Re: FT at Origins, or lack of

Glen (and the list in general)

I received NO requests for prize support from anyone for 
Origins.  We haven't attended the show in the last few 
years due to low turnout, VERY poor sales, and very high 
cost.  I was fortunate that Fortress Games, one of my 
wholesale accounts, wanted to represent us at the show 
otherwise we would have had no presence at all.

My feeling is that the card events overshadow everything 
else at that show, and miniaturists are few and far 
between.  We used to do very well at Origins when the 
show had less of a focus on card games.

If you are planning to attend Origins next year and wish 
to run some events I would be happy to sponsor you.

KR, Geo-Hex  

On 16 Jul 00, at 21:51, GBailey@aol.com wrote:

> So what happened to whoever was going to run
> Full Thrust games at Origins.  I was there, never
> saw a single game.  I was really disappointed.  *sniff*
> 
> I did pick up some Phalon mini's, they were the only
> FT mini's there.  The same booth was the only to have
> FT books as well.
> 
> some OT stuff of what I did at Origins:
> 
> Lots of B5 Wars being played.  I watched a demo of the
> Fleet Action for about 5 minutes and didn't like what I saw.
> Firing across a ship caused a minus to hit? Count up all the
> weapons firing and roll lots of dice? Sounded all munchkinly
> to me.  :)
> 
> I played Advanced Civilization twice.  Came in last place
> twice.  *sigh* Those games were also way too peaceful. 
> Except for one attack by another player, and attacks on
> pirates and barbarians, I was the only one to make any
> attack efforts at slowing the leaders down (I was already
> way behind the Civilization card purchases when I did this).
> And they spread the secondary effects of calamities around
> so it barely hurt anyone.  Egads. It was sickening to an
> "old" wargamer like me.  I know military actions are not a
> good option, but there are times when it can be useful.
> 
> Finally got to play in a Runequest game after many years.
> Lots of fun!	The guy playing the "knuckle-dragging"
> barbarian was a riot.  And it, with a POW of 3, resisted
> being controlled by a high POW evil artifact! (fyi, POW =
> Power statistic, a indication of magical power and "in tune
> ness" with the world).
> 
> Glen
>