Friendship is Dragons
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Page 164 - The Last Beat-'Em-Up
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During the times where I was watching a panel and hanging out with bronies, I was having the time of my life. During the times where I was bored, put off by humongous lines and my inability to obtain autographs and merchandise due to being poor, I was absolutely miserable.
Overall, pretty great. Lots of room for improvement. Since this was my first con ever, I've learned a lot about going to these things. But who knows? Maybe, 12 months from now, I'll have enough clout to be a part of a panel or event of my own. We'll have to wait and see.
I got to remember that the next time someone tries to use diplomacy on dragons.
Bea Arthur will forever live on in all of us.
Dragon: "I don' t take kindly to spies."
The dwarf in our party: "That's okay. We're not spies, we're just gathering information."
...yeah, we were lucky to have survived that fight.
After that, every time the party had to talk to anyone, somebody was put in charge of keeping the dwarf's mouth shut.
BEST.
LINE.
EVER.
It didn't work out so well for Dash either. At best, it brought the fight to Fluttershy, which would have counted for more if that was the plan all along.
So yeah, sometimes (not often) the players *TRY* a non-combative approach to a problem. Problem is, none of them ever think about their lack of social skills to try such a thing and it usually devolves into combat.
Maybe I should be louder about my intentions.
Taking all bets, guys. taking all bets!
*Rakes in a googel bits*
Maybe I've been watching too much wrestling, but when you have a special commentator with a past grudge against one of the fighters, they ALWAYS get involved.
5 bits on "Smaug cries like a little b-bunny."
Magic... moments... but you gotta pay...
I must remember to whistle that tune continuously while running "Kill the Wizard".
RAINBOOOOOOOW DAAAASH!"
C'mon, someone had to say it.
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Case in point, was working to get out of trouble with a dragon, whom the GM was playing as rather polite, group fighter got bored...attacked, we all died...fighter bitched that it wasn't fair he died...we banned him for a month. Didn't do him any good, idiot just kept thinking with his weapon and not his brain.
Anyway. Our games took place at one of two locations, switching every week. One of those two locations was the home of the couple that played in the game. The wife played an archer, and was in fact one of the most bloodthirsty members of our party, albeit in an understated way. One evening when we were playing at their house, a prolonged bout of diplomacy had occurred with an NPC while she was cooking dinner. Fifteen minutes in she peeks her head in from the kitchen and asks, "So is this in-character dithering or out-of-character dithering?"
There's a pause as everyone looks to one another, then someone says, "In-character, I guess"
At which she looks at the GM and says, "Okay, I shoot the guy in the head."
Speaking of which, I know how Admiral Ackbar shouts that in Ep. 6, but Leia does it twice, and FAR more convincingly in Ep. 5 in cloud city.
/ref: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4bd3O4SVIY
"Did you see us fighting?"
"No..."
"TRAP!"
I went to one anime convention called Mechacon last year, and I had an experience kind of like yours - only it wasn't that I didn't have enough to do - it was just that I had too much to do. I'd volunteered to GM two demo sessions and a tournament for a game called Monsterpocalypse - and that ate up so much of my time, I was physically drained afterwards.
I guess the moral of the story is that it's cool to volunteer your time, but be careful you don't overdo it.
-And on another note I can't imagine going to a con that didn't have gaming of some kind (RP, tabletop, etc).
I wouldn't know what to do!
-And that's why I'd be afraid to go to a Brony Convention. No gaming.
Here's a thought though. Maybe next time you go to a Brony con, you can run a Pony Tales game or something? That might be pretty cool.
Budgeting is your second rule of cons. If you want cash for anything, you save up and budget. And then you over budget. Leave a good nest egg for unforeseen issues. Better to have that extra ten bucks or something you didn't see coming, than to be broke and screwed.
Modern electronics make that easier, but books and sketchpads are also handy. You're also surrounded by a captive audience, if you're the sort that can work it to good effect. You might also find it a useful place to do nothing for awhile, which can be worth remembering when you're feeling overtaxed.
I know which cons I prefer.
Thank you, Newbiespud.
Don't worry guys. RD can take this guy ALL BY HERSELF.
Long lines, especially if they’re endemic, often are an indication of misplanning or inadequate venue—and possibly both. Inexperience may account for some of that; I’ve noticed that new fandoms often tend to reinvent the wheel rather than consult older fandoms who have solved similar problems long since. (And it all goes back to the first World Science-Fiction Convention in 1939.)
I’d love to get to a pony-con myself, but there don’t seem to be any within a few hundred miles of the Bay Area, and I have no budget for traveling. I’m not sure how long the window is—to be honest, I expect few if any of them will be around five years from now. The stopwatch starts the moment the last episode finishes airing.
(My selections were Battle Beyond the Stars, Wizards, and the original Phantom of the Opera. I also saw Them! because Watership Down had to be taken off the program.)
Oh, good. I see they're still running it. Hmm... two hundred attendees seemed so much bigger back then.
Hit the 1000 word limit on submission.
Clicked the "back" link it gave me, but no text.
...So full of hate...
(Gist of it was, remember you're there to have fun [prioritize accordingly], make sure you can always hang out with friends as a fallback plan, plan for things like pickup games and random socialization and work to make both of these happen, remember the "1/2/6 rule", and have fun.)
Did she just commit one of the classic blunders by forgetting, "When the DM smiles, it is already too late?"
What you want are the parties where they offer you premium stuff in small quantities, and you can actually move without inadvertently committing assault.
Hehehe, as well as being a funny line in itself, it is even funnier because I recently read almost exactly the same line in the form of
(TF2 Soldier:) "We will lure the robots to this house of lies, and we will destroy them with our very real weapons and whatever it is the Scout does!"
And since of course common headcannon dictates that Rainbow Dash = Scout...
You should run a My Little Pony RPG session at the game room next time.