Who's Yer Con 2013 Indianapolis

I'm likely posting this far too early, but I just found out the dates for Who's Yer Con 2013 as March 15 - 17.  I'll likely try to set up some SOTM demo events, as well maybe arenson9, Rabit, imprimis5, and maybe any other veteren in the area might wish to set up some demoes as well.  Also, I figure if I post this now, it will be less likely that it will just sneek up on any of us (like it did last year where no one I knew really knew about it until after the first day was over).

Yeah ...  that's too far ahead for me to plan. I might want to wait until January for that.

I figured it's far too early to make plans.  I mainly wanted to put this down so that I and others wouldn't forget about it (I've actually been trying to find the dates for about a month now).

Assuming I can get the days off, I'd be down. Who's to say where I'll be by March, though.

I think it would be great if we could coordinate and make the Sentinels of the Multiverse presence constant. Who knows, maybe we could

even have a booth set up.

Update:

If I can make it to Who's Yer Con 2013 at all, it will be in a limited capacity, as I'll be out of town most of the following week for PAX East.

There's no way the >G folks can make it to Who's Yer Con 2013, again because of PAX East the next week. I therefore see no reason to pursue getting a booth. That being said, I spoke to Bill at Arsenal about the prospect of combining forces with the Arsenal booth. Perhaps they could have a booth big enough to run a single game. Long shot, but not out of the question. If nothing else, Bill's probably happy to stock up on the games in the hopes that we send buyers to the Arsenal booth.

If there isn't a demo going on at the booth, or if we want a presence outside of dealer room hours, or if we want both, there's a choice of having a specific table (tables?!) set aside for us, or just claiming a table in the free-play area. 

I think our first question should probably be: Do we have enough people interested in running games to have a constant prescence? If not, what should we aim for?

The con appears to run from noon on Fri Mar 15 to 3pm on Sun Mar 17. Who would want to run games at what times?

I may try to attend this year, just looked at the map and it's really close to where I live. Probably only about 10 minutes or less from where I live. Though I'll probably only go on Saturday and Sunday, since Gamer's Guild is on Fridays.

I'm planning to attend this year, and would definitely be up for running games.

I'm looking to book a room (even though I live roughly 6 miles away), so I'll definately be looking at having a presence there.  I would have been at the entire thing last year had I heard about it prior to the night of the Friday it started.  I would like something better than simply free table space, I'm just uncertain the planning that would need to be involved in order to obtain such.

Obtaining a dedicated table should be pretty easy -- I've met a person who's involved (first name is Peter) who said he could make it happen.

Is someone else willing to organize? To make sure we get the table? To coordinate who is going to be there when? 

I've got enough on my plate, that I'd rather not do this as well.

Looks like I'm definitely going to be able to attend, so I can organize.

I know a Peter Anderson who's fairly involved with the Who's Yer Gamers, I assume it's the same person.  I think I already have it, but could you send me his contact information?

I don't have it! I've run into Peter at many gaming events, including a friend's house. That being said, I just found him on Facebook and sent him a message asking for his contact info, so I'll PM it to you if and when I get it.

I'm pretty sure I have his email and BGG username.

Steve, how's the planning going for this?

I just learned that IndyCon is also March 8-10 and I have an email in to a contact there to find out if they'd have an interest in having a SotM prescence.

I've been talking with Peter.  Apparently they don't have event scheduling up yet, probably this Friday.  It sounds like we should probably schedule a few games each day, and have open demo time in between.  Looking though this thread it looks like we have about four people planning to attend at least part of the con (and are presumably willing to help out with Sentinels stuff), so we should be able to have someone running stuff most of the time without it being too big a burden for anyone.

Would >Games be interested in sponsorship opportunities (including things like advertising in the program) or donating a copy of the game to the con's library?

I went to IndyCon last year, and I believe they don't really have a dealer area, demos, or events;  it was mostly just open gaming.  They do have sponsors and a fairly large raffle, though.

I'll start an email exchange w/ you, me, Christopher and Paul.

How do you think attendees and organizers would respond to one or more people setting up a specific area to play Sentinels? I'll let post if I learn anything from the person I emailed.

Sometime this weekend, I think I'm going to go to the hotel and check room prices, and possibly book a room.  Even though I live maybe 5 miles away, I figure it would be a nice vacation away from the house, and, with a room at the hotel of the convention, would be much simpler to just stay until tired, and then just go to bed instead of drive back home.  And wake up already at the convention.

Nothing conclusive yet, though I did hear back from someone. There's an opportunity for >G to do advertising. I'm hoping to learn more details before passing that on.

As for volunteers doing something organized at IndyCon, I'm not too hopeful at this point, but as noted, nothing conclusive yet.

I'm trying to figure out when to schedule events for Who's Yer Con.  For anyone that is interested in voluneering to run games, could you please post when you would be available to run games and if you have a preference on when/how many.

I'll be available all day Friday, and after noon on Saturday and Sunday.

If I manage to get a room at the place, I should be available any time.  If I don't, then it depends on what time I actually manage to get up each day.

I've also been wondering if it'd be ok to bring custom heroes, especially if it's more open gaming. A good way to showcase the ability for people to make their own cards for SoTM and even get feedback on them outside of your usual gaming group. I didn't try at Gencon as that's more organized play.

How often, how many hours do you want to run games?

Technically, I could run games after work on Fri (after 6 -- after 7 is even easier) and any time on Sat or Sun.

In reality, given that PAX East is the next week, I won't want to spend a ton of time. SO, my preference is that you create a schedule that doesn't include me, but if you need me, let's talk and I can probably help.

I'm a bit leery about custom heroes, but it's not out of the question, I don't think.

If, however, we are at all billing this as any sort of an official event, then I think custom heroes would be out of the question. Some possibilities for making this more official include such things as handing out Sentinels Points or art prints. That would have to be negotiated with the >G folks, and I'll leave that up to Steven to initiate and decide on (though, as always, I'm happy to advise).

My intuition is that even if there isn't anything official about the event, I'd like to see any scheduled events use only canon decks, but if people are doing open gaming, than it's up to the people playing.

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted.  I have created events for Who's Yer Con, and they have recently been approved.  I have created the following events:

12:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 - Khedron

2:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 - Khedron

4:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 - Khedron

6:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 - Khedron

12:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 - arenson9

2:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 - arenson9

4:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 - Khedron

6:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 - Khedron

11:00am on Sunday 17th March 2013 - Khedron

1:00pm on Sunday 17th March 2013 - arenson9

If anyone wants to take any of these events, let me know.

Steve, do you envision people who 'take' an event bringing their own copy of the game?

I have one of the playtest copies from Christopher's visit in April that I'd be happy for people to use, but it does not have the Infernal Relics decks in it.

I also have a playmat that I'd be happy to let be used for all of the events.

That would also be excellent, I won't have my own until the ST stuff comes in.

Steve, will you be at GP Fashion Mall Commons on Sun the 3rd or at Arsenal on Tue the 5th? I can give you the game and playmat at either of those and then pick them up some time after Who's Yer Con is over.

Steve, I'm happy to do any two of the Sat events and one of the Sun events. If need be, I could do all of the events on Sat and Sun. I can't do any of the Fri events.

Yep, I'll be at both (I just posted over in the other thread as well).  And if you're willing to take the second Sunday event, you can just take them home then.

I'll go ahead and edit my post above to add you to a few of those time slots.  If you have any on Sat and Sun that you would rather run, let me know, I'm just kinda assigning them randomly.

Looks good. Surely, though, there are other people besides me and you running timeslots, right?! I would actually be happiest to not run any timeslots and act as something of a floater, encouraging onlookers to try the game.

Yeah, hopefully some others will jump in and grab slots.  I just assigned the empty ones to myself until/unless someone else claims them.

Here's the schedule.  I believe TheJayMann and Koga had mentioned running some demos, if you guys (or anyone else) are interested in running any of these, let me know.

12:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 - Khedron

2:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 - Khedron

4:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 - Khedron

6:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 - Khedron

12:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 - arenson9

2:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 - arenson9

4:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 - Khedron

6:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 - Khedron

11:00am on Sunday 17th March 2013 - Khedron

1:00pm on Sunday 17th March 2013 - arenson9

I'll be in attendance for all times (I'll even have a room so that I don't have to leave except when I desire).  I'll be willing to host any times that you guys deem necessary.

Though we've got all the times covered, I would really love some more people to be available. 

I'm currently slated to run games. If there are people able to run games during my times, I'd love to be able to roam around encouraging people to come try the game.

Here's the schedule for now (The number in parentheses is the current number of reserved seats).  If anyone want to change slots or anything, just let me know.  Also, we can always use more volunteers.

12:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 (1) - Khedron

2:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 (1) - Khedron

4:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 (1) - TheJayMann

6:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 (0) - TheJayMann

12:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 (0) - arenson9

2:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 (2) - arenson9

4:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 (2) - Khedron

6:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 (1) - Khedron

11:00am on Sunday 17th March 2013 (0) - TheJayMann

1:00pm on Sunday 17th March 2013 (0)- arenson9

Here's the schedule for now, with an attendance update (The number in parentheses is the current number of reserved seats).  If anyone want to change slots or anything, just let me know.  Also, we can always use more volunteers.

12:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 (2) - Khedron

2:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 (3) - Khedron

4:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 (3) - TheJayMann

6:00pm on Friday 15th March 2013 (2) - TheJayMann

12:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 (0) - arenson9

2:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 (4) - arenson9

4:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 (4) - Khedron

6:00pm on Saturday 16th March 2013 (1) - Khedron

11:00am on Sunday 17th March 2013 (0) - TheJayMann

1:00pm on Sunday 17th March 2013 (0)- arenson9

Who's Yer Con is over! Long live Who's Yer Con!

Thanks for organizing, Steve!

I ran six games of Sentinels. Lots of good times. Troy from Arsenal sold everything he brought (admittedly just a few each of EE, RC, and IR).

The uptick in recognition of Sentinels continues. Last year Jeff and I talked a few people into playing, but no one had heard of the game. This year there were people trying to sign up, but couldn't because the time slot was full, and some people would come by and say they'd heard of the game and were glad to have a chance to try it. There were still plenty of people, though, who'd never heard it. Everyone who played seems to at least like it and in many cases love it. Per normal, it looked like at least half the people who played the game once would stick around to play it again immediately.

At least one person remarked to me that they would have been a lot more excited by the raffle if there was a copy of Sentinels in it.

I saw that the people who had won a copy of Sentinels the weekend before at IndyCon were playing it in the open gaming area, too.