RE: GZG @ historical cons (was: RE: Another T-shirt Idea)

>It was time to change the subject  :)
>
>[...]
> >> This really didn't surprise me much since it
> >> was a *historical* con and I'm there with a futuristic game (I
didn't 
>have
> >> Dirtside or StarGrunt at the time, much less being very versed in 
>either).
> >
> >    I get the same response when I run my Vietnam games, so it
probably 
>wasn't
> >because you were running FT.  <g>  The big HMGS cons have a check box
for
> >"Futuristic" and "Other" on their game host registration forms, so
they 
>must, at
> >least, be willing to have such games run at their conventions.

Officially, HMGS allows non-historical games.  However, they do so only 
grudgingly.  The feeling is that the Fantasy and SF people already have 
plenty of their own conventions, so why should HMGS give them the tables

that could better be used for proper historical games?

Not everyone feels this way, and the majority of the attendants are
pro-SF 
and fantasy, but the people in charge tend to be different story.  See,
we 
used to run two games at every HMGS con; one SF, one historical.

The Historical games would be well recieved, and get plenty of players,
and 
get lots of praise and pictures in the HMGS newsletter.

The SF games would be well recieved, get plenty of players, and would
get 
sneers and insults in the HMGS newsletter.

Things are somewhat better now, but you can still expect a bit of
hostility. 
  With people like Jay Hadley on the board, things can ONLY get better. 

Much better.  But it doesn't help that the traditional HMGS SF game -- 
Princess Ryan's Space Marines -- is very much a children's game, played
with 
stuffed animals and unpainted toys.  You will, however, get players for 
almost any game that you do.  And some of them will be quite good
players 
indeed!  Others...well, that's another story.

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