“Fullish” is a very relative term at this stage … but very glad to have you on board, sir!
Most of the questions about the tournament have already been answered by others, but just to add further confirmation, ramblings, and even a couple questions:
The tournament will essentially be a regular scenario (well, maybe slightly more fiendish) packed in a framework that allows for competition between different groups of players. We tried this as an experiment last fall, and the results were pretty fun. It’s a bit like traveling back in time to the early days of roleplaying. In a way, we’re almost roleplaying that we’re roleplaying several decades ago …
You don’t need to bring anything. Pencil and paper is always useful, and it can’t hurt to have your lucky dice ready, but there’ll presumably be enough of those there for anyone who can’t bring their own. You also won’t need a character, either, and rulebooks will be banned anyway - just come as you are.
I think it’s great that last year’s champions want to defend the crown as a team, and I’ll try to accommodate wishes for teams as much as possible. However (a) the size of the teams may be different this year and (b) scheduling might trump some of those wishes. We have 14 people signed up so far with varying time constraints; you can imagine that all this might get a bit tricky. But I’ll do my best.
Last year, out of necessity, we often had several tables playing in parallel as Thopthes described. Some of you have said that this was actually rather fun and added to the tournament atmosphere, but there’s also some downtime as a result. What do you think - should we do this again?
There was a bit of talk about adding prizes of some sort. The original idea was just to play for giggles and bragging rights, for a variety of reasons, but if you guys want, we could certainly introduce prizes. Thoughts?
And if there are any other questions, or anything else that could be improved from our first attempt, please do let me know.
With a bit of luck, I’ll confirm everyone’s slot in the next couple days …