Winter Fantasy XXXVIII Events Announced

[David Christ]

http://wintfan.baldmangames.com/index.html
Bigger, Bader, and Balder? It’s that time of the year again gang. Winter Fantasy is on the horizon. We’ve been working hard on signing up new events and new things to do at the show.

Last year we expanded the show beyond our D&D roots and this year we continue that trend. As part of that continuing change, Baldman Games is pleased to announce that they will be expanding their show offerings to include the following:

• Living Arcanis events and premieres
• Witch Hunter events and premiere
• Magic: the Gathering: We are lining up our judges and scorekeepers right now but we hope to host a Super IQ event Saturday with some smaller events on Friday evening and Sunday as players warrant
• Artemis Starship Bridge Simulator: Setup and running all weekend. If you haven’t tried out this fun and exciting teamwork game you will want to set some time aside at the show.

We will of course have all the old favorites as well:
• Living Forgotten Realms: A core paragon trilogy, two specials, a two-round battle interactive, the 30th level Epic conclusion, and the introduction of the LFR All Access pass should keep you all happy. More big announcements on LFR event front to follow.
• Pathfinder Society: A dozen of the newest events on the schedule will hopefully make year two of PFS at the show an even bigger success.
• Board Games: The Gen Con Games Library will be back this year!! With over 800 board games there is without a doubt something for everyone.
• D&D Next: Previews and brand new content as always. Come see what all the buzz is about.
• Special Guests: We always have plenty of them wandering around the show playing and judging your favorite events.

Want to stay up to date? Visit our website (http://www.baldmangames.com) for more information, or follow us on twitter (@WinterFantasy @BaldmanGames), Facebook, and Google Plus for more news as it comes available.

Baldman Games and its volunteers have been organizing and running gaming conventions since 2001. We are fans of the games we run, and are always looking to help spread the hobby to more people, every chance we get.

[Chris Mortika]

David,

How do we volunteer to GM?

[warfteiner]

If anyone wants to volunteer to run tables at Winter Fantasy, please visit the following link:

Winter Fantasy Judge Registration

[TwilightKnight]

So do I understand correctly...

-GM registration, but not player registration is currently open?

-If you volunteer for the five-hour slot option and select PFS, you will NOT be required to run other game systems?

-If you volunteer to GM, you will not be able to select which scenarios you want to GM. They will be assigned to you by the convention organizer?

[Chris Mortika]

It looks like you can place special requests, Bob.

[warfteiner]

Bob/ Chris -

I don't speak for the convention owners, but yes, in the past you've been able to request specific mods/ adventures to run. Dave and the gang have been extremely willing to work with people that want to run games that way, though they usually append the "we can't guarantee, but we'll do our best" disclaimer. If there's a high demand for a specific adventure (such as the 4E BI, or a PFS special if there's one available) some GMs may find that they've been tasked with running a slot or two of that in addition to their requests.

Baldman Games uses a 5-hour slot for their convention model, and it's something that I've adopted for my local events. It works out really well. This also allows them to simplify their system requests (so, everything is a 5-hour slot, no matter if it's DDN, 4E, PFS, etc).

If you're interested in volunteering, use and abuse the "notes" box at the end of the application. Dave's good people, even if he IS from Ohio.

[David Christ]

Bob Jonquet wrote:

So do I understand correctly...

-GM registration, but not player registration is currently open?

-If you volunteer for the five-hour slot option and select PFS, you will NOT be required to run other game systems?

-If you volunteer to GM, you will not be able to select which scenarios you want to GM. They will be assigned to you by the convention organizer?

So many message boards to keep track of.

GM Registration Right now - Player Registration starts this weekend.

You judge what you want to judge - If you pick PFS you will run PFS. I have never forced a judge to run a system he did not want to. Happy judges = fun games = happy players.

I do my very best to give you the exact schedule you want. The earlier you sign-up the easier it is to do that. Those at the tail end are filling gaps based on player registration (it does me no good having two extra judges on Event X while Event Y is short a judge for example).

Just let me know if you have any other questions. We do our best to make judging as easy and fun as playing.

[Chris Mortika]

David,

When do we find out which games we're judging?

[David Christ]

Chris Mortika wrote:

David,

When do we find out which games we're judging?

Half the schedules have already gone out. I hope to finish the 2nd half before crashing tonight.

[Chris Mortika]

David,

What's the event code?