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General Chaos / Re: GenCon 2015 and the 6th Annual RPPR Fan Meet-up: The Edition Wars Edition

« on: July 28, 2015, 06:34:21 AM »

The last few months have been madness for me and I haven't had time to check events or plan for gencon at all. The last few years I've had spreadsheets and a heavy event schedule. This year will be very free flowing but should still be fun.

Off to the airport in a few hours. Seeyou all Thursday.

Marik/Josh

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General Chaos / Re: Anyone play X-Wing the Minitures Game?

« on: February 09, 2015, 07:17:37 AM »

Hey Graywalker,

I don't know much about attack wing except that it's based on the same rule set. I have a couple of questions about it, if you don't mind answering.

How playable is the starter set? Can I pick this up and play out of the box or are additional units required?

How do ground units work compared to flying units? Both use the same template set?

Thanks,
Marik

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General Chaos / Re: H.P. Lovecraft File Festival in Portland Oregon

« on: February 06, 2015, 07:50:30 AM »

Tempting... Always wanted to visit Portland. The craft brew scene there is excellent I hear.

I have to goto Vegas in the fall but my dates for that are somewhat flexible. Maybe I'll be able to do this on the way too or from.

Thanks for the heads up Tim.

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General Chaos / Re: Anyone play X-Wing the Minitures Game?

« on: February 05, 2015, 08:34:34 AM »

To Kamen: If you have a friend or two into the game they can help introduce you. If your not a collector and are content playing occasionally with the same ships you can build a competitive squad for pretty cheap.

Nothing wrong with your plan though. Collect the ships that you like and move on from there. Although now is a great time to get into the game with the new Scum and Villiany faction arriving in the next couple of weeks.

To Snake Eyes: The fleet version is called Armada and it is listed for Q1 2015. FFG lists it as "At the printer". Since they do most of thier manufacturing through China its still a little ways out and Q1 may be optimistic.

It looks good but the minitures are unpainted and some require assembly.

I will be sticking to X-Wing as I want to play games as a hobby not assemble and paint. I know others love that stuff its just not my thing. Its work for me. I may buy the core set depending on how playable it is out of the box (It will stay grey and unpainted). If it's not really playable without expansions I'll have to pass.

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General Chaos / Anyone play X-Wing the Minitures Game?

« on: February 03, 2015, 01:14:43 PM »

I'm big fan and was wondering how many RPPR folks are into the game. I'm a huge fan and its much more "affordable" then WarMachine and Warhammer.

Marik

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General Chaos / Re: GenCon 2015 and the 6th Annual RPPR Fan Meet-up: The Edition Wars Edition

« on: January 26, 2015, 08:14:07 AM »

GenCon moves to a randomized system to make housing more fair and evenly distributed, and there are people that are complaining they didn't get the room they wanted because their virtual dice didn't give them a better time.

RNJesus has finally found a way to hate gamers IRL.

I wouldn't have a problem with any of that. I've gotten rooms the last two years with the system without too many problems. This year the three in our group had the following times. I had 19 mins, my friends had 1 hour 48mins,  and 3 hours 30 minutes.

I should have been able to snag a downtown hotel based on my position in the queue. Unfortunately myself and several others were getting error messages when we tried to connect. I hit refresh for 1 hour and 29 minutes until my friend got in on his slot and told me there were no more downtown hotels available.

I wouldn't have complained if I was just given a late time. The problem is them giving me a primo registration time and then saying "yoinK" you can't use this because our system has bugs. That's a little bit of a kick in the teeth.

Luckily I was prepared and have three rooms booked in the downtown core outside the block. So the problem won't stop my vacation or anything it will just hit me in the pocket book for 6 nights hotel outside the block, at a difference in rate of $70 a night. So all in all I should have been able to save $420 but couldn't.

Lastly they messed things up and allowed folks who bought thier badges after the housing block had opened to not need a queue position. So yesterday if you bought your badge at 12:01 you could have skipped the queue times and logged into housing and booked ahead of everybody else who were following instructions.

Anyways thats my vent. It's done with and I'll still have a great time and I won't complain about it anymore. I did put my name in the for a VIG badge today, because the money I would spend on VIG would be approximately cancelled out by the amount I would save by being able to book through the VIG housing block.

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General Chaos / Re: GenCon 2015 and the 6th Annual RPPR Fan Meet-up: The Edition Wars Edition

« on: January 25, 2015, 02:15:45 PM »

I got a 19 minute wait time and then the errors started. Got them for almost 2 hours and by the time I got in all the downtown hotels were sold. This was a pretty common thing according to the gencon forums.

Also there is a rumour that those who bought thier badges after 12 noon today were not queued and could log in and out of housing at thier leisure.

I had other hotels booked downtown outside the block just in case. Looks like I'll be paying for a more expensive room this year .

Marik

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General Chaos / Re: GenCon 2015 and the 6th Annual RPPR Fan Meet-up: The Edition Wars Edition

« on: January 23, 2015, 02:18:39 PM »

Just got my badge as well.

I currently have three rooms reserved that I can cancel. Two at the Sheraton and one at the embassy suites. I'm hoping to get a couple through the block. If anyone strikes out I may be able to help them with a room though.

I did the same thing last year and managed to pass off an extra room to Noah. This is the most stressful part of the Con.

The meetup is still going to be a friday night event this year? I'm not having anything scheduled that night this year. Hated to cut out early last year.

Marik/Josh

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General Chaos / Re: GenCon 2014 and the 5th RPPR Fan Meet-up

« on: July 02, 2014, 02:20:32 PM »

Hey all. 

I was thinking about running a CoC scenario for any RPPR listener who has the time and wants to have some totally non-violent fun.  I am going to run the second half of the Payday scenario, the one that deal with the stolen book after the heist.

If anyone is interested, let me know.

I'm very interested in this. Should we be PM our interest or replying? I'd like to know when it would be asap as I may have to shuffle some events (which I was planning to do anyways because of the meetup).

Marik

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General Chaos / Re: GenCon 2014 and the 5th RPPR Fan Meet-up

« on: May 12, 2014, 01:54:02 PM »

Sunday is event registration day.

Do we have a tentative day and time for the meet up? I'd rather not schedule something over lapping this year.

Thanks,
Marik

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General Chaos / Re: Favorite NON RPG Tabletop Games

« on: May 02, 2014, 09:23:19 AM »

Risk 2210 - My favorite version of the classic and can be played in a couple of hours. The trun bidding dynamic opens a lot of different strategic options.

Dust Tactics -  World War Weird miniture combat game. Fast, easy to play, and fun.

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General Chaos / Re: GenCon 2014 and the 5th RPPR Fan Meet-up

« on: February 25, 2014, 07:29:55 PM »

Hey Guys,

I have an extra room attached to the conference center for the duration of Gencon. It's booked outside of the block and quite pricey. This was my back up room if I couldn't get one through the block. Luckily I snagged a room at the Hyatt through the housing block. So now I have a room at the downtown Marriott that I don't need. I can cancel it at no cost to me but if someone wants a room close I'd be willing to transfer the room to them.

I figured I'd make the offer here before I offer it up at the Gencon forums.

Reply or PM me for details.

Marik

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General Chaos / Re: GenCon 2014 and the 5th RPPR Fan Meet-up

« on: January 15, 2014, 11:39:39 AM »

The game sounds fun to me. I didn't make the meet up last year due to some scheduling issues. I won't make that mistake this year.

I did have the pleasure to meet Tad though. He was running a Better Angels game next to a Reign game I was playing in. Everyone at your table was in stitches laughing Tad, it sounded like an awesome game.

Marik

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General Chaos / Re: GenCon 2013 & The 4th RPPR Fan Meet-Up

« on: September 25, 2013, 12:35:45 PM »

I'm a little late to this thread as I have been super busy since I returned from the con.

I have to say though I had a great time and I will be back next year. I didn't make the meet up due some scheduling problems (along with other problems like leaving my event tickets home).

I did get the chance to meet Tadanori Oyama though. he was running his Oil in the Coffee game on the table next to a few of us playing Reign. I gotta say Tad that had to go over very well. Your table seemed to be having a blast laughing the whole game. It sounded great...

The con definitely helped me and our group who were just returning to roleplaying or just starting. I was looking at different settings and rules and was about to buy Better Angels when I came across Savage Worlds which several players had recommended to me. I was glancing through the book and a guy asked me if I had any questions and I asked a few which he answered. I thanked him and said I was going to pick it up. He responded "I appreciate that". It was only then that I realized I was talking to Shane Lacy Hennesy the author of the book. I also had the pleasure of meeting Steve Jackson, Ed Greenwood, and Kevin Siembieda. Anyways it was an awesome time.


I walked away with the following items if anyone cares

Pathfinder Core Rules
Pathfinder Reign of Winter Adventure Path 1: Snows of Summer
Shadows of Esteren Prologue signed by the artist and one of the designers
Savage Worlds Deluxe signed by Shane Lacy Hennesy
The Wizards Mask signed by Ed Greenwood
Rex Final Days of the Empire (Board Game)
New Dice!

Marik

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General Chaos / Re: GenCon 2013 & The 4th RPPR Fan Meet-Up

« on: August 09, 2013, 10:08:27 AM »

I can drop by for that. I have a break from 5-8 on Friday. At 8 I'm scheduled to play X-Wing at Fantasy Flight HQ but if I miss that I'm not overly concerned.

At 10 I have the Legendary Drunkass Party though. I can't miss that as tickets were $46 bucks and it includes food and drinks.

Marik

Also if anyone cares im going through major pains with regards to my badge and true dungeon tickets right now .

http://community.gencon.com/forums/p/32076/356269.aspx#356269