Mongoose at GenCon?

[Red-24]

Hi all,

Just wondering if there is going to be any Mongoose presence at GenCon in two weeks.

One of my sessions will be A Call to Arms Star Fleet on the Sunday, and I may host some pickup games of Traveller.

I didn't see a booth in the vendor hall, but maybe Mongoose is set up with someone else.

 

[MongooseMatt]

Cubicle 7 will represent for us this year at Gen Con!

 

[Red-24]

Awesome! I'll be sure to stop by their booth.

 

[dragoner]

I live an hour north of Indianapolis and have thought of going, not seen much interest from Traveller folks though, it would be interesting to check out gencon.

 

[EvilFleetProductions]

Evil Fleet Productions will be running "Paranoia Trek XII: Uh Oh, We're Out of Source Material" three times at Gen Con. This event started in 2002 and follows the exploits the FED sector troubleshooters Scott-Y-BZE, Bald-Y-HED, Wrinkl-Y-HED, Weasl-Y-KID, Touch-Y-FLY, Point-Y-ERZ, McCo-Y-DOC, and Janewa-Y-KAT as they fight the ever-present threat of the Rommies (alliance of Romantics and Mystics secret societies.)

I just wanted to thank everyone at Mongoose again for the great prize support they gave our event this year. Sorry we won't be able to do it in person. I'll post a recap here after Gen Con is over.

 

[EvilFleetProductions]

First, thanks again to Mongoose for the generous donations to our Gen Con Paranoia Trek events. The players were very happy to have a chance to win the core Paranoia Books (Troubleshooters, Internal Security, and High Programmers). They were almost always chosen before the Star Trek prizes we provided ourselves, with the possible exception of the Captain Kirk Christmas ornament.

We had three great sessions. The event was so popular that only one player was able to get in with generic tickets. There were lots of funny moments, so I'll just share one of my favorites.

This year was a reversal of Galaxy Quest. A deranged programmer from HPD&MC thinks the members of the away team are actors, so he transports them to help his failing network. They appear on other network shows for cross-promotion, including Celebrity Jeopardy.

The category was "Name That Color". For 600, the answer: The color of engineering, ops, and security uniforms in TNG.

The player whose turn it is to answer hasn't seen much Trek, and no TNG. Meanwhile the player next to him is chomping at the bit, because he knows the answer and can buzz in if the first player gets it wrong. (Wrong answers lose points and earn you a beating from the Klin-G-ONN standing behind you with a truncheon.)

Finally the first player takes a guess: "Red." That's a doubly bad answer: It's incorrect, and the player failed to form his response in the form of a question. BAM! POW! WHAP!

The second player player smiles smugly as he quickly buzzes in.

"WHAT is red! No, wait! I meant yellow!" BAM! POW! WHAP!

I've heard dozens of players quote Monty Python at the table, but that was the first unintentional re-enactment.

 

[Red-24]

I stopped by the Cubicle 7 booth. They definitely did not represent you. There was no Mongoose product, and the fellow I talked to had no idea what I was talking about. They didn't seem to know anything about where Mongoose wad being represented at the show.

 

[billclo]

I stopped by the Cubicle 7 booth. They definitely did not represent you. There was no Mongoose product, and the fellow I talked to had no idea what I was talking about. They didn't seem to know anything about where Mongoose wad being represented at the show.

Oooh, that is bad.

 

[SJE]

Yep, I was at GenCon and the only impression the Dealer Hall gave was that Mongoose was out of the roleplaying business. I was surprised there wasn't any of their minis games either (and there were some big launches like Attack Wing from other mini games companies).

 

[billclo]

Ya have to spend money on advertising/promotion, if you expect to make sales and stay in business...