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How present was the roleplaying community last year? I'm hoping to play as many indie rpgs that I can cram into my con schedule!
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I'd be willing to run some 5e D&D games if folks were interested: "Basic", Yoon-Suin, and/or A Red & Pleasant Land. In addition, if folks wanted to try to DM their first D&D game, I'd be more than happy to be a player.
Otherwise, yes please RPL, and I might do something.
I am sincerely hoping that the D&D AL folks will put some effort into it this time.
EDIT: Just got confirmation from the Southwest coordinator that there won't be official Adventurers League D&D play this year. He says they're trying to work something for 2017.
I'm still looking for a venue, since the PAX tabletop room won't be available for that first session, and I'm not 100% sure yet what my player count will be.
What's the hashtag used to find people?
I design games under the name New Experience Workshop.
Website. Facebook. Twitter.
I also wanted to ask about the pin culture at South. At PAX-East there are a ton of peeps looking to acquire and trade lapel pins. We have some made up for PAX-East, should we bring them to PAX-South as well?
Oh and we're up to playing in other indie RPG designer's games, so let us know if you run one Thursday or Sunday night.
PAX South was starving for pins last year. I would bring them.
1) Nobody's checking constantly
2) Internet is sketchy-at-best in the hall.
What we need is a sign-up board and to stake out a few tables as RPG area. If anyone local has a whiteboard with tripod, that'd be useful.
If they use the same floorspace as last time, there's plenty of room to do such.
I'm one of the Austin D&D AL coordinators now, so I'll plan to bring stuff & run something at least once since the SA guys didn't get any organization for reasons unknown to me.
Not at all. In fact playing with an experienced GM is probably the best way to learn as someone will show you the ropes. Chances are you will stumble across some game tables geared towards experienced players, because (1) the game system is more complex, or (2) the player characters which are written up are for high levels. As a new player you want to scout an RPG that is easy to learn for first timers and has pre-generated characters of low level (less variables to worry about for your first time).
That said, we will have a demo space setup for Fate of the Norns: Ragnarok. Our pre-gens are for beginners and the system is easy enough for 11 year olds to pick up and play. The content is "apocalyptic Vikings" as your adventures take place during the end-times. You are welcome to come by and we'll give you the rundown of both table-top roleplaying in general as well as FOTN:R.
And I highly suspect you will find many more games like ours to try out during PAX.
Thanks for the reply! I will stop by the demo space and give it a shot. If an 11 year old can understand the game, perhaps our intellect combined will almost be enough. See you at the show.
The Pathfinder Society will be there all weekend running games and teaching people how to play. It's basically D&D 3.75!
You can check out our schedule here!
The newest D&D (5th edition) releases has now put the Adventurers League play access in the hands of everyone.
Given that, I will be bringing a handful of adventures to run and do at least one a day.
If you have an adventurers league character, bring them to play.
Otherwise, I'll have some pre-gens to use and DCI cards to hand out for those not in the system.
Thanks for all the replies. Sounds like there will be plenty of opportunity to learn. Looking forward to PAX, and meeting you folks.
Also, same can be said for folks at the The Pathfinder Society, who were just a patient and ran a fun (and at times hilarious) hour-long game. We learned a ton at this stop as well. Can't wait until the next PAX!