Ooh, look at the pretties!
Nov. 22nd, 2005 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianI've just received the updated list of games running at Dragonmeet this year. Woo. Yay. Whole bunches of stuff I don't get to play because, goddamnit, I'm too busy running demo games and shit. *sigh* They have Ars Magica. They have Deliria. They have Cthulu. They have Serenity. They have SLA Industries. And from the looks of things, they have an Awakening LARP. And I'm GMing. Why didn't they have this stuff last year? (Okay, besides the fact that half of those games were not a going concern last year; your point?) While I understand the need for demo games, and I suppose I take ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dodgyhoodoo's point about being the one best placed to run it because I have been dealing with the gameverse in one form or another for five years. But still, all the pretty games ... and I haven't actually played in four months. Not that I don't have intense amounts of fun running, mind you, but I'm beginning to forget what being a player feels like.
...Okay, not really. If I had forgotten what it was like to be a player, I wouldn't be able to fuck with them so well. And I suppose it's probably just as well anyway, given that I wouldn't be able to make up my mind between all the games I'd really want to play. If I could play, the decision-making process would kill me, so this is better. Please to be looking on the bright side, Miss Thess.
Speaking of the bright side, interesting bonus I hadn't thought of is that, by dint of alphabetical order, Affils is at the top of the list of games being run (or will be when it's posted properly; apparently they're having some website problems). Obviously being unable to think of another name for the game by reason of having thought of that whole group as the Affiliates for five years has its advantages in some cases.
I have a basic schedule for at least my own movements at Dragonmeet:
Whenever we're allowed in -- 10:00: Set up the stall.
10:00 -- 10:10: Smoke break.
10:10 -- 10:50: Go shopping. Best chance I'm going to have to dig through all the out of print stuff before it all goes. My heart is set on the Tremere clanbook and the Black Furies tribebook, though I wouldn't mind Pirate Nations...
10:50 -- 11:00: Smoke break -- last chance for three hours or more.
11:00 -- 14:00: Run demo game 1.
14:00 -- 14:30: Allowance for overrun time, as tends to happen. If game has overrun, beg someone to bring me food.
14:30 -- 14:40: KILL THE NIC-FIT! *ahem*
14:40 -- 15:20: Man stall so others can take a break and do shopping. Try not to huddle under the table if receive compliments of any kind.
15:20 -- 15:30: Smoke break -- last chance for three hours or more.
15:30 -- 18:30: Run demo game 2.
18:30 -- 19:00: Allowance for overrun time, as tends to happen. If game has overrun, beg someone to bring me caffeine, as I will have run out by then.
19:00 -- 19:10: KILL THE NIC-FIT! *ahem*
19:10 -- whenever they kick us out: Probably time to pack up and go home by then.
I sound so organised for someone terrified half out of her gourd, don't I? I need a 'meep' icon.
**Non-Amazon-derived Christmas Wish List Item 2: Renewal of my paid LJ account with extra icon space**
(Don't worry too much about Non-Amazon-derived Christmas Wish List Item 1. That's the iBook G4. If I get that from anyone but parents, I will be very confused.)
dodgyhoodoo's point about being the one best placed to run it because I have been dealing with the gameverse in one form or another for five years. But still, all the pretty games ... and I haven't actually played in four months. Not that I don't have intense amounts of fun running, mind you, but I'm beginning to forget what being a player feels like....Okay, not really. If I had forgotten what it was like to be a player, I wouldn't be able to fuck with them so well. And I suppose it's probably just as well anyway, given that I wouldn't be able to make up my mind between all the games I'd really want to play. If I could play, the decision-making process would kill me, so this is better. Please to be looking on the bright side, Miss Thess.
Speaking of the bright side, interesting bonus I hadn't thought of is that, by dint of alphabetical order, Affils is at the top of the list of games being run (or will be when it's posted properly; apparently they're having some website problems). Obviously being unable to think of another name for the game by reason of having thought of that whole group as the Affiliates for five years has its advantages in some cases.
I have a basic schedule for at least my own movements at Dragonmeet:
Whenever we're allowed in -- 10:00: Set up the stall.
10:00 -- 10:10: Smoke break.
10:10 -- 10:50: Go shopping. Best chance I'm going to have to dig through all the out of print stuff before it all goes. My heart is set on the Tremere clanbook and the Black Furies tribebook, though I wouldn't mind Pirate Nations...
10:50 -- 11:00: Smoke break -- last chance for three hours or more.
11:00 -- 14:00: Run demo game 1.
14:00 -- 14:30: Allowance for overrun time, as tends to happen. If game has overrun, beg someone to bring me food.
14:30 -- 14:40: KILL THE NIC-FIT! *ahem*
14:40 -- 15:20: Man stall so others can take a break and do shopping. Try not to huddle under the table if receive compliments of any kind.
15:20 -- 15:30: Smoke break -- last chance for three hours or more.
15:30 -- 18:30: Run demo game 2.
18:30 -- 19:00: Allowance for overrun time, as tends to happen. If game has overrun, beg someone to bring me caffeine, as I will have run out by then.
19:00 -- 19:10: KILL THE NIC-FIT! *ahem*
19:10 -- whenever they kick us out: Probably time to pack up and go home by then.
I sound so organised for someone terrified half out of her gourd, don't I? I need a 'meep' icon.
**Non-Amazon-derived Christmas Wish List Item 2: Renewal of my paid LJ account with extra icon space**
(Don't worry too much about Non-Amazon-derived Christmas Wish List Item 1. That's the iBook G4. If I get that from anyone but parents, I will be very confused.)