Ack
Underboss
1476 Posts
    
 | | 12/12/2005 11:12 PM |
| | It says you can pay at the door in cash or via paypal. | |
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striderlotr
Commander
3370 Posts
| | 12/13/2005 9:37 AM |
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Originally posted by Benimoto
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Originally posted by striderlotr
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Originally posted by AesophDarkfable
Maps must be used. No terrain tiles.
So with the bolded news we can assume that WD will be the starter for league play, maybe even the booster! So if we play in the sealed event and league we could end up with mulitple starters and boosters of WD! Very nice deal!
Hmm, I don't know about that. I think in another thread Ian explicitly said that War Drums would be only handed out in the prerelease. I think it's more likely that they'll just hand out a double-sided map, two underdark boosters, and a token sheet as your league kit.
Benimoto, I think you hit it on the head. I bet we get one map and 2 boosters. As they are saying now tiles we can hope for no starters of Aberations and just 2 boosters from new sets (most likely Underdark). That being said, stanger things have happened, and you never know unitl the event starts. | |
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lynchpt
Sergeant
930 Posts
| | 12/13/2005 11:06 AM |
| From the official convention site:
"D&D Miniatures League
The drums of war sound in the distance as the remnants of the Underdark—both good and evil—prepare for a weekend-long melee. Build your best 200-point warband from two Underdark boosters and let a true hero surface as the victor of Winter Fantasy! "
It doesn't explicitly say you will get a map, but it is very clear that you will get two Underdark boosters. So, have no worries about getting more Aberrations starters!
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lynchpt
Sergeant
930 Posts
| | 12/13/2005 11:14 AM |
| I've booked the travel arrangements and prepaid for most of the events - I'm all set for DDM fun in Feb!.
Regarding DemonKain's question: it is true, as Ack said, that you can pay on site. Last year, there were plenty of slots for all tournaments, so paying on site was never a problem.
The easy last minute access should generally be the case this year as well... except possibly for the Vintage sealed. You may want to sign up for this event early if you are interested. There are only 30 slots, and that may be a hard cap limited by how much DE and AR they have on hand. Everyone I have spoken to is planning on playing that event, so the 30 person limit might get appraoched.
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The Defenestrator
AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 12/13/2005 11:38 AM |
| | I signed up for Vintage just to secure my spot now, will sign up for the rest in January. | |
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Rav950
Warrior
340 Posts
| | 12/13/2005 3:26 PM |
| For people looking at alternate hotel arrangements, I'll toss in a suggestion for one of my favorite hotels in the area.
Sheraton Suites Old Town Alexandria
801 N St. Asaph St
All rooms are suites. Being the off season, average room price will be around $150/night (sometimes less as the date gets closer). The beds are comfy, and they have a free shuttle to get you to the Metro. Crystal City is a short ride away.
Its not as convenient as being in the same hotel, but its certainly cheaper and can be a more cost-effective solution if you're looking at sharing a room with one or more people (since its all suite).
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The Defenestrator
AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 12/13/2005 4:21 PM |
| Vintage thoughts:
Man if vintage is going to be a Archfiends and a Dragoneye then the draw is going to matter even more than any other sealed. Drawing an LSD is probably near a sure fan win in sealed format, an Eye, LRD, Champ, Red Sam (nice uncommon spot) are all still top notch figures, but in the older sets the stinkers were often big stinkers. Will be interesting to see, and I pray for the LSD :P | |
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Benimoto
Underboss
1125 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 1:58 AM |
| | Eek, the Vintage is filling up fast. Only about half a dozen spots left. Tell your friends to get in there, pronto! | |
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The Defenestrator
AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 2:01 AM |
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Originally posted by Benimoto
Eek, the Vintage is filling up fast. Only about half a dozen spots left. Tell your friends to get in there, pronto!
yeah thats why I went ahead and did it, I figure Vintage will fill up before the christmas. | |
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Okay McKay
Underboss
1070 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 8:38 AM |
| | I'll be there, guys. Looks like Groves and the Doctor have slipped in ahead of me... You guys want to go up together? (I'll send an email.) | |
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The Defenestrator
AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 12:58 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Benimoto
Eek, the Vintage is filling up fast. Only about half a dozen spots left. Tell your friends to get in there, pronto!
where do you tell how many spots are left? | |
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striderlotr
Commander
3370 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 2:38 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Okay McKay
I'll be there, guys. Looks like Groves and the Doctor have slipped in ahead of me... You guys want to go up together? (I'll send an email.)
Your on the list. | |
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The Defenestrator
AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 3:07 PM |
| | So you win the case of Harbinger at vintage. Do you open, take what you need sell the rest? Or do you sell it as a sealed case and probably recoup all your WF expenses? Thats a tough call. | |
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aron1
Sergeant
415 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 3:25 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by AesophDarkfable
quote:
Originally posted by Benimoto
Eek, the Vintage is filling up fast. Only about half a dozen spots left. Tell your friends to get in there, pronto!
where do you tell how many spots are left?
I was wondering that myself. I just signed up for both the Vintage and the WarDrums pre-prerelease. I'll sign up for the rest of the stuff later. I like that you don't have to pay now to be able to sign up. | |
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striderlotr
Commander
3370 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 4:06 PM |
| | Just use paypal and your done. Quick and easy. | |
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The Defenestrator
AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 5:35 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by aron1
quote:
Originally posted by AesophDarkfable
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Originally posted by Benimoto
Eek, the Vintage is filling up fast. Only about half a dozen spots left. Tell your friends to get in there, pronto!
where do you tell how many spots are left?
I was wondering that myself. I just signed up for both the Vintage and the WarDrums pre-prerelease. I'll sign up for the rest of the stuff later. I like that you don't have to pay now to be able to sign up.
I didnt trust the sign up now pay later option so I went ahead and payued for both the vintage and the WD prerelease. | |
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PatEllis15
Commander
4463 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 10:31 PM |
| quote:
I didnt trust the sign up now pay later option so I went ahead and payued for both the vintage and the WD prerelease.
Ditto. I'm not going to risk it. This is going to be THE event at WF. No tournament in WF has had 30 players, of course it could get broken the next day when they do the War Drums Prelease...
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Eek, the Vintage is filling up fast. Only about half a dozen spots left. Tell your friends to get in there, pronto!
How'd you figure that out!?
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Kiddoc
Underboss
1797 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 10:51 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by PatEllis15
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I didnt trust the sign up now pay later option so I went ahead and payued for both the vintage and the WD prerelease.
Ditto. I'm not going to risk it. This is going to be THE event at WF. No tournament in WF has had 30 players, of course it could get broken the next day when they do the War Drums Prelease...
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Eek, the Vintage is filling up fast. Only about half a dozen spots left. Tell your friends to get in there, pronto!
How'd you figure that out!?
Pat E
Don't bother. It's sold out. While I was signing up it told me there were 2 slots left. 30 seconds later, none. Friggin' fantastic. [:(!] | |
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The Defenestrator
AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 11:03 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Kiddoc
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Originally posted by PatEllis15
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I didnt trust the sign up now pay later option so I went ahead and payued for both the vintage and the WD prerelease.
Ditto. I'm not going to risk it. This is going to be THE event at WF. No tournament in WF has had 30 players, of course it could get broken the next day when they do the War Drums Prelease...
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Eek, the Vintage is filling up fast. Only about half a dozen spots left. Tell your friends to get in there, pronto!
How'd you figure that out!?
Pat E
Don't bother. It's sold out. While I was signing up it told me there were 2 slots left. 30 seconds later, none. Friggin' fantastic. [:(!]
So you didnt make it Kiddoc? that sucks. Sorry bro. | |
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Markdragon
Sneak
143 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 11:33 PM |
| | Lucky I saw that someone posted that there was just 6 slots left and I registered before I went to work today for both the vintage and pre-release. | |
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PatEllis15
Commander
4463 Posts
| | 12/14/2005 11:43 PM |
| Kiddoc (and others)
Keep checking, I know that I had 2 in my checkout for a bit... someone might dump one...
Pat E | |
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Kiddoc
Underboss
1797 Posts
| | 12/15/2005 12:26 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by PatEllis15
Kiddoc (and others)
Keep checking, I know that I had 2 in my checkout for a bit... someone might dump one...
Pat E
Too busy with my nose in the books to have caught this one earlier. Ugh.
For some reason, I would have thought 72 days in advance would have been enough to grab an open slot.
Be a lot of league and RPG play for me [)] | |
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striderlotr
Commander
3370 Posts
| | 12/15/2005 1:13 PM |
| Well they took my money so I hope they have my ticket.
I had two in my check out also and I had to fix it several times, so I would check. I would also check the day you get there as they may have people drop becasue they could not get in. | |
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CSchroder
Sergeant
416 Posts
| | 12/17/2005 3:41 PM |
| | Like Stephen and Pat, I didn't trust the pay later, especially after seeing how quick Vintage sold out. I paid for Vintage and WarDrum pre-release--easy using Paypal. If I end up not being able to attend, I know that Kiddoc, for one, would probably take the Vintage slot off my hands [:D] | |
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Chad the DragonLordofAiur
Underboss
1085 Posts
Southeast PA
| | 12/18/2005 2:17 AM |
| So who do we talk to about getting more slots available for the Vintage event? We already have three top players missing out on this one:
Kiddoc
Lord Raven
myself
Anybody else not able to get in? Maybe we can petition WoTC together. | |
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Kiddoc
Underboss
1797 Posts
| | 12/18/2005 7:43 PM |
| | Can we get an update on the date/time of the Maxminis draft event? I'm too lazy to dig back through the thread. [:D] | |
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ChristopherGroves
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6093 Posts
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The Defenestrator
AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 12/18/2005 9:45 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Kiddoc
Can we get an update on the date/time of the Maxminis draft event? I'm too lazy to dig back through the thread. [:D]
im not sure that was decided exactly yet. There were two suggested times and they were being discussed as far as I remember. | |
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PatEllis15
Commander
4463 Posts
| | 12/19/2005 7:39 AM |
| We should jumpstart that discussion.
It seems clear that the 2 times that are the best fit are Friday night, and Saturday night.
I wold vote for Friday night. While there may only be a handful of MaxMini's members that play Living Greyhawk, I know that the Open Fiesta slot Saturday night is a RARE chance to play in LG scenario's that you'd NEVER get to play otherwise.
The argument for Saturday night is that the Prerelease is Saturday morning, and people may prefer to be fresh for that.
Lastly: I'm a bit nervous about taking over WotC's tables with 25+ people for our own tournament! GenCon was less of a big deal, we could have taken 3 steps to the right and found dozen's of tables that were not being used. Ian joked with me about paying him for his table rental, but I wonder how he will react to this. In this case WotC is paying for the rental of the room, and unless we start after 9:00 we are competing with potential League play.
Lets talk it out!
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lynchpt
Sergeant
930 Posts
| | 12/19/2005 8:16 AM |
| I'd slightly prefer the Saturday night, but Friday night is no problem, either.
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Markdragon
Sneak
143 Posts
| | 12/19/2005 5:20 PM |
| | One thing about Friday is that there are already 2 sealed events that day. Would people be burned out for a third? And I guess not enough will be there for it to be Thursday night? | |
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PatEllis15
Commander
4463 Posts
| | 12/19/2005 8:46 PM |
| I'm only going to be playing in 1 sealed event on Friday... [)]
quote:
And I guess not enough will be there for it to be Thursday night?
That is what I assume. That said, I do know of several who WILL be in town by the evening.
Pat E | |
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striderlotr
Commander
3370 Posts
| | 12/19/2005 9:20 PM |
| | Well if you are in the vintage event it might not end befroe the next event starts. I think that Friday would be better as Saturday is open fiesta. | |
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Lord_Raven
Sergeant
391 Posts
| | 12/19/2005 10:21 PM |
| I vote for friday night as well!
Still looking for that opening into the Vintage!! | |
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CSchroder
Sergeant
416 Posts
| | 12/20/2005 6:04 AM |
| | I vote for Friday night as well, preferably earlier than later. For some of us who will be riding the Metro, the Metro shuts down at midnight or 1 am (been a while since I've ridden it). Also I agree that it looks like you won't be able to play in two sealed events on Friday, unless of course you drop early on the first event [:)] | |
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aron1
Sergeant
415 Posts
| | 12/20/2005 10:58 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by CSchroder
I vote for Friday night as well, preferably earlier than later. For some of us who will be riding the Metro, the Metro shuts down at midnight or 1 am (been a while since I've ridden it). Also I agree that it looks like you won't be able to play in two sealed events on Friday, unless of course you drop early on the first event [:)]
At lunchtime sometime next week I plan to take a test ride on the Metro over to Crystal City to see exactly how far of a walk it is to the hotel. If it's too far, I can write that method of travel off completely. I tentatively plan to drive in every morning, but I want to test the Metro route just to verify that it'll be too much of a headache. | |
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striderlotr
Commander
3370 Posts
| | 12/20/2005 4:11 PM |
| Anyone send an invite to the WotC guys to see if anyone wants to play? I'm not sure who will be down for Winterfantasy, but we should see if any of them would like to play.
Maybe a post in the discussion forum as that seems to be where they most frequently frequent... | |
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AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 12/20/2005 5:55 PM |
| Pat,
Do you think we should email Ian and ask him if it will be ok? | |
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striderlotr
Commander
3370 Posts
| | 12/21/2005 9:22 AM |
| | We most likely should. Anyone got Ian's email address? Anyone feel comfortable sending him an email? | |
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ChristopherGroves
Warlord
6093 Posts
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