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Hey Michael, any explanation to the explosion of open slots for most sessions updated today (Aug 16th)? The sessions now show opens slots in the teens.

Maybe I can help explain, although Mike got the gist of it. When I first schedule events, I go with a preset number of tables, and only open up 2/3rds of the tables for pre-reg. Dragon*Con does a very brisk walkup business, so I always reserve tickets for walk ups. Once I have judges scheduled an in place (a much longer, more involved process this year, unfortunately), I then add more tables, as I have more judges scheduled. So, from a starting point of 2 tables per slot per event, all events went to 3-4 tables per slot per event. The two exceptions to this were the Midnight Mauler event (only have 1 judge who can run that) and the Special (since it only runs once, we have many more tables of that).

Also, this year, I decided to go ahead and release all the tickets for events (ie, the ones I hold back each year for judges and for walk ups), since Pre-Reg will close on Friday, August 19th, and it saves me a step over the weekend, when I would have had to make those changes anyway, in order for all ticket printing to be done.

I feel very confident that I have enough judges, and consequently enough tickets left, to handle both judge requests (most of which have already been put in my system) and walk up traffic (ie, new PFS players), so releasing all those tickets just made sense.

If it turns out I'm wrong, then I'll keep that in mind for next year (live and learn, so to speak).

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Brooks G. Banks
Director of Campaign Gaming
Dragon*Con 2011
campaignrpgs@dragoncon.org or
dragonconcampaign@gmail.com
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Oh yes, I'd definitely love to make this a more community-based effort! We've been trying to get something like that going for a while now.

Ken, I shot that spreadsheet with the layout your way.

Thanks!

P.S. No luck on tests on the Adam--the file size is to large for Quickoffice. I'll have to do some sit-down time to figure it out, but that would be after the APG material is done.

There might be a few folks that have contributed to the HeroForge excel character sheet over the years that seem to be growing disenfranchised with the idea that HeroForge Software, LLC has refused to allow them to add Pathfinder to the current HeroForge free excel sheet, and the president of HeroForge Software, LLC was on the forum being somewhat.... difficult.... because he claims that his company actually owns the entire content of the HeroForge free spreadsheet by copyright, even though neither he nor the original creator of HeroForge have contributed anything to it in several years.

If you're really interested in getting additional community based assistance, I'll point the folks at the HeroForge forums over to this forum (or to some other method of getting in touch with you).

Brooks

Hi all,

Sorry that I have disappeared for awhile. I have had a lot of things going on in my life, and I have had to stop working on this spreadsheet for awhile. I am very behind in my progress, and am still going to need some time until I can start working on it again. My first priority will be to try to address the bugs/errors that have been identified.

Thanks for continuing to check in on it though.

If you're interested in getting some help with your project, I know of quite a few experienced spreadsheet programmers who did extensive work with the HeroForge Excel charactersheet over the last few years that might be interested in collaborating with you. This would go beyond simple data entry to bug fixing and new material implementation, if you want.

Feel free to message me here if you're interested.

Brooks

My apologies for the lateness of this post, but, to be honest, I don't visit the Message Boards here (and only just started playing Pathfinder Society in the last month or so). However, here goes...

Dragon*Con 2010 will be held Sep 3-6 in sunny Atlanta, GA. We will be offering 20+ different events during this year’s show, including Living Forgotten Realms, Pathfinder Society, Witch Hunter, Campaign of Shattered Empires, and Heroes of Rokugan. Dragon*Con's main website is http://www.dragoncon.org. You can go directly to the gaming information (along with event listings) by pointing your browser to http://gaming.dragoncon.org.

Along with all this campaign gaming goodness comes the very great need of judges to provide hours of entertainment to the folks attending the show. If you would like to be one of the few, the proud, the Dragon*Con 2010 Campaign Judges, this is your lucky day. It just so happens that I have some space still available (okay, who am I kidding, I got lots of space available) for such enterprising and dedicated individuals to join the elite Dragon*Con Judging Staff. All you have to do to sign up is send an email to dragonconcampaign@gmail.com (dragonconcampaign<at>gmail<dot>com). You should receive a reply to your email within 48 hours, indicating that your request has been received and you have been added to the list (and the yahoo group).

Now, since I’m a generous sort of guy, I figure it’s at least fair for me to offer some incentives to all my hard working judges. So, for those that are interested in that sort of thing, the perks for judging at Dragon*Con 2009 will be:

Judge 3 slots and get free gaming (max 6 free gaming slots) and preferential gaming registration.

Judge 6 slots and get free admission to the show AND free gaming (no limit) and preferential gaming registration.

There is rumor of another, even bigger (though limited) incentive, but that is being worked out as we speak. More on that to follow.

All judges get the opportunity to participate in slot 0s of the campaign events (as they become available) and will be subscribed to the Dragon*Con Campaign Judges list to help facilitate scheduling of slot 0s and also to make it easier for the judges and the coordinators to communicate.

Hope to see you all at Dragon….

PS - Gaming Pre-Reg went live last week, but there are still tickets available. Also, I am still in need of judges for Pathfinder Society games at the show, so if you're interested, please don't hesitate to drop me an email. I don't, as a general rule, look at these message boards very often, so responding here is unlikely to result in my seeing your response.

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Brooks G. Banks
Director of Campaign Gaming
Dragon*Con 2010
dragonconcampaign@gmail.com
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