Werewulf ([info]werewulf) wrote,
@ 2007-07-09 22:23:00
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Current mood: jubilant
Entry tags:games, origins, prize, winner

Oh my Great Ghu, Golly Gee, Wow, Gee Whiz, Gosh, Holy Cow!

So I won the big Cheese Weasel sponsored congame at Origins. The prizes were big.. I mean REALLY big!!

Here’s the list:

Board Type Games:
Tet Offensive, 1968: The Turning Point in Vietnam – GDW Games
Stand and Die: The Battle of Borodino, 1941 – GDW Games
Galactic Destiny – Golden Laurel Entertainment (AUTOGRAPHED!)
Stonehenge, an Anthology Board Game – Titanic Games (AUTOGRAPHED!)
Cluzzle – North Star Games
Conquest of Pangea – Immortal Eyes Games (AUTOGRAPHED!)
The Red Dragon Inn – Slugfest Games (AUTOGRAPHED!)
Pit Fighter: Fantasy Arena – Cheese Weasel Logistics (AUTOGRAPHED!)
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Game – Mayfair Games

Card Type Games:
En Garde! – Slugfest Games(AUTOGRAPHED!)
Kung Fu Fighting – Slugfest Games (AUTOGRAPHED!)
X-Machina – Blood and Cardstock Games (AUTOGRAPHED!)
Nuclear War: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (in tin box) – Flying Buffalo Inc. (SIGNED AND NUMBERED 94/1000)
Dragon Storm Role Playing – Black Dragon Press (10 decks and 2 boxes of booster packs PLUS 2 more boxes of Kanchaka Campaign, expansion set booster packs)
Magic the Gathering Boosters (10 packs Guildpact, 10 packs Dissension, and 1 box of Planar Chaos)
Flowers and Fluxx – Looney Labs

Books and the like:
Fantasy Imperium, an Interactive Storytelling Game of Historical Fantasy – Shadowstar Games (AUTOGRAPHED!)
Fellowship of the White Star: Legacy of the Rosecorrected actually from Thenodrin Presents
Dungeon Masters Guide (Core Rulebook II, v.3.5) LEATHERBOUND!! – Wizards of the Coast
Pirates of the Spanish Main – Studio 2 Publishing (AUTOGRAPHED!)
Hollow Earth Expedition: Pulp Adventure Roleplaying Game – Exile Game Studio
Archaic: Winter Children – Graphic Novel donated by Spewgilist.com (AUTOGRAPHED!)


Other Game Related Items:
Hollow Earth Expeditions: Gamemaster Screen – Exile Game Studio
Crown of the Kobold King, Gamemastery Module – Paizo Publishing (AUTOGRAPHED!)
Pit Fighter: Fantasy Arena Expansion Sets Two and Three (extra cards to add to the game I assume) – Cheese Weasel Logistics
Conquest of Pangea Expansion Set – Immortal Eyes Games (AUTOGRAPHED!)
Pirates themed Card Coffin – Cheese Weasel Logistics (AUTOGRAPHED!)
Dragonfire RPtiles: Monster Tile Set - Dragonfire Lasercrafts

Decorative Stuff:
Wooden Box burned with “WARNING: TOUCH BOX AT OWN RISK” (presumably donated by the Dragonfire Lasercrafts)
Framed Original Concept Drawing along with the completed card of “Going Underground” from the game Nature of the Beast - Eye-Level Entertainment (AUTOGRAPHED!)
2 Limited Edition Prints from Nature of the Beast – Eye-Level Entertainment (Signed and Numbered, both 2/25)
Colour Print of “Hymn to Tourach” by Susan Van Camp
Rolled, Uncut, Complete Nuclear War Card Set – Flying Buffalo, Inc.
Limited Edition Print, Exalted: Jasara – White Wolf Game Studio (numbered 315/500)

And the Last Few Things:
World of Darkness Development Team Tshirt, size XL
Gift Certificate for 50 Dollars to spend at geeklabel.com
5 “Five Dollar Off purchase” certificates from ccncomics.com
Gift Certificate to pick up a “Free, autographed, first addition (sic) of the game, Skrall!”


And oh yes, one more little thing….

In a box labeled “Assamite Assasins Dagger” with a price tag of $199.99 on the side. A really neat, sharp, etched with mystical symbols, carved handle Kukri Dagger.




So WHEEEEEEEE!! That’s all the games I won. I won’t even bother to list the ones that I bought for myself. (at least not tonight!)

Thanks Cheese Weasel! And thanks to all the folks who donated the games. And thanks to [info]ksatyr and [info]kdsorceress who went around and did the big con game with me. And WOW!!



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[info]macaroniandtuna
2007-07-10 03:45 am UTC (link)
Sheez that's a lot of loot. Also, most of your links are screwy (I think you didn't put the "http://" in the [a href="] tag).

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[info]werewulf
2007-07-10 05:24 am UTC (link)
Dang,

I know exactly what went wrong... I did this list in word and copy/pasted... sometimes it messes up the quote symbol and turns it into something else.

Tomorrow, I'll dump it into text edit and fix it.

Howls....

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[info]madbodger
2007-07-10 07:34 pm UTC (link)
Word??? What were you thinking?

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[info]muzikmaker21
2007-07-10 04:04 am UTC (link)
Wow! Totally awesome! Congrats!

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[info]thorog
2007-07-10 04:13 am UTC (link)
OK. So, now, you probably own more stuff than OUR GAMING CLUB AT UNI.

Seriously, I'm going to have to defriend you lot soon before I murder someone in a jealous rage.

(No, just kidding....I...hope...)

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[info]kdsorceress
2007-07-10 11:18 am UTC (link)
Dude, I can assure you that we owned more games before your gaming club at Uni loooooong before this. Trust me.

Remind me sometime when I'm online, I'll take pictures.

~Sor

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[info]marcmagus
2007-07-10 11:01 pm UTC (link)
Your gaming club clearly needs to do more fundraising and secure a better budget.

(If you'd like, I could provide pointers on that, actually.)

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[info]werewulf
2007-07-10 11:03 pm UTC (link)
I think that his gaming club just has to come over here to the U.S. for a visit. Or in fact only one member of his gaming club needs to come for a visit. No more excuses, Tho... (I'll give you a game *grin*)

Howls....

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[info]thorog
2007-07-11 05:02 am UTC (link)
Well, sure, provide me with a passport, itinery, visa, spending money, time off uni, and then I'll have no more excuses!

Oh, and time to prepare. Considering I haven't even started on any of your presents.

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[info]thorog
2007-07-10 11:31 pm UTC (link)
Our gaming club firstly needs more members, members who would take an interest in running the club, a cleanout of the stuff in its lockers, enough new blood that we can get rid of all the old folk who insist on keeping God-knows-how-many Dragon magazines, a decent board, someone who actually cares to organise stuff so I'm not writing up LARP character backgrounds two days before the event...

Y'see, I live in a country with a population less than most of your cities. We don't have enough members to warrant buying much new stuff. The obvious solution is that you get all the roleplayers in MD to pack up and head to NZ. Grey'll organise it, I'm sure.

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[info]werewulf
2007-07-11 04:51 am UTC (link)
Hey everyone in Maryland!! FIELD TRIP TIME!!!

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[info]thorog
2007-07-11 05:01 am UTC (link)
Wooo! :D

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[info]lesokuci
2008-07-17 01:17 pm UTC (link)
Hey guys as I was saying yesterday about the field trip the best part was when we got to eat with a real Astronaut.

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[info]marcmagus
2007-07-11 02:46 pm UTC (link)
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten about the complaints I keep hearing about the cost of shipping decent games down that way. I was also thinking more of a gaming club in the sense of board/card/etc. than role-playing for some reason.

But can your country really handle all the roleplayers in MD? If you were to include all the ones in the DC-Metro area . . . there are a lot of 'em.

The trouble with apathy is that it breeds apathy. Particularly in board members. Annoying. That's where new blood helps.

How small is your membership? I got an annual budget of USD 1,000 for my college Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Anime/Gaming club with an active membership somewhere in the range of 10-20 members. A lot of it is in how you file paperwork and how you spin your budget request.

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[info]thorog
2007-07-11 11:50 pm UTC (link)
I don't know the real details (since I'm not on the board....yet), but we have more than 10-20 members. The fact is that I'm rather bitter currently because we're organising the annual con in our city (one of two annually within driving distance), and I've ended up co-GMing both major events, and it's really disorganised. And then Grey comes back from Origins with a huge swag and I just wish we had that sort of support. OK, so Origins is big, but still.

I think we have about 80 or so members. I don't know, since quite a few groups sign up and then disappear off to their own houses for their own campaigns for the year, so without checking the records you can't really get a number from cons or AGMs or the like.

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[info]marcmagus
2007-07-12 05:27 am UTC (link)
Ugh. I know what that's like. I've definitely gotten stuck with a very large portion of the gruntwork of running a convention after somebody else decided to run it. You have my sympathy. I hope their disorganization doesn't hurt your events.

Should you ever find yourself on the board and in charge of treasury, the secret is to turn everything you possibly can into an official group event. It sounds like your group is only RP, which is trickier (fewer events open to the entire campus), but there's no reason you shouldn't report every session of every game as a successful event with attendance when you report group activity to the governing body. The other trick is to demonstrate that you both spend and receive a lot of money. The former means you're active, and the latter means people are donating to see the group succeed. I found that using group funds to purchase movie tickets for a group trip, then collecting the same amount from attendees looked really good for that. Ummm...I'll stop now with the unsolicited advice. I could go on about this for a while.

Good luck. I'm always interested in seeing groups like yours be more successful. Too many struggle for bad reasons.

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[info]thorog
2007-07-12 05:50 am UTC (link)
It sounds like your group is only RP, which is trickier

We're technically RP/boardgames/wargames. But despite always seeming to get lots of wargamers signing up....I never see wargaming happening. And boardgames are more for the roleplayers to do when they aren't roleplaying (although there are some people who just board game).

Meanwhile, I have managed to not do any work for the LARP this afternoon. Mainly because I was working on the Grand Strategy (and doing some CSS for a friend). So, I should probably get onto that.

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[info]koralleen
2007-07-10 05:05 am UTC (link)
I am utterly agape. Congratulations! What a haul!

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Wow!
[info]anigma_i
2007-07-10 05:22 am UTC (link)
What did you do to win all that?

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Re: Wow!
[info]ksatyr
2007-07-10 10:28 am UTC (link)
[info]werewulf, [info]kdsorceress and I wandered around the trader's hall for hours on end playing games, singing and doing silly dances, hugging traders and listening to sales pitches. Each of us received a punch in our card from the trader and once the cards were full, we turned them in for the final draw.

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[info]leemoyer
2007-07-10 07:16 am UTC (link)
Hot damn!
Whatever you did, you must have done it very well indeed!

Congratulations to you (and yours). A haul that big will take a lot of divvying...

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[info]blueeowyn
2007-07-10 04:08 pm UTC (link)
Cool! I would love a chance to see/play a couple of those at some point. Go Werewulf!

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[info]bfudlmint
2007-07-10 04:44 pm UTC (link)
Very, very cool. So when are you going to host a games night so we can try out your haul.

They released a leather bound DMG. I am going to have to take a look at that, with a drool bib.

I also want to take a look at the Pirates of The Spanish Main RPG. A good buckleswashing game peeks my interest.



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[info]media_junkie
2007-07-10 10:10 pm UTC (link)
OK, now I get the way excited phone call. I'd never seen the other end of the quest. It's amazing.

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[info]sasseyfrass
2007-08-13 02:50 am UTC (link)
Congratulations! That is a ton of lewt.

I would mention that "Fellowship of the White Star" is produced by Thenodrin Presents. Absolutely no relation to the company listed in your loot list :) We donated it and think that Cheese Weasel did an awesome job coordinating the game.

-Dave...
Treasurer, Thenodrin Presents, LLC.

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[info]werewulf
2008-07-18 02:36 am UTC (link)
Okay it took me a year to get back to my post and discover I'd missed this comment, but it's fixed now anyway.

And thanks a lot. I really enjoyed reading up on the Fellowship but then my daughter took it off to college where she and her friends have been enjoying it ever since.

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-18 12:13 pm UTC (link)
No worries :)

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Hope you got a chance to play at Origins '08, we had over 150 play with 31 tables. Maybe your daughter will get back from college and GM you through a few adventures :)

/cheers!

-Dave

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