thread: 2008-03-20 : Mr Foot Goes to Mouthville, part 2
On 2008-03-25, Thor Olavsrud wrote:
Jonathan,
Thanks and I understand. We can be a quiet bunch sometimes, especially when we're knee-deep in a project.
So, (hopefully) without being too defensive, here's some of the stuff we've done:
Between 2003 and late 2006, before IPR really got started, Luke, Drozdal, Pete and Aaron lugged the NerdNYC table from con to con (I came on in 2004 or so). There were a handful of others (mostly Brennan, Michael and Kat Miller and M.J. Young) that went to cons, but other than that, the Forge guys pretty much only went to Gen Con and maybe Origins.
We were all over the place! I-Con, Vericon, Ubercon, Recess, Lollagazebo, Dreamation, Dexcon, Mace, Dragoncon, Shorecon, and a handful of others whose names I can't remember. Sometimes Luke would haul his stuff out to a nearby college gaming club because they invited him.
The Nerd table had the nerd T-shirts, business cards, stickers, and a supply of all the indie games that were coming out of the Forge that Luke could get his hands on. We were on point for getting games into the hands of folks up and down the east coast, including Sorcerer (and its supplements), My Life with Master, Universalis, kill puppies for satan, Dogs in the Vineyard, Primetime Adventures, With Great Power Preview Edition, Fvlminata, Multiverser, Pax Draconis, InSpectres, octaNe, Squeam, Elfs, Conspiracy of Shadows, etc.
I don't think we were solely responsible for it, but I do think that we played an important role in laying the groundwork to make Dreamation and Dexcon what they are today.
We ran games like mad at the Gotham Gaming Guild and Recess in New York City. Sorcerer, The Shadow of Yesterday, Capes, With Great Power, kill puppies for satan, Dogs in the Vineyard, Primetime Adventures, HeroQuest and others were all run for folks here in New York to the point that these games were adopted by the NerdNYC community and there are now usually as many if not more indie games played at Nerd events than there are mainstream games.
The Thursday crew playtests lots of games. Mortal Coil, Robots & Rapiers, First Quest, Galactic, Serial, and Acts of Evil are among the games that we've playtested.
Drozdal blogs about indie games and ways to play on his Polish-language blog, and has helped to get more people there looking at and playing indie games.
From an editorial standpoint, I've been involved in the No Press RPG Anthology, With Great Power, carry. a game about war., Serial, How We Came to Live Here, Darkpages, and Giants.
I feel like we've given blood and sweat to the community, you know?
There's no reason you should know this stuff. We don't (and didn't) do it for recognition. We just love good role-playing games and doing a good turn to others.
And that's what I want us all to focus on. Of course we're going to be closest with the folks who live near us and with whom we game often. We know them best. At the same time, we should strive to keep up the bonds across the larger community. First and foremost, we all love good role-playing games.
