ForgeCon

[Valamir]

You know I just had a crazy idea.  There is a substantial number of Forge gamers between Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin.  We should pitch in rent a hotel conference room for a weekend in some mutually accessible location and have a little mini Forge Con.

In fact, you can probably find little clusters of Forgeites in several geographies.  Wouldn't it be cool to have ForgeCon Seattle, ForgeCon Midwest, and ForgeCon East.  Could even do t-shirts reminiscent of rock concert tours.

Anyway, I thought of it for purely selfish reasons.  There appears to be a good number of kick ass GMs who'd I'd love to play with in an environment less chaotic than GenCon.

[Matt Gwinn]

THAT WOULD KICK ASS!

[Ron Edwards]

Hello,

Chicago is centrally located.

Best,
Ron

[Mike Holmes]

This should probably be a new thread, but:

So is that some sort of invite, Ron?

;-)

Mike

[xiombarg]

So is that some sort of invite, Ron?

I can't resist:

EVERYONE CRASH WITH RON!

[jburneko]

Ah, hell, I used to scorn and call the midwest all kinds of nasty names.  Little did I know.  I'm so ashamed.

Jesse

[Clinton R. Nixon]

This is getting off-topic, but: if you guys do this, and plan it two months in advance, I'll fly my ass out to it for the weekend.

[Ron Edwards]

Whoops, way off-topic, and both your Humble Forum Leaders are contributing to it.

New thread time for the Forgecon thing. Please return to discussion of "Your ideal system," special emphasis on "your."

Best,
Ron

[Clinton R. Nixon]

And now I've taken care of it - split and moved. Continue ForgeCon discussion.

[xiombarg]

If this happens, so long as I have a couple months notice, there is a 90% likelyhood I will attend. I'd try to run a session of all my games ("Success", "Faster, Better, Cheaper", and "Rise Again") and a session or two of Wuthering Heights. Maybe a game of "Narrativist Vampire", since I think it can be done under Storyteller if you try, and perhaps even a stab at a "Narrativist Wargame" of some sort.

Hmmm, I better stop before I commit myself to running so much I won't get a chance to play.

[Mike Holmes]

As I was just writing to Ralph, Paul and I have discussed this idea quite a bit. There are, of course a lot of logistics to work out, but I don't think we'd need to worry about participation. The question is what sort of a locale to use if it gets beyond size where it could be run at, say, Ron's place. Which, now that the idea is out, I think it would.

Anybody have any suggestions for a space to play in?

Mike

[Matt Gwinn]

Chicago is centrally located.

I wouldn't say that.  there are at least 5 of us in the detroit area and a few more here in michigan and Chicago is about 5 hours away.  I think someplace like South Bend Indiana, Michigan City or Benton Harbor would be far more central for everyone, and probably a lot cheeper hotel and food wise.  Unless of course you're gonna let us stay at your place, or get us free rooms at the college :-)

,Matt G.

[Clinton R. Nixon]

I don't even live in the area, but my recommendation is either Madison, WI or Janesville, WI. Both are pretty good-sized towns, with lots of places to eat, drink and sleep, but would be a lot cheaper than Chicago. Madison has some good game stores, in addition, and is a college town - if we got someone to put up flyers ahead of time, we might meet some strangers.

[Matt Gwinn]

South Bend has Notre Dame so it's probably big enough.  And a pretty decent gaming store if I'm not mistaken.

,Matt G.

[Mike Holmes]

I don't even live in the area, but my recommendation is either Madison, WI or Janesville, WI. Both are pretty good-sized towns, with lots of places to eat, drink and sleep, but would be a lot cheaper than Chicago. Madison has some good game stores, in addition, and is a college town - if we got someone to put up flyers ahead of time, we might meet some strangers.

Well, Madtown is not particularly central. I lived there for many years, however, and it would be a great place to get together. Plus Sean "Unodiablo" Wipfli lives there, and I still know a few gamers up in that neck of the woods. Sean, how's space there look?

Geographically, Chicago is the big city that is most central. By weight of gamers, so far though, South Bend or so is much more central. That's where Paul and I were looking at (especially if we can pick up gamers like Jason Blair). And, yes, it's probably a lot cheaper there than in Chicago. And if we're looking at a hotel, that becomes very important.

Mike