Further Geekfest announcements

Gentlemen (and any ladies who happen to be wandering by at the moment), further updates on Geekfest 2015!

There will now be free form al fresco Magic: The Gathering bring-and-play sessions (basically a designated MTG area where people can bring their decks and seek opponents.)
There will also be an area for Pokemon and YuGiOh! on similar lines. Anyone rocking up with Card Fight Vanguard! or Future Card: Buddy Fight! will get bonus marks for hilarious game names, and probably will also find an opponent.

Also, there is now a Floor Games Arena! There we shall run Winterloo in the morning, followed by Pirates' Treassure and Peg Flight later in the day.

I am currently looking for GG members to help staff these events. CCG/TCG supervision can be done by unskilled Coal Creek persons, no need to know the game. The floor games stuff needs a highly trained GG member - or at least someone who can grasp the VERY simple rules of these games, which mostly involve throwing dice at things and trying to hit them with the dice...

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The Night Before Orcsmas

Tis the night before Orcsmas, most significant of the green-skinned mid-winter festivals, when old Father Orcsmas delivers presents to all good little orcs and gobbos in Scrundor, the foul Orcish kingdom. In the tiny goblin hamlet (named with striking imagination Goblintown...) there is much anticipation of the arrival of old Wandering Wazzak, the pedlar and his Orcsmas stock. But what terrible news is this? Wazzak has been slain by Tholian soldiers, his stock destroyed and his venerable pack-hippo Bob roasted by those pesky humans down in Pinevale! There shall be no orcsmas present this year for Tiny Tug! With mere hours left until the festival, with the lamentations of the women and children ringing from the rocky cliffs above Goblintown, old Skuzz the village elder calls the tiny hamlet's greatest heroes together... there is nothing for it but to attack Pinevale and steal the Human's christmas presents!

The Night Before Orcsmas is a special, one-off stand alone RPG session for Thursday 18th of December. Using pre-generated goblin characters and the Dice Chucker V.3 ruleset, players will attempt to save Orcsmas by any means necessary!
Take up the shabby mantle of Zoggy the Nomad, Captain Skabnose Konkface, Hulk Huggak, Boomer, Bazza, Squeezy, Boggo the Biffer, or Gaston D'Gobbeaux and fight for truth, justice, and more importantly... LOOT!

TONO: the biggest loser.

Tono's Drastic Weight Reduction Diet has been a success! Using the bulk of his great girth, the club has now become the proud owner of:
A Magic: The Gathering 2014 Core Set booster box
A Magic: The Gathering 2014 Land Station (an epic quantity of land cards needed for the draft)
Seven spiral life tracking D20s (used to track how alive you are)
This Thursday will be focused on a Christmas themed RPG session, we will start the MTG draft league in January.

Geekfest game details released!

Details of some of the Geekfest game sessions have been released.
The Battle of Coal Creek:
A wargame using the Fanticide rule set, and fought over a scale replica of part of the Coal Creek park itself.
Murder on the Transvaal Express:
A Role Playing game held in a railway carriage - can you discover which of your fellow players in the murderer?

Further details forthcoming.

Clubberation and Christmass

What with the holiday season settling over us like a very large red cloud lines with white fur and bedecked with baubles, there will be some changes to the club's normal schedule
Next Thursday (the 18th of December) will be the last meeting for the year. It may even be suitably christmassy.
Christmas Day is a Thursday. There will be no games club. You can all play with all your new shiny games in the privacy of your own homes.
New Year's Day is ALSO a Thursday. I will be in Melbourne officiating as the scribe for a 30,000 point per side Warhammer battle report (Warhammer is usually played as 2000-2500 points per side). There will be no games club. You can simply keep playing with your shiny new christmas games.
January 8th will be the first day of the new gaming year. And there shall be much rejoicing!

Tono's Drastic Weight Reduction Diet

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Tono has become morbidly obese with the constant diet of $2 coins we've been feeding him for over a year now. It's time for Tono's Drastic Weight Reduction Diet, and I think I know exactly how to do it.
We will hold a Magic: The Gathering Booster Draft.
For those of you who don't know, MTG is a collectible card game in which you play powerful mages trying to kill one another. You do this by playing land cards (which give you mana) and spell cards (which do fun stuff like summon creatures or just plain damage people). It's actually pretty easy to learn, but fairly complex to play.
Now the thing about doing a Booster Draft is that it means we are all on basically the same level - no one has access to their collection of 1000 hand picked super hardcore mythic rare cards, all of us start new decks, and all of the cards come from the same pool. Basically, a Booster Draft means that Tono funds the purchase of a booster display box. This box contains 36 boosters. These boosters contain 16 cards (two of which are not important to the draft). The idea is that every player is given three boosters, they open one, pick one card to keep, and pass the rest on. This keeps going until all three boosters are exhausted, and you have a stack of cards in front of you. We then add some extra lands (because boosters never give you enough!) to these decks, and start playing.
This way, every GG member gets their own deck, and since draft games can only be played with the cards from the drafts, everyone is at about the same power level. When Tono gets fat again, we can buy another box, and add more cards to our decks. And so on until we get sick of it.

No club meeting 16/10

Due to commitments to videographical recordings of the LSC performance evening on Thursday 16th, there will be no club meeting.