Weekender: What Makes A Tabletop Gaming Event Great?

On a train to expo now so will be catching up with the shows when I return. The best gaming event I’ve been to is GenCon. It’s not a close competition either.

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caladors

What makes a great tabletop event?! I think you guys mean what makes a good wargaming tabletop event, from what you said. Because I would call my role playing game nights tabletop, some other people would, other people wouldn’t. I think the idea of a closed off event sounds good to for a lot of these people, I know this isn’t true for every tabletop wargamer, but enough for to be a consideration a lot of them are a little awkward and I think them having that feeling of social safety helps them a great deal. For me one of… Read more »

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If there are people who don’t think of role playing as tabletop then those people are wrong! lol. IMO, along with board, card, and minis games it comprises one of the four pillars of tabletop gaming, or ‘table legs’ if you prefer lol.

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caladors

For some people tabletop means wargaming, the same way gaming means gambling to some people.

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tresilliian

Seems there is a glitch again with Mac not allowing video. I’ve tried on Safari and Chrome and no dice. You tube is working just fine for today, but what about XLBS – panic sets in.

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xaussienannh

Having the same issues, and normally dont have any. Ill get BOW gitters if I cant watch it. lol

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Same here. Can’t watch the video on a pc with chrome.

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caladors

I had that and I am on PC (laptop), I just went into youtube and went to the actual YouTube page and watched there.

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tresilliian

Seems that the Gremlins have been ousted, as its cleared up now.

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beetle

I have quite a lot of Arcadia Quest minis now, and would entertain a minis game ruleset that uses the AQ minis with the Dicey Ventures terrain. No 3D printer and no funds at the moment, but something to look for when it hits retail.

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@warzan I feel your pain about the hospital shows, my other half is a scrub nurse and she watches ALL the medical programmes… You’d think that after a day at work she’d be fed up with sitting through them, but NO…she loves watching them

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We need a support group for this mate.

Last night was subjected to some bloody police show, catching drunk drivers – ugh depressing…

Some of these days I’m gonna make her watch one of the Thorium documentaries – proper payback lol

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warhammergrimace

I mentioned this to the other half, she thought it was hilarious….I did mange to get her to sit through the first Hobbit movie…but sadly she won’t watch fantasy or Sci-fi…apart from Chinese fantasy style TV shows/films…her reason being its outlandish rubbish whic coming from a woman who watched three films about sparkly vampires makes me laugh…so I have to sit through various shows about people covered in blood that hasn’t happened due to being whacked with a battle axe or some other melee weapon..

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coxjul

It”s the Weekend! The weekend after the week I finally got my first games in of Frostgrave and Guikdball. Both great games for different reasons
To answer the main question? Simple – the people, especially anyone leading the event who is setting the tone.

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coxjul

Is it time to revisit the “swishes” and the hubs? A couple are looking a bit dated. The Mercs one in particular as, despite the attempts at KS’ing a reboot, not a lot is happening in there.

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suetoniuspaullinus

Can’t watch it either..frustrating. I’m trying since 6:30 but can’t be bothered now. Maybe tomorrow.

Happy weekend 🙂

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radegast6

I cnt watchit on pc windows 10 with chrome guys @warzan?

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Sorry about that fixed now, a rogue character seems to have slipped into the code.

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I’d love if you guys would keep politics and feminism out of the show. Everyday life is severely polluted by both.

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I wish we could edit our posts. The Infinity stuff…*drools*! I said, just a week ago, that I wouldn’t buy more minis until I have painted up what I already own. But…but…I NEED those unidrons. My life just wouldn’t feel complete without one or two of those ;P

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I don’t believe it’s really an ‘ism’ when something is clearly wrong.

I have no agenda in this, but it’s wrong and I can’t think of any clear reason why it is the way it is? (No real Rey merch)

We are now months after the movie release and the situation hasn’t changed. 🙂

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Nice to hear it’s not sexism then 😉
Since you don’t know the exact reason(s) why there is a lack of Rey merchandise perhaps you shouldn’t jump to a conclusion as to why that is.

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Ok 🙂 Let me put it to you like this… 18 odd months after release I can’t say I ‘jumped’ to this conclusion. However if you have even a single viable reason why Disney (Master of the female lead?) couldn’t produce merch for Star Wars lead female character then really I’m all ears. I’m not an unreasonable chap and will far more often and not extend the benefit of the doubt, but watching the merch for starwars unfold it became clear to me that ‘starwars is for boys’ Tshirt in ASDA (Walmart) last year had three storm trooper heads on… Read more »

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I don’t have to, and indeed should not, give you a single reason for the absence of your preferred merch. The reason is that I, just like you and millions of other people probably, simply don’t know what the CEO/marketing/[whatever] department think or what plans (or lack thereof) they have when it comes to selling stuff. I have no clue as to why they haven’t produced Rey merch. But that doesn’t mean I can jump to conclusions as to why that is and accuse others of pretty serious things, like being sexist. The abscence of knowledge about something, Rey merch… Read more »

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I have no issue conceding I may be wrong on this. I’m just one dad who found the whole thing odd. There was a valid point made further down the comments about individual stores and their shelf space etc. This could well be it, but… one of the great benefits I have had these past years, is I get to spend an awful lot of time in toy shops lol And I gotta say, I didn’t get this feeling with Harry Potter Stuff, or Hobbit stuff (If I remember Correctly), but the absence of Rey stuff was very obvious (I… Read more »

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I couldn’t reply to your post a little further down for some reason. To be clear, I’m also puzzled as to why the lead character of such a well known franschise has such underwhelming merchandise. I have no knowledge about sales, companies or anything like that but it seem very unlikely to me they would refuse their stock holders a large amount of profit because the CEO dislikes vaggies. I’m not saying it’s 100% impossible but it doesn’t strike me as very likely. I’d be very interested in getting to know the reasons Rey is not exploited but I’m not… Read more »

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@panzerkanzler Yeah maybe my use of the term ‘sexist’ is out of kilter here. I didn’t mean they dislike females (is that not misogynist though?? – I need to be careful here as sometimes, its real easy to screw terms up!) My thoughts were,they decided in a big room smoking cigars lol : this is a franchise for boys, so lets focus the investment only on things we think will appeal to boys. And perhaps in real life that is how things are with star wars but in my family… I love it, my sister loves it, and my son… Read more »

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M&S and H&M have Star Wars clothing for girls at the moment. I know cause my 8yr old daughter picked a Star Wars T-shirt when shopping with Mum. I couldn’t be prouder!
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It’s not a secret. Rey’s absence is the same reason you’ll struggle to find Black Widow among the Avengers merchandise. It’s targeted marketing and the belief that boys buy this merchandise and boys don’t want the female characters. The belief is that adding those characters or targeting girls would have a net negative effect on sales.

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18? Try 6. Stop wishing time away!

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It there aren’t any toys of the female characters in a film that had serious female leads, then it’s obviously and indisputably sexist. Whether the motivation was greed / profit maximising or a dislike of girls (much more likely to be the former), the result is unquestionably sexist. Disney may decide that they prefer to take the money and get labelled sexist. What they can’t do is complain about being called out for their sexism. And I was very pleased to see you do so @warzan. This isn’t like we’re complaining that we don’t have toy girls with toy bra… Read more »

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@angelicdespot if you look below, @warwolf has posted links to all the Rey merchandise on the Disney store. There’s plenty of it. Not being able to get hold of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

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Rey merchandise has started to trickle out from Disney. There was none to accompany the release TFA by order of Disney’s executives who didn’t want any merchandise of the character made for the reasons mentioned above. The accepted wisdom is you make toys for boys and toys for girls and never the twain shall meet. Star Wars toys are aimed at boys, and boys don’t want girl dolls, so no Rey. Lots of Kylo Ren, some Finn, no Rey. Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, but no Black Widow. In fact, in her case, toys based on her scenes in the… Read more »

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/04/07/disney-strong-empowered-female-star-wars-purposeful/

According to Tasia Fillipatos, Rey merchandise is flying off the shelves.

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That’s funny, at the time their story was they didn’t make any Rey merchandise because it would spoil the film by giving too much away about here character. Now it was because the non-existent merchandise was so popular you couldn’t find it anywhere. The fact is they were way off on this one. They had an out-moded and out-dated view on what they should be doing, thought Kylo Ren would be the popular character, and were totally blindsided by this. And when I say ‘they’, I mean it in a similar manner to saying ‘they’ about GW, but meaning Tom… Read more »

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I think that’s why there wasn’t any at the time of the film’s release but they have released stuff subsequently that has sold likr hot cakes

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@onlyonepinman, It’s an open secret that Disney intentionally held off on the Rey merchandise because of their policy of gender-targeting toys, and that the belief that Star Wars toys are bought by boys, and boys don’t want toys of girls. This isn’t some super special secret insider information. Vendors who wanted to make Rey merchandise were prevented from doing so by Disney execs because of the gender policy, and when the furore kicked off over the lack of Rey merchandise when TFA was released, they were open about saying so after Disney tried to claim it was because they didn’t… Read more »

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Which may well have been true, initially. However that article post date’s the film’s release by 5 months. They have released Rey merchandise in the intervening time (there’s plenty of it on their webstore), maybe in response to demand, maybe in response to criticism or maybe both and that merchandise is selling like crazy. So 7 months ago, you could argue Disney got it wrong by not releasing Rey merchandise regardless of their reasoning but they have simce rectified that, put Rey merchandise on the shelves and actually cannot make it fast enough. It hasn’t necessarily cured the symptom but… Read more »

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An “ism” quite often implies something is wrong. If there was nothing wrong would you say it was sexism?

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jensonite

The highlight of your year? Warren, don’t let your wife hear that. 😉

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Lol shhhh

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dags

You defence if caught is that is “one of my life highlights, one years event cannot be reasonably compared to our wedding”

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You sir are genius @dags 😉

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somegeezer

Live long in custard, indeed fellas! \\//

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I could live quite a long time off of custard. It’s one of the most delish things in life. Though I’m not sure if living IN it would be beneficial. Wrinkly skin, risk of custard induced downing and all that.

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somegeezer

I’m tempted to give it a go. Y’know, for science.

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dags

I think its an improvement on the original

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suetoniuspaullinus

Custard…mmmh.

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gazky

Amazing! I started a forum post about a week ago asking what happened to the Waterloo match up and then it’s happening. It’s a great game and has brought my dad into gaming with me which is also ace. Two brandies and a 3 hour game on Boxing Day was the highlight of my Xmas holiday so I’m sure you two guys had a ball with it.

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graeme

Live long in custard: I think we have a new backstager greeting for Salute at the pub meet up.

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elessar2590

I think foam parties mean something very different over there Lloyd. In the USA and Australia a Foam Party was a place for homosexual men to ‘mingle’. Good show guys

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lloyd

Lol, different strokes for different folks 🙂

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dorthonion

The short barrelled KwK 37 L/24 mounted on the Stummel was the main armament of the Panzer IV right up to the F1 model as that tank had been purposed for infantry support while the Panzer III was designed to take on other tanks. The same gun was reused in the early StuGs, various armoured cars and half tracks and even made it on to the late Panzer III N model. It was intended for suppression and destroying strongpoints, mg nests, anti-tank guns and the like. It was pretty crap as an anti-tank weapon even early in the war which… Read more »

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noyjatat

Happy Weekend, I really liked the look of the sci-fi scenery and it put me immediately into a mind to purchase it to run some sort of tabletop Firefly game or RPG. I think with that set and some other bits and pieces you could easily put together all the various parts of the ship and play out some of the series episodes as scenarios.

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yavasa

Oh I am so going to post later about Poles in WW2

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I will only add this regarding the hard fight the Polish put up against Germany and the Soviet Union: they caused the Germans more losses in personnel and equipment than France, Britain, Holland, Belgium, Denmark and Norway combined. You don’t get that in the mainstream media because it casts a very poor light on those other nations that had a whole 8 months to prepare for what came next…

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V Interesting

Need to find out more about this 🙂

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