On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Karen Cravens wrote: > On 18 Aug 2001, at 21:47, Michael Feldhusen wrote: > > What is World of Fun? I missed that, if it was mentioned. > A theme park. Carl, the acrophobe, is determined to ride the > SkyCoaster again. (He's an acrophobe/masochist, I guess.) I know the type. I'm in a similar situation myself. I *refuse* to let the fact that my hindbrain has all sorts of problems with falling freely and kicks in the adrenal glands to try to "fix" this deter me from having fun. > Whether anybody will want to tromp all over a theme park after > tromping all over the RenFaire is an as-yet-unanswered question. > I'm not sure I'm up to it, but then again I dunno what else I want > to do that *wouldn't* involve lots of walking. The Internet has > taken some of the fun out of gamestore tours... it's very unlikely > I'll run across an "I had NO idea anyone was producing a game like > this!" anymore. I have to admit that a day of tropping followed by a day of tropping is not *high* on my list of stuff to do. > > As for gaming, I would be willing to run a one-shot. If I do, > > I'll probably throw it together on the spur of the moment. Given > > that, I doubt I could handle more than 3 or 4 players, so a hotel > > room works for me. > I'm thinking the ballroom will work better if we plan to have a > bunch of pickup games with lots of people circulating. Which > probably means card/board games (preferably non-collectible, I sold > my Magic cards about seven years ago to buy this house. I'm > reasonably sure it was about seven years because I'm suddenly > getting all sorts of telemarketers telling me the FHA has sold my > name to a bunch of telemarketers because the seven-year requirement > is almost up. Hmph). Well, I can always bring a couple of things along. "The Works" should be a fairly fast/easy game for pick-ups. -- Michael Feldhusen mike_f@io.com http://www.io.com/~mike_f/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
