[Deptheads] Strategicon Idea

[Strategicon Department Heads]

That is exactly how games on demand works for RPGs. Walk in. Say you got
some stuff to run. It gets put on a board. When the game fills it's in. I
still think that you should have to pre-register to run things for a badge
though.

On Jul 14, 2017 6:59 PM, "Strategicon Department Heads" <
deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:

> Message From: Shane Sauby  ssshanucon at yahoo.com
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>   In a conversation with a potential GM, the idea of "appointment gaming"
> came up.  What I mean by this is a GM who wants to bring a game to con and
> play it with others, but does not want to run an event or fill out
> paperwork.  They just want to play their game with people at the convention.
>   I was wondering if there is a system or program we could use to
> facilitate this.  I know Open Gaming used to have "Players Wanted" flags,
> but I was thinking something more technologically advanced and less
> random.  It could be something along the lines of an event board, maybe
> like a FB page or old school BBS, where people could say "I want to play
> game X at time Y and have room for Z players."  Maybe even include an email
> address so you could contact this person.
>   I think we have talked about this in the past and I have forgotten why
> we don't do this, so I am just throwing this out here now, before the
> meeting, so someone can remind me why we don't.  Or maybe this would be a
> good time to reevaluate this idea and see if it's something we are
> interested in trying, especially with the website being rebuilt.  Anyway,
> it came up in a conversation and I thought I would mention it.
>
> Thanks for reading,
> Shane Sauby
> Boardgames Supervisor
>
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