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#1
cyrocloud
Feb 27, 2008 19:56:31 I here by suggest that ther be a CO jamboree. It would be a huge geeky event in which those of the CO mentality would talk about D&D stuff.

Logistically and geographically the entire idea is slightly flawed. There are many of those of the CO oreint spread accross many continents and economic backrounds. To make this idea feasible I have seen one idea, it should be leach onto another geeky even like gencon. (The 4e prerelease thing would be cool, but I have a strange feeling we would make some of those on the R&D boards cry...)

I have came here to see if those of the great CO boards would be interested in such an event.
#2
jameswilliamogle
Feb 27, 2008 20:04:46 Chat is up and running.
#3
archerpwr
Feb 27, 2008 21:05:09
Chat is up and running.

Chat?
#4
22_Over_7
Feb 27, 2008 21:10:57 I was thinking about a get-together @ GenCon as well.
#5
archerpwr
Feb 27, 2008 21:12:59
I was thinking about a get-together @ GenCon as well.

When is the next GenCon? There's a good chance of me being there. If anybody is going to be at A-Kon in Dallas, TX this year I'll be there and it'd be cool to meet some other folks from the CO.
http://a-kon.com/
May 30th is the next one.
Edit 2: http://www.gencon.com/2008/indy/attendees/faq.aspx Probably can't make it due to the date. Likely to be setting up for college.
#6
22_Over_7
Feb 27, 2008 21:31:16 Pftt. Get that crap done BEFORE GenCon
#7
ChristopherGroves
Feb 27, 2008 21:33:28 XP is this weekend and sadly, I'm not going. This is two in a row.

:sigh:

GenCon is a possibility.
#8
Blade2718
Feb 27, 2008 22:11:15 GenCon might be fun.
#9
nebo
Feb 27, 2008 23:01:37 I don't suppose anyone is going to GenCon Australia?
#10
banor
Feb 27, 2008 23:45:11
I don't suppose anyone is going to GenCon Australia?

17 hours of car to get to GenCon is something I swore myself to do once, might be a good idea for this year.
#11
darksamuari
Feb 28, 2008 0:00:20 Hey, I've been talking to Cyrocloud about putting something like this on for this year. I think a good idea may be to break up ideas into to categories:
Time of the Year
Correlation of an Event

This isn't to say we have to or must limit ourselves to these.

In general, I want to meet up with all of you awesome dudes and ladies, and have a merry and memorable time.
#12
true_shinken
Feb 28, 2008 1:44:01
In general, I want to meet up with all of you awesome dudes and ladies, and have a merry and memorable time.

Please tell me that was a joke.
#13
green_eyes
Feb 28, 2008 1:50:28 I could bring my GF with me to GenCon UK this august.

Makes it one lady present at the very least.
#14
22_Over_7
Feb 28, 2008 1:51:54
Please tell me that was a joke.

I think, statistically, they have to exist.
#15
mittenninja
Feb 28, 2008 1:52:44 I'm definitely going to be attending GenCon Indy this summer. I'm not sure how many others will be though.
#16
green_eyes
Feb 28, 2008 3:06:46
I think, statistically, they have to exist.

The first one to confess will get my kudos. And a cookie.
#17
22_Over_7
Feb 28, 2008 3:11:01 Didn't a few pop up when we were speculating as to Caelic's "vacation"?
#18
Chaos_Redefined
Feb 28, 2008 3:46:41 Umm... wasn't one of the biggest contributors to these boards a women? Specifically, Snow Savant.
#19
green_eyes
Feb 28, 2008 4:57:57 Oh, yes. She was! Kudos to her. And a bag of cookies.
#20
cyrocloud
Feb 28, 2008 6:01:03 I guess such a feat as this could be repeated anually or bianually. Personally a CO jamboree strikes me as something that repeats.
#21
nebo
Feb 28, 2008 6:24:37 Damn you Americans and your living-in-the-same-countryness. *shakes fist*
#22
green_eyes
Feb 28, 2008 6:26:51 Look, who's talking. Wanna try an get an American visa? Here in Russia?
I assure you, you know nothing of damnation.
#23
CantripN
Feb 28, 2008 6:36:21 Not as complicated here. Might even be automatic soon. Still can't go because I'm an army slave for the next few years...
#24
jameswilliamogle
Feb 28, 2008 7:07:30
Look, who's talking. Wanna try an get an American visa? Here in Russia?
I assure you, you know nothing of damnation.

In Soviet Russia, Visa get you!
#25
darksamuari
Feb 28, 2008 12:10:01 Alright, so I will begin to just brainstorm.

The best time of the year for this is probably during the summer (college/high school is out) for most of us.

If we want to try to meet up at an event we should list some, I'll start. The Penny-Arcade Expo is a convention I always attend, so thats an easy possibility if you lived in Washington (I know, I know, You live in Australia, Siberia, Narnia, ect...).

Thoughts?
#26
jameswilliamogle
Feb 28, 2008 12:31:55 edit double post!
#27
jameswilliamogle
Feb 28, 2008 12:35:09 I'm FL, now, so thats out for me. I'm not really a Con guy... I like my dnd in short 4-5h chunks, a couple times a week.
#28
tshern
Feb 28, 2008 14:37:51 How much beer would this occasion entail? Should there be a reasonable amount of that and decent entertainment, I might consider dragging myself from the haven we know as Finland.
#29
darksamuari
Feb 28, 2008 14:43:31
How much beer would this occasion entail? Should there be a reasonable amount of that and decent entertainment, I might consider dragging myself from the haven we know as Finland.

I'm 19 and going for an education degree, so I can vouch that I would not be transporting any alcohol to such an event (that isn't to say others couldn't).

You'd drag yourself from Finland for such an event?
#30
tshern
Feb 28, 2008 15:37:47 Not for it only and depending on how much money I've get together. I could have a little trip round the States to see some people.
#31
colm_l
Feb 29, 2008 10:57:36
Please tell me that was a joke.

There's at least a half dozen regulars/past regulars who are women. They just don't really advertise it.
#32
alastar
Feb 29, 2008 13:45:02 By then if i manage to get my hands on a car i am SO there.

Don't be scared by my rough cannuck appearance thought, I took jotunbrud as a level 1 racial feat.

My gf would find me strange thought...
#33
22_Over_7
Mar 02, 2008 0:27:34

I think this deserves more serious consideration.
#34
Tempest_Stormwind
Mar 02, 2008 0:35:34 Depends on my situation come Gen Con (both timewise and financial), but I'd be interested.
#35
nanshork
Mar 02, 2008 0:41:41 I have no money, no car, and live in New Mexico of all places. We never get any cons.
#36
temetnosce
Mar 02, 2008 0:54:14 Well I couldn't do GenCon (my car isn't up to driving across most of the USA and neither am I). However if you were going to hold this at PAX I might try to show. I've wanted to attend that for a while but never managed to convince myself to drive for 8 hours (laziness is one of my better qualities).
#37
caelic
Mar 02, 2008 18:54:16 No GenCon for me this year. I got into this cool new game called House: the Mortgaging. It's fun, but, MAN, is it expensive to play!
#38
tshern
Mar 02, 2008 19:04:49
No GenCon for me this year. I got into this cool new game called House: the Mortgaging. It's fun, but, MAN, is it expensive to play!

Heard about that too, but I was told it has too harsh requirements for students. Maybe when the next edition comes...
#39
Tempest_Stormwind
Mar 02, 2008 19:44:55
Heard about that too, but I was told it has too harsh requirements for students. Maybe when the next edition comes...

You're a CO board member. If the best books aren't allowed, improvise with what you've got. ;)
#40
tshern
Mar 02, 2008 19:49:20
You're a CO board member. If the best books aren't allowed, improvise with what you've got. ;)

That post, disregarding the link and that smiley, sounded exactly like something our Sergeants yelled at us when we were to build a bridge over a river without decent materials during a combat training... Apart from that, I lol'd when I saw the picture.
#41
Blade2718
Mar 02, 2008 20:07:32
You're a CO board member. If the best books aren't allowed, improvise with what you've got. ;)

As long as the weather is good, that would actually be pretty cool.
#42
jameswilliamogle
Mar 02, 2008 21:40:32 Who's in the southeast US?
#43
archerpwr
Mar 02, 2008 21:41:51
Who's in the southeast US?

Like Florida? I'm in north Texas.
#44
jameswilliamogle
Mar 02, 2008 21:43:46
Like Florida? I'm in north Texas.

Right... from 2002 until August 2007 I was in College Station. 2h, man, 2h...
#45
archerpwr
Mar 02, 2008 21:51:03
Right... from 2002 until August 2007 I was in College Station. 2h, man, 2h...

2h? What is?
#46
cyrocloud
Mar 02, 2008 21:53:34 W00t I'm going to indianapolis for a wedding during the summer. unfortunatly it is in june...
#47
jameswilliamogle
Mar 02, 2008 21:55:19
2h? What is?

2 hour trip. TX, right? We measure distance in time :D.
#48
archerpwr
Mar 02, 2008 21:57:36
2 hour trip. TX, right? We measure distance in time :D.

Indeed we do :D
#49
nanshork
Mar 03, 2008 1:29:03 I'm in NE New Mexico, but I'm from the Austin area and go back every year.
#50
keldar
Mar 03, 2008 3:31:04
2 hour trip. TX, right? We measure distance in time :D.

That's all distance really is after all. Position relative to time.

It might be interesting to see if someone can book space at Gen Con Indy for a CO meeting. Invite the designers, watch them cringe as 4.0 is broken right in front of their eyes!
#51
22_Over_7
Mar 03, 2008 3:43:13
It might be interesting to see if someone can book space at Gen Con Indy for a CO meeting. Invite the designers, watch them cringe as 4.0 is broken right in front of their eyes!

It might take a little more time than that, but that could be interesting.
#52
Blade2718
Mar 03, 2008 5:28:03 ctrl-alt-del
#53
cyrocloud
May 17, 2008 10:54:28 "meow" (my roar of effort is a little wimpy right now. I was laughing to much after looking up liger on google images.) Any way are people still looking forward to this.
#54
altpersona
May 17, 2008 11:00:52
Who's in the southeast US?

i am, but im not driving more than 30 minutes to play...
#55
Midnight_v
May 17, 2008 15:39:22
Like Florida? I'm in north Texas.

+1 ...
Be seeing you at A-Kon at least. I'm in Arlington by the parks mall so it'll be some searcing for it but I'll be there. You whereing your Archepwr shirt?:D
#56
archerpwr
May 17, 2008 17:11:38
+1 ...
Be seeing you at A-Kon at least. I'm in Arlington by the parks mall so it'll be some searcing for it but I'll be there. You whereing your Archepwr shirt?:D

Carrollton here. Weren't you planning on being at Vista Ridge Mall like the Wed. before the Con? I've got my badge registered as archerpwr.
#57
Midnight_v
May 17, 2008 19:36:05 I never been to one so I know nothing aobut the process...
#58
archerpwr
May 17, 2008 19:43:53
I never been to one so I know nothing aobut the process...

Preorder your ticket. It's about a 6 hour wait to buy at the door (I did this last year). Preorder is only about 15 minute wait.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 cyrocloud Feb 27, 2008 19:56:31	I here by suggest that ther be a CO jamboree. It would be a huge geeky event in which those of the CO mentality would talk about D&D stuff. Logistically and geographically the entire idea is slightly flawed. There are many of those of the CO oreint spread accross many continents and economic backrounds. To make this idea feasible I have seen one idea, it should be leach onto another geeky even like gencon. (The 4e prerelease thing would be cool, but I have a strange feeling we would make some of those on the R&D boards cry...) I have came here to see if those of the great CO boards would be interested in such an event.
#2 jameswilliamogle Feb 27, 2008 20:04:46	Chat is up and running.
#3 archerpwr Feb 27, 2008 21:05:09	Chat is up and running. Chat?
#4 22_Over_7 Feb 27, 2008 21:10:57	I was thinking about a get-together @ GenCon as well.
#5 archerpwr Feb 27, 2008 21:12:59	I was thinking about a get-together @ GenCon as well. When is the next GenCon? There's a good chance of me being there. If anybody is going to be at A-Kon in Dallas, TX this year I'll be there and it'd be cool to meet some other folks from the CO. http://a-kon.com/ May 30th is the next one. Edit 2: http://www.gencon.com/2008/indy/attendees/faq.aspx Probably can't make it due to the date. Likely to be setting up for college.
#6 22_Over_7 Feb 27, 2008 21:31:16	Pftt. Get that crap done BEFORE GenCon
#7 ChristopherGroves Feb 27, 2008 21:33:28	XP is this weekend and sadly, I'm not going. This is two in a row. :sigh: GenCon is a possibility.
#8 Blade2718 Feb 27, 2008 22:11:15	GenCon might be fun.
#9 nebo Feb 27, 2008 23:01:37	I don't suppose anyone is going to GenCon Australia?
#10 banor Feb 27, 2008 23:45:11	I don't suppose anyone is going to GenCon Australia? 17 hours of car to get to GenCon is something I swore myself to do once, might be a good idea for this year.
#11 darksamuari Feb 28, 2008 0:00:20	Hey, I've been talking to Cyrocloud about putting something like this on for this year. I think a good idea may be to break up ideas into to categories: Time of the Year Correlation of an Event This isn't to say we have to or must limit ourselves to these. In general, I want to meet up with all of you awesome dudes and ladies, and have a merry and memorable time.
#12 true_shinken Feb 28, 2008 1:44:01	In general, I want to meet up with all of you awesome dudes and ladies, and have a merry and memorable time. Please tell me that was a joke.
#13 green_eyes Feb 28, 2008 1:50:28	I could bring my GF with me to GenCon UK this august. Makes it one lady present at the very least.
#14 22_Over_7 Feb 28, 2008 1:51:54	Please tell me that was a joke. I think, statistically, they have to exist.
#15 mittenninja Feb 28, 2008 1:52:44	I'm definitely going to be attending GenCon Indy this summer. I'm not sure how many others will be though.
#16 green_eyes Feb 28, 2008 3:06:46	I think, statistically, they have to exist. The first one to confess will get my kudos. And a cookie.
#17 22_Over_7 Feb 28, 2008 3:11:01	Didn't a few pop up when we were speculating as to Caelic's "vacation"?
#18 Chaos_Redefined Feb 28, 2008 3:46:41	Umm... wasn't one of the biggest contributors to these boards a women? Specifically, Snow Savant.
#19 green_eyes Feb 28, 2008 4:57:57	Oh, yes. She was! Kudos to her. And a bag of cookies.
#20 cyrocloud Feb 28, 2008 6:01:03	I guess such a feat as this could be repeated anually or bianually. Personally a CO jamboree strikes me as something that repeats.
#21 nebo Feb 28, 2008 6:24:37	Damn you Americans and your living-in-the-same-countryness. shakes fist
#22 green_eyes Feb 28, 2008 6:26:51	Look, who's talking. Wanna try an get an American visa? Here in Russia? I assure you, you know nothing of damnation.
#23 CantripN Feb 28, 2008 6:36:21	Not as complicated here. Might even be automatic soon. Still can't go because I'm an army slave for the next few years...
#24 jameswilliamogle Feb 28, 2008 7:07:30	Look, who's talking. Wanna try an get an American visa? Here in Russia? I assure you, you know nothing of damnation. In Soviet Russia, Visa get you!
#25 darksamuari Feb 28, 2008 12:10:01	Alright, so I will begin to just brainstorm. The best time of the year for this is probably during the summer (college/high school is out) for most of us. If we want to try to meet up at an event we should list some, I'll start. The Penny-Arcade Expo is a convention I always attend, so thats an easy possibility if you lived in Washington (I know, I know, You live in Australia, Siberia, Narnia, ect...). Thoughts?
#26 jameswilliamogle Feb 28, 2008 12:31:55	edit double post!
#27 jameswilliamogle Feb 28, 2008 12:35:09	I'm FL, now, so thats out for me. I'm not really a Con guy... I like my dnd in short 4-5h chunks, a couple times a week.
#28 tshern Feb 28, 2008 14:37:51	How much beer would this occasion entail? Should there be a reasonable amount of that and decent entertainment, I might consider dragging myself from the haven we know as Finland.
#29 darksamuari Feb 28, 2008 14:43:31	How much beer would this occasion entail? Should there be a reasonable amount of that and decent entertainment, I might consider dragging myself from the haven we know as Finland. I'm 19 and going for an education degree, so I can vouch that I would not be transporting any alcohol to such an event (that isn't to say others couldn't). You'd drag yourself from Finland for such an event?
#30 tshern Feb 28, 2008 15:37:47	Not for it only and depending on how much money I've get together. I could have a little trip round the States to see some people.
#31 colm_l Feb 29, 2008 10:57:36	Please tell me that was a joke. There's at least a half dozen regulars/past regulars who are women. They just don't really advertise it.
#32 alastar Feb 29, 2008 13:45:02	By then if i manage to get my hands on a car i am SO there. Don't be scared by my rough cannuck appearance thought, I took jotunbrud as a level 1 racial feat. My gf would find me strange thought...
#33 22_Over_7 Mar 02, 2008 0:27:34	I think this deserves more serious consideration.
#34 Tempest_Stormwind Mar 02, 2008 0:35:34	Depends on my situation come Gen Con (both timewise and financial), but I'd be interested.
#35 nanshork Mar 02, 2008 0:41:41	I have no money, no car, and live in New Mexico of all places. We never get any cons.
#36 temetnosce Mar 02, 2008 0:54:14	Well I couldn't do GenCon (my car isn't up to driving across most of the USA and neither am I). However if you were going to hold this at PAX I might try to show. I've wanted to attend that for a while but never managed to convince myself to drive for 8 hours (laziness is one of my better qualities).
#37 caelic Mar 02, 2008 18:54:16	No GenCon for me this year. I got into this cool new game called House: the Mortgaging. It's fun, but, MAN, is it expensive to play!
#38 tshern Mar 02, 2008 19:04:49	No GenCon for me this year. I got into this cool new game called House: the Mortgaging. It's fun, but, MAN, is it expensive to play! Heard about that too, but I was told it has too harsh requirements for students. Maybe when the next edition comes...
#39 Tempest_Stormwind Mar 02, 2008 19:44:55	Heard about that too, but I was told it has too harsh requirements for students. Maybe when the next edition comes... You're a CO board member. If the best books aren't allowed, improvise with what you've got. ;)
#40 tshern Mar 02, 2008 19:49:20	You're a CO board member. If the best books aren't allowed, improvise with what you've got. ;) That post, disregarding the link and that smiley, sounded exactly like something our Sergeants yelled at us when we were to build a bridge over a river without decent materials during a combat training... Apart from that, I lol'd when I saw the picture.
#41 Blade2718 Mar 02, 2008 20:07:32	You're a CO board member. If the best books aren't allowed, improvise with what you've got. ;) As long as the weather is good, that would actually be pretty cool.
#42 jameswilliamogle Mar 02, 2008 21:40:32	Who's in the southeast US?
#43 archerpwr Mar 02, 2008 21:41:51	Who's in the southeast US? Like Florida? I'm in north Texas.
#44 jameswilliamogle Mar 02, 2008 21:43:46	Like Florida? I'm in north Texas. Right... from 2002 until August 2007 I was in College Station. 2h, man, 2h...
#45 archerpwr Mar 02, 2008 21:51:03	Right... from 2002 until August 2007 I was in College Station. 2h, man, 2h... 2h? What is?
#46 cyrocloud Mar 02, 2008 21:53:34	W00t I'm going to indianapolis for a wedding during the summer. unfortunatly it is in june...
#47 jameswilliamogle Mar 02, 2008 21:55:19	2h? What is? 2 hour trip. TX, right? We measure distance in time :D.
#48 archerpwr Mar 02, 2008 21:57:36	2 hour trip. TX, right? We measure distance in time :D. Indeed we do :D
#49 nanshork Mar 03, 2008 1:29:03	I'm in NE New Mexico, but I'm from the Austin area and go back every year.
#50 keldar Mar 03, 2008 3:31:04	2 hour trip. TX, right? We measure distance in time :D. That's all distance really is after all. Position relative to time. It might be interesting to see if someone can book space at Gen Con Indy for a CO meeting. Invite the designers, watch them cringe as 4.0 is broken right in front of their eyes!
#51 22_Over_7 Mar 03, 2008 3:43:13	It might be interesting to see if someone can book space at Gen Con Indy for a CO meeting. Invite the designers, watch them cringe as 4.0 is broken right in front of their eyes! It might take a little more time than that, but that could be interesting.
#52 Blade2718 Mar 03, 2008 5:28:03	ctrl-alt-del
#53 cyrocloud May 17, 2008 10:54:28	"meow" (my roar of effort is a little wimpy right now. I was laughing to much after looking up liger on google images.) Any way are people still looking forward to this.
#54 altpersona May 17, 2008 11:00:52	Who's in the southeast US? i am, but im not driving more than 30 minutes to play...
#55 Midnight_v May 17, 2008 15:39:22	Like Florida? I'm in north Texas. +1 ... Be seeing you at A-Kon at least. I'm in Arlington by the parks mall so it'll be some searcing for it but I'll be there. You whereing your Archepwr shirt?:D
#56 archerpwr May 17, 2008 17:11:38	+1 ... Be seeing you at A-Kon at least. I'm in Arlington by the parks mall so it'll be some searcing for it but I'll be there. You whereing your Archepwr shirt?:D Carrollton here. Weren't you planning on being at Vista Ridge Mall like the Wed. before the Con? I've got my badge registered as archerpwr.
#57 Midnight_v May 17, 2008 19:36:05	I never been to one so I know nothing aobut the process...
#58 archerpwr May 17, 2008 19:43:53	I never been to one so I know nothing aobut the process... Preorder your ticket. It's about a 6 hour wait to buy at the door (I did this last year). Preorder is only about 15 minute wait.