Wichita Gamers

Alright, in the wake of Chronicles: the Convergence, there has been a fair amount of interest in having smaller events in between the bigger cons… it's worked in the past with mixed success, and for me, one of the big problems has been lack of people willing to shoulder part of the load (outside of running games). Now that several people have stepped forward wanting to help get something going, I think we can make a more successful go of it this time.

SO… Wichita Roleplayers Game Day 3: We Ain't Dead Yet. Time for a war council. We can do a lot of planning online, but nothing beats a good face-to-face exchange of ideas.

The issues at hand are:

• Budget (how much do we spend, how much do we have to recoup?)
• Venue (accessibility, cost, scalability if the event grows)
• Potential dates (as soon as we can reasonably manage)
• Format (the two-slot we used before, or something different?)
• Signup / seat-assignment method (potential to experiment)
• Possible introduction of non-RP games

And anything else we can think of. For my part, I want to meet the people interested in helping, get a feel for what they want, and "cast my vision" (if you'll pardon the corp leadership training speak) for what I want the Game Days, and the Wichita Gamers, to achieve, both short term and long term.

I'm thinking this Thursday (8/20) at 7 PM at Mead's Corner Coffeehouse, Douglas and Emporia.

That's negotiable if the date/time doesn't work for people who need to be there. Just let me know.

In the meantime, feel free to bring up things you'd like to discuss here… we can add to the agenda for the war-meeting, or we can discuss on the forum.

Sounds interesting, Carl. I probably can't attend anytime before 9pm, due to getting the kids to bed, but I'm definitely interested to hear how things develop.

edit: just in case I can make it, though, is this the right location for the mtg?: http://www.mapquest.com/maps?address=430+E+Douglas+Ave&zipcode=67202

Count me in. that time works well for me. looking forward to putting something together.

Sadly, I begin class this Thursday—7:05 to 9:45. I'd be available any other time this week in the evening however, and could even meet from 3:30 till about 7pm on Thursday.

Alright, that day/time doesn't work for two of the people who I'd really like to be there. That's what happens when I don't dilly-dally and decide to just make an executive decision.

I will now resort to the tool I use to schedule may roleplaying group. You don't even have to register. I've packed several days and times onto the schedule.

http://doodle.com/mx9vdqpf62aiq8w4

Allan, yes, that map is, for MapQuest, more or less correct. Mead's is on the corner to the east of the star. http://www.meadscorner.com/meads/

We can certainly go somewhere else… downtown may not be the best of locations, but Mead's is on the edge of Old Town, and it has a very nice atmosphere when it's not packed to the gills. Can't go on a night with a concert or presentation… place can be standing room only, and you can't hear yourself think. But there are lots of places I'd be glad to go.

Make that 3 can't make it this thursday…have my oldest's bday party that night. I'll jump on the doodlebug or whatever and get linked in….anytime weekend or next week works for me.

To be clear: there is no meeting on Thursday, as all of the people I wanted to be there can't make it.

Don't think that your participation is not important. Every person who indicated that they could not be there this Thursday night is someone I would like to be involved.

Please help me schedule this by indicating your availability here… http://doodle.com/mx9vdqpf62aiq8w4 . You don't have to create an account… just fill in a name and mark the slots when you're available. (If you create an account, you can go back and edit your choices. We used doodle.com in my last game group and it works really well, but only if everyone takes the time to fill it out.)

It's just a list of dates and time… you just mark

• green = have time
• yellow = could make time if absolutely necessary
• red = do not have time

for each possible time. If you don't want to think too far ahead, just fill through next Tuesday or so.

I'd like to get this rolling as soon as we can, but just picking a date is excluding too many peole

I've put my schedule up, and I'd like to add a caveat. My wife and I were collectively the ones to run the games and arrange the schedule for the convention, and we both spent some time talking to patrons about the game days. She's not currently a member of this board, but she has volunteered her assistance with the game day also. I've put her schedule on the poll as its a bit more flexible than mine (I'm working on my masters degree and have class Tuesday and Thursday nights.) We are both farily good about taking notes and keeping the other one informed about these things, so if a night works that is better for her or better for myself, we are perfectly okay with getting necessary information for the other one

Dang, that schedule is looking tough… very little overlap, and even if we knock out Arbarin/Ray, we don't find strong commonality until a week from Saturday. (Ray is basically not available for a week, with his availability ending where Shaun's begins, and Shaun and Mike seem to alternate in availability. And I thought it was hard to get my game group together.)

How will next Tuesday, 8 PM work? It's the one place where everyone who's filled out the Doodle has an overlap, though two people marked it "if need be".

Mike, would it be easier for you if we did this further north-east? I like the Panera on 21st and Rock up there (and they have decaff Diet Coke, which is always a good thing). (Sorry if I make Wichitans drive across town, but Mike's driving in from Yoder to represent the Hutch group… we're counting on drawing some of their more active players to Wichita events.)

Tuesday at 8 works fine for me….Keeping it in the northern part of town really works well for me! Move it to the maize shopping district and you've made my day lol. But 21rst and Rock works fine for me as well.

Until I hear back about my interview, I'm pretty open in schedule, and will try to be there.

Did I say Rock? I meant Maize, knowing that Mike was coming from Yoder. Pffft… screwed that up. The Panera on Rock is closer to 13th than 21st. But if Mike can live with it, let's stick with that, and I'll work on finding a better location for future meetings.

Ok THOR will be there probably around 7:45-8:00….Should be myself and one of Thor's chosen…see you guys then

Mike

Alright, things are getting interesting.

Warren just scheduled a "Help Save Agents Comics" meeting on top of our meeting on Tuesday. If this has created a conflict for any of you because you want to be involved in that meeting, let me know… Agents' issues are bigger than game day planning.

His meeting is at 7:00, and Agents is just a couple minutes away from me… I may head over there for the beginning of things before I head out to Panera, in which case I'll be closer to hitting the "official" 8 pm start time for our meeting.

My cell is 316-259-9794 if anyone feels a need to figure out where I'm at.

I noticed that I went to a closed facility. Was I in the wrong place? panera bread on rock right before 21st.

The Choosing of THOR's Herald has Begun….the 19th approacheth!! Choose your champion wichita!!

As Carl said, the meeting was mainly a way to get together, meet, and swap ideas. The main points are this:

Initially we're going to try and arrange to have a games day that compliments the THOR group. They are shooting for quarterly, and it seems intuitive to schedule our game day in a way that compliments this. To kick things off, we are in the process of setting up for a small games day(ish) here in Wichita on September 19th. I have contacted the Sedgwick County Extension Education center at 21st and Ridge road to see about using one of the rooms. We can probably arrange for 3-4 tables (if we have the people). I think the time will be 1pm to 10pm, which gives us two four hour slots (1pm to 5pm and 6pm to 10pm) and largely avoids the crowd that congregate there in the morning for the farm and art market. However, this location is not set and merely reflective of my own musings. Agents and other sites may be considered.

This is planned not so much as a formal game day but rather a way to get a few people out to play and see what kind of support there is. THOR is planning a games day in Hutch in October, with plans games days every quarter. Our tentative plan at this point is to have games days in Wichita in a way that compliments the THOR games days. So, if they hold one in October, we'd hold one in December (January is the more likely candidate as December sucks for most people). They'd have one in February, we'd have on in April. Basically it amounts to a games day either here in Wichita or in Hutchinson every two months. The plan may be eventually to merge the two and have a big Central Kansas Games day, but that is in the future.

Carl also discussed some methods he’s been mulling around on signing up for games for the games day.

I think that this is about it. Anyone have anything else to add?

As we develop more, both for the long term games day (tentatively arranged for January) and the one in September, we’ll post here.

Soooooo is the 19th gonna be held at Agents since they've reopened?

We've setlled on Exalted for one game for sure, and the second one we're not sure on.

Dang, I've been too busy lately. Cleaning house, dealing with insurance and house repairs, and starting up a new campaign at home, plus someone in my family being sick for close to the last two months, has really taken its toll. (Today, I finally caught the cold that my wife and son have had.)

Can someone update this event entry? Specifically, it needs the "Star Wars or D&D" decided, and if it's SW, clarify which version/edition. And anything else you want to add. My brain isn't in gear to "talk it up" on this one. (Oh, and like, add the time of the event, since I totally spaced that, too.)

http://wichitagamers.com/events:2009-09-19-wrp-thor-micro-game-day

For the most part, I'm going to keep my fingers out of these "micro" game days unless someone needs something from me… I think they're great, but I want to focus my energy on the bigger, quarterly events right now. (And I've got stuff on the website that still needs doing. I'd love to recruit someone to help with that.)

I may or may not make it to this event. The weekend is shaping up to be very busy, but we'll see.

Thor's Minions ride forth from Amon Yoder….The Hammer Herald leads them….from Asgard to Midgard….prepare mortal….

Looks like the nancy's in wichita feared THOR's Might….we showed up and no one at agents knew what we were talking about….staff got us a table and we waited and waited…finally found a guy I recognized and he said our GM was at PrairieDog….I called there and no one knew the guy…..so we packed up and came home and played a home 3.5 game. /wichitafail.

are we still working on setting up game day? I have been swamped with the new job, but starting to get into a routine now. how can I help.

Ok, I am casting the net again. If you are interested in wichita gaming and would like to join a team who's goal is to increase the stability and expand the base of wichita area roleplaying, then reply to this post and lets get to planning a great community!