[Deptheads] Guest of Honor/Special Guests for Gamex

Fri Feb 29 12:58:27 PST 2008

When inviting a company, we will probably have to decide how many staff we are willing to house and fly out.   It would certainly be more than 1 person and it certainly would be expensive.   However, the expection on the GoH company would be to run a slate of events, advertise us on the company website, advertise us in their newsletters and essentially be a partner with us for the convention weekend.  

  The actual goal with Company as GoH is to host a "Con within a Con" where if Days of Wonder came, we would essentially host the DoW Con and advertise aggressive across DoW fans on the West Coast.  

  The math is tricky but we would have to find a way to ensure that if X dollars were spent bringing them out, we would make X+Y dollars from the increased attendance because they were invited.   Preferally 2X at a minimum. 

  - R

DB <noldor at gmail.com> wrote:
  Rob, the company as Guest of Honor thing is an intriguing idea but the danger there is that these companies think we’re going to house their staff (and pay for their flights) as opposed to those expectatiosn being one person.  So if we can communicate to them otherwise, then yes, that’s an idea worth pursuing.

On 2/29/08 10:27 AM, "Robert Lionheart" <spinachcat at yahoo.com> wrote:

  RPG people as Special Guests / Play with the Creator are good.   However, as GoH, they don't have the draw with the rare exception that we could have WotC designers talk about 4e to people anticipating the game, but don't have it yet.   The same people who would be good in May would be not be useful in September simply because the anticipation would be over. 

As for video games, it would much better to bring a guest company that would run a room dedicated to their company product than just a single speaker.  

Maybe that's the key to getting manufacturers to the con...make them the GoH.  Privateer Press, Days of Wonder, Fantasy Flight and Cheapass Games would all be great for such a GoH. 

- R

DB <noldor at gmail.com> wrote:

  Sandy might be good because he's a computer game designer as well as a legend because of Call of Cthulhu. 

As for Jim Ward, I don't know how many people are aware of him any more. 

-----Original Message-----
From: "Janice Sellers" 

Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:52:52 
To:deptheads at strategicon.net
Subject: Re: [Deptheads] Guest of Honor/Special Guests for Gamex

Would either Sandy Petersen or Jim Ward be considered viable as an RPG
guest? I don't think we could manage either for Gamex, because their
schedules tend to be filled fairly early, but just wanted to see what
people think.

Janice

On 2/25/08, Eric Burgess wrote:
> I think we've already gone around and around on that before. RPG guests not
> much of a draw. The RPG team has already pretty much agreed to that
> previously.
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