CommonCon 2013 - Bloomington, IN

[CanisDirus]

CommonCon - The gaming convention for the everyday, common gamer!
(Sponsored by The Common Room of Bloomington, Indiana)

CommonCon 2013 - January 5-6, 2013

For the first year, CommonCon is going to be on the small side, and will focus on Pathfinder Society, but we're currently working on a 3-year plan to expand to encompass Magic: the Gathering, Live-Action Roleplaying groups such as "The Camarilla", and other games as well.

As of October 2012, we are planning 5 time slots with 3-4 Pathfinder Society tables per time slot. A full list of scenarios will be announced and posted before November 2012.

Featured - "The Dinner Table" - Join Venture Lieutenant Mike Bramnik at a special "Oasis" table for dinner and the Season 3 Exclusive Scenario, "The Cyphermage Dilema" Friday night of CommonCon (a small additional admission fee may be required for this table).

Admission will be $6 for each day, or $10 for both days. Pre-registration information will be announced and posted during or before November 2012.

Please contact Mike Bramnik if you would like any information that isn't posted here!

Are you a Pathfinder Society gamer in Indiana? Join our Facebook group and find out information on our weekly games!

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[Red-Assassin]

Mike key me know if you like me to gm our help.

[Tracy Windeknecht]

Hey Mike, also let us know if you want to do any special events, like a GM101 or Kids Track! I'd be happy to run one of those. Or anything really!

[Dan Luckett]

This, I might actually go to. I have family in Bloomington I can stay with and visit. I'll chat with my wife.

[CanisDirus]

Tracy and Chris - I should know in the next few days how our local GM situation looks, but I think we'll definitely have a spot for a GM101 session, so I'll sign ya up for that for Saturday, Tracy :)

We're also suddenly in a tiny bit of limbo about our convention space, but thankfully I set up a Plan B as a fallback since this limbo was a possibility from the start, which might limit our space, but that should be sorted out before November too.

I'll letcha know!

Daniel - we'd love to have people in from out of town too!

[Mike Mistele]

Hoping to head down from Chicago for this, just to increase the Mike proportion at the con. ;-)

[VanceMadrox]

Unfortunately I can't make this one.

Though I suppose me not attending will increase the Mike percentage too.

[CanisDirus]

Our CommonCon paizo information has been updated!

Check us out for information about what scenarios we'll be running at CommonCon 2013!

Site, pricing, and pre-registration information hopefully to follow within 7-10 days!

[Mike Tuholski]

I can't wait, it's going to be a lot of fun.

[Dan Luckett]

Hmm...with me going to Winter Fantasy. This will be a hard sell on the wife. Gonna take a lot of extra love* to pull this off.

*This would also be known as slave labor and completing a large list of honey do tasks.

[CanisDirus]

CommonCon 2013 in Bloomington Indiana is officially a GO!

January 5-6 2013!

We have received final approval on rooms at the Indiana Memorial Union, and we're all set to get this ball rolling!

Check out our Event page for a list of scenarios we're running!

CommonCon 2013

Preregistration information and sign-up for tables will be announced on our Facebook page for CommonCon: CommonCon on Facebook

We'll get local hotel and food information posted soon! Hope you can join us!

[Dan Luckett]

I am going to confirm that I will not be going.

[Natertot]

Mike Bramnik wrote:

CommonCon 2013 in Bloomington Indiana is officially a GO!

January 5-6 2013!

We have received final approval on rooms at the Indiana Memorial Union, and we're all set to get this ball rolling!

Check out our Event page for a list of scenarios we're running!

CommonCon 2013

Preregistration information and sign-up for tables will be announced on our Facebook page for CommonCon: CommonCon on Facebook

We'll get local hotel and food information posted soon! Hope you can join us!

What an awesome place to hold a Con. Have fun guys!

Nathan Meyers
NYC GM/Player
IU-Bloomington Alumni

[CanisDirus]

Daniel - sorry to hear that, maybe next year? :)

Nathan - thanks very much, and maybe see you some future year too?

[Natertot]

Mike Bramnik wrote:

Daniel - sorry to hear that, maybe next year? :)

Nathan - thanks very much, and maybe see you some future year too?

You never know Mike! Anything is possible.

Nathan

[Red-Assassin]

Congrats Mr Bramik (tall Mike)

Looks like you have a good set of scenarios.

[CanisDirus]

Pathfinder Society Gaming Schedule posted for CommonCon 2013!

https://www.facebook.com/CommonConAdmin/posts/303459206432005

[Greg Hurst]

And here's the warhorn: http://warhorn.net/commoncon-2013

[Red-Assassin]

Nice.

[CanisDirus]

Ladies and Gentlemen! CommonCon 2013 preregistration is now *LIVE*!

Sign up for the games you want to play at: CommonCon-Warhorn

For Pathfinder/PFS - If a game/table is full, you should still sign up so we can get an idea on if there's enough demand for us to open up another table!

For Magic: the Gathering - The Warhorn site will soon show 32 players allowed per tournament, stay tuned!

For Boardgames/Tabletop Games - Check back soon for a list of game demos and times!

For anyone wanting to bring their own games for Open Gaming - feel free to sign up! If more than 6 people sign up we'll open a registration slot for another "table" of open gaming!

More details (lodging, parking, food, raffle prizes) will be released on our Facebook page: CommonCon-Facebook

We look forward to seeing you in Bloomington for CommonCon 2013!

[CanisDirus]

CommonCon's Warhorn page has been updated to encompass tabletop gaming and more!

PFS tables are starting to fill up - but if you sign up and we see wait-lists, we'll call in our backup GMs to prepare more tables for you to play!

[CanisDirus]

A page from our local sponsor, Common Room Games, about our convention!

http://www.commonroomgames.com/commoncon.html

[CanisDirus]

Only 9 days until CommonCon, and PFS Tables are filling up fast! We've streamlined our Warhorn schedule/preregistration page to make it easier to navigate too!

Schedules for Saturday, January 5th - 01-05

Slot 1 - Pathfinder Society Tables from 9am-1pm
Slot 12 - Board/Tabletop Demos that are between 10am-3pm
Slot 8 - M:tG Single's Tournament from 1:30pm-5:30pm
Slot 2 - Pathfinder Society Tables from 2pm-6pm
Slot 13 - Board/Tabletop Demos that are between 3pm-9pm
Slot 9 - M:tG Booster Draft Tournament from 7pm-11pm
Slot 3 - Pathfinder Society Tables from 7pm-11pm (Season 4 SPECIAL Scenario!)

Schedules for Sunday, January 6th - 01-06

Slot 4 - Pathfinder Society GM 101 Workshop from 9am-12pm
Slot 5 - Pathfinder Society Tables from 1pm-5pm
Slot 10 - M:tG Single's Tournament from 1:30pm-5:30pm
Slot 6 - Pathfinder Society Tables from 6pm-10pm
Slot 11 - M:tG Booster Draft Tournament from 7pm-11pm

[CanisDirus]

Pathfinder tables are filling up!

Slot 1 (9am Saturday) - only 6 total seats available!
Slot 2 (1pm Saturday) - only 12 total seats available!
Slot 3 (7pm Saturday) - only 12 total seats available!
Slot 5 (1pm Sunday) - only 5 total seats available!
Slot 6 (6pm Sunday) - only 3 total seats available!

Preregistration closes at Noon (EST) on Wednesday, January 2nd - sign up on our warhorn site soon if you want your pick of what you play (contact me if you're having trouble navigating warhorn and I'll help you get set up)!

[Tracy Windeknecht]

Congrats to Mike Bramnik on a huge success at CommonCon this past weekend! Mike worked very hard to put on a good show, and his efforts definitely paid off. Great work, Mike!

[Hawkwen Agricola]

Even though I was only able to make it one day, I had a great time and was impressed by what Mike had done. Hearty congratulations Mike. Hope to get up there for a Mon. night game soon. Also really glad to get the chance to meet Tracy and Chris. I had the express pleasure of having games GM'd by Mike and Tracy. Thanks again. Now if we can just get something going down here in Southern Indiana.

[Mike Mistele]

Had a great time at the con! I enjoyed meeting a bunch of great players and DMs, including Tracy (whom I'd known here on the boards for some time, but had not met face-to-face until now). I hope to be able to come back down there again soon.

[Red-Assassin]

Good job Mike (tall one)

Good job Greg Hurst running the special.

At the end
I had 1 hp and 3 con.
A druid in our party eneded with 3 str recovering from 1 str.

Good GM'ing in that special. Hats off to you sir.

[Greg Hurst]

Had a lot of fun! My favorite part was when the wizard and you teleported away to a bar in Kaer Maga to leave the rogue with 7 STR and the druid to flee the assassin on their own. :)

[Red-Assassin]

It's great Drakonus picked that bar out. There is no better place in all of Golaran when you are in ultimate peril than the Canary House in Kaer Maga.

Amsheagar and rogue were fine a combined str of 10 ... What would you expect from a pair of Qadiran's or my Qadiran Ninja/Pirate of Besmara. I will drink to their fortune all night.

Grats, Mike Tuholski on your first star. Hope to see all these GM's and players at WYC in March.

[CanisDirus]

CommonCon 2013 is over, and was a smashing success.

Our final official tally: 93 people came to CommonCon 2013!

Did you know that the very first GenCon had 100 people at their first con? Seems like we did a good enough job for our first, and so...

CommonCon *will* return! Thank you everyone for making it a great weekend of gaming for "the everyday, common gamer!"

Numbers Breakdown:

• Pathfinder Society Organized Play - 48 (with PFS#s ranging from the 1200s to the 72,000s!)
  
• Board/Tabletop Gaming - 30
  
• Magic: The Gathering - 13
  
• "Just Watching/Observing" - 2

Relevant Facebook Post

Also, a special thank you to Mike Mistele and Chris Dodge, who drove all the way out from Chicago and DeKalb IL to join us!