[Deptheads] Strategicon - Private Games

[Evil5757 at aol.com]

Actually there is nothing wrong with the scenario that you describe below.  
If someone wants to play Talisman but only wants to play a 4 player game so 
it  doesn't take as long, he can run it as an event and take a table. Also, 
someone  might want to run a game with "home rules" that they only have one 
set of (deck  of cards, figures, whatever). This would logistically make 
having the game with  more people impossible, but should be able to be done as 
an event.
 
The SJGames is the same situation. They only want a certain number of  
people in the game to increase the enjoyability factor for those that do get in  
the game or whatever metric they employ to determine how many people should 
be  in the game.
 
As far as Open Gaming goes, I would love to see a true Open Gaming room  
come back to our con, and when it does, there is nothing wrong with people  
putting in their events and requesting them to be put in Open Gaming (but 
we'll  cross that bridge when we get a real open gaming room).
 
To the remaining dilemma, as long as someone isn't coming to the con with  
all the slots in their game already spoken for by their friends (as has  
happened), then it is a public event and should be made available to everyone 
in  the schedule. If someone already has all the slots filled, they are 
welcome to  run the game in Open Gaming.
 
John
 
 
 
In a message dated 5/13/2013 12:45:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ssshanucon at yahoo.com writes:

Okay,  so what do I do with this situation:

John wants to play Mansions  of Madness.  He has one copy of the game.  He 
wants to play.   He does not want to accept more players than the one game. 
He wants to put it  on the schedule so other people know that he has the 
game and wants to play,  since he has no friends who want to play the game with 
him. John goes to the  website and puts in all the information, but limits 
his event to 4 people,  since MoM plays 5 and he already is claiming one of 
the spots.

Given your answer to my previous question, I think my only reasonable 
response  is to deny his event and make John find players on his own in open  
gaming.  Let me be perfectly clear on this: I am totally okay with  that.  I 
have been trying to accommodate these types of GMs by finding a  compromise of 
some kind, but I am perfectly willing to just say "No."  I  just want to 
make sure that is really my only option.  And before anybody  says anything, I 
do not believe approving a "public" event for only one game  is acceptable, 
since then the GM can argue that they are earning volunteer  hours towards 
a badge when all they are really doing is bringing their  favorite game and 
playing it.

Shane Sauby
Board Games Supervisor





 
  
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 From:  Eric M. Aldrich I <ealdrich at mac.com>
To: deptheads at strategicon.net  
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013  11:52 AM
Subject: Re:  [Deptheads] Strategicon - Private Games



That's correct. Private games are there to schedule non-public events.  
They allow us to plan the room schedule without the public seeing the games  
listed. They are not listed in the con book. Do not ever list a public event  
as private.  


Example of a private event: An internal board meeting during the con.


Eric


On May 12, 2013, at 10:01 PM, Shane Sauby wrote:



Hi  folks,

I cannot see  the private games on the schedule.  They need to show up on 
the game  search page so players know they are being scheduled.

Shane  Sauby
Board Games Supervisor




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