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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
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 Posted - 28 Dec 2008 : 00:26:57
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Heck, I go just for the dice dealers themselves!
All those colored stones, tub upon tub filled with random goodness... *drool* |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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ranger_of_the_unicorn_run
Learned Scribe
USA
292 Posts |
Posted - 29 Dec 2008 : 21:29:18
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Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
Heck, I go just for the dice dealers themselves!
All those colored stones, tub upon tub filled with random goodness... *drool*
Hear hear! I think I'm becoming a compulsive dice collector, along with my compulsive book collecting mania... |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2009 : 02:26:12
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http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/14028.html
Revised Offer for Gen Con
Ups the Ante
Published: 01/06/2009 12:54am
A new offer from the mysterious Gen Con Acquisition Group (now a Delaware LLC) for the assets of Gen Con LLC has been filed with the bankruptcy court handling Gen Con’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy, along with objections to Gen Con’s Amended Plan of Reorganization from the GAG and Lucasfilm. GAG has also become a creditor of Gen Con through the acquisition of the $31,000 claim of LGC Associates, a search firm.
The offer, which expires this Friday, offers to fund the entire balances due Gen Con’s creditors (some $3.8+ million) with new funds from outside Gen Con, with $1.4 million guaranteed by closing in the form of a $900,000 escrow amount and a $500,000 letter of credit.
There is no financing contingency; according to the offer, GAG “has secured funding for the acquisition.”
The guaranteed portion is an increase over the previous offer (see “Eleventh Hour Offer for Gen Con”). GAG also added a provision which allows creditors to cash out immediately for a 70% payout, rather than waiting for the remainder of the scheduled payments. The schedule provides for payment over about four years, with initial payments of around 23% of the balances and bi-annual payments following.
Gen Con’s Plan also provides for bi-annual payments to creditors, but both the upfront and scheduled payments are smaller than GAG’s, and would be funded from internally generated cash flow.
Gen Con CEO Adrian Swartout explicitly rejected GAG’s previous offer (see “Gen Con’s Adrian Swartout on New Offer”). Former GAMA Executive Director Anthony Gallela revealed that he is involved in GAG, and that the company is interested in retaining Swartout if their offer is successful (see “Gallela Ungagged”). The GAG’s offer also contemplates keeping other Gen Con employees.
One other significant difference between the two plans is that Gen Con Acquisition Group is not contesting a portion of the Lucasfilm claim; Gen Con is.
That’s one reason listed in Lucasfilm’s filed objection to Gen Con’s Plan. Among other reasons, both Lucasfilm’s and GAG’s objections note that Gen Con’s financial projections do not show the company generating sufficient cash to meet the proposed payment schedule to creditors. And GAG’s objection makes much of the relationship between Gen Con and Hidden City Games and Off the Grid, arguing that large transactions prior to the filing of the bankruptcy could be the subject of claims (insider transactions within a year prior to a bankruptcy receive special scrutiny), and that Gen Con was relinquishing the rights to those claims for insufficient consideration (subordination of its debt to Hidden City Games to other bankruptcy claims).
A hearing is scheduled for Friday to consider the Plan of Reorganization. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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dwarvenranger
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2009 : 20:56:49
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Hmmm, well I hope to go to Gen Con  . |
If I waited till I knew what I was doing, I'd never get anything done.
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2009 : 01:27:43
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Sigh. This just gets better and better. :(
But here's Peter's response to what happened lately:
http://www.livingdice.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/adkison_response.pdf |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
6662 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2009 : 01:05:14
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Originally posted by Kuje
Sigh. This just gets better and better. :(
But here's Peter's response to what happened lately:
http://www.livingdice.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/adkison_response.pdf
That's a US legal document? Scylla and Charybdis? Geez, Louise. If I drafted something like that, I'd be laughed out of practice. It reads more like a press release than a legal document dealing with the facts.
BTW, met Peter Adkinson at GEN-CON 2007. Seemed like a nice guy. Didn't quite get the 'gaming mogul' vibe from him, but that might just have been me. I DID get that from Ed after having to travel the convention floor with him, our progress stopped every couple of feet or so for him to chat, pose, mug for the cameras and do his thing. A delight to observe firsthand.
-- George Krashos
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"Because only we, contrary to the barbarians, never count the enemy in battle." -- Aeschylus |
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Matt James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
918 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2009 : 01:11:52
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| Ed was the most surprising personality I met at the Con. He is a delight to be around and even makes my wife blush, lol |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
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Matt James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
918 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2009 : 01:19:00
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
3740 Posts |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 19 Jan 2009 : 20:33:13
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| Not a 4e fan here, but would be glad to join in a game of scribes, no matter the setting/rules. |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Matt James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
918 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jan 2009 : 04:18:44
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| Yep, just a good place to get together and nerd-out over Realms lore :D |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 14 Feb 2009 : 21:22:33
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| Badge registration opens tomorrow, sunday. Housing opens on Tuesday. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Edited by - Kuje on 14 Feb 2009 21:23:07 |
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 14 Feb 2009 : 23:08:44
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I'm starting to think I might go... mainly because of this:
Big link to Paizo thread
Now, here is my route if I end up going:
Incredibly huge link to Google Maps
Any of you along the way, if it turns out that I'm going, would like to be picked up / share gasoline costs? 
Mod edit: Cast shrink links. Seriously, those links were really stretching the page! |
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Razz
Senior Scribe
USA
749 Posts |
Posted - 15 Feb 2009 : 15:35:22
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Originally posted by Kuje
Indeed, to just not go because of 4e is a little, least to me, retarded. Wotc is only one booth out of hundreds and there's so much more to do at the con even if you aren't interested in 4e. Shrug.
Well that's other people's preference but my preference is really only D&D, and currently, Star Wars Saga. I could care less about everything else (though meeting Ed Greenwood would be cool). |
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 15 Feb 2009 : 19:01:46
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Originally posted by Razz
Well that's other people's preference but my preference is really only D&D, and currently, Star Wars Saga. I could care less about everything else (though meeting Ed Greenwood would be cool).
Just wanted to add my two cents and say that meeting Ed Greenwood is ALWAYS cool. GenCon is well worth it JUST to meet people you wouldn't ordinarily get to see.
And on that note, I purchased my badge today, so I'm pretty sure I'll be there. Don't forget to purchase those badges, folks!
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Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 15 Feb 2009 : 19:03:19
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I want to go, but as of right now, I have no set plans.
If I wind-up there, it's probably going to be a last-minute, just 'hop in the car and go' sort of thing.
And then dazzle some peeps with my entertaining personality for some crash space.  |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 15 Feb 2009 : 21:21:20
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You can dazzle me all you want if you pay for half of the room...
...dazzling* is in no way synonym to anything remotely sexual or weird, ok? let's get that clear.... 
*here dazzling could mean "to impress with one's knowledge of D&D or one's anger towards WotC"... there.... clarifying never hurts...  |
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Portella
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
247 Posts |
Posted - 15 Feb 2009 : 21:48:17
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| i have lost faith in gencon in the uk, the market here is just not great for rpgs. tcg just rule around here. |
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Uzzy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
618 Posts |
Posted - 15 Feb 2009 : 22:26:23
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Portella, there are still some good Conventions in the UK, though I don't think there will be a GenCon UK this year. I recently attended a convention down south (Conception) that was really good, and there is talk of holding a PaizoCon UK sometime around June/July. I've been thinking of doing a FR game for PaizoCon too.
But all that is for the UK scene, while this thread is for the US Gencon. |
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Portella
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
247 Posts |
Posted - 15 Feb 2009 : 22:56:26
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Yeah.. I dont know it has been so long since i played, i have had really bad luck all the game stores and places i have seen were tcg .... even in reading the store there runs a load of tcg events massive focus on that which for business is great ... but leaves me wanting. tomorrow i hoping to go there and check the group that play rpg on monday evenings. I hoping it will be a group of adults. PaizoCon where ever it is will be interesting and definitely something i like to take part on.
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
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StarBog
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
152 Posts |
Posted - 16 Feb 2009 : 11:58:24
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Originally posted by Uzzy
Portella, there are still some good Conventions in the UK, though I don't think there will be a GenCon UK this year. I recently attended a convention down south (Conception) that was really good,
*waves* I used to be, years ago, one of the organisers of Conception. |
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darkcrow
Learned Scribe
USA
269 Posts |
Posted - 24 Mar 2009 : 00:09:18
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I always say "I'm going this year", but I never do Well this year I mean it. "I'm going this year" No, really. I mean it this time. But I don't know if I can do the 4 day thing though. Sat. and Sun. seems more realistic for me. I'm mostly going to meet all my favorite FR authors and I mean all of them are my favorite. I hope I can get a bunch of my books autographed. |
May Tymora smile upon ye |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 24 Mar 2009 : 03:35:41
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Just a note for anyone who hasn't purchased airline tickets yet, like me, the TSA has added two new rules for purchase. You now have to supply your birthday and gender.
Linkie!
Edit: Could wooly or sage trim that link? :)
Mod edit: No. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Edited by - Wooly Rupert on 24 Mar 2009 03:42:38 |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3243 Posts |
Posted - 04 May 2009 : 19:42:28
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So... Got my badge and events ordered. The hotel is reserved. Now it's just a waiting game...
I also thought of a nifty way to identify myself to others. I put 'Ashe Ravenheart' on the Company Name of my badge so any other scribes will be able to know me without asking. |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
Ashe's Character Sheet
Alphabetized Index of Realms NPCs |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 04 May 2009 : 23:20:01
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We really should start discussing if we're going to have a meeting outside the center again like last year. It seemed to work out a lot better, in my opinion.
And I need to purchase those plane tickets but with this flu outbreak, I've been holding off. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Brian R. James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
1098 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2009 : 01:11:32
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I'm signed up for another fun year at Gen Con!
I highly recommend attending on Friday if you can, since that day holds the official Forgotten Realms seminars, including "Spin a yarn with Ed Greenwood" |
Brian R. James - Freelance Game Designer
Follow me on Twitter @brianrjames |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3243 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2009 : 01:18:46
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| Alas, the 'Spin a Yarn' this year is overlapping with 'Dungeon Design with Monte Cook' as well. I'm *still* not sure which one I'm going to spend more time at... |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
Ashe's Character Sheet
Alphabetized Index of Realms NPCs |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2009 : 01:48:21
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Originally posted by Brian R. James
I'm signed up for another fun year at Gen Con!
I highly recommend attending on Friday if you can, since that day holds the official Forgotten Realms seminars, including "Spin a yarn with Ed Greenwood"
Oh wow, they moved them to Friday? Wow..... |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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