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Tabletop wargaming at PAX?
D_Roxxors
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Can anyone speak to the presence of tabletop wargames at PAX conferences? It's listed as something the "con is about" but I've yet to see anyone talking about them, or see any reports of activity.
I'm looking at the 2010 conference in Boston, for context.
Thanks in advance for any and all replies.
- D
I'm looking at the 2010 conference in Boston, for context.
Thanks in advance for any and all replies.
- D
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Organizer of the Post-PAX Party. You should come!
Satellite Theater for life!
I did see a bunch of folks playing various other boargames (Munchkin, Settlers, etc.).
Organizer of the Post-PAX Party. You should come!
Satellite Theater for life!
My impression is that the main floor is mostly video gaming, and that TT gaming takes place off somewhere else, away from the hustle and bustle of the main booths/showcases/activities, that tabletop traffic is a bit more focused rather than "wander-by" attention.
Please feel free to correct any and all incorrect impressions.
The "main floor" is used for the Expo Hall. Basically, think of a crap load of advertisements, some game demos, some few vendors selling crap. That's hardly all there is to PAX, though--it was the entire 6 floors of the Washington State Convention Center, after all. I wouldn't say the TT area was "away from the hustle and bustle" at all, but it may have been slightly less noticeable if you didn't peek in the rooms. The boardgame library was pretty busy all weekend, and people were playing stuff of all kinds right in the main drag on the 2nd floor and 3rd floor near the escalators.
Can't say exactly what the layout would be next year or at the East version, but I'd expect that there will be plenty of TT games in either case.
-Mostlyharmless
Captain of the Void Knights 11th Company
We've had doubles tourneys with like 80 players before without any help from Games Workshop...if PAX East wants the 40K, we can bring it.
Everyone in the group I'm bringing To PAX East is into strategy boardgaming though, so I look forward to some 8-player Robo Rally matches, or some Last Night on Earth (just finished painting the pieces, the game looks awesome now)
I'm thinking that I need to speak to someone in authority per planning...my Cambridge-based gaming club has run Warhammer 40,000 doubles tournaments that had 16+ tables, 32 teams, 64 players. That was filling the space we had rented, it might have been larger with more space and if we'd publicized more (we didn't really need to on that occasion as the tourney registration filled up extremely quickly).
With a national audience like PAX has and early publicity I can't imagine that we couldn't do bigger and better than the aforementioned doubles tourney - but there are serious logistics involved per getting tables and terrain to the event.
We've been discussing the possibility of holding a 40K tournament at PAX East since I broke the news to the club that PAX was coming to Boston, but we need to find out stuff like reserving space (which would lead to discussions of how much space we'd get, which tells us how many tables and how much terrain we need so we can start getting ready now) and whether we would get any publicity on the website (which tells us how much we need to do on our own - again, we're not strangers to this but need to know what being at PAX would add to the mix) at the very least.
This isn't the sort of thing we would just roll in convention-time and throw down on some tables...when we run tourneys they're very organized. We have Golden Daemon winners we could get for painting and modeling judges, but we need to let them know the plan. We have connections with all the local hobby and gaming shops, but aren't going to approach them until we have something solid. We have relationships with several other established and sizeable gaming clubs but we're not going to approach them either until a plan gets laid.
Suffice it to say that if PAX East wants a serious and large 40K event you'll get it - but we'd need to start laying the groundwork now. At this point it would be mostly about terrain production as we can crank out a lot of stuff fairly rapidly, and quality stuff.
I PM'ed someone I found on here who had a title of "Wargaming Lieutenant" or something but never heard back...that was a day or two after PAX 2009 ended so I assumed he/she was busy...but if there's an appropriate person to speak to I'd love an introduction.