GenCon 2006 - Event Planning

Clueless-

I'd be interested in running an adventure for the schedule. I've been itching to hit Gencon again. I'll know in a few weeks if I can make it, but please keep me in mind for an assist.

How abut not Estavan? While Estavan MAY be very very old, an Ogre Mage who lives many centuries is unnatural and Estavan is not known to be anything other than an Ogre Mage.

Oh, he definitely IS implied to be something else. What that is, is never cleared up (Rip thinks he's a proxy or something).

However, Estavan IG is never said to be anything other than an Ogre Mage byany NPC or PC. For him to have a big once a century birthday party is too conspicuous if he's keeping his status as whatever secret.

Well, it will be chancey for me. Unless there is another bloody hurricane I should be just ending my honeymoon a day or two before GenCon. Between that and the unsure state of things down here I am just not sure.

Personally I would LOVE to go. I've never made it up to GenCon before, much less in such esteemed company. If I do make it up I would happily dive in and help out with any PW events that we do put on. It would also be a kick to have some faces and voices to attach to all these virtual identities....

Anyone else going from the Gulf Coast area?

I'm game, and designated driver. I would pay money to see someone fall, plastered, into a designer's arms, or perhaps just do so to anyone but me, given last year's near vomit accident by a certain 'someone' at Hellhound's semi-party. *snicker*

...never gonna live that one down...

I might even get some old timers to show up.

Obviously, we should think about organizing something PS-related to do as well (perhaps a PS game/improv idea session in somebody's hotel room? I'll host, if I get the suite). Perhaps I should actually sign up for games this time around.

The vomiting on Eric Mona sounds interesting, and I'd like to hear more.

I'm not quite sure if I want to run a PS game for non-PS people.

Don't get me wrong - I have enjoyed and I do enjoy running games for clueless (plural, ofc, and not to be confused with our dear Planewalker bigwig), and I find it very rewarding to introduce people to the game...as long as they are reasonably open-minded about it...and perhaps available for more games in the future.

I'd have to be convinced especially to run a game for such a random sampling of people. I'm afraid it might turn into more of a chore than an enjoyment. Perhaps I'm just waiting for someone to really talk me into it.

This year I believe I will actually be attending Gen Con, unlike last year where I planned to go but then had a few things come up before I made final arrangements. In any case I would love to be involved with any Planewalker/Planescape events going on. I could also likely lend a hand here and there if its needed.

Event submission is already taking place and ends Friday April 7th (depending on where you look it ends at either noon PST, or 11:59 PM).

All the info is at:
http://www.gencon.com/displayindy.aspx?file=indy06/2006-indy-gms

Sure, if people can get me the info by midnightish next Thursday (3/30). That's a week before the deadline, but I'm heading out of town that first week of April.

For each event I will need:

• Title (no more than 100 characters)
  
• Event description (450 characters max)
  
• GM ID (need to be registered for GenCon, need that ID)
  
• Whether it is a seminar, workshop, or gaming session
  
• Day (Thurs, Fri, Sat, or Sun)
  
• Preferred start time (only start on the hour)
  
• Duration (goes in half hour increments)
  
• Age requirement
  
  
  
  • Everyone (6+)
    
  • Teen (13+)
    
  • Mature (18+)
    
  
  
• Experience requirement
  
  
  
  • Young players (rules are taught)
    
  • Newcomers (maturity preferred)
    
  • Some experience needed
    
  • Extensive experience needed
    
  • Expert understanding of the system
    
  
  
• Game system and version (D&D v3.5 most likely?)
  
• Difficulty rating (simple, easy, average, hard, very hard, NA)
  
• Minimum # players
  
• Maximum # players
  
• Any additional message to the registered attendees (will appear to people after they sign up for event)
  

Oh, FYI - workshop vs. seminar - The difference is that workshop participants are charged a fee and seminar participants are not. The fee is the same as the gaming session one unless the person running it wants to charge more ($1.50/hour I think??).

Sorry, forgot to include that explanation. So if you want it free and open to all, it's a seminar. If you want a smaller, more focused group, then it's a workshop and requires a fee.

I just want to say.......I wish I could go to GenCon *cry*

And the true deadline is actually next week if you don't have the information by tonight (well, technically I won't check it until sometime tomorrow morning). That's just the deadline if you want me to handle the paperwork.

If you don't have the stuff ready by tonight, you can still submit the event by next week (that's GenCon's deadline), it's just that you will have to handle the paperwork yourself since I'll be offline for the week. But it isn't too bad.

So if you want me to do the paperwork, get me the info by early tomorrow morning at the latest.

If you don't mind doing it yourself, you have another week.

Thanks!

I'm still totally committed to going, although I don't dare to host an event.

I prefer having my schedule sort of free, anyway. It's more exciting that way.

Due to financial constraints I can't make it to GenCon this year - but I would like to contribute by providing an adventure module.

I'm still catching up on the threads on these boards as I've not been active in the PS community much for the past year or two (MMORPGs are to blame), so apologies if creation of modules has already been discussed elsewhere.

In any case, the adventure ideas that I came up with this morning were:

1. "Warriors of Bronze", the rules of an ancient conflict have been broken. Talks have been set-up to resolve the rules upset, but someone is determined to put a spanner in the works. Has the time come to finally embrace change?
2. "Death in the Ethereal Plane", a murder on a trading outpost in the ethereal has caused it to become unanchored. Outsiders are sought to investigate the matter from an independent point-of-view. The outcome could very well determine on which plane the city comes to rest.
3. "The Lesser of two goods", a village at a planar cross-roads is under threat. Two good-aligned groups offer their support, however there is always a price to pay...
4. "A Question of Judgement", a woman on the run, a judgement is passed, new evidence comes to light and suddenly nothing is quite as simple as it first a appears. Which is greater: the good of the many or the rights of an individual?
5. "Labyrinth", an innocent man sent in to a moral maze for punishment must be brought out in time before his presence causes a chain-reaction that threatens to unravel the prison maze and release an evil that has not walked the planes since Dis was founded.
6. "Caesar Slaad", the Romans have commissioned a Slaad to create a legendary feast. However, a few ingredients are missing and some enterprising berks could be in the jinks if they are resourceful and inventive enough to get the ingredients in time. (light-hearted, not-so-serious adventure)
7. "War, huh! What is it good for? Well, jinks obviously!" mercenaries are commissioned to re-ignite a conflict. The options available are limited only by the mercenaries imaginations and a small number of clauses in their contract...

So, which idea do you like the best? I should have a first draft of the adventure by the end of May and a final draft by the end of July. Cheers,

Simmo

Ps. I realise that the official date for event entries has passed, but this module is intended for Planescape pick-up games.

Thanks for the detailed response.

1. This is about breaking the conflict between the Sumerians and the Babylonians, or at least an attempt to cause a permanent shift in this age-old conflict. It's also about the choice whether to embrace change or reject it, but there's no half-way measures... it's all or nothing.
2. cool beans, glad that you liked this idea. Now all I have to do is develop something more than the couple of lines I posted above :shock:
3. this is indeed a CG vs LG conflict, it emphasizes that good is not as united as the Upper Planaer diplomats would have you believe.
4. this is another take on the LG vs CG conflict in Elysium. It's the story of a woman who is accussed of a crime that it turns out she did not commit. However, overturning the decree threatens the stability of a community and it's way of life. The throw in the fact that this woman is the only one to conceive in many, many years of any woman in the community and suddenly things get more complex. Just when you think it all makes sense - it turns out that she is guilty of a different crime after all.
5. take the Labyrinth idea from Death Gate Cycle books (Weis and Hickman), then put in it the precursors to the Baatezu and Tanar'ri (the races that the Yugoloths would rather that you did not find out about) and that gives you more to go on for this adventure.
6. I guess this rules out the idea that I had for an all ratatosk adventure as well
7. Take the standard "travel here, save X or recover sacred artefact Y, then return for fame and glory" and turn it on its head. Instead you get "come to the Prime, stir up the locals in preparation for a Blood War skirmish site, get out with as much loot as you can before the fighting gets nasty".

I'll let you know how it goes with the adventure writing. I may need a hand with creating pre-generated characters for the adventure (as I'm not very good at this and find character creation very dull).

The more people who write adventures, the more choice there will be for running Planescape games at GenCon

Just popping in to let you guys know I'm still around. I just finished my semester, and although my work is never ending (woe is me, etc ), I'm going to be spending a decent amount of spare time doing planescapey (and planewalkerey) things.

Writing on the GenCon adventure has finally started, but I will not have time to do the character creation. If you are interested in helping out, please can I ask you to create one or more characters with the following guidelines:

- level 7
- 80 points to distribute between the attributes (the 80 excludes any from being level 7)
- race and class(es) if not in core books should have additional background information (for example not everyone knows what an alaghi is).
- same guidelines for any non-standard classes and prestige classes
- same guidelines for any non-standard feats and skills
- bonus cookie for using information about races and classes from planewalker.com published material
- standard magic items to the total value as outlined in the DMG, preference is for numerous low-cost items compared to all in one item.
- these are disposable characters for a one-off game at a convention, so whilst background and motivation information are great they are by no means necessary
- average hit points can be taken instead of rolling for HP
- if you create more than one character see if you can have one complement the other, this promotes team-play and give strangers at the gaming table a link at the start of the adventure through their characters (by the end they will be friends for life and will reminisce each time they meet about how much they owe to the PS setting for bringing them together in the first place).
- design characters that are fun for a variety of people to play, just bear in mind that character quirks that attract you may not work for others
- in all instances use common sense

Thanks,

Simmo

Hello, first post (hopefully with more to come) to these boards. I am a Planescape fan who will be attending his first Gen Con Indy this August. I have already signed up for the two Planescape seminars but was unable to sign up for the one scheduled game. (Would I be allowed to simply listen in and watch without playing?) I hope to meet other Planescape fans and simply talk about this great setting and their experiences playing in the setting, including what different approaches GMs have for the post-Faction War setting. I myself need help incorporating the chant into my speech, which I find very difficult. If there is a Planewalker.com dinner, I would like to join in. I can make room in my shedule for this, and would like to make plans to attend.

Also, I notice that Planescape fans are a truly international lot, and just wanted to point that out and say that's cool...

Orroloth,

I have your number and will try to contact you. If I am unable to reach you via cell I will be attending the two Planescape panels. Maybe we can meet Clueless and the others there?