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It's going to be a great time!! Can't wait!

Leg o' Lamb wrote:

So how much did we raise?

So how much did we raise?

We'll be donating at least $5,000. We are still waiting on expenses and budget things to clear. It will probably be more.

Congrats to Hilary, Erica and AJ!! I still look and mine and go HUH how'd this happen?!?1 :D

Congrats to all the new 5 stars!! You've all put in so much work in the community and it's much appreciated. <3

Thank you Tonya for coming and hanging at SkalCon! It's wonderful to see you and I know that everyone had a great time at your tables. We are very lucky to have you at the convention to help us raise money for Tubman!

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Thank you everyone who came and played, GM'd, shenanigan'd, gave money, gave time, danced, etc.

We couldn't do it without all of you!! hope to see you next year. When we have a total donation we will post it. It used to be so easy when we just took cash. :D

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SkalCon is the best and I'm so excited to see everyone this year and in the future!

Hotel for Saturday is completely booked so if you need help finding other options please reach out to us and we'll figure it out!

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We added more Thur/Sun nights If anyone was trying to book and couldn't with the rate, you can again!

Question to Jolene and the team: Are we in the same rooms that we use for Con of the North, or somewhere else in the hotel?

Hmm

We are in the Regency, which is the main vendor room for CotN.

If anyone needs Airport pick up/drop off:

Send me your flight information jolene.danner@10klakesgaming.org

I am putting together a spreadsheet so I can get an idea of who could (a) carpool or (b) be picked up by someone

We are a bit further out this year and I'm happy to help coordinate people who need assistance getting to the hotel.

I'm also getting some more Thur/sun rooms.

We already know it will be a fabulous time. Hope all of you can join us. YES I am looking at YOU! :D

Nothing better to thaw you off in the middle of February than a room with 23 tables of Pathfinders and Starfinders!

Last year is was like 60F! No need for thawing!

Hurray!!! SkålCon is best con!!

Can't wait to see everyone again and hopefully make new friends from new places!!

I think the Mission accomplished refers to the card game side.

I mean her hand is on your friend dick

As the current organizer of YMB, I was devastated when I heard the news. I *did* shed tears over this news. Working with Dan, Doug, Derek, Cody and the other wonderful employees was always easy. They made room for us, seemingly no matter what. If I called and asked for 5 tables, I GOT THEM!

They reached out to me to have Pathfinder Society Appreciation Day. They gave raffle prizes and bought a cake and gave us the WHOLE STORE (except the computer terminals) where we packed in 7 tables (only short 2 players have all of them full.) Zach and Monica from Fargo came down to help me Oversee, Ryan Blomquist read the Overseer scripted bits while we tallied the points and kept track of time. It was my first special that I organized and it makes me so happy to see how well it turned out. (thanks Earl from ^^^ in this thread)

Running game days here have pushed me many ways. It wasn't easy, but it was good. I am proud of the community we've built up over the years. I'm sad for Dan and Doug, I know they tried to keep the doors open. I know that they are going to try to keep the community going as well, without the store front. I wish them all the luck with that and will happily toss in some events in PFS ways to things that they want to do later.

I've had many good times at YMB playing and GMing. Some of the most memorable:
Port Godless and the 3 Silver Crusaders slaughtering the accountants on the top floor as the 3 Chelaxian's watch in horror.
Fashion shows with Kitty's druid (which on amirite?!?!?) where our characters were too naive to know that the person watching the show wasn't there for the fashion.
Surviving hard mode in Sealed gate.
Surviving King of the storval stairs...
Not surviving AFI:3 Hard mode... (that 1 on that fort save though)
Playing so many amazing games with so many amazing people.

I've laughed, I've cried, I've raged, and I kept going back. Sure we'll all have this at Level Up now on saturday nights. But it won't be the same.

It won't be YMB. That place is the best.

(at least red team got the PokeGym back on saturday) :D

Serisan wrote:

jon dehning wrote:

Andrew Christian wrote:

One of Clinton's two retired scenarios will be available.

We hope any way. It will depend on how well the cornering of one Mr. John Compton goes at Paizo Con.

I think there is no man or woman alive who can stand up to the combined virility of the MN lodge.

If at any point the "combined virility" of a lodge is your way of making a request, I assure you that our answer will be "no."

*sends them back to the drawing board*

This doesn't just make me sad. It also makes me angry. I work 2 jobs, organize a game day of 4-5 tables every Saturday, Moderate for 2 large Twitch channels and find the time with 6 other people to organize our 2 major and multiple minor conventions in MN every year. One of those conventions that I put my precious little time into is now a game day?

It's a game day because instead of renting a hotel space and making people spend $300 for the weekend on a room plus con fees we worked with one of our local stores and rented the Event Center attached to their retail space from them.

To make sure we get support, since after estimating the numbers in the region we're in it's only about 4% of the game days every 1/4 that get upgraded to Game Days, we'd have to leave the Event Center at the game store that you're worried about making angry and move to a hotel space or Somewhere else that doesn't sell Products?

This seems counter productive.

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Us: We'd like to reserve this space again this year because you guys were so awesome last year and people had fun! We raised $3700+ for our charity and everyone felt good about what we did!

Store: Yeah come back you guys are the best!!

*new convention policy*

Us: Oh hey sorry store we can't be a convention there now so we need to take our rental fee and all that money we made you in food/drink/product sales last year elsewhere to make sure we get convention status so our GM's and players get boons for all the work they do. Paizo said this isn't a convention anymore.

Store: RAWR WHAT?!?!

Us: Sorry, bye bye. Uh we can still play here for game days right? I mean...

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We need more options than just no cons in retail space. Nothing is ever as black and white as it appears and cookie cutter-ing this isn't the right answer.

Todd Reidenbach wrote:

An event that schedules 21 games over three days and raises $1,600 for a charitable cause should be congratulated with convention support.

An event that schedules 28 events over three days and is relocated to this venue at the last minute should be congratulated with convention support.

Under the new definitions, however, these events would have to compete with a handful of other events for Game Day support and not convention support, simply because that venue is a retail store.

Those are just two examples of Enchanted Grounds supporting the PFS community and I hope we can continue to commend businesses like this for all they do.

I think this retail component which now downgrades conventions into Game Days should be reconsidered. Events of that scale are not a Game Day.

A three day con with over 75 tables that raised $3,755 for charity is now a game day.

This is the saddest thing I've read today. And I post the news online for a living.

Being punished by not being called a convention simply because we get space at a retail venue. A retail venue that RENTS the event center to us. A convention that only asks for BOONS not gift certificates because we're operating out of a retail venue and want people to purchase the vendor's inventory.

There needs to be more options because making this only a game day is unacceptable.

We donated so much to help the community and now we're downgraded to a Game Day.

Saddest thing today.