Greetings! As you may or may not be aware, Greater Than Games will be attending several gaming conventions in 2013. We will have a bunch of booth space at these conventions where we will be running demos. To that end, we are on the lookout for people interested in helping out at our booth, running demos.
Conventions
PAX East, Origins
PAX Australia
GaymerX
Gen Con
PAX Prime
and Essen Spiel
Volun-Tiers
Minion
Work at least 1 day (or day-equivalent amount of time) at the convention.
Receive a free t-shirt for every day you volunteer.
Citizen
Work at least 50% of the time the exhibit hall is open at a convention.
Receive a free t-shirt for every day you volunteer.
Receive a free exhibitor badge, courtesy of Greater Than Games.
Sidekick
By invitation only from the ranks of the Citizens
Work a schedule agreed upon with GTG.
Receive fabulous prizes.
If you are interested in helping out at any of these conventions, send me an email at paul@greaterthangames.com listing the Convention and Volun-Tier at which you are interested in helping!
Just got done requesting volunteer for GenCon. Question about the free exhibitor badge given for Citizens. Would that also cover the regular admission as well? (I'd assume they would, as when I volunteered for GenCon last year, we treated exhibitor badges as 4day passes.)
sounds like fun! (well, sounds like work, but fun work!). I will check my budget (travel/hotel) as well as schedule and if i can swing it, then i will send an email to enlist in the fight to save the multiver...err... convention :)
Smegging yes I love Red Dwarf :D. I've seen every episode at least once (many of the older ones many times), own the RPG but haven't had a chance to play it yet, and have read all four of the books several times as well :D.
I went to the Expo thingy once, if it's the one I'm thinking of...we had to go on the DLR to get there. It was near Canary Wharf somewhere.
I'll help you run demos and help out at PAXEast but I don't know how much time I can do it until schedules come out. I don't need a free shirt either, but if you're printing new shirts and want to do one in 3XL I'll buy it at...get this...FULL RETAIL PRICE. Plus I'll give out high fives after appropriate amounts of purell have been applied.
The gaming section is pretty big. I don't have exact numbers, but the con itself had over 50,000 people attend in 2012. I authored a few Living Greyhawk adventures and ran tables for them a few years back and everyday there were many thousands of people circulating through to play. I haven't gone the past couple of years (family plans got in the way), but the con has only gotten bigger. It is on Labor Day weekend (Aug 30-Sept 2) so it makes it easy for people to attend. I know that this overlaps with Pax Prime so I am not sure if GTG has the manpower to handle both, but I think that DragonCon would be a great forum to expand into a region that hasn't been hit yet (if not this year then maybe in the future). I hope this helps.
