April 23,
2004: All the news that's fit to print...
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Bravo TV
(the same folks that brought you
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,
Inside the Actor's Studio, and many, many reruns of
The
West Wing) are bringing a new show to A Gazebo of Games!
While we can't release details on
the show until Saturday morning of the convention, we're very excited
that a Bravo film crew will be with us at
A
Gazebo of Games, filming the convention for their pilot episode
and joining in the fun.
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Prize Guy Steve Hess has informed us that we have over
$3000 in prizes to give away at A Gazebo of Games. Among those prizes
are fifteen passes to this year's
GenCon Indy! Steve's really outdone himself this time, and we're
overjoyed to constantly have such an amazing number of prizes to give
away to our convention attendees.
·
Guest of Honor
Tony DiGerolamo
has
signed a deal with Living Room Games
to publish Tony DiGerolamo's
Complete Mafia for d20 towards the end of this year. He'll be
bringing a copy of the game to playtest, and so that the AGoG
attendees can get a sneak peek. As the deal was just signed on April
20th, AGoG attendees will be among the first to view this great new
game!
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We've updated the events for
A
Gazebo of Games on this site, and uploaded our
complete schedule as a PDF. It's fully printable, for those of you
who hate reading event lists onscreen. Some new events have been
added, so take a look!
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We're happy to announce that
Craig Enslin
has joined our list of exhibitors for A Gazebo of Games 2004! We've
been trying for years to get Craig to come to one of our shows, but
scheduling has never quite worked out till now.
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Interactivities, Ink
will also be joining us in the Exhibitor's Room, for the second time.
They're also running several
LARPs
over the course of AGoG, and their new board game,
IGOR: The Mad Scientist's Lament.
Welcome back, folks!
·
Speaking of Exhibitors, we've taken a moment to collate a list of
all of the companies that have
supported us in
the last year or so. There's a variety of ways in which we define
support - advertising, exhibiting at one of our conventions, or
donating prizes to the acclaimed WGP Prize Table. We've been blessed
with a wealth of industry support, and wanted to take a moment to
acknowledge the sheer number of companies who've helped us to make our
convention dreams a reality. Thanks!
There's only one week left until A
Gazebo of Games - see you there!
April 10,
2004: The event
descriptions for A
Gazebo of Games 2004 are up!
The
schedule is complete, and is live. Thanks to everyone who helped get
this to the web! Thanks as well to all of you who waited so patiently,
and with such understanding.
Now
that everything is live, register
for all of your AGoG 2004 games!
While
you’re registering, don’t forget to book your hotel room!
The Sheraton Edison at Raritan
Center is a great hotel, and was very, very
full the last time we hosted an event there. The room rate is $79 per
night – tell them you’re with Wild Gazebo Productions, to take
advantage of the convention rate. Our room block deadline is April
15th - if you reserve your room after then, we can't guarantee that
you'll receive the reduced rate. Call 732-225-8300 to make your
reservation.
See you in a few weeks!
March 29,
2004: Back from ICON,
with the AGoG event schedule!
Thanks to everyone who came out for ICON
this past weekend! We had an absolute blast, and hope that all of you
did as well. Met some new friends, saw some old friends, played some new
games, introduced the new friends to new games - couldn't ask for a
better time.
Add to that the fact that veteran
Gazeboteers Ben
Moskowitz and Deb Reigelsburger tied the knot this weekend, and
you have a group of very, very happy WGP-folk. Congratulations again,
you two!
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Somehow,
in the midst of conventions and dancing, we managed to put in some
serious time on the website. The event grids for A
Gazebo of Games 2004 are up! The event descriptions will be up
soon, but we wanted to give all of you a look at the full schedule as
soon as we could. Enjoy!
While
you’re registering, don’t forget to book your hotel room!
The Sheraton Edison at Raritan
Center is a great hotel, and was very, very
full the last time we hosted an event there. The room rate is $79 per
night – tell them you’re with Wild Gazebo Productions, to take
advantage of the convention rate. Call 732-225-8300 to make your
reservation.
Next weekend: MEPACon!
March 22,
2004: Back from Intercon
D and GAMA!
Thanks
to everyone who came out this weekend and played in Divus
Ex: Greece at Intercon D!
We
had a wonderful time, and hope that all of you did as well. Thank you
all for making our Greek Gods and Goddesses come to life, and picking
up their personalities and running with it as much as you did. Several
things happened that we hadn’t ever dreamed of, and all were
delightful surprises! It was great to work with such a creative
and enthusiastic bunch of LARPers, and we’d love to have all of you
play in the next Divus installment we run (whenever that is).
Also
- if you have any suggestions as to how the game can improve
(characters, mechanics, plot), please send
them along as well. This was the first time this particular game
has run, and there’s always room to improve things before we run it
again.
Thanks
again for playing in our game!
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The
schedule of events for A
Gazebo of Games 2004 should be up this week – we’re running a
bit behind due to regular-life concerns. Thanks to everyone who has
been pitching in to help get the schedule together!
Since
we’re running a bit behind calendar, we’ve decided to extend the
pre-registration deadline till next Friday, April 2nd. With
or without events, take a moment to register,
and take advantage of the reduced rate!
While
you’re registering, don’t forget to book your hotel room!
The Sheraton Edison at Raritan
Center is a great hotel, and was very, very
full the last time we hosted an event there. The room rate is $79 per
night – tell them you’re with Wild Gazebo Productions, to take
advantage of the convention rate. Call 732-225-8300 to make your
reservation.
March 11,
2004:
Off to
Intercon D,
and then to GAMA!
It's been a chaotic couple of
weeks, as we've been prepping Divus Ex: Greece to run this weekend at
Intercon D.
We're happy to say that not only is the game full, but there's a waiting
list of players who want to get into the game! We're delighted
that there's been such interest, and have already started thinking about
when and where we'll run the game again.
We leave tomorrow for the
road trip up to Chelmsford, and can't wait to game with all of our
Intercon friends again!
Right after Intercon, we fly
out to GAMA, at the Orleans Hotel in
Las Vegas. This will be the first GAMA for the WGP team, and we're
incredibly psyched to be going. We'll be speaking on panels, cruising
the Exhibit Hall, helping out at the convention, and just generally
running around Vegas. If you see us (look for the bowling shirts), be
sure to come over and say hello!
As soon as we come back, we
jump straight into
A
Gazebo of Games
mode. We know some of you are chomping at the bit, waiting for the
schedule to go up so you can register - it'll be up soon, we promise!
February 20, 2004:
We’re looking to
upgrade the WGP website – better design, better graphics, and more
features and functionality.
Unfortunately, none of the members of the WGP staff have the expertise
needed to accomplish the web redesign we need.
If
*you* have the expertise we need, and are willing to redesign our
website for us (in exchange for free passes to our conventions,
convention t-shirts, recognition on the website and our undying
affection), please
contact
Trey.
Specifications:
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Design to be completed by June 1, 2004.
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Incorporates our company colors of maroon, and grey, with accents of
black and white.
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Incorporates the company logo.
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Has
a white background, for easy printing.
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Has
a gazebo (of course).
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Can be updated by
members of the WGP staff.
There’s more, but how far we take this mostly depends on you, your level of expertise, and
the time you have available to help. We’ve got a wide assortment of
things we’d like to be able to offer the gaming community – we just need
a website to help us do it.
Thanks for
listening, and huge thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to help!
January 25, 2004:
We've had a change of Boardgaming Coordinator. Sandy Hess informed us
recently that she was going to have to take a step back from Wild
Gazebo, as real life has been pressing a bit too hard on her lately.
Sandy's been with us from the beginning, and we never would have gotten
to where we are today without her. Many, many thanks go to Sandy for all
of her hard work, and we look forward to seeing a more relaxed Sandy
kicking our butts in the Boardgaming Room at
A Gazebo
of Games.
Taking on the very daunting task of attempting to fill
Sandy's august shoes is J. Carpio "Dregg". Dregg is relatively new
member of the East Coast gaming scene, coming to us from San Francisco,
California. He wasted no time in getting heavily involved with things
over here, however, as he's involved with putting together the gaming
track for I-Con, and
is also working on his own RPG company,
Chapter 13 Press.
He also runs demos for
Cheapass Games and
Eden Studios.
He's a busy guy, and we're happy to have someone so enthusiastic about
this hobby on our team.
Welcome, Dregg!
In other news, we've added a page detailing our
Mission Statement, and put up a
Contact Information page, so
that you can easily find the WGP staffer you need.
Enjoy!
January 11, 2004:
Happy New Year!
2004 has already started off with a bang for us - we're
happy to announce
Liz Teichman as our new RPG Coordinator for
A Gazebo
of Games! Liz has been a diehard RPG Game Master for us since the
beginning, and we're pleased that she's signed on with us to bring our
convention guests the very best in RPG gaming. Welcome, Liz!
Event
submissions for A Gazebo of Games are now online - the event
submission deadline is February 15th, and space is
first-come-first-served, so get your submission in early!
Several of our long-standing GMs have mentioned that
they'd like to receive something other than a convention t-shirt as a
gift from us for running 12 hours of games. So, effective immediately,
our GM policy is changing to the following:
What this means is that every convention we'll have a
new gift for you. We can't tell you what it'll be yet, but it'll be a
non-shirt item, with the WGP logo, that will only be given to
GMs. If you have a suggestion for what you think the WGP GM Gift for
A Gazebo
of Games 2004 should be, please e-mail
Trey and let
her know. (She reserves the right to snicker at the more outrageous
suggestions.)
There's also a change to our volunteer policy:
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Volunteers:
For every 4 hours that you volunteer, you get 1 prize point (up to 5).
In addition, if you volunteer for 8 hours, we'll comp your badge.
E-mail our Volunteer Coordinator,
Ben
Moskowitz, if you'd like to volunteer for AGoG 2004.
December 25, 2003:
Happy holidays to everyone! We hope that all of you are enjoying a
wonderful holiday - warm, safe, well-fed, and surrounded by those you
love. Thanks for spending another year with us, and we look
forward to gaming and good times with you in the years to come.
November
17, 2004: Thanks for making Lollagazebo
2003 a huge success! We had a great weekend at the Sheraton Raritan
Center (our beautiful new hotel home), and from all the positive reports
we're getting in, you did too!
Prize Guy Steve
Hess reports that we went into Friday night with an unheard of amount of
prize support - over $4000 in prizes! Remember that you can use your
leftover prize vouchers from Lollagazebo 2003 at any of our future
shows, so save them and bring them to A
Gazebo of Games!
The final
numbers from the Auction aren't in yet, but we raised about $100 this
weekend for our favorite charity, the American
Cancer Society. A great job, to help a great cause!
Special thanks
go out to Mike Keegan and Melinda Gesslein, who joined our volunteer
team in the 11th hour and dedicated an enormous amount of hours each to
making sure that Lollagazebo ran smoothly. Thanks, guys - you were a
huge help!
Special thanks
also go out to the Looney Labs
Trio - Andy, Kristin and Alison came into our convention with the
enthusiasm and humor that only they can provide, and knocked the socks
off our attendees. We had a fantastic time with them, and hope to see
more of them in the future. Thanks again!
Congratulations
to our tournament winners!
Munchkinpalooza
1st - John
Klinge
2nd - Alex
Felman
3rd - Mara
Felman
Rio
Grande Tournament
1st - JJ Conn
2nd - Steve
Fitchett
3rd - Albert
Lamante
Set
Tournament
Mike Young -
$100 Winner
Kristi Long -
SET T-shirt Winner
Ron Laufer - SET
T-shirt Winner
Steve Buce - SET
T-shirt Winner
Eliot Werner -
SET T-shirt Winner
As for the rest of you - whether you were a GM, a
volunteer or just came to game, thank you! We could not do this without
your help and support!
November
2, 2003: You asked for it, and we've brought it to you! We've
added two Living Greyhawk RPGA
modules (Will of the People and Chain Reaction) to our schedule, at your
request. Enjoy!
October
28, 2003: We've finalized the list of Exhibitors
for Lollagazebo 2003 - we simply can't take even one more, as we're
completely full! We've got an incredible roster of Exhibitors for
you this time, so take a moment and look at the full listing.
Remember that there's no fee to
simply come and shop (though once you're at the convention, we know you
won't be able to resist playing a few games), so if you need to make a
good start to your winter holiday shopping, or just really need that
obscure board game for yourself, drop by and visit the Exhibitors room
at Lollagazebo!
October
20, 2003: An assortment of updates:
Our Guests
of Honor schedule has been posted, as well as a list of all of the Tournaments
happening at Lollagazebo 2003.
Attention Car Wars fans! Our
Car Wars events now have expanded descriptions, so take a look at the Minis
schedule, and start building your vehicle!
For those of you who don't drive,
we've posted the public transportation directions to Lollagazebo 2003 on
our hotel
page.
And finally, the event
schedule for Lollagazebo 2003 is now available in PDF
format. Enjoy!
October 12, 2003: Updates
to the Minis
Schedule have been made - there are a whole slew of new events.
There's far too many to list individually, so take a look for yourself,
and enjoy!
October 7, 2003: We've
added a LARP-only badge! If you're just planning on coming to LARP, you
can get a weekend badge for $20.
Remember that some LARPs may have an additional charge associated with
them, payable to the LARP organizers at the door.
Further additions,
changes, and deletions to the Lollagazebo
2003 schedule:
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C2-11-C01 - Warhammer
40k CCG: Horus Heresy Pre-release has been added on Saturday,
at 11am.
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C2-14-B15 - Shadow Fist: Final Brawl
- has been cancelled at the request of the GM.
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C2-20-C01 - Shadow Fist: Who's the Big Man Now?
- has been cancelled at the request of the GM.
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C2-16-C04 - Warhammer 40k CCG: 1st edition tournament
- has been added on Saturday at 4pm.
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C3-14-C04 - War Cry CCG
- has been added on Sunday at 2pm.
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R2-09-R09 - TOON!: Fowl Play
has been added on Saturday at 9am.
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R2-24-R04 - Baron Munchausen RPG: Wagers, Wine, and Competitive Lying
- has been added on Saturday at midnight.
September 30,
2003: The Lollagazebo registration
page is up, and is working well. If you can't access it, it's likely
that your office firewall is rejecting things that are on Port 95. Try
again from home, or just e-mail your event schedule to Paul,
our Registration Czar, and he'll put you into the system.
As tends to happen with
convention schedules, there are additions, changes, and deletions to the
schedule for Lollagazebo 2003.
Here's
the ones we have so far:
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R2-24-R06 - In
Nomine: Out of the Mouths of Babes - has been cancelled at
the request of the GM.
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R2-24-R01 - Baron Munchausen RPG: Wagers, Wine, and Competitive Lying
has been cancelled at the request of the GM.
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R1-20-R06 - All Flesh Must be Eaten: The Good, The Bad, and The Living Dead
- has been added on Friday, at 8pm.
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R1-24-R04 - Witchcraft RPG: Witchcraft Demonstration
- has been added on Friday at Midnight.
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R2-24-R06A - All Flesh Must be Eaten: The Exterminators
- has been added on Saturday at Midnight.
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R2-24-R07 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG: Scream Blackula Scream!
- has been added on Saturday at Midnight.
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R3-09-R02 - All Flesh Must be Eaten: Dark Side
- has been added on Sunday at 9am.
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R3-09-R03 - Army of Darkness RPG: Hail to which King!?
- has been added on Sunday at 9am.
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R3-09-R06 - Witchcraft RPG: Witchcraft Demonstration
- has been added on Sunday at 9am.
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B3-14-B09 - Guillotine
- has moved, and is now on Friday, at 8pm (new code:
B1-20-B09A)
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B1-20-B09 - Freeloader
- has moved, and is now on Sunday, at 2pm. (new code: B3-14-B09A)
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B2-16-B03 - Knights of the Dinner Table: Hack! Card Game
- has been added on Saturday, at 4pm.
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B2-22-B11 - Xmachina
- has been added on Saturday, at 10pm.
September 22, 2003: The
schedule for Lollagazebo
2003 is up, and event registration is open. Enjoy!
September 19, 2003: We're
incredibly pleased to announce that the Looney
Labs Trio (aka Andy Looney, Kristin Looney and Alison 'Looney' Frane)
have accepted our invitation and are now the Guests of Honor for Lollagazebo
2003!
We've been a big fan of Looney
Labs for quite some time now - we not only love what they do, but
how they do it. They not only make great games, but they do so with
friendliness, style, and a commitment to having fun and eating
Pop-Tarts. Having noticed that the Columbus Convention Center doesn't
recycle, they took it upon themselves to provide Origins
attendees with recycling bins, and took the cans and plastics to a
recycling center themselves. We love that. If you find a group of
friendly folks wearing tie-dye, lab coats, and rabbit ears, it's likely
that they're with Looney Labs. We love that too.
We're psyched that they've
accepted our invitation, and look forward to having them meet the Wild
Gazebo convention-goers.
August 2, 2003: Two
server changes in two months. It's enough to give us a collective migraine.
Hopefully, this will be the last time we do this for a long, long time,
and we can look forward to happy computer stability in the future.
The event submission deadline
for Lollagazebo
was July 15th. However, there are still a few spaces available, so if
you've got an event that you'd love to run, submit it, and we'll do our
best to fit it in. We'll have the full schedule of games online soon,
but while you're waiting for that, here's a couple of teasers:
Live Mage Knight
Like Mage Knight? Ever wanted to be a Mage Knight? Teams of 3 will compete in a cardboard dungeon, laid out over an entire ballroom floor. Get the most points & advance to the next round. 12 players will compete at a time, with the remaining players taking the parts of the various monsters. Then the monsters and the mage knights switch! Complete rules available on-site, or contact
Marc for more information.
MunchkinPalooza Tournament at Lollagazebo
Presenting MunchkinPalooza, a special tournament
sponsored by Steve
Jackson Games and the MIB! Three versions of Munchkin and 11 great
events over the weekend. Players will collect points for all the
levels they earn during each game. The more you play, the better your
chance to win! The top three will get Medals and special prizes on
Sunday.
| Date |
Time |
Game |
| FRI |
8pm-10pm |
Star Munchkin: Space Madness |
| FRI |
10pm-2am |
Elves and Ninjas and Aliens, Oh My |
| SAT |
9am-11am |
Star Munchkin |
| SAT |
2pm-4pm |
Munchkin Fu |
| SAT |
4pm-6pm |
Munchkin Fu |
| SAT |
8pm-12mid |
Epic Munchkin |
| SAT |
12mid-2am |
Midnight Munchkin Madness |
| SUN |
9am-11am |
Munchkin |
| SUN |
11am-1pm |
Super Space Ninja Munchkin |
| SUN |
11am-1pm |
Munchkin |
| SUN |
2pm - 4pm |
Munchkin |
Lollagazeborama
Trivia! Scavenger Hunts! Time's Up! Jigsaw Puzzles!
Improvisational Acting! Anagrams! and More! Four teams of up to 7
players each compete in this grand competition featuring simultaneous
events testing quick thinking, knowledge, negotiations, acquisition
skills, verbal and manual dexterity. Come with a team, or by yourself,
and we'll team you up with others! For more information, contact Mike.
See you in November!
June 23, 2003: We're
gearing up for Origins
right now, and after that we'll be in full swing with plans for Lollagazebo!
If any of you are in Columbus this weekend, look for us - the WGP staff
will be volunteering, running games, playing games and just generally
having a great time. Just look for the maroon and black bowling shirts,
and say hello!
A big Thank You to everyone
who attended I18:
Intercon Gazebo the weekend of June 13-15! We had a fabulous time,
and were thrilled that so many of the Boston and DC Intercon folks came
to New Jersey to play with us. Final attendance was around 110 (which
we're told is consistent with attendance at the Intercons in DC), and
we're very pleased by that, and committed to increasing our attendance
and game offerings in the future.
Special thanks (in no particular order) goes to:
-
David Clarkson, for endless
support and encouragement.
-
Dirk Parham and the Altered
Realities Campaign (ARC) folks, for working hard to make sure that
everyone was well fed and hydrated.
-
Steve Edelman and Sandy Hess,
for running our Game Room and providing a *huge* stock of games for
people to play when they weren't LARPing.
-
Deb Davis, who provided
music for the I18 Saturday night dance party.
-
Gordon Olmstead-Dean and Scott
Mohnkern, for providing and setting up the sound system.
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Everyone else who helped to
set up or break down the party (you know who you are).
-
Mike Young, for hosting
Shameless Plugs on Sunday morning during closing ceremonies.
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Everyone who bought raffle
tickets (especially Chad and Teem for buying so*many* of them!)
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The NEIL and DC LARPA folks,
who were a continual supply of advice and support. Thanks for making
us feel part of the community, and for being so kind to the new con
on the circuit.
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Our fabulous ConCom, for
rolling with the needs of an Intercon, and for
stepping up to every challenge we threw at them!
Last, but certainly not least, we'd like to thank all of our wonderful
GMs and GM teams, who worked so hard to provide interesting and
entertaining LARP experiences for our attendees. As Paul pointed out
during Closing Ceremonies, Intercon is the only place where the GMs are
so important, almost half the program book is taken up by GM bios. We
could never achieved what we did without you, and thank you profusely
for running the games that you did.
After a lot of thought, we've decided not to have a NJ Intercon in 2004
- we learned so much with this experience (the needs of an Intercon
being different from the needs of any other type of convention), that
one year is just not enough time to implement all of the changes that we
wish to make. We're not going away, and we're absolutely committed to
bringing Intercon back to New Jersey time and time again. There will be
another Intercon Gazebo in 2005 - we'll keep you posted with more
information as our plans solidify.
We'll see all of you at Intercon
D (where we're running Divus
Ex: Greece), and at Intercon
Mid-Atlantic, and we'll be back in 2005 for another Intercon Gazebo!
June
10, 2003: Well, there's good news and
bad news today.
Horror
in the New Millennium and Terminus have been cancelled, due to
personal crises in the lives of the GMs.
Nap
Time has been cancelled as well, at the request of the GM.
The
good news is that TBA is sold out (well, good for the game, anyway.
Not so good for those of you who wanted to play, but just haven't
gotten around to signing up yet.)
And
we've added a 3rd run of Limbo:
The I18 Minimalist LARP, for all of you Sunday morning
early-gamers.
Enjoy,
and we'll see you this weekend!
May
22, 2003: In
response to a couple of requests, we've decided to offer Friday Only
and Sunday Only badges for I18:
Intercon Gazebo. The Friday Only badge is $15 till June 8th, and $20
thereafter and at the
door. The Sunday Only badge is $10 till June 8th, and $15 thereafter
and at the door.
The Friday Only badge is upgradeable to a full weekend badge,
just by paying the difference in cost. (You could upgrade the Sunday
Only badge as well, but it might require a time machine.)
A
few small changes to the I18: Intercon Gazebo roster:
-
Nap
Time has had a description change - learn more about the game
of Kindergarten Politics!
-
TBA
has changed from 12 players to 8 players, at the request of the
GMs.
May
15, 2003: Oooooffff....it's been a
while. We're in the middle of transferring our website and e-mail
servers over to another location, so things have been a bit of a mess.
Please bear with us while we're in transition - hopefully, everything
will be in place and working perfectly soon.
There
have been several changes to the I18:
Intercon Gazebo game roster:
-
Welcome
to Avalon: Help the Fey? has been added to the schedule, at
11am on Saturday, and then again at 6pm on Saturday. Brought to
you by the fine folks at LAIRE,
who we're very happy to have join the Intercon Gazebo team.
-
Since
the response to their Nobilis
game has been a little low, Nightfall Productions has moved that
game to Saturday afternoon, and added a run of their acclaimed Dark
Ages Mind's Eye Theatre game to the schedule on Friday night.
Come play it here, and then look for it at a convention near you
so you can play it again!
-
For
all you folks who are looking for something low-key to do on
Sunday morning, we've added the I:18
Breakfast Brainstorm
to the schedule. The topic is how to transform your favorite RPG
into a LARP. Bring your breakfast and come chat with us!
See
you in June!
April
18, 2003: We were so wrapped up in
preparations for Intercon Gazebo, we completely forgot to thank
everyone who attended Svaha: Contents Under
Pressure! We had a great time, and hope that
everyone else who attended did as well. We had several new players,
and it was wonderful to watch them as they met all of our veterans and
got involved. Hope to see all of you again in July!
Just
because the pre-registration deadline for I18:
Intercon Gazebo has passed, that's no reason for you not to register.
We'll be taking game registrations up until the week of the
convention, so register today!
We
regret to inform you that the LARP entitled To Buff or Not to Buff: A
Buffy LARP, has been taken off the Intercon Gazebo schedule at the
request of the GM. However, we've
added Shattered
Gravestones, a game brought to you by the creative masterminds at NERO
International, into the space that was vacated. We hope you'll
join us in welcoming the NERO International team to the Intercon
Gazebo roster - it looks like a fantastic game!
Hope
to see you all in June!
April
3, 2003: We've determined the
dates for all of the remaining Svaha games, up to the end of our
three-year campaign. Check our schedule page,
and mark your calendars!
Also,
for those of you who need a little reminder of where the Svaha game is
taking place currently, we've added the Immunity
Base document that we handed out at Svaha: Vigilance.
See
you on Friday!
March
28, 2003: Our I18:
Intercon Gazebo section has been updated - with new LARPs!
We're
happy to have not one, but two games by the famed LARP writer Don
Ross. He'll be running Nap
Time (which ran to much acclaim at Intercon C), and an all-new
game he's written just for us - TBA. Glad to have you, Don, and we'll see you in
June!
We'd
also like to remind you that there's only a week until the
pre-registration deadline for I18: Intercon Gazebo. Register
today, and take advantage of the pre-registration rate!
We've
updated quite a few things in the Svaha
section - moved all of the racial information and plot synopsis into
the New Players section, so
that the main Svaha page isn't quite as cluttered. We've also put up a
link to the Svaha mechanics
system, so that all of you who need an online quick-reference (for
creating new characters, or spending your development points) now have
one. The mechanics document is rather large, so please be
patient. There's even a Skill/Spell
Submission page, for those of you who are researching/creating new
skills and spells for the game.
Hope
to see you all at Svaha next weekend!
March
19, 2003: Many of you who attended A
Gazebo of Games noticed a reporter wandering
around
the convention - Beth Fand, of the Trenton Times. Ms.
Fand was doing an article
on the 20th Anniversary Edition of Trivial
Pursuit, and attended AGoG specifically to witness our Saturday
afternoon
tournament.
If
anyone happens to have this past Sunday's edition of the Trenton
Times,
please let us know - we'd
like to have a copy of the actual article for our
archives.
Thanks
to Steven Edelman, who ran the tournament, and all the players who
played in it. Well done, guys!
March
15, 2003: Happy anniversary, Wild
Gazebo Productions!
Wild
Gazebo Productions is three years old today - three wonderful,
exciting, amazing years. It's been a long road so far, and we've had
our share of disappointments among the joys, but none of us here at
WGP central would trade these years to have done anything other than
what we did.
Our
thanks to everyone who has helped us thus far - you know who you are,
and we know exactly how much we owe our survival to your unstinting
love and support. Our thanks as well to everyone who has ever attended
a WGP event - we look forward to bringing you fun and entertaining
events for years and years to come. We hope we'll be seeing you all
again soon.
Happy
anniversary!!
March
4, 2003: Intercon
C this past weekend was a blast! We had a fantastic time, and have
to thank the staff of Intercon C for their courtesy and friendliness.
We look forward to seeing all of those faces at I18:
Intercon Gazebo, this summer.
Speaking
of Intercon
Gazebo, the event
schedule for the weekend is up, and registration
is live. We're incredibly excited about the LARPs that are running,
and flattered that so many wonderful GMs decided to bid games for
WGP's first Intercon. With such incredible games, they're sure to fill
up quickly, so register soon!
The
final figures are in - we raised $152.50 for the American Cancer
Society at A
Gazebo of Games a few weeks ago. Our thanks to Mike Murtha and The
Adventurers Club for running their Squighoppers event, and to all of
the people who participated in the AGoG Auction - the American Cancer
Society is a cause that's near and dear to our hearts, and we
appreciate everything you've done to help us help them.
February
25, 2003: Thanks to everyone who
came out to A
Gazebo of Games this past weekend - it was wonderful to see all of
our old friends again, and to see so many new faces. Special thanks
goes out to our GMs and wonderful volunteer staff - there's absolutely
no way we could pull off an amazing gaming weekend like AGoG without
you!
We're
passionate about bringing you the best in gaming conventions and
events. Because of that, we love feedback of all kinds. If you
attended A Gazebo of Games this weekend, please fill out a feedback
form and let us know about your convention experience.
There's
no time to rest - after taking our mandatory post-event day off, we're
back in the office working on Intercon
Gazebo. We've also started hopping on our plans for Lollagazebo
2003, coming up this November.
We've
got a very busy spring ahead of us - there's Intercon
C this weekend, and we're attending an assortment of conventions
up and down the East Coast. Check our Convention/Event
Schedule page to see where you can catch up with us next.
Just
look for the bowling shirts!
February
19, 2003: 48 hours until A
Gazebo of Games, and the WGP Home Office printers are working
overtime. Everything is just about ready for our move to the hotel
tomorrow, and we're in great shape for the convention this weekend.
In
the spirit of 'more game, less money', Nightfall Productions has
decided to offer a discount to the players of their Star Wars and Dark
Ages: Mind's Eye Theater LARPs.
The charge for each game is $10 - *however*, if you play in both
games, the charge is only $15 - a $5 discount!
See
you this weekend!
February
13, 2003: Our last couple of TBAs and
TBDs have been filled in, and the program book is off to
the printer. Signs are being made, badges are being printed, and the
GM packets are being put together. There's only about a week until A
Gazebo of Games, and our
staff is excited and ready to go!
Events are
starting to fill up, so register
today!
We've extended
our room block at the Embassy Suites hotel, and there's still time to
book your suite, *if* you do it soon!
To make your
scheduling easier, we've added our entire event
schedule, as a .pdf file. If you don't have Acrobat Reader, you
can download
it for free, off the Adobe site.
New
events!:
-
C1-20-C03:
Warhammer 40k/Warcry Demo will run on Friday, at 8pm
-
C2-09-C03:
Warhammer 40k/Warcry Demo will run on Saturday, at 9am
-
C2-14-C03:
Warhammer 40k/Warcry Demo will run on Saturday, at 2pm
-
C2-20-C04:
Warhammer 40k/Warcry Demo will run on Saturday, at 8pm
-
C2-24-C03:
Warhammer 40k/Warcry Demo will run on Saturday, at midnight
-
C3-09-C03:
Warhammer 40k/Warcry Demo will run on Sunday, at 9am
-
C3-14-C03:
Warhammer 40k/Warcry Demo will run on Sunday, at 2pm
See you next
Friday!
February
5, 2003: Pre-registration may be
over, but that doesn't mean that you can't still register for A
Gazebo of Games! Just fill out the registration
form, and send us your payment, and you'll be ready to come and play!
With over 320
different gaming events, you're certain to fill your schedule with
games you love.
New
events!:
-
B2-09-B12:
Xactika will run on Saturday at 9am
-
B2-10-B15:
Diplomacy will run on Saturday at 10am
-
B2-11-B12:
Set will run on Saturday at 11am
-
B2-20-B11:
Quiddler will run on Saturday at 8pm
-
B2-22-B11:
Five Crowns will run on Saturday at 10pm
-
B3-10-B15:
Diplomacy will run on Sunday at 10am
-
B3-11-B14:
Quiddler will run on Sunday at 11am
-
B3-14-B09:
Xactika will run on Sunday at 2pm
-
B3-16-B09:
Set will run on Sunday at 4pm
-
M2-14-M07:
Battle Cattle (3rd Ed.): Demo will run on Saturday at 2pm
-
M2-20-M04:
Battle Cattle (3rd Ed.): Demo will run on Saturday at 8pm
Cancelled
Events:
-
S2-14-S01:
Beat the Geeks has been cancelled at the request of the GM
-
M1-20-M02:
Marvel Heroclix: Secret Wars has been cancelled at the request of
the GM
-
M2-09-M02:
Mage Knight: Mage Knight: Mage Knight
Standard had been cancelled at the request of the GM
-
M2-14-M01:
DC Heroclix: Crisis has been cancelled at the request of the GM
-
M3-09-M02:
Mage Knight: Mage Knight Dungeons has been cancelled at the
request of the GM
See
you in a few weeks!
January
31, 2003: Don't forget - today is
the last day to register
if you want to take advantage of the pre-registration discount!
To further
take stress off your pocketbook, we've decided to add a discount for
children under 12! A full weekend pass for a child under 12
(accompanied by a parent or other responsible adult), is now $20! The first 20 children
to register will receive A
Gazebo of Games Fun Bag, free!
More
new games!!:
-
C1-20-C05:
Yu-Gi-Oh! Constructed Tournament will run on Friday at 8pm
-
C2-14-C04:
Middle Earth: The Wizards - Constructed Wizards Tournament will
run on Saturday at 2pm
-
C2-14-C05:
Yu-Gi-Oh! Sealed Tournament will run on Saturday at 2pm
-
C3-09-C05:
Yu-Gi-Oh! Constructed Tournament will run on Sunday at 9am
-
C3-14-C04:
Middle Earth: The Wizards - Constructed Minions Tournament will
run on Sunday at 2pm
-
S2-09-S00:
Squig Hopper Races will run starting at 9am on Saturday. A new
race starts every few minutes, and all proceeds from this event go
to the American
Cancer Society, so play often!
An
event change:
See you in
February!
January
24, 2003: There's only one week until
our pre-registration deadline, so register
before January 31st to take advantage of the pre-reg discount!
A
multitude of games have been added to the gaming schedule for A
Gazebo of Games, including our RPGA schedule! Enjoy!
New
Board Games:
-
B1-22-B11:
Grave Robbers/Cannibal Pygmies will run on Friday at 10pm
-
B1-24-B07:
Giant Ice Towers (Icehouse) will run on Friday at midnight
-
B2-09-B09:
Munchkin will run on Saturday at 9am
-
B2-09-B13:
Brawl will run on Saturday at 9am
-
B2-11-B09:
Giant Volcano (Icehouse) will run on Saturday at 11am
-
B2-16-B17:
Tile Chess will run on Saturday at 4pm
-
B2-20-B06:
Chrononauts will run on Saturday at 8pm
-
B2-20-B09:
Frag! will run on Saturday at 8pm
-
B2-22-B07:
Hacker will run on Saturday at 10pm
-
B2-22-B13:
Lunch Money will run on Saturday at 10pm
-
B2-24-B07:
Giant Volcano (Icehouse) will run on Saturday at midnight
-
B3-09-B10:
Cosmic Wimpout will run on Sunday at 9am
-
B3-09-B13:
Chez Dork will run on Sunday at 9am
-
B3-11-B13:
Settlers of Catan will run on Sunday at 11am
-
B3-14-B11:
Chez Geek will run on Sunday at 2pm
-
B3-16-B07:
Aquarius will run on Sunday at 4pm
Svaha
fans: Jason DeLuca's bio has been added to the Svaha
GMs page.
See you in
February!
January
8, 2003: Some new events have been
added to the AGoG schedule:
New
Board Games:
-
B2-14-B13:
Mayfair Medley will run on Saturday at 2pm
-
B2-20-B10:
Rail Baron will run on Saturday at 8pm
-
B3-14-B13:
Mayfair Medley will run on Sunday at 2pm
New
Role-Playing Games:
Also, Svaha
players please take note - our next Svaha game, Svaha: Contents Under
Pressure, is at a new hotel for us. The game will be held at the Sheraton
Raritan Center in Edison, NJ.
January
7, 2003: Our holiday special is over,
but that doesn't mean you can't still register
for A Gazebo of Games! The pre-registration deadline is at the
end of this month. Take a look at our schedule,
pick your games, and register today!
December
11, 2002: The event schedule
for A Gazebo of Games is up! Enjoy!
Events do fill up quickly, so register
soon, and take advantage of the pre-registration rate!
December
8, 2002: Happy Holidays, from the
Wild Gazebo Productions team to you! From now until January 3rd, 2003,
when you book your hotel room for A Gazebo of Games at the Embassy
Suites Piscataway, you'll qualify for a discount of $10 off your event
registration fee!
Each
hotel confirmation number is good for one (1) event registration discount, and the offer
is only good if you book your room on or before January 3rd, 2003.
In other news: we've added a
Microsoft Word version of the Intercon Gazebo event
bid form. So you can submit your bid either as a Word attachment,
or online.
Enjoy the holiday season!
November
26, 2002: Wild Gazebo Productions is
proud to announce that we're partnering with LARPA
(The Live-Action Role-Playing Association) to bring you I18:
Intercon Gazebo!
Intercon is the semi-annual Live
Action Role-Playing convention of the Live-Action
Role-Playing Association, encompassing Live Action RPGs of all
styles and genres - the largest multi-genre all-LARP convention that
we know of. And it's more than just games! There will also be vendors,
parties, seminars, and social get-togethers, as well as other
LARP-related events. We're extremely excited to be able to
license the Intercon name, and bring Intercon back to New Jersey once
again.
We are currently accepting event
bids for I18: Intercon Gazebo. The bid submission deadline is
January 1st, 2003.
Never run a LARP before? Now is
your chance! Intercon is the perfect place to run your first game. LARP-running
pro? Intercon is the best way to bring your game to new players!
We'll see you in New Jersey in
the summer of 2003, for LARP experiences that are sure to delight LARP
enthusiasts of all ages and experience levels!
November
25, 2002: Thanks to everyone
who attended Svaha: Vigilance this past weekend! We had a great time,
and from the feedback, so did all of you.
Our next
Svaha event isn't until late March/ early April, so we're looking into
doing some sort of interim event, perhaps in January. If you have any
ideas as to when, where, or what kind of Svaha event you'd like to
see, please let us know.
November 10, 2002: The event submission deadline for A
Gazebo of Games has passed - many thanks to everyone who submitted an event. We're
busy putting everything together right now, and we'll have the schedule up within the next
couple of weeks.
See you next
weekend at Svaha: Vigilance!
October
15, 2002: Thanks to everyone who came out to Shorecon this weekend, and played in Surprise Party! The game was just about full,
and we hope everyone had a wonderful time - we know that we had a great time running it.
Some of the
WGP team attended a meeting of Regional Convention Organizers while at Shorecon this
weekend, and would like to once again thank everyone who attended. It was great to
meet all of you (putting faces to some of the names!), and we look forward to sharing
ideas, plans, and conversation at meetings in the future. We were delighted at the scope
of experience in the room, and hope that we can help each other to improve events in this
region in the future. Thanks again.
After looking over our numbers
again, we've realized that we can afford to change the GM requirements from what was
originally published. Here's what it has changed to:
If you GM/Volunteer for 8 hours,
WGP will comp your registration fee.
If you work an additional 4
hours (for a total of 12), you'll receive a free convention t-shirt, in addition to the
badge comp.
The event registration deadline for A Gazebo of Games
is November 1st, 2002.
Hope to see you in February!
September
24, 2002: Thanks to everyone
who came out to Lollagazebo! Over 250 gamers came out for the event,
and for an amazing gaming weekend. We had a fantastic time, and
from the sound of the feedback we've been getting, so did all of
you!
Seeing all of
you having such fun has only inspired us for A
Gazebo of Games - we've already started planning the event to have
more games, more diversity, more dealers...everything you already
love, just more of it! We're adding Collectable Card Games to our
roster, and a whole slew of Special Events. If you'd like to be
involved, or would like to submit a game, just fill out your event
information on our GM
Submission page.
Have an idea
for something you'd like to see at A Gazebo of Games? E-mail
us, and tell us all about it!
The end-of-con
badge recycling drawing has a winner - Dan Bordier, Badge # 223, has
won a free full-weekend registration to A
Gazebo of Games! Congratulations, Dan, and thanks for helping us
to recycle plastic and help the environment!
We're pleased
to tell you that Mike Murtha's Squighoppers event raised several
hundred dollars for the American Cancer Society. WGP is happy to help
out with such great events, and for a cause that's so near and dear to
our hearts.
Now that we've
wrapped things up for Lollagazebo, we've turned our attention to Shorecon,
where Michael Costalas, Paul Manjourides, and Matt Volk will be
running a mini-LARP they've written in the Svaha system, called Surprise
Party. It's only a couple of weeks away - hope to see you
there!
September
19, 2002: Lollagazebo
starts tomorrow! We're incredibly excited, even as things here
at WGP Central are in a flurry of preparations. Everything is in
place - the badges are printed, the prizes are boxed, flyers and signs
and envelopes are ready to go.
The
convention t-shirts, which will be on sale at registration for $10 for
sizes S-XL, and $12 for XXL and XXXL, arrive tomorrow morning. We
tortured our t-shirt company to get the shirts *just* right, and we're
sure that you'll be just as pleased as we are at how they came out.
We're
happy to announce two last-minute additions to our schedule:
M35-09 -
Heroclix - Head-to-Head Tournament
M28-20 -
Mechwarrior: Dark Age - To the Rescue!
For more
information on either of these events, please see the Miniatures
Descriptions page.
We've
had one event cancellation: we regret to inform you that Eric Reitz'
Call of Cthulhu Event (event code R29-14) has been cancelled, at the
request of the GM.
Trying to
figure out how to get to the hotel? We've added a hotel
information page, with driving directions, bus and train info and
the phone numbers of local cab companies.
See you
tomorrow!
September
10, 2002: 10 days till
Lollagazebo! Things are proceeding extremely well, and we're
confident that the convention will be an incredible gaming experience.
We're pleased to inform you that there will be
a masseuse onsite! Jean M. Michaels, CMT, will be available for
chair side massage Friday Sept. 20th from 6 pm - 10 pm, and Sat. Sept.
21st from 11am - 6 pm. She is available on a walk-up basis,
though she will have a sign-up sheet available for when things get
busy (as we're sure they will!)
Her rates are as follows:
10 minutes -
$15
15 minutes -
$25
20 minutes -
$30
Due to
popular demand, NERO NJ has added a second run of their module for
Lollagazebo, and will be running NERO: The Tower Inn-Between
on Saturday night from 8pm to midnight in addition to their Friday
night run.
Geoff
Schaller and Karen Blisnuk have decided to combine their Clan War
Tournaments into one *huge* Clan War mega-tournament! M26-09 and
M24-14 have combined to one event, under event code M26-09.
As
a special prize for this event, a personalized kimono
(ladies or men's cut) or kimono & hakama (for men and samurai-ko
who prefer warrior's garb to court fashion) made by Geoff Schaller
will go to the winner!.
The following events have had
changes, which are currently reflected in the online schedule:
R21-9
- Stuperpowers: Mars
Needs Uranus has been cancelled at the request of the GM.
R22-20
- GURPS Sherlock Holmes: The Case
of the Curious Cadaver has been cancelled at the request of the GM.
R26-24
- Baron Munchausen RPG: Wagers,
Wine, and Competitive Lying has been cancelled at the request of the
GM.
B11-20
Carabande
- Piscataway Gran Prix, has been cancelled at the request of the GM.
B11-22
Ido
& Ta Yü, has been cancelled at the request of the GM.
B18-24 WizWar
has moved from Friday at midnight to Friday at 8pm, and has become
B11-20.
R21-14
- Paradise Cursed: When Your God Says Jump, has moved from Saturday at
2pm, to Saturday, 9am, and has become R22-9.
R25-24
- AD&D 3rd Edition:
The Piper at the Gates of Hell, has moved from Saturday at midnight,
to Saturday at 2pm, and become R21-14.
August
26, 2002: For your informational
pleasure, difficulties and age ranges have been added to the
Lollagazebo schedules. Enjoy!
Don't forget: The pre-registration
deadline is August 30th!
August
21, 2002: There have been two
changes to the event listing:
Call of Cthulhu: Tales of Horror
has been changed from Saturday midnight to Saturday at 2pm.
Hackmaster: Part I has been
changed from Saturday at 9am, to Saturday at 2pm.
The online schedules have been
updated to reflect these changes.
August
20, 2002: The RPGA
schedule is complete, and the grid has been put up for your
enjoyment.
Additionally, we've updated the Convention/Event
Schedule, listing everything we're planning through the beginning
of 2004. We seem to be on a schedule of 6 or 7 gaming events per year,
which is about all we can handle without overstressing
ourselves. March of 2004, where our current schedule ends, is
the last event of our three-year Svaha campaign - strange to think
that we're halfway through already. We'll probably take some time off
from Svaha (not from conventions, just from Svaha) after that, to
tweak the system a bit, revamp the racial documents, and recharge our
creative batteries.
We're 10 days away from the pre-registration
deadline for Lollagazebo - if you want to take advantage of the
discounted rate, register today! Remember, your pre-registration must
be paid, (post-marked by August 30th, if you're mailing us a check),
to take advantage of the pre-registration rate.
August
19, 2002: We're
pleased and proud to unveil the teaser for our RPGA Living
Greyhawk Interactive. The Interactive will run from 1pm-5pm on
Saturday, September 21st. Enjoy!
August
8, 2002: Thanks once again to
everyone who played at Svaha: No Sleep
'Til Wreska. We had an absolute
blast, and hope that all of you did as well. Special thanks goes out
to our amazing Scenery team - Janette Beck, Geoff Schaller, and Matt
Volk - for their utterly astounding sets! Thanks again guys - you
really knocked our socks off this time!
Lollagazebo is currently looking
for volunteers, to help with setup, cleanup, and general staffing
duties at the convention. No experience is required, and if you
volunteer 8 hours of your time, we'll comp your badge to the
convention. Contact our Logistics Chief, Michael
Costalas, for more information.
We can't give you the full RPGA
schedule just yet - but we *can* give you the descriptions
of the modules we'll have at Lollagazebo, to whet your appetite! The one description
we don't have yet is for our Living Greyhawk Interactive - we'll get
you that just as soon as we can. Enjoy!
We're pleased to announce that
we're running a Svaha mini-LARP at Shorecon
this year! Surprise Party,
written by Michael Costalas, Matt Volk, and Paul Manjourides, is a 7-hour LARP designed for 24 players.
No experience with the Svaha game system or any previous Svaha
games is necessary to play, and new players are encouraged! You must
register for the game through the Shorecon website, but we'd also like
you to fill out a pre-registration
form, so that you can be cast appropriately to your style of play.
July
15, 2002: As promised, the event
schedules for Lollagazebo are now
up. We'll be adding more to them in the following days and weeks (more
events, event difficulty ratings, age ranges, links from the event to
the description), but this should be enough to get you all started.
Enjoy!
Events do fill up quickly, so register
soon, and take advantage of the pre-registration rate!
GMs - ShoreCon
is looking for event submissions. Do your part - drop by their website
and submit an event.
July
13, 2002: Thanks to everyone who submitted events for
Lollagazebo - we're full! The full schedule will be posted by July 15th.
Also in the good news category, the dates have been
set for A Gazebo of Games this winter! At the Embassy Suites hotel in Piscataway,
February 21-23rd, 2003, the WGP team will be doing what we do best, only bigger!
We'll post more info here as soon as it comes in.
July 9, 2002: We're
home once again, happy and exhausted from 4 days of gaming. Origins was fantastic, and we're already planning
our return trip next year.
Having taken a day to decompress and get some sleep,
we've thrown ourselves back into WGP planning. The GM event submission deadline for Lollagazebo is *tomorrow*, July 10th. There's still a few spaces
left on our schedule, so if you're thinking of running an event, get your event form in
ASAP. The whole schedule goes live on our website as of July 15th, so there's no
time for stragglers.
Svaha players - see you in 10 days!
June 29, 2002: It's been a busy couple of weeks. We're hard at work on Lollagazebo - rounding up GMs, getting the word out,
finding dealers, and seeking out advertisers for the program book. It's shaping up
to be an utterly fantastic event - we've got some wonderful GMs onboard, each track is
looking very diverse, and we're sure that gamers of all types will find things that
they'll enjoy.
But Svaha:
No Sleep 'Til Wreska is coming up in a few weeks, and we're trying not to fall behind
on all the work that still needs to be done to make that event happen. Among those things
- we've updated the end of the Story
so Far, to catch it up with recent events.
Origins is
next weekend, as well. If you're there, look for us and say hello- Steve, Sandy, Paul,
Ben, Mike, and Trey will all be in Columbus, sporting our ever-famous bowling shirts.
(It's also Steve and Sandy's wedding anniversary on July 4th, so if you see them, tell
them congratulations.)
June 11, 2002: We're pleased and proud to introduce Wild Gazebo Productions' first
full-weekend gaming convention: Lollagazebo.
Since WGP was created for this purpose, you can imagine how excited we are - it's not
often that you get to see one of your dreams come to realization.
Held at the lovely Embassy Suites Piscataway, Lollagazebo features Board games,
Role-Playing Games (including RPGA events), Miniatures Games, Live-Action Role-Playing
Games, and Dealer's Suites.
Currently, we are taking event
submissions, as well as dealer bids. The
event submission deadline is July 10th - the full schedule of events will
