Gaelcon: Who's going?

mr_angry

Just wondering who's planning to go to Gaelcon at the end of this month? I plan on being there on the Saturday for the L5R and Vampire LARPs.

Nevyn

I will be there and for most of the weekend.
I tend to play the the tabletop rpg but may be branching out into some of the larps this year.

Raphael

Unless they turn me down, I'll be staffing, SO I should be there all weekend. Tempted to do the Vampire LARP....

Rev Hellfire

Raphael wrote:

Tempted to do the Vampire LARP....

Be strong Raphael, no good can come from a LARP.

Nevyn

Rev Hellfire wrote:

Be strong Raphael, no good can come from a LARP.

oh oh but there may be more amusing photos of R4ph to be gotten.

hairyheretic

I'll be staffing a fair chunk of the wargames sat/sun. The rest of the weekend I don't know what I'll be up to.

Raphael

Thaedydal wrote:

oh oh but there may be more amusing photos of R4ph to be gotten.

...damnit janet!

Rev Hellfire

Raphael wrote:

...damnit janet!

Yes damnit janet, if you post a picture post a hi resolution one.

Sarky

I won't make it, again.

Nevyn

Sarky wrote:

I won't make it, again.

ah bugger

mr_angry

Lets face it - embarrasing LARP pictures are what conventions are all about. I lost any illusions of shame after travesties like this:
http://www.camarillaireland.org/home/photos/photos/larp_sat/larp_sat%20024.jpg

Coventions - where you spend your days trying not to make eye-contact with some of the real weirdos, and marvelling at the number of people with beards.

Nevyn

Ah so you are one of the Dundalk Camers.
Actually i tend to spend a silly ammount of time playing tabletop rpg breaking gms and freaking out the weridos

AL][EN

This will be the first gaelcon in a long long time (6 years mabye) that i wont be able to make it :mad:

Im actually playing a little LARP of my own creation its a self titled peice called: 'proposing to my girlfriend in a forigen country' tho im not sure how it ends yet i havent actually written the end i think i can be forgiven for missing this years gaelcon for that ?????? right ??????

Raphael

No. Get out.









(congrats)

Da Bounca

LARP is for monekys.

Nevyn

Really ?
What makes you think that ?
Whave you ever seen a monkey larping ?
Are you sure it was a monkey ?
Maybe it was someone Larping as a monkey and they were just so good and so into it you were fooled ?
Was it a camerilla game ?
Wow a monkey larper in vampire playing a Makie ?

Sarky

Who told you about my Vampire character? >_>

humanji

I'm thinkin of heading to this with a mate of mine. I was just wondering how accessable the games are? We haven't really been playing any of the games that are on this year and so we'd have to learn them. I know there are beginner games, but I would like to have a go with some of the more advanced games. Do I stand a chance?

Nevyn

I have found most of the gms running the talbes and great even when you tell them you have not played that system much or at all.

Most of the people playing are helpful and friendly as well role playing is role playing once you get a grasp on the charchter and make and effort to interact with the other player you should be grand.

Do tell the gm you don't know the game mechanics and just as him/her to let you know what dice to roll when you need to, if you need too.

Some more info on the beginners games would be good, I know few first timers that are going and they woudl like to give one of then a bash on the saturday morning but do want to know more about what the beginers games are.

humanji

Yeah, I just didn't want to know too much to play the beginner games and too little for the others, lol. Sure, I'll give them both a whirl. I've nothing to lose except my self respect, and I lost that when I met my last girlfriend!

AL][EN

Having a quick gander on the Gaelcon Website just spotted this:


Beginner Roleplaying Games –
This year we have specfically designed some roleplaying games, which are geared towards those who have never roleplayed before. Games will be running all weekend long.


So it looks like they'll be running beginner games hunamji so i'd definatly go would be great craic id say espsically if your worried about how good/bad you'll play. Btw you cant actually play a RPG badly its all about having a bit of craic so id say the above would be a good one for you to try out I've been to loads of these cons mate trust me the first one or two are always the most intimidating after the first hour you'll have a blast trust me

humanji

'AL wrote:

[EN']Btw you cant actually play a RPG badly

Sounds like a challenge to me!

Actually, just thought of another question. Is it worth pre-booking stuff?Just wondering if anything is likely to be booked out by the time I get there.

AL][EN

Im almost sure you can only pre-book RPG's on the day of the con IE pre book saturdays games on Sat morning and Sundays games on sunday morning Etc you cannot however prebook Sundays or Mondays games on a Sat im almost sure its only on the day first-come-first servered type jobbie!

i would whole heartdly recommend you do pre book them as i always do! There are a limited number of spaces avaiable depending on how many GM's they have to run the game with so many people at the con and the number of places are usually 5-6 players to a table so as you can imagine the really popular games sell out in minutes.

Nevyn

I have been asking on the irishgaming mailing list bout the beginers rpgs but haven't had a informative answer yet.

AL][EN

I havent herd anything from the gaelcon organizers yet either but even if they get cancelled on the day just walk up to a table and start playing
its lots of fun.

Speaking of which its about that time of the decade again when i was thinking of running an online RGP again the boards.ie PBP (play by posting)
if anyone was interested thinking of call of cuthulu this time nothing too horrific i'll post a new thread about it if anyone is interested?

Nevyn

On a note about the beginner games,

we have
Call of Cthulhu by Stephen Bradley
A Fantasy Game by Stephen Bradley
Another Fantasy Game by Eoin Leahy
A Sci Fi Game by Wayne O'Connor
And a Comedy Horror by Nick Huggins

I think they are being run as when needed over the weekend.

the evil lime

I might go along to this. I hear good things about it.

Also, I think it may be my fault the pic of R4ph is so small, I don't think I ever uploaded a high res one. Though mind you, someone else might have another similar hard copy of that one.

Raphael

Die plz.

nesf

Myself and simu will be there with Seosaph. I've no idea if I'll have time outside of the wetting of the baby's head but I may stagger into a Larp or two. Gar's looks interesting.

the evil lime

Raphael wrote:

Die plz.

Umm....no.

the evil lime

Well, that was fun.

mr_angry

nesf wrote:

Myself and simu will be there with Seosaph. I've no idea if I'll have time outside of the wetting of the baby's head but I may stagger into a Larp or two. Gar's looks interesting.

I heard a lot of good things about that actually. I was in the L5R LARP at the time though, which wasn't too bad either. It was totally out-shone by Vampire though, which was awesome!

I overheard gamers talking about loads of games where the entire party failed / got wiped-out though. It would seem that you can role-play badly after all! (Statistically speaking). I also got interviewed by those people hanging around with the video camera. They didn't seem to appreciate the fact that I thought everything was 'alright', as opposed to mega-awesome-fantastic-splurge. Maybe I just like disappointing people like that.

humanji

Well I broke my 'con virginity this weekend. It was a great laugh. Sadly only got to go on the Saturday, but sure I'll try for the weekend next time. The only down side was that there just wasn't enough time for the RPG's

Raphael

That was an extremely fun con alright, got to try LARPing for the first time. So, which one's next

Nevyn

Dominicon in Maynooth.

I am still not well missing gealcon has me pissed of tbh.
Hope you all had a wonderful time, I hear the charity auction did staggeringly well.

Raphael

Yeah, i was playing civ through that though.

Can't make Dominicon unfortunately, friends 18th that week.

Nevyn

Again the fates plot against us

Raphael

=p

nesf

Raphael wrote:

Yeah, i was playing civ through that though.

Can't make Dominicon unfortunately, friends 18th that week.

Come to Warpcon..... It is the land of beer and fun.

Sarky

And Itzacon!

/pluggage

Raphael

Gentlemen, please, I will come to all of your cons. SO long as you give me free in >.>

Sarky

What the hell, do you think we do this for charity or som-

Er...

Well the answer is still no. >_>

Raphael

Dem =(