Saturday, August 30, 2014

Are You Ready?

It's almost time for Trident!  Are you ready for three days of gaming for charity?  Here's what you need to know.

Admission will be at the door and come in two flavors:

Basic admission is a $5 donation for Wounded Warrior.  That small fee gets you in for all three days of Trident!

"Captain" level admission will probably be about $20 and will include entry for the three days, a sweet Trident t-shirt featuring our mascot Admiral Fish, and some extra prize tickets.  We're still nailing down the details on the t-shirts and thus, the Captain level.

That's a pretty amazing deal - five bucks for three days.  Cheaper than the movies!  Obviously, we encourage Tridenters to donate more if possible, and of course to patronize our hosts at CardBoard Gaming.  (That's "buy stuff" patronize, not "tease Travis with sarcasm" patronize - we know you'll have the second part covered though).

In order to be truly prepared for Trident, we encourage you to join two complementary Meetup sites so that when the con schedule goes live, you can register for individual sessions easily:

Pathfinder Society of Baltimore is wrangling all the Pathfinder Society play for us, so if you're into PFS, you'll want to ensure you're hooked up on their Meetup so you can register for those games.

Gamers of CardBoard Gaming will handle all the non-PFS game sessions - the D&D Adventurers League, Dungeon Crawl Classics, and the odds and ends.

Sorry to send you to two different places, but this was the easiest way to leverage existing gamer networks for the con.  Trident strongly encourages attendees to try out games they've never played before!  A con of any size is a great time for checking out new games thanks to the limited time commitment and ubiquitous pre-generated characters for many of these sessions.  If you're new to the organized play campaigns (Pathfinder Society and Adventurers League), don't worry - we'll get you started!


Friday, August 8, 2014

Call for GMs - the Time is Now!

If you're interested in running something at Trident, please drop me a line ASAP - by the end of this weekend (the 10th).  It's time to start getting the con program together!

We're particularly looking for GMs interested in running on Sunday or Monday (as you can imagine, Saturday is a popular timeslot request).

Send me a short proposal with the following:
* Session Title
* Game System
* GM
* # of players you can take
* descriptive blurb of the scenario
* make sure to note whether you'll have pregens available, whether folks should bring their own PCs etc
* your preferred timeslots (Sat/Sun/Mon, early 11-4 vs late 5-10).  First/second choices appreciated!  Trying to play Tetris with the schedule over here!

Trident is just over two months away!

Seize this opportunity to impress or humiliate fellow game-masters with your mad skills.