DFW Dungeon Crawl Day - Featuring Knights of the Daystorm!

[CheddarLimbo]

Unfortunately my venue is no longer available. It's a good news/bad news thing. We got a new contract, but because of the nature of the contract, it means we have to change our security protocols around the new products. As a result, I will not be allowed to bring guests into the building after hours.

It was a pretty small attendance list, so hopefully nobody will be too disappointed if I just table this event for a while. I am not in a position to scramble to find a venue in a week and a half, and NHSD is coming up soon after anyway.

Thanks to the people who did show an interest. I'm convinced this would be a great event, I'm just not a very good organizer!

-CheddarLimbo

Spoiler Alert!

So, many people have heard of Velenne's totally awesome and completely amazing scenario Knights of the Daystorm. If you haven't go check it out - now! I've talked to some people who are interested in playing the scenario, but are a little overwhelmed by its scope. It also helps a LOT to have someone who is experienced with the scenario act as a "GM" to help things run smoothly.

I propose to join forces with some DFW area Scapers and set up several sets of the scenario in one location. We will then get some volunteers to GM the scenario for anyone who would like to play through it.

Many details still need to be worked out. Right now, I'm proposing that we hold the event at my work in Arlington, but Madness has been an exceptionally cool venue this year, and I'd certainly consider doing it there as well.

As far as a date, I'm looking at mid September (18th/19th), but it is not finalized. If you have a preference, please make mention of it!

I want to stress that this is not a tourney - just a game day designed for fun and socializing. Even though it's not a competition, I'm still going to start a sign up list for a number of reasons, not the least of which is to properly gauge interest in this in the community. It will also help me determine how many scenarios we need to build, and help us "schedule" the parties as they Crawl them Dungeons.

So dust off your Heroes, and put away the Squads - it's time to Dungeon Crawl!

You can find Knights of the Daystorm here!

When you sign up, please list your starting army, and if you are teaming up with another player to take on the campaign.

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1. CheddarLimbo
2. DrLivingston
3. Rodriquez
4. Tmac2200
5. jaramillohector
6. Raven
7. Moonwalker
8. Rÿchean

[DrLivingston]

I am in!

Dependent on the finalized date (of course).

I know folks are tired of slogging all the way to Madness, but if we could use the room free on a Saturday night, that is where I'd like to do it.

Would the whole campaign set up use up more than the two big tables?

Would we have more than two set ups going at once?

I would imagine it would be more fun going through an area surrounded by folks going through other areas would be more fun.

How many GMs would we need?

My 2 cents is for it happening at Madness.

Mainly because it gets more folks into Heroscape.

There are a TON of people that play D&D at Madness. Maybe we could get Chris to invite some of them?

But if running through the whole thing takes more than 4ish hours, I could see a Saturday afternoon at CheddarLimbo's work place being preferable.

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CheddarLimbo
DrLivingston

[Rodriquez]

I would be game for it,
however dependant on date and time, etc
personally I'd rather see this on a saturday rather than a sunday.


cheers
Rod

[Tmac2200]

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DrLivingston
Rodriquez
Tmac2200

Sounds fun, but could I propose a venue? The LoneStar comics near me recently moved to a new location and it is alot bigger now and the owners seem to think that heroscape isn't popular in my area so that would be killing two birds with one stone.

[Rÿchean]

I am in depending on what date you pick.

The last weekend in August and first in September are no good for me, but do it whenever it works best.

I was about to dog cuss you, CL, becasue I thought you were trying to do this GenCon weekend.

[CheddarLimbo]

Originally Posted by Tmac2200

Sounds fun, but could I propose a venue? The LoneStar comics near me recently moved to a new location and it is alot bigger now and the owners seem to think that heroscape isn't popular in my area so that would be killing two birds with one stone.

I'll consider other options for venues, but realistically, I'm the most comfortable with Madness or my warehouse. Both are historically proven venues.

I have hesitations about trying to start a new working relationship with another comic store while also trying to put this all together.

Originally Posted by DrLivingston

Would the whole campaign set up use up more than the two big tables?

It's 4 themed maps, plus Sanctuary, which is a 4 MOP map... So I think we could set up ONE full scenario on those two tables.

Originally Posted by DrLivingston

Would we have more than two set ups going at once?

That would depend one a couple of factors... Namely, how many people want to play and how many people can I get to GM?

Originally Posted by DrLivingston

I would imagine it would be more fun going through an area surrounded by folks going through other areas would be more fun.

I tried three times to understand that... You mean it would be more exciting with spectators?

Originally Posted by DrLivingston

How many GMs would we need?

Again, it depends on how many people want to play.

Originally Posted by DrLivingston

My 2 cents is for it happening at Madness.

Mainly because it gets more folks into Heroscape.

There are a TON of people that play D&D at Madness. Maybe we could get Chris to invite some of them?

But if running through the whole thing takes more than 4ish hours, I could see a Saturday afternoon at CheddarLimbo's work place being preferable.

I've never played straight through it because I don't have enough terrain myself to set up the whole campaign. Maybe Velenne could weigh in on that?

[Rodriquez]

humm guess is need to get a print out of vel's campaign and set it up here.
the last weekend of august and labor day weekend are both out for me.

I don't mind GM'ing if need be

[CheddarLimbo]

That would be a big help Rod, thank you. It would tell us both how long to expect a straight run through, and how much space it all takes up.

[DrLivingston]

Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo

I tried three times to understand that... You mean it would be more exciting with spectators?

I just meant that it might be cooler if several people are moving heroes through different sections on the same big table. That way you could see how things were going for other folks and talk back and forth and what not.

I think that would be more fun than each section on a different table.

When I playtested with Velenne he had a friend be all the "bad guys" while I ran a group of heroes. He would just kind of watch and step in every once and a while when we has questions.

So you could probably get away with one or two GMs and have several bad guy players.

Perhaps bad guy players could even switch out with heroe players after a section?

Velenne would know. Where are you Velenne?!?!?

[Tmac2200]

Will there be downtime in-between matches or will it be straight room to room? Will there be time for pickup games or is this similar to a tourny in time?

[CheddarLimbo]

That's a good question, Tmac. Playing through the entire campaign is essentially 5 matches, though each should take less time than 5 normal tourney level matches. They are more like Skirmishes with smaller point totals.

One of the bigger challenges of this idea is trying to get everyone into a room they haven't played yet. The campaign does not require that you play them in a certain order (and in fact your army and strategy might lend itself to playing in a certain order of your own choosing).

If you wanted to break in between some rooms, or if one of the rooms you needed next wasn't available, you might have some down time.

[jaramillohector]

You can count me, my wife (raven) and my son (moonwalker) in. As long as its not at the end of september. I'm going to look at the scenario now so I'm sure i will have a ton of questions later.