The Dice Tower Convention - with Scape! (July 5-8)
 

Hopefully many of you have heard that Tom Vasel and the Dice Tower are getting behind a new boardgame convention this summer here in sunny Florida (near Orlando and all the resorts, parks, etc.).

The Dice Tower Convention is dedicated to boardgaming and looks to be a ton of fun! Join us July 5-8 for 80 hours of boardgaming. (The price is definitely right. $35 for the whole Con (until May 31) and about $40 for the hotel rooms.)


I'm working on the Scape aspects of the convention. My general plan is to do a single tourney/event and then have open gaming time for Scape as well. However, if enough people are interested, I could see doing more events. (Personally, I want to be sure to have plenty of time to enjoy other boardgames as well.)


UPDATES:

The Tournament will begin on Saturday morning, 10-3, and be in Swiss Tourney format, with 4 rounds and a Final Two.

Format:

Fog of War - All ranged attacks, abilities, and auras are cut in half rounded up.

420 point armies.





PROPOSED MAPS (I've added my name to those that I can bring)

Invasion (1Mmirg)

http://www.heroscapers.com/downloads//invasion_w44.jpg

Fulcrum (1Mmirg)

http://www.heroscapers.com/downloads//fulcrum_mB5.jpg

If you can't take the heat... (1Mmirg)

http://www.heroscapers.com/downloads...eheat2_gqi.jpg

Bad Moon Rising (1Mmirg)

http://www.heroscapers.com/downloads...rising_0aj.jpg

Flash Fire (1Mmirg)

http://www.heroscapers.com/downloads//flashfire_nrJ.jpg

Sirocco by mad_wookiee

http://www.heroscapers.com/downloads//sirocco1_I4P.jpg


Stygian Rift by Typhon2222

http://www.heroscapers.com/downloads...0v14-1_07s.jpg

Proposed Schedule:
(8:00-9:30 - Set-up)
9:30-10:00 - Arrive, register, receive first map assignment (please be on time)
10:00-10:50 - First Round
11:00-11:50 - Second Round
12:00-12:50 - Third Round
1:00-1:50 - Fourth Round
2:00-2:50 - Final (Top Two); All others, free play or 5th round of Swiss
3:00-4:00 - Prizes, takedown, etc.

Glyphs:
Unique Attack +1
Move +2
Initiative +8
d20 +1
Healing
Wound

Treasure Glyphs:
Attack +1
Defense +1
Healing

Prizes

Heroscape Boosters and d20 dice - Thanks CoolStuff!

RSVPs (so far):

Onacara (+2?)
Mmirg +1
Roller
sandmaker
Blue Dane (?)
tomvasel +1 (?)
Jazzman

Re: The Dice Tower Convention - with Scape! (July 5-8)
 

So, here are my initial questions:

Are you planning to attend? (Or at least likely to attend?)

What would you like to see happen at the Dice Tower Con, in terms of Scape?

Re: The Dice Tower Convention - with Scape! (July 5-8)
 

:excited:

Will you allow C3V and SoV? :D

Re: The Dice Tower Convention - with Scape! (July 5-8)
 

That's the way I'm leaning. But I will listen to those that are coming, as well. Given Tom's love of customs and trying out new things, plus the tribute to him in Wave 14, I feel it's fitting.

Re: The Dice Tower Convention - with Scape! (July 5-8)
 

For a bigger event I'd normally suggest no, because you don't want to spook people new to competitive play. But for the exact reason you're suggesting, I say go for it. It's Tom's show, he likes customs, he's been pleased with what we've done so far, go for it.

:2cents:

Re: The Dice Tower Convention - with Scape! (July 5-8)
 

I will be there...but you already knew that ;)

Re: The Dice Tower Convention - with Scape! (July 5-8)
 

So, you planning a trip down here, DS? (I sure hope so!)

I'll add the SoV/C3V question to my list of questions:

• Are you planning to attend? (Or at least likely to attend?)
• What would you like to see happen at the Dice Tower Con, in terms of Scape?
• How do you feel about including C3V/SoV units?

(Also, started an Attendees list in the OP.)

Re: The Dice Tower Convention - with Scape! (July 5-8)
 

:( :(

Re: The Dice Tower Convention - with Scape! (July 5-8)
 

Bummer. Everyone needs a vacation sometime--and this is a great place to come!

So, I was thinking a bit more about this and had a couple of ideas:

1) What about a "1x only" event? (You can only have one Army Card worth of any unit.) This would totally fit the Vasel play style--mishmash armies, ftw!

2) Or, what about a low point total tourney? (As in 400 points or even a bit lower?) Just to mix things up.

Of course, I'm totally happy to do a traditional format as well. Just let me know what you want (before I plan it all).

Re: The Dice Tower Convention - with Scape! (July 5-8)
 

Re: The Dice Tower Convention - with Scape! (July 5-8)
 

There is not a one-day ticket, sadly. (Though perhaps if enough people asked...) Of course, the ticket isn't too high, though, yeah, for just one day it is a bit. (You could, of course, come in for the other evenings or something as well, perhaps.)

As for which day, that's something we can talk about here. I was thinking Friday (to stay off of the busier Sat.). At this point, I'm still open, though, so let's chat.

Re: The Dice Tower Convention - with Scape! (July 5-8)
 

Not sure if you remember me but I played/helped run the first few National Heroscape tourneys and supplied the terrain as well. Finished top 3 every time too! I recognize all the names in this thread from long ago.

I've been listening to Tom's podcast and heard about this convention recently. I plan to attend and was interested in supporting the heroscape tourney and Tom directed me here. So after a little forum search I found this thread.

I've been out of scape for a couple years now and stopped collecting when they started releasing D&D sets. I felt it didn't really gel right for me and I had a ton of stuff already!

I would be interested in a normal format tourney with regular BoV maps but of course that's just my opinion. Friday works but the turnout wouldn't even be close to what it would be on Saturday. A double elimination tourney would probably be the best considering how long it takes to play a game, we wouldn't want to take up the whole day like the other tournaments I've been in before have. It's not a 'scape convention after all, we want people to enjoy all games. I haven't seen a schedule of events for the convention but we really need to nail down a time early to get the best turnout.

So I'm on board if you need any help 1Mmrig. I could probably drum up a couple players for the tourney as well.

-Roller/Christian