Pre- and Post-Pax Board Game meet-ups? Who's with me?
I acquired my love of board games from going to Pax East, where I really enjoyed the pre-pax board game meet ups.
Is anyone organizing something similar in Philadelphia?
I am local-ish (I live 30 minutes by train from the convention center, and I work about 15 minutes from the convention center), so I can help, but I'm not sure I want to organize the whole thing. If others can help, I can scout the area for locations and help with whatever has to happen on the ground here. I also have a pretty good sized board game collection, and I don't mind bringing some (though the fact I have to take the train limits what I can bring).
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At other PAXes, the community games nights have worked out deals to have hotel run cash bar but waive the minimum order.
The gamers do drop some cash, but not at nearly the rate of the typical bar patron, so these game nights got hotel support only after a few years of PAXes, once the hotels realized what they were up against. The board gamers are coming, and you can't stop them. They'll order one drink and clog up your bar area for the entire night. Better to get out in front and get them a space to so their thing.
If you are local, I would recommend stopping by some of the closest hotels and sharing this info. See if any hotel bites.
I'll contact them and see if there is any possibility of something on the Thursday night. However, I'll need help in planning. For one, I won't be able to stay late on Thursday (I'm already abondoning my non-gaming family for the rest of the weekend), second, we will need more people to bring games. Anyone interested in helping, local or not?
If we have some numbers from other paxen (and/or if there was a way to know how many tickets were sold going into Unplugged), maybe that could help convince nearby hotels that it would be worth hosting? It's just unfortunately a fairly busy part of the city so there aren't going to be a whole lot of large, open, free indoors spaces to use.
In your conversations with hotels, you could talk this up as establishing them as the popular hotel for PAX attendees. If they weren't going to sell all of their rooms out, they surely would now. This is a future year thing as well. If folks see that say, the Marriott, had tons of space for hotel gaming, that's going to be their first choice for 2018 booking.
Here's info on the Reddit Weekly Meetup/PAX Mixer thing!
PAX EAST 2011 * 2012 * 2013 *2014 *2015 *2016 | PAX PRIME 2013| PAX UNPLUGGED 2017