Re: [GZG] Bears, scaring Jon and UK con dates

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jan Ariander wrote:
> Paul Foster wrote:
>   
>> Do you ever promote GZG at shows by running a demo game or
participation game? I've always seen you at Colours and Warfare - but
never seen a GZG 
>> game being played. I normally come with one of my kids and we do
enjoy joining some of the 'drop in' participation games, and this in
turn often 
>> leads to purchases. Is it a missed marketing oportunity?
>>     
> Only if Jon and/or his helpers can find any free time that they don't
already spend selling stuff to their existing customers as fast as they
can... :-/
>   
And it must be remembered that said customers do their best to run the 
guys off their feet, wanting /everything/...! I'm as "guilty" of this as

anyone, usually visiting the stand at least twice in the course of a day

at a con that Jon and co. are selling at... and so do my kids... and 
half the time, GZG being there is one of, if not /the/, main reason we 
came...

I'd love to take part in a demo/parti game, and have enjoyed games like 
that at various cons, but I doubt Jon has time to do any. Even with the 
aid of his wormhole, he can't be in 3 places at once. Maybe he needs to 
think about commissioning games like that, getting people from places 
like this list to run them -- if he decides that they're worth holding 
and there aren't already some being run independently. How many GZG 
games are played at the average /Bifrost/...? More historically-oriented

cons are another matter.

Phil