially was called Tay by his family/friends.
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I also tried Percius, Marcus-Aurelious and a few others but I was banned from 'classical names that haven't been used in over 1000years..."
I am really bad at phonetics but it is from the Italian Dante so it is pronounced closer to 'Dauntay' if that makes sense to ppl...
I'm thinking he will likely get a nickname as most boys do here but it is pretty short so we are hoping the full awesomeness gets used. Tay isn't bad though.
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I also tried Percius, Marcus-Aurelious and a few others but I was banned from 'classical names that haven't been used in over 1000years..."
I am really bad at phonetics but it is from the Italian Dante so it is pronounced closer to 'Dauntay' if that makes sense to ppl...
I'm thinking he will likely get a nickname as most boys do here but it is pretty short so we are hoping the full awesomeness gets used. Tay isn't bad though.
We don't have enough people named Hercules or Achilles.
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We don't have enough people named Hercules or Achilles.
There's lots. They're just all Belgian.
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Back fro GenCon! Twas a blast for sure! But got to unpack etc, will give a rundown tomorrow evening-ish. ;D
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Woot! Welcome back! ;D
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Woot welcome back :)
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Huzzah. Tell us all about it!
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Glad it was awesome. Welcome back.
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Missed ya berka.
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How was it?
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Looking forward to that. I'll see about going to GenCon next year.
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So, GenCon Indy was a good time overall, but felt different this year; and I wouldn’t say in a good way. The gaming we did was great, but the overall crowd (and it was very crowded) seemed less ‘gamer’ and more… I don’t know…
It just wasn’t the same vibe it has always been for us and wasn’t very inviting, to be blunt.
In fact, Lady Z and I ditched more of the Convention than usual, running 3 out of our own 4 events and being relieved that the last one was a no-go due to a lack of players – because it allowed us to leave early Saturday night. We didn’t even bother returning to the Con for Sunday at all, choosing rather to just relax at our cabin for the day and then go out for our traditional Korean dinner - which was awesome BTW!
Then, we only played in 2 events (other than our own) and 1 of those was a complete failure on so many levels that I think I would have enjoyed a visit to the dentist for a root canal more than I did the game. *shudder
The other game we played in was thankfully, a decent little piece of roleplaying.
As for our own events, what we ran was a blast!
Dungeons & Drag Queens had 7 players; and this year we included a bunch of silly little props (feather boa, silk fan, evening gloves, riding crop, etc) that the players got as their characters found them throughout the adventure. Of note, this group decided to do things backwards, going to the last section of the adventure first and then traversing from there, through the middle, and then on to the beginning last. It was a bit of an oddball approach, but it worked for them haha! Glad to see our BHB group isn’t the only one that does things completely off the rails! XD
Nazi Sasquatch Death Squad also ran with 7 Players and went pretty much according to plan. We had a good time with it and it reminded me of when we played it on CYS. A funny bit during the game was when 1 player had his character steal a car from the airport rental lot, only to have the rest of the team rent a car and be given the keys to the stolen car!
Sanitarium had 8 Players show up, but I could only run for 7 max, so 2 bowed out, leaving 6 players. It was by far the most fun we had at the Con. The idea to incorporate a shared dream worked like a charm and things ran as smooth as they could possibly have gone. All 6 characters survived, having captured a guard to sacrifice at the end. The parting observation of the players, tongue in cheek, was “what this adventure needs is more rape.”
Escape Facility 7 was the game we cancelled, because only 1 player showed up. This was a bit irritating, because all of my games sold out within 30 seconds of event registration going live. So it begs the question of what happened to the rest of the players. But being Saturday evening, 6:00 PM, facing a 5 hour game that I was really dreading the whole time, due to how complex it can get – I was so grateful for the free ‘out’ handed to me on a golden platter. We thanked the 1 player who showed up, gave her all the swag that we would have split with the group at the end of the game, and I even gave her a signed copy of BHB for her trouble.
So, that was the gist of things for GenCon 2015.
Don’t think I’ll ever go back after this. Not that it was bad or anything, just that it no longer felt like ‘my’ GenCon and Origins is 3 hours closer, much more laidback, and more self-contained.
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So I guess I won't go to Gencon next year. Would have prefered you be able to describe a great time all around!
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Sadly many things go this way after a few years, maybe it will pick up though in the future. One day I'll pop down for one of these, my only recent event I could geek at was a fan-con which had a single table for running d&d but I got to meet two truly awesome actors sooo...
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Sad to hear. Glad sanitorium was a blast!
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Glad we could give you a "what not to do" for sanitarium XD
Sorry to hear the con isn't as fun anymore.
Darn kids, ruining everything. XD
The last con we had up here was kinda like that- still great but so many (mostly younger) people hanging around in giant groups. Not playing games or buying merch or meeting celebs-- just sitting/standing around talking to each other.
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So I guess I won't go to Gencon next year. Would have prefered you be able to describe a great time all around!
Are you closer to Indianapolis or Columbus?
If you've never been to a major gaming convention, then it's definitely worth getting to at least once. It's something you'll never forget!
Maybe this year's Gencon was just a fluke thing for us, but as Origins is closer anyway, we'll be hitting that from now on.
Personally, I've always liked Origins better, because GenCon felt so big by comparison. Maybe this year (for us anyway) was the tipping point from feeling 'so big' to being 'too big'.
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Are you closer to Indianapolis or Columbus?
Columbus Georgia is not very far away at all.
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Columbus Georgia is not very far away at all.
Well there ya go - meet me and Lady Z there next year haha! ;D
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This kind of reminds me - have any of you guys actually met IRL?
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Tan and I! ;D
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:P
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This kind of reminds me - have any of you guys actually met IRL?
I met Mark Reed (Thayan); Nestor; and Baboon Bill (Bill Dodds) at GenCon, plus a few others that have posted here in the past. 8)
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Sucks that GenCon got bigger. I guess people who weren't really interested in games showed up because they thought it sounded good, then got there and weren't interested in doing anything. Maybe you just need to start your own convention!
Good to hear the test run with us resulted in Sanitarium being a success.
Also, you have to share more about why the one game was a failure on so many levels.
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Also, you have to share more about why the one game was a failure on so many levels.
Ugh... I'm trying to forget. :P
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Ugh... I'm trying to forget. :P
Could you forget after you tell us? If you had a bad experience you can at least laugh about it! Otherwise you risk some kind of psychological trauma blah blah repression blah blah id, ego blah blah.
I'm curious about it myself.
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You going to be present at this year's Gencon? I'm only about 2 hours away tops. I'd love to meet up and do one of these face to face!
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Probably not going to do a GenCon again, after last year's unsettling offness about it.
But Lady Z and I will still be doing Origins in Columbus regularly (just not this year) :)
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I can make Columbus in just over an hour, so I will definitely have to meet up with you next time you're in town brother.
So what's next for the Penguin? Do you plan on publishing more games in the future or...?
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Probably not. Lady Z and I are gearing up to open another martial arts school this year, so the publishing will be on the back burner - somewhere 'left' of finishing Dungeon Stompage II over on CYS haha!
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Probably not. Lady Z and I are gearing up to open another martial arts school this year, so the publishing will be on the back burner - somewhere 'left' of finishing Dungeon Stompage II over on CYS haha!
Dude that's awesome! I need to get back to training. I have a green belt in Shaolin Kempo Kosho, I've always wanted to push further.
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Definitely worth it, if you have the time and funds for that sort of thing. Might help stave off some of the health challenges you mentioned too.
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Definitely worth it, if you have the time and funds for that sort of thing. Might help stave off some of the health challenges you mentioned too.
Yeah, it really centers me. The problem is, I only of two Teachers in the states that are licensed for Shaolin Kempo Kosho, my instructor I progressed to green belt with is back in Massachusetts from when I lived in Boston for awhile.
After experiencing everything SKK has to offer and what it teaches physically and even spiritually, Idk if i could follow through with anything but that style.
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Honestly not surprised to hear that, based on your level of experience with it, but you can find great schools (and incredibly awful ones) in every area across the U.S.
Style is only one flavor in the martial arts bag of chips. ;)
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I did ameteur golden glove in my teens, Western style Boxing, Hapkido, and shaolin Kempo Kosho as an adult. Learned so much about my own body and its limits.
What style do you guys teach?
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We've taught Tang Soo Do, a traditional Korean martial art, since 1999. We also started a separate MMA program on the side in 2005.
Been around a lot of styles over multiple decades (standup, wrestling, and ground). Having actively promoted both traditional martial arts and contemporary MMA, I am of the opinion that MMA is best for learning how to fight, while traditional martial arts are best for long term betterment of self.
MMA has a relatively small window of viability, usually between the ages of 18 and 25, while you can benefit from traditional martial arts all your life.