by Coopstrom

jdscorch wrote:

pekin2121 wrote:

Sudukob wrote:

First time attending the con. I hope there’s open gaming space. I didn’t want to get locked into a schedule, so I didn’t sign up for any games.

I'm guessing there will be plenty of open gaming space. While the Con isn't using even close to the available space at the Double Tree (over twice as much as the Crowne Plaza) this year; there will be more total Con space than there was last year. Which seemed like a lot of open gaming to me.

I certainly hope there is at least as much or more open gaming than there has been, if not, they will have really dropped the ball. If there really is only 20 open gaming tables that would be a big problem, and far less than they had previously. Let's hope that is wrong.

I remember tables being almost always full in the open gaming area in the previous location, my group this year is planning to spend at least 1/2 our time there this year.

by latindog

As with yesterday's question, I am very hesitant to criticize someone else's play of a given character. I certainly don't feel that everyone who plays a character class must conform to all the stereotypes of that class or, conversely, break new ground in avoiding all the cliches.

As a GM, I am always excited when someone chooses to play a character class whose magical powers derive from an external source of dubious nature. I tend to cook up interesting ideas for divine patrons of sorcerers, oracles and witches and tease little hints of how the source of these powers might be problematic. Sadly, the demands of the campaign plot and just general time pressures outside the game have meant that I cannot recall any particularly worthwhile narrative payoff for all of these threads. This is not a matter of the player handling their class poorly - it's more of a dissatisfaction with how I've been unable to really develop a narrative involving this kind of character.

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by jdscorch

pekin2121 wrote:

Sudukob wrote:

First time attending the con. I hope there’s open gaming space. I didn’t want to get locked into a schedule, so I didn’t sign up for any games.

I'm guessing there will be plenty of open gaming space. While the Con isn't using even close to the available space at the Double Tree (over twice as much as the Crowne Plaza) this year; there will be more total Con space than there was last year. Which seemed like a lot of open gaming to me.

I certainly hope there is at least as much or more open gaming than there has been, if not, they will have really dropped the ball. If there really is only 20 open gaming tables that would be a big problem, and far less than they had previously. Let's hope that is wrong.

by pdzoch

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by pdzoch

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This previously seemed to pop up as an issue on people's first attempt to post in a thread. We've now also had it happen to people who already posted in their OOC once or twice. It's pretty disruptive and is alienating some of the newbies as they get frustrated with the site. Some don't think to reach out (as they aren't aware the geekmail option still works) and may be mistaken for someone who ghosted instead of someone who cannot post. I really hope a more permanent fix is found soon. Right now it seems someone on the admin site is unflagging the users mistakingly flagged as spammers manually and it resolves itself within 24h, but it still sucks.

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by pekin2121

Sudukob wrote:

First time attending the con. I hope there’s open gaming space. I didn’t want to get locked into a schedule, so I didn’t sign up for any games.

I'm guessing there will be plenty of open gaming space. While the Con isn't using even close to the available space at the Double Tree (over twice as much as the Crowne Plaza) this year; there will be more total Con space than there was last year. Which seemed like a lot of open gaming to me.

by GrimoireOfJank

Serpentine_C wrote:

Congratulations! Completing a campaign, seeing it through to the end is always an accomplishment worth celebrating.

I've found each campaign I run helps me narrow in on what stuff I need to prep and what stuff I don't.

I've also found that as long my players aren't jerks, they're most often fine if the GM messes up a little. They can be understanding and give you some slack. For anyone else reading this, don't let fear of failure keep you from trying out GMing! You can get better at it with practice.

Absolutely. Good players are integral to a good campaign, and doing is often the best way to learn.