Russ, Craig, and I are in talks with the organizers of Indy PopCon (http://indypopcon.com/)to have a SotM presence at Indy PopCon May 30 - Jun 1st.
Who is interested in running games of SotM? There is a chance, though by no means a certainty, that we may be able to get badges for some volunteers.
We are short on details at this point -- we don't know the hours of the con/gaming room or even if it will be free form gaming, scheduled gaming slots, ticketed but free gaming slots, or possibly even ticketed gaming slots that cost extra (unlikely).
SO, at this point I just want to raise your awareness that this is a possibility and get an initial sense of who might be interested. My guess is that to get a badge you'll need to commit to at least eight hours of running games, but that is just a guess.
This is the inaugural year of Indy PopCon and with GenCon, InConJunction, Who's Yer Con, and Indiana ComicCon, one wonders how PopCon differs and how many people will bother to attend. Well, GenCon is gaming, InConJunction is modest/local and SciFi, Who's Yer Con is modest/local and gaming, and Indiana ComicCon is comics and fairly modest. PopCon is broad, rather than focused on gaming/comics/scifi or something lese, looks to be bringing in some pretty big names, and is staking out a very large space in the Convention Center. I've had a chance to talk to a couple of the organizers and got the sense that they have some real competence and a large visions.
There's a small but non-zero chance I might be able to contribute some time on one of the days. Indy's only a couple hours for me, and it's possible my wife might take the kids to the Children's Museum, with or without meeting my sister there. It's about 2 hours for each of us.
OK, realistically if she went, she'd just be taking the Munchkin since the Grasshopper would almost certainly be wanting to join me. He plays AZ reasonably competently most of the time, although he's not ready to tackle AA (as much as he keeps trying to persuade me to let him).
Sorry for the late reply. I may be available for one of those days, but it depends on if I can get off of work during the Con. If I am there, you know I can stay as long as I need, just give me the head's up.
Edit: One or more, if they give me that Saturday off.
I'm planning to be at PopCon, and would definitely be glad to lend a hand, but I need to check the programming and schedule before committing to blocks of time. Have my own ticket anyway from the kickstarter.
If there's any gruntwork/prep needed though (helping carry tables to set up, or something), I could lend a couple hands with that.
Just posting to say that this is still in the works, but we don't know any details yet.
There will almost certainly be _something_, but what hours, how many simultaneous games/tables, whether or not gaming events will require tickets, and whether or not we can get badges for doing it are all TBD.
Unfortunately, my wife has had some work travel come up for around that same time, meaning the "small but non-zero chance" I referred to above has, in fact, dropped to zero.
I live in Indy. I could probably do some hours on the weekend as I work on Friday. Especially if Volunteer badges are involved. Although I have to do some thinking to plan that far ahead. I've never heard of Pop Con and may just go anyways ^.^
Please email me (arenson@spatzel.net) if you would like to run games and I will put together a schedule. If you can volunteer for at least eight hours, I may be able to give you a badge -- IndyPopCon is willing to give us up to six of them.
IndyPopCon will run from noon on Fri May 30th to 5pm on Sun Jun 1st. Table gaming, like Sentinels, will be available at all hours while IndyPopCon is running, so if we want to run games at 3am we can, though I'm not expecting that we will.
IndyPopCon will be advertising events that run at specific times. I envision us advertising Sentinels in 2-hour blocks of time starting on even-numbered hours. The core hours I am most looking to fill are:
Fri May 30, noon-6pm
Sat May 31, 10am-8pm
Sun Jun 1, 10am-4pm
If we have enough volunteers, we may schedule two or more games at a time. We have two demo copies of Sentinels that you may use to run games, or you are welcome to use your own copy. One of the demo copies has everything except Vengeance and the promo cards. I'm not sure what's in the other demo copy.
We have promo cards that >G have given us to give to players. We will be running full games. We don't know yet whether attendees will be signing up for games/getting tickets for particular events, or just walking by, or possibly a mixture of both. You may find yourself teaching the game to people who've never heard of it before or playing with people who know the game very well. If you're looking for suggestions on how to teach the game, we'll make sure you get them.
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