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s of jobs possibly thousands depending upon how you choose to analyze it so when i am asked why it seemingly does not bother me that others names might be better known than mine i tell them that it really does not matter to me that my name is not on a marquee in lights i walk through game cons with the same thoughts i have each night as i go to sleep i know what i did i rest incredibly easy every night knowing that i had a hand in something that has had such a profound impact on society and culture future historians might puzzle over the cultural significance of droopy pants and how or where it started no such questions exist for the birth of role playing those historians simply say 1974 1975 and the little brown box i have been a gamer for over 55 years now my gaming history is demarcated by pre rpg and post d d i avidly play all three main types of gaming boards minis and rpg s and they are all different now because of what we did from 1975 to 1980 when we lit the fuse that ignited the gaming experience so i lay my head on my pillow each night knowing that what recognition i have received has concerned my magazines more than my other work at tsr and that s ok and you know what next year i plan to go to my 50 th hs reunion when i walk in there i know that out of 700 fellow alumni and alumnae none of them has had the impact on modern culture and society that i was a part of and most of them will have no idea how i helped change modern popular culture and that s ok too i know posted by kaskoid at 9 37 am 27 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday august 12 2016 gen con 49 2016 how big is too big for a convention first impressions the residents of indianapolis have every reason to think that gencon attendees are some of the dumbest sheep around this was the most visibly diverse gc ever the vendor hall grew to monstrous proportions attendance was flat but thursday was mayhem the debut of the dwarvenaut the charity auction was a smashing success has gen con gotten too big now some details gencon attendees for the most part are some of either the most rude or dumbest pedestrians ever the lights in indy are really simple a white icon of a person walking or an orange hand with a countdown in seconds when the white icon comes on you walk when the orange hand comes up it means do not start across now the countdown is to alert those already in the crosswalk how much time they have left before the light changes so get the hell out of the crosswalk well not for gc attendees apparently who lumbered out into the crosswalks halfway through the orange countdown and made the long suffering drivers wait while they plodded across c mon folks show some courtesy to your hosts and quit acting like a herd of buffalo when indiana s benighted gov pence signed a bill last year that basically said it was ok to discriminate in in for just about any reason gencon llc was the very first to threaten to pull out of indy eventually pence s lackeys convinced him remember this is the guy that thinks it is cool to be trump s running mate that indy might get upset with him to lose the 70 million that gencon means to indy and so allowed the bill to be rescinded never has gencon been as openly diverse and embracing of everyone as it was this year proving again that we are all just gamers first all sorts of costumes draping all sorts of body types some attendees were just letting it all hang out costumes have become a very big deal some of them are amazing and evidence hours of work and lots of dollars spent some of them are puzzling i must admit but it all seems to be in good fun for the most part i can t help feeling though that the idea of costumes at gencon feeds some peoples exhibitionist tendencies so dude in the leather g string that paraded around for 2 days legally naked and all the rest of the similarly benighted save it for your mirror at home i truly do not care how well you re ripped put some damned clothes on gencon isn t naked city in where they have real naked contests if any female in attendance had shown that much skin she would have been cited for public nudity i no longer smoke tobacco but i still make regular trips to the smoking areas to see old friends and use my vape it was during a few of these sojourns that i noticed a phenomenon that i do not pretend to understand apparently some of the vapers there are looking for future employment as human smoke screens wwii destroyers should have been so efficient what is with the huge clouds isn t all that juice wasted attendance was pretty flat this year right around 61k attendees same as last year turnstile numbers how many attend each day added together over the 4 days were way up i think i know why thursday was insane i m guessing that a whole lot of gamers decided to take the whole four days i do know that some items at some booths were gone by friday noon for the first time ever i thought to buy a gencon souvenir they had a nice messenger bag i liked they were sold out on thursday other than a tragic inability to understand traffic rules the crowd was as well behaved and courteous as you would expect a gathering of gamers to be i witnessed many acts of kindness and none of boorish behavior the vendor hall this year was the largest ever i believe they may have added about 11 rows when they expanded i do know that my achy and arthritic knees and ankles gave out the first time at row 19 i completed my circuit the next day artist s alley was embroiled in controversy over who got in and who didn t including a couple of long time denizens of the alley whose work was not accepted this year my god has this also become politically corrupted now with petty jealousies and spite on a positive note i was able to pick up three boardgames shadows over camelot powergrid deluxe and a new game that looks quite interesting called council of blackthorn that i think my group might like as well as a couple of silly card games i got really lucky on a boardgame i saw coming up for auction after my shift was done a fasa game i did not have from the series they did on james clavell s stuff called shogun i scribbled a proxy on the bid card and got the game for about 65 of the proxy it was much later when i opened it and found it to be un punched every year there are new vendors at gc and this year was no exception there is an ever increasing number of what i call non game vendors selling jewelry and knick knacks as well as esoteric stuff like kilts steampunk clothing and accessories mapping software replica weapons and stuffed animals these last must be something to do with anime as the majority of them had asian features ah well i don t have to understand it for you to have fun about a year and a half ago some film maker types had the idea that stefan pokorny ceo and mastermind of dwarven forge was an interesting guy they followed him around for over a year making a documentary about him they named the movie the dwarvenaut it had been shown only a handful of times at film festivals around the country before gencon where it debuted to the public full disclosure demands that i say up front that i consider stefan to be both an amazingly talented guy but better yet my friend i spent a bunch of time in the df booth the crew of ladies that susy assembled were great to spend time with there is a glaring error in the credits of the movie the post production clods spelled my name incorrectly so i was signing copies of the dvd s and blu rays with the correct spelling they were specially priced for gc 50 off amazon s price and signed by both stefan and myself the movie is very very interesting i am in it very briefly and act sort of annoyingly so no ego in this recommendation stefan is an amazingly talented artist capable of producing fine art as well as amazing sculptures of castles and caverns and dungeons and monsters and the like the blu ray has some extra stuff much more interesting to us gamers like a 15 minute documentary on garycon and more treat yourself and pick one up last year the charity auction raked in about 12k we smoked that figure this year with over 17k cardhalla raises a hefty chunk and the people at mayfair games donate a hefty chunk of cash each year frank and i got them rolling and fired up the first hour and the rest of them ran with it i still get a great deal of pleasure working in the charity auction next year we will have twinkies again inside auction reference for those in the know the question now is this has gencon gotten too big the best four days in gaming as they like to style themselves may be getting too big for its own good they had a record number of ticketed events this year those events were spread all over hell and gone just about every downtown hotel with the exception of the conrad had games running somewhere the convention spilled over into the lucas oil center this year making for a venue that is very spread out my first gencon was in 74 a couple hundred of us crammed into a non air conditioned venue in august the air was redolent and we all sweat through it together the shared experience bonded us the sweat is still there in indy while the venue has superior ventilation it is still a daunting proposition sadly i have heard a lot of gamers over the past year say that they just weren t feeling indy anymore particularly in the midwest we have several very viable smaller cons that are growing two that stand out in my mind are gary con and gamehole con both in wi one in march and the other in november full disclosure demands that i acknowledge my pledge to gary s offspring to support garycon as long as i am physically able that i made upon his death everything changes with time but the mountains or so the old saying goes i know that there are enormous game conventions or shows in europe that dwarf gencon i cannot wrap my head around what they must be like the fun i seek when i go to gencon is no longer gaming related at least not in the way it once was my enjoyment comes from seeing old friends looking at new products and working the crowd in the auction i no longer get to play games at gencon i am fortunate in that i get to attend several cons each year as a guest at these events totalcon garycon ntrpgcon and gamehole con i get to play games with strangers and friends that is what game cons have always been about for me posted by kaskoid at 7 52 pm 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday july 21 2016 where s the beef who remembers clara peller she was the irascible little old lady in the wendy s ads in the early to mid 80 s demanding to know where s the beef she made a million bucks demanding answers in a sense i have a new question for the gygax mem fund gmf i have searched the records of the state of wisc i have contacted the probate court of walworth county wisc there has been no will probated after gary s death gail carpenter gygax gcg would have the world believe that gary died intestate i happen to know that he had one while i worked for him he told of the unique provisions that he had modeled after his i believe it was grandfather i wonder what happened to that one nearly two months ago the gmf through one of its shills promised us a complete audit by a third party firm or accountant where is it the tax returns provided some years after they should have been available according to the laws concerning 501 c 3 s chartered in wi do not add up literally they don t add up they also show another disturbing trend according to the expenses listed on the returns the gmf has ground to a virtual standstill allowing for the fact that gcg was ill for a good deal of time one year i find it odd that the gmf raised more money during the year she was ill than they did the following year when she was apparently healthy or at least healthier now the gmf wants to sell us bricks come on where will they likely end up according to public records available for the state of wisc there has been no meeting with the city council in lake geneva about the site for some time a couple of years one has to wonder and can only speculate in this tangled web one might speculate as to the values apparently displayed if the memorial is so very important to her why did she feel it was necessary to spend time and money trademarking gary s name even going so far as to force his sons to give up their publishing effort gygax magazine tower of gygax possibly the best way we gamers could have celebrated gary and his creation was essentially killed by gcg it started out as a volunteer effort to do something to remember and pay tribute to gary a bunch of us old farts and a bunch of younger ones all designed and wrote up one or more rooms for the tower the premise being that if you survived a room you were immediately in another deaths were frequent and expected frequently when a player died he got up from the table and was immediately replaced by the next guy in line we had all ages and laughed ourselves silly more often than not then gcg told gencon that they did not have gcg s permission to use the name gygax if they wanted to use it she demanded a piece of the action trouble was there was no action so what could have become a living dynamic tribute is now just a memory ironically indiana is the only state where that might work what s next an admission cost to a memorial that is no closer today to being built than it was four years ago one can only speculate all of us that have a stake in this issue who made contributions and bought books deserve to know what is going on otherwise must we begin to see this as yet another failed kickstarter like project foisted off onto the gaming community posted by kaskoid at 9 25 am 19 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday may 17 2016 interview with darlene may 2016 darlene best known for her iconic work in illustrating ad d 1e and the greyhawk maps and i go back a long way together even before tsr was buying her art i was buying it for dragon magazine we share many interests and it was with great delight that i found out about her involvement with this unusual system and that she was back with us in the gaming field for the remainder of this piece we will only use initials less typing tk so d what have you been up to lately d i ve been up to my share of mischief but what i have on my mind to talk about today is my artistic contribution to a virtually new 336 page hard back fantasy role playing game published last december 2015 tk so tell us d the book is called mythos arcanum and its game system was inspired by old school d d tk i have skimmed it mainly to see all the gorgeous art what makes this different from all of the other clones d the author joe aragon juxtaposes modern day rules with allegorical content it s different from older fantasy role playing games in that during the course of the game it encourages players to 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