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Offline Kirsa

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Gencon 2022
« on: January 27, 2022, 09:02:30 PM »
It is time for your yearly Gencon thread!

I have put up two HARP events for this coming con and am considering more.

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Re: Gencon 2022
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2022, 02:06:48 AM »
Planning on being there this year. Hotel reserved and plane tickets bought.
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Re: Gencon 2022
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2022, 12:29:21 PM »
I just looked at the Event Catalogue, and was happy to see so many Rolemaster (Unified) sessions! Aaron is really going all out!

I see 13 different sessions, 7 of which are already sold out. Way to go Aaron!

Sadly, I won't be going this year (going to wait one more year for Covid to die down!), but we are planning to go the following year.
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Re: Gencon 2022
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2022, 08:48:40 PM »
It will be interesting to see how crowded it is this year.
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Re: Gencon 2022
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2022, 07:07:16 PM »
Thanks Hurin.  Yup, gonna be busy for me. 

On that note, GenCon just contacted me about the fact that they want all of the Iron Crown Enterprises games organized under one lead EO/GM and since I submitted 13 different sessions and have been designated by Nicholas to be the Booth Manager (even though my time there will be very limited, while Monte and Nick will be handling most of the booth activity), they wanted me to put together a list of all "official" ICE games for them. 

As such, Kirsa, I will PM you momentarily and if anyone else is planning to run anything please let me know if you want it to be an "official" ICE session (usually Colin will be able to set up some sort of reward for players in the GenCon sessions).
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Re: Gencon 2022
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2022, 08:30:49 PM »
Pre-Gens for GenCon events (first come-first choice):

Channel Cities at Night:
Gnome Illusionist (5th lvl)
Goblin Druid (5th lvl) - warning: may be questionable on acceptance within the city proper
Goblin Rogue (5th lvl) - warning: may be questionable on acceptance within the city proper
Grey Orc Magician (5th lvl) - warning: may be questionable on acceptance within the city proper
Elf Cleric (5th lvl)
Half-Elf Bard (5th lvl)
Halfling Fighter (5th lvl)
Human Magent (5th lvl)
Human Rogue (5th lvl)
Human Warrior Monk (5th lvl)
Idiyvan Sorcerer (5th lvl)
Ogre Fighter (5th lvl) - warning: may be questionable on acceptance within the city proper
Sibbicai Ranger (5th lvl)
Troll Healer (5th lvl) - warning: may be questionable on acceptance within the city proper
Varg Orc Fighter (5th lvl) - warning: may be questionable on acceptance within the city proper

Broken Bridge Battle- Team Adventurers (2-3):
Gnome Illusionist (5th lvl)
Elf Cleric (5th lvl)
Half-Elf Bard (5th lvl)
Halfling Fighter (5th lvl)
Human Magent (5th lvl)
Human Rogue (5th lvl)
Human Warrior Monk (5th lvl)
Idiyvan Sorcerer (5th lvl)
Sibbicai Ranger (5th lvl)

Broken Bridge Battle- Team Broken Bridge Bailifs[collecting "tolls": for crossing the bridge](2-3):
Goblin Druid (5th lvl)
Goblin Rogue (5th lvl)
Grey Orc Magician (5th lvl)
Ogre Fighter (5th lvl)
Troll Healer (5th lvl)
Varg Orc Fighter (5th lvl)

Channel Cities Overnight (infiltrating evil cult, this event is 11:00pm Friday to 5:00 am Saturday and intended for mature audiences):
Any of the above at 10th level
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Re: Gencon 2022
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2022, 09:41:15 PM »
Fun stuff!

Did you get the stat for Ogre from Creature Law?
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Re: Gencon 2022
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2022, 07:16:53 AM »
Yes, that is where it came from. 
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Re: Gencon 2022
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2022, 08:48:08 AM »
GenCon 2022 summary: 
Scheduled to run 13 sessions of RMU at GenCon this year, with 11 selling out, although the very last session on Sunday (which had sold out) did not have enough people show up to actually run. 
Kirsa also scheduled 3 HARP sessions, with most also selling out (can't recall if it was all three or not), but not many showed up for his Sunday game either, but at least it was enough to run the game.
Overall, the convention went very well.  We had two copies printed and spiral bound of each the 99.9% completed RMU Core Law and Spell Law (was waiting on a handful of artwork pieces for them).  All four of which were given away to RMU players who showed that they are hard-core Rolemaster fans and who contributed a lot to the games that they sat in on. 
We also received a lot of very positive feedback on the close to release version of the RMU books. 
Sales were good at the booth, but unfortunately there were some issues with damage and printing errors with just over half of the copies of HARP Bestiary, so that hurt sales due to not having enough copies available. 
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World of Aernth/Channel Cities setting: www.ChannelCities.com
City of Archendurn & Dun Cru author (for RM/HARP)
Cur. projects: RMU Creature Law 1 & 2, No Quarter Under the Crown (campaign module for RMU)

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Re: Gencon 2022
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2022, 09:00:34 AM »
Awesome news! Wish I could have been there!
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Re: Gencon 2022
« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2022, 11:44:12 PM »
I swing by the booth a few times and I was glad to see the sales going well.  I was tempted a grab some books myself, but figured I'd leave them to potentially be sold (and I can just order them off the website with my credits there anyhow).
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Re: Gencon 2022
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2022, 03:01:50 AM »
Very kewl, man!

Excited to hear this even though I wasn’t there.
Bucket list next year…

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Re: Gencon 2022
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2022, 09:54:38 AM »
Definitely next year; will be there with my posse!
'Last of all, Húrin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed'. --J.R.R. Tolkien

'Every party needs at least one insane person.'  --Aspen of the Jade Isle