TFW your local “indie con” says it offers Games on Demand but you click through and they’re offering D&D modules on demand instead.
What the fuck is wrong with this fucking state.
TFW your local “indie con” says it offers Games on Demand but you click through and they’re offering D&D modules on…
Jeez. Have you considered taking it over?
I keep TELLING YOU that D&D modules are better for on demand play than most indie games and worse for pre-planned table play than most indie games but NOBODY LISTENS!!!! (flips table, but it…..completely flips all the way around back to being right side up)
William Nichols I’m considering forming a posse.
“Games on Demand” is like…trademarked or something isn’t it, Steve Segedy? They also use it to sell a “meet the creator” event for the Tiny Epic guy, who’s a local boardgame designer.
Is this RinCon?
Daniel Lofton no! It’s Crit Hit.
tabletop.events – Crit Hit 3: Murder Hobos On Holiday
RinCon has a completely different set of um issues. But at least they’re not bait-and-switching.
“a wide selection of indie games you wont play anywhere else!”
Probably true for most of their attendees?
wait, wont …hrrm
Also: I have no idea what to take away when I read “murder hobos on holiday.”
Most big cons make most of their money on D&D/Pathfinder and then slip in the indie, but these guys are selling the indie but delivering mostly D&D/Pathfinder and almost entirely all trad/conventional games. I think I prefer knowing I’m going into a tiny walled garden than getting bait-and-switched.
Are they consciously doing a bait and switch? Or is it just a broader ignorance of what Games on Demand is? Because it’s not that well known, even in game circles.
Jim Miller says it’s mostly not D&D/Pathfinder, mostly indie:
https://plus.google.com/+jimmiller23/posts/4fx5X5Zd3ba
plus.google.com – if any of you are in the Phoenix, AZ area, the 3rd year of the event I put to…
Nah, its not trademarked (that would be hard to claim considering Xbox uses it). There’s also no legal entity behind GoD to own it.
That said, there’s also nothing to stop you from going to the event organizers and asking for space to run a proper Games on Demand event. Let me know if you want help with that!
This is going to make me sound snarky or like I have no sense of humour, or most likely a terrible snob, but…. I probably wouldn’t attend a con with the tag line Murder Hobos on Holiday. The Murder Hobos thing is a gaming trope I never ever want to see in a game I’m playing in ever again.
And you want me to move there.
Paul Czege the actual schedule says otherwise.
Mark Delsing YES so we can build something better. Together,
as father and son.Tucson’s better.
And yeah, the schedule is………..w o w z e r s
Uh, sounds like…fun.
s3.amazonaws.com
Mark Delsing we can do so much better, man.
Paul Beakley But would anyone show up?
I’m confident I could build an audience for an invitational house con. Which is more what I’ve always wanted to do anyway.
I have the feeling our big-picture community just doesn’t have a critical mass of indie-minded gamers. There’s a little scene in Tucson, I assume a couple groups like mine in Phoenix, mmmmaybe a college-based group in Flag. I’m totally guessing.
House conventions (or as they are normally called, “parties”) are good and no other conventions are good.
Many kids these days when they say “indie gaming” they mean “my D&D hack”
Cam Banks I’m getting that sense!
Honestly my gaming universe is so tightly curated that I probably don’t have an accurate understanding of what’s actually going on out there.
I dropped into Discord gaming chat a couple days ago and it was horrifying. Like, truly awful. And this was in a PbtA room!
Some other cons are good, Jason Corley. The best cons are ~1,000 people. Well, the best con is ~100.
Bigger cons than those are bad.
A Gathering of Indies?