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[demiurgically_m]

wandering around the internet, am trying to find something that will explain to me exactly what happens at Gencon and Origin. I hear bits and pieces, but I can't find anything that gives me a coherent picture.

bit grumpy making

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[fishlivejournal]

(Based on info that is now several years out of date):
There is no coherent picture; you don't prebook sessions or anything like that. People turn up, roam around looking for games, play for however long the game takes, then go looking for another game.

[irishmark]

Ask Wes. As far as I know he goes to GenCon and possibly Origins

[sly_girl]

Roleplaying happens. *nod*

[eynowd]

What do you want to know? I haven't been to Origins, but I'm a three time veteran of Gencon (1994, 1999 - both in Milwaukee - and 2005, in Indianapolis

[demiurgically_m]

Thanks Geoff, that's pretty much exactly what I was looking for. My only q is that you say Origins is more personal and social, does that mean it has fewer ppl?

Jacinta

[eynowd]

As far as I remember, yes. I recall Origins has something like 8,000 people over the four days, compared to the 25,000+ for Gencon.

I could be wrong on those figures though.

[demiurgically_m]

wow. That's .... heaps...

[ripley_larkham]

try asking ask Mike, he's been to one.

[kingtheseus]

I've been to three. I was living in Indianapolis from 2005 -2007

[kingtheseus]

Oh, one more thing. They tend to schedule things by the hour, not every four hours. The games run for four hours. So you might have one game starting at 12AM, which menas you couldn't make one that starts at 3PM. If you have one that starts at 4PM, you really have to hustle to make it - it could be three hotels away.

Most of the seminars last just one hour.

Also, White Wolf apparently hosts this big party, that if you talk to the right people can be invited to. I wasn't really intersted at the time, feeling much less social then than now, but i would go to it now.