Well, first I like to say SORRY! This is a west coast thing. For fellow gamers and those enjoy life off the beaten path. I have a friend that lives in San...
Dear Gabe (and list) Does your friend have to live in San Francisco itself? If not, I have a super deal: $370/month plus half utilities I live in Vallejo, a...
Kerin Schiesser
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Jul 17, 2006 9:40 am
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can anyone give me an estimate on a dundracon trip for 4 gamers and how soon i should look into reservations for the hotel? kris...
... There's quite a few imponderables there... Y'all planning to share one room? Stay the whole time (3 nites, Fri - Sat - Sun)? Arrive a day (or more)...
... The good news is that there's a shopping plaza right next door. I don't think there's fast food, but there's anything from Target food to Baja Fresh to ...
... let me be a little more spacific. one or two bed rooms? how much stuff to take keep in mind im not running anything just playing. what not to do that type...
For myself - I'm estimating 500 - 77+ tax, so estimate 80/night = Friday, Sat, Sun = 240. Food cost and dealers room for the rest. I GM a game, enjoy it...
Kat Of Corellia
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Jul 22, 2006 1:13 am
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... stuff ... Ok, the dundracon website has this page: http://www.dundracon.com/InfoHotel.html. This is last year's rate. It's a starting point you can use to...
... It's ... the ... OOPS that's more like $260 with the hotel tax, etc. Addendum on food: You can bring something from; even perishables. In that case coolers...
Thanks for the help, all. The "official" start to the DDC season is Labor day - that's when the Marriott reservations desk will know about DDC (as much as it...
... They don't reserve 1-vs-2 beds for the 'Con, it's 1st - come = 1st - served. Get there early if you want 2 beds. IME (and unlike most of the time) the...
Oh - sorry. I'm one of the Star Wars D20 GMs. You're welcome to come to my game - I generally run it friday night or saturday night - and the run during the...
Kat Of Corellia
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Jul 26, 2006 7:43 am
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Hey there Kat, I so desparately wanted to play your Star Wars D20 game. It was first of my list of three games for friday night. Even with my GM priority I...
You never know..... and the registration for games was a problem this last year. I mean - 6:15 to let players know about a 6:00 game - maybe they should close...
Kat Of Corellia
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Jul 27, 2006 4:07 am
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... for ... And ... I don't remember a late posting this past year, but I'm checking with our Game Reg staff. Or was 6:15 when the DDC staff person (which...
Roderic: I was still waiting at 6:15 - that was the last time I checked the outside board and my watch - after that I just sat and waited. Is there any way I...
Kat Of Corellia
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Jul 27, 2006 5:48 am
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As I said, I'm checking with the Game Reg staff to see what happened - I don't *remember* a late posting, but my memory isn't the best around DDC - fro some...
a couple small suggestions about posting the games. you need to post them down a wall not on a small(i know it's not small, but with a crowd it might as well...
a couple small suggestions about posting the games. you need to post them down a wall not on a small(i know it's not small, but with a crowd it might as well...
... This strikes me as an /EXCELLENT/ notion; ANYTHING that reduces the feeding-frenzy when games get posted would be welcome! ... Hmmm. Fill-in-the-bubble...
... We already have discussions of "is that a 6 or an 8 or a 0?" in the con suite. Sometimes it comes down to majority opinion as to what game someone gets...
... I didn't mean that; but I had thought I saw somewhere (I'll have to go looking again) a little while ago, that some OpenSource-ish project offered...
... Manpower, baby, it's aaaaall about manpower! Errrr... personpower. ... How about going REALLY whole-hog: for about 10 minutes, ALL the staff you can...
... No, I quite realize what my time to recompense ratio is. (Rather less than that of a Chinese laborer painting Heroclix figures) I got into DDC for the same...
... Better, considering 2/3 of the game reg team are women :-). ... Ahahahahaha! All the staff we can muster? Well, there's me..... And Ellen..... And...
What you have works well. The so-called feeding frenzy passes fairly quickly for those who have the patients to wait a few minutes. Maybe put the sign up...
... Errrr... volunteers? What if the volunteers did split-shifts, one hour at a shot, or some such? IIRC, the computer doing print-outs / etc is on an upper...