Getting involved with the Forge Booth @ GenCon

[M Jason Parent]

I'm curious how one gets involved with the Forge Booth at GenCon Indy. I will have at least one, if not two self-owned and self-published RPGs in print by the time we get to Indy, but I neither have the finances nor the time to do my own booth at this event (for those who don't know, my wife is the business manager for the ENnie / GenCon RPG awards, so that sucks up a lot of our time, as does running our annual hospitality suite just upstairs from this year's Forge gaming nights at the suites).

I will have the revised and finalized AssassinX: The Killing Game in print by then, and -may- have Junk Dreams ready to go too. (but I'm not putting money on Junk Dreams yet - anyways, I like the idea of doing Violence one year, Drugs the next, then either Rock & Roll or Sex the next year, etc... stick to a theme of socially reprehensible RPGs). Between the awards, the schmoozing, and the Canadiana Hospitality Suite, I should be available to work the booth for at least 4 hours a day.

So, how do I get involved?

[Luke]

You holdeth thine horses. And then, when Sir Ron giveth the word, you submitteth your participation to him.

Said processes typically transpire in February or March.

-L

[Andy Kitkowski]

Hey Jason! Considering you were one of the big supporters of the Indie RPG Awards in the beginning (with your d20 products), it's a pleasure seeing you getting involved again with Indie-rerlated stuff!

Anyway, basically Ron/Luke/someone will start a thread around next April or May, discussing booth layout and the like, and shortly thereafter begin taking requests to be included in the booth.  I'd say "just keep watching the boards", but you might want to ping Ron/Luke directly through PM, requesting that, if they remember, to PM you when they start the aforementioned threads.

In any case, it'll be a few months before the discussions start. If things roll like last year, that is.

-Andy

[timfire]

Also, there will be a "buy-in" fee. Last year, it was $100 or $200 + badge fees. I can't say how much it will be this year.

[M Jason Parent]

Well, due to the ENnie / GenCon awards, I'm king of the free badges (GenCon staff handed them out like candy to us last year... went up to the booth and were told that the guy we were supposed to meet was gone to buy craft goods for the kid track, so just to write up a list of who needs badges... and then they handed them over without blinking at the list of 24 names we gave em).

So I'll wait for the sign up to start and throw my money into the pot then.

[Jasper the Mimbo]

due to the ENnie / GenCon awards, I'm king of the free badges .

The devil in me says this sounds exploitable.....

Welcome to the indie team, btw.

[M Jason Parent]

The devil in me says this sounds exploitable.....

Welcome to the indie team, btw.

Not overly exploitable, because my wife is in charge of the awards, and she's not going to hand them out to everyone I ask. However, it means that I get free access, as well as whoever I drag along to help demo AssassinX.

I just don't have the money or the time to run a full boot at GenCon - especially with Denise running the ENnies booth. It was one thing back when the two of us would hold down a booth, but we can't hold down two booths at a show of this size.