Countdown to Origins 2012

[Black Jack Rackham]

Forty......

[Black Jack Rackham]

Just over 5 weeks to go, and surprise of surprises, no events list (but the usual plethora of silence punctuated by various non-answer answers). Wish I could at least tell you the numbers of all HoA events but I'm apparently not on their GM email list

About the only news I can positively say is my events have been accepted without change so the dates of all my events should be correct.

In other 7th Sea news, I got confirmation that Crimson Valor got their events in (though I can't say which events or when they'll be). For some reason I got taken out of the loop as far as events go.

Also Matinee Adventures has their lists out (http://matineeadventures.com/Show_Times.html). As Dave mentioned in another thread, everything they run has been awesome so far. So go sign up!

[Black Jack Rackham]

See, I DO have magic powers! I complain that the events list isn't up and voila they change the page so now there are (non-clickable) links to the various .xls master lists. While not great news, at least it looks like some progress... maybe this week some time?

[Black Jack Rackham]

Ok the system is up and down, but the events are sort of up. I found out all our games (despite not mentioning The Guild of San Marcos) are all in Marion tables 2 and 5. And for those of you going to do CV games also, they are just across the hallway in Madison. And for your edification, I will go back to the first post and add in the event numbers for you.

EDIT: and just for chuckles, the only new event CV is releasing is one I wrote.

[cpugs]

Event lists are here and being reviewed. It will not be a productive day today....

[cpugs]

On the CV front, they seem to be running the same couple of events until Saturday, when they add in some of the older events. It seems CV21 is run multiple times on the same day. I wonder if Origins messed that up...

[Black Jack Rackham]

On the CV front, they seem to be running the same couple of events until Saturday, when they add in some of the older events. It seems CV21 is run multiple times on the same day. I wonder if Origins messed that up...

Well, Dave is the only one of us with his name listed as GM and there's NO mention of GoSM whatsoever. So I'm guessing "messed up."

[Black Jack Rackham]

On the CV front, they seem to be running the same couple of events until Saturday, when they add in some of the older events. It seems CV21 is run multiple times on the same day. I wonder if Origins messed that up...

I'm looking at it and I only see 21 running twice.

[cpugs]

It may be twice but it is in consecutive time slots. Still looking it over when I get a moment.

[Sister Sonya]

21 Sonya is 6/2 at 9am
21 Jack is 6/2 at 1 PM

[Black Jack Rackham]

And since I wrote em both, they're actually awesome...

[cpugs]

I keep forgetting that there are 2 versions, especially when it calls out for a single captain. Silly me....

[Black Jack Rackham]

But at least this time, the event actually shows you which captain is involved, A MAJOR improvement as far as I'm concerned.

[Black Jack Rackham]

Ok, so like the rest of you, I've been pouring over the event listings and I came upon this:

Rotted Capes: Fortress of the Dead
The Heroes and a small number of Norms have managed to break into the underground lair of the villainous Earthshaker, which has miraculously remained Zombie free – but if that’s true, then why are people still dying?

6/1/12 7:00 PM

Turns out this is a new game by Paradigm Concepts called, of course, Rotted Capes. Supers in a world overrun with zombies. But more than that, they're zombies who also have superpowers...

Interesting, but given Paradigm Concepts other releases I'm worried this is some d20 variant. Now it's not that I dislike d20 and I've heard others rave about Mutants and Masterminds, but to me, d20 will always be fantasy (despite their various attempts to make it a universal system).

Anyone heard anything about it?

[Sister Sonya]

Question:

Has anyone tried to access their Origins Registration by clicking on "Access My Badge"?

I paid by credit card on 3/20/12; and, of course, there is no record of my payment. Also, of course, there is no email address in which I can try to clear this up before event registration goes live.

Does anyone know of a way for me to contact these doofuses, to try to straighten this out?

[Black Jack Rackham]

Question:

Has anyone tried to access their Origins Registration by clicking on "Access My Badge"?

I paid by credit card on 3/20/12; and, of course, there is no record of my payment. Also, of course, there is no email address in which I can try to clear this up before event registration goes live.

Does anyone know of a way for me to contact these doofuses, to try to straighten this out?

Just tried it, no problems here.

You should contact registration@gama.org to fix it.

[Black Jack Rackham]

Update: I spoke with Frank last night, and it seems CV is following my lead and slowing the pace of their release schedule (don't know if it was directly as a result of what I'm doing, but I'm gonna take credit for it). So there is just one new event (two adventures) release for Origins (there'll be another for GenCon).

He seemed to think Adam's CthulhuTech campaign had fallen through so he'd be available to run games (however, I did tell him there are 6 CT games on the schedule under the GB7 banner so we'll see)

In addition, it seems 7th Sea is all in about the same area. We'll be in Marion (tables 2 and 5 throughout the con), CV will be in Madison (right across the hallway), and Matinee Adventures (will be two doors down in Champaign)

Last, I figured out what to add to the events page, a thread with links to all the maps for HoA cons... I'll get right on that.

EDIT: Started the thread, but Gencon.com is down (looks like someone forgot to pay their bill) so I don't have access to those links right now.

[Black Jack Rackham]

Question:

Has anyone tried to access their Origins Registration by clicking on "Access My Badge"?

I paid by credit card on 3/20/12; and, of course, there is no record of my payment. Also, of course, there is no email address in which I can try to clear this up before event registration goes live.

Does anyone know of a way for me to contact these doofuses, to try to straighten this out?

Mike,
Did you get this fixed?

[Sister Sonya]

No Response.

Are you sure about that email address? I couldn't find any on the site.

I just tried to login. Here is the message I got:

" A critical error has occurred.
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

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Origins Game Fair
May 30-June 3, 2012
Greater Columbus Convention Center
Columbus, Ohio, 43215, USA"

edit: Ok. I got through. Still $0.00 shown in paid amount. Sent another email...

[cpugs]

Mike, I found that I have multiple accounts in the system. I logged in under my old account and saw exactly what you saw. Then I check my confirmation e-mail and found out I had another account. I went under that account and found my preregistration paid for with some generic's I pre-ordered.

[Black Jack Rackham]

I didn't even consider that Charlie, but now that you say it, I remember needing to come up with a new login a couple of years ago. Good catch!

Oh and back to the countdown, 30 days!

[Sister Sonya]

Mike, I found that I have multiple accounts in the system. I logged in under my old account and saw exactly what you saw. Then I check my confirmation e-mail and found out I had another account. I went under that account and found my preregistration paid for with some generic's I pre-ordered.

Thanks for the heads-up Charlie.

I had an email from Joby Miller explaining something similar when I got home Sunday evening: I registered from work and couldn't access that from my home! I'll have to try it tomorrow, and will post an update...

[Sister Sonya]

Ok! I was able to login and verify my $75 payment and allocation.

Miller changed my email address to home, which I can log into from work, but not readily vice versa.

[Sister Sonya]

By the way, BJR. Which event got renumbered? I played #1 and #2 originally.

Is it #2 that is now #4? So, I need to sign up for #2 and #3?

[Black Jack Rackham]

By the way, BJR. Which event got renumbered? I played #1 and #2 originally.

Is it #2 that is now #4? So, I need to sign up for #2 and #3?

The renumbering that took place was merely in my head before release. Once I release them, I'm not changing them. So if you played 1&2 last year, you have 3&4 yet to play*.

Mark

*I would explain in more detail (since I know what you're referring to), but I'm worried people will somehow misconstrue what I'm saying and sign up for the wrong things.