[Deptheads] Guest of Honor/Special Guests for Gamex

Mon Feb 25 16:31:50 PST 2008

How active are our chit / board wargamers at our cons?  Jim was an impressive designer  in thru the 70s and 80s, but I wonder if people are still playing those today.  Other than ASL, I don't remember seeing much chit games happening.   A&A really put a nail in the chit coffin. 

  - Robert

tim at stugiii.com wrote:
  I know it has been a while...but for boardgaming...what about Jim Dunnigan?

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From: Robert Lionheart [mailto:spinachcat at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 05:41 PM
To: deptheads at strategicon.net
Subject: Re: [Deptheads] Guest of Honor/Special Guests for Gamex

  If we can get Blizzard to host a WoW room, then certainly we should go for Blizzard folk as the Guest of Honor. 

  If we can get Wizards of the Coast to make a 4e launch site with permission for our dealers to sell 4e books a week early, then we should get the D&D Brand Manager or other Big Cheese as Guest of Honor along with bringing several of their designers as Special Guests. 

  The goal here would be to pimp 4e RPG, 4e RPGA and the collectible 4e minis skirmish game so 1 GOH promotes 3 departments.  4e will be on sale in some countries by Gamex and if our people could buy books two weeks early, our dealers room would be overrun. 

  Heck, even with did a 4e books for charity sale, it would be amazing. 

  If neither Blizzard or WotC will play ball, a board game or minis guest is probably best.  My vote would be Fantasy Flight since they are the gorilla of boardgaming right now.  You need guests who teach people how to win games.   People listed to Reiner because they hoped to glean a secret strategy to help them win more. 

  RPG guests are not useful in general because they can't tell you how to win.   However, this changes with 4e WotC folk because they can talk about (a) the new game and its future (b) talk about "character building" which is as close to winning as RPGs get.  

  - R

Eric Burgess <erburgess at gmail.com> wrote:
    Do you want me to ask Zev (Z-Man Games)? I offhandedly chatted with him about it at BGG.CON and I think he'd come on the same terms as Jay. I'm also sure he'd do similar sessions like Jay and Steve did with people wanting to show off their games (which I know was a draw for Gamex last year - I spoke to many would-be designers who wanted to come and see him).

  This would also coincide with the recent release of Z-Man's Agricola, the hottest euro board game to come out in the last couple of years. We could do an event related to it, as well as other hot Z-Man titles right now (1960 and Pandemic). It would also be in line with Gamex last year featuring a game company instead of a designer (if that means anything...)

  -- 
...ERB

Boardgame Babylon - 2007 Board Game Internet Award winner for Best Podcast/Videocast

  On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Karl Kreder <zeotter at gmail.com> wrote:
  I agree with Patrick and Denys also, I think that companies showing up are bigger draws than individuals with the some exceptions like Reiner Knizia.

Getting Days of Wonder, Privateer Press, etc...  Would be a huge draw.     

  On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:32 PM, DB <noldor at gmail.com> wrote:
  I agree but as others have said, RPG guests aren't a big draw. 4e designers might be a draw but not too many others.

Let's focus on getting some minis celebs out such as the Privateer Press folks. The whole Warmachine thing is the next minis phenomena and we really should be establishing a relationship with those guys to make strategicon their California/southern West Coast event home.  So far, it feels like a missed opportunity.

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From: "Janice Sellers" <janicemsj at gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:16:20
To:deptheads at strategicon.net
Subject: Re: [Deptheads] Guest of Honor/Special Guests for Gamex

I think we need to make sure that we don't concentrate so heavily on
board game guests, that we give the perception we're focused only in
that area.

Janice

On 2/22/08, Eric Burgess <erburgess at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll check with Aldie. I have a feeler out for Alan Moon and can reach out
> to Friedemann, too. He was just the guest at BGG.CON, of course, so let me
> know if we think that would still be a big draw. It might be more impressive
> to get some of the big designers that don't show up at US cons all the time
> (Michael Schacht, Bruno Faiduitti, Wolfgang Kramer)
>
> For publishers, I can ask Zev but I have the same question as Patrick - will
> we do the same we did for Jay (room/board/airfare) to get him out?
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