Dungeon Master Forum

Location: London

Date: September or December (still in discussion)

People's preferences:

Ameena: Any time in September
beowuuf: September during the week
copperman: ?
Gambit37: Preferably December
linflas: Before September 29
Lunever: After September 1
thieves like us (aka Jim Ratkos): ?
Trantor: September
zurman: late September

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Hi everyone,

Just thought about this today : what about organizing a meeting between members of the forum for the 20th anniversary of our beloved game ?

I am waiting for suggestions

First stage : interested people's locations

Zurman : France
linflas : France
Trantor : Germany (near Hamburg)
PadTheMad : UK (Preston)
cowsmanaut : Canada
PaulH : UK (Sheffield, in a pub where I heard every DM-fan gets unlimited free drinks )
MitchB1990 : USA (Washington on the West Coast)
Lunever : Germany (Saarbrücken-Rothenbühl)

why not, but where ? we are americans, europeans, japaneses...

The idea of a "community meeting" has been around for quite some time, but no real suggestions have come so far. I think the 20th birthday of our lovely game would be the perfect opportunity! The main question is: Where? It would be interesting to know where most of us live; I suppose most are from Britain. Any ideas?

i haven't seen London for 15 years, so...

And I have never visited Britain before! I certainly wouldn't mind doing so. Furthermore, Paul already dreamed about me visiting him and going to a pub (now playing: Return of the Scary Dreams!).

Lets all go drinking! I'm up for a meeting but as linflas said, we're pretty diverse which may not be a problem for us Europeans but may be a(n expensive) problem for the further afield of us...

indeed I wouldn't mind an "excuse" to go up to british wilds.. but where in that rather large land mass? and when exactly is this birthday?

I can in no way assure my attendance.. but would be interesting to think of. Thoug if you all wanted to visit loveley BC..

moo

Happy to see positive reactions. Of course the main problem would be the location. So we should start with telling our location to see where we are from.

I'm from France

how original then don't forget to set your location in your profile. it will be written below your avatar, just like me and most people here.

about the exact day, i suggest errrmmm.... before March 21 07 ?

Doing quick calculations, I have deduced that the average living place of all peoples on this board is roughly central UK. About Sheffield. And, would you believe it, my local pub.

Sheffield?! Gonna cost me a fortune and an age to get there!

Ok, I'll edit the first post with interested people's name and location. I assume every one who posted in this thread is interested unless the opposite is explicitely stated

I would definately be interested. But nope cannot

1. under Age Parents wouldn't let me go :/
2. its all the way in Europe
3. no$$$

Yes, I strongly support that suggestion. I think I'm probably the only one who ever visited other board members anyway. When I did so it was the first time I ever met someone I had been knowing only from the internet, and I haven't regretted it. When I've been to UK quite a while ago I've met Gambit, Andyboy and Kaspian, and I've been really pleased to meet them. Having said that, I'd like to say something about the where and when:

1) While it is true that there are board members around the world from Canada to Japan, there is a great deal of regulars located in UK, so I think UK would be first choice (which of course means, that, while I really love England, a meeting could be expensive for non-UK-residents; darn pound sterling).

2) While Sheffield might be reasonable for UK regulars, I'd rather suggest London, because it is easiest, fastest and cheapest to get to and fro for non-UK-residents.

3) While there are working regulars who'd have to take a couple of days for vacancies, and regulars out of work who are not bound to a tight schedule, there are also a couple of people like me who are studying, so it might be wise to choose a time that most schools and universities consider to be holidays, like middle to late summer.

I'd suggest for each of us to buy a small portable blue haze teleporter on Ebay. Vendor's name is quite obscure... 'Lord Chaos' if i remember well.

you might invite somebody from an ex-FTL team to come.

Doug Bell actually suggested he would do a reuniion for the FTL people in San Diego and invited me along -- that was back when I was actively talking to him, probably 2002-3. Don't think it ever happened.

But as my future plans now include travelling, I might have to make a stop there -- won't be for a couple of years though!

I must amit im not the biggest Dungeon Master fan, but Id love to come and tell everyone why Bloodwych is much better ;P

Just kidding, but im UK, West Sussex, Crawley and as long as moneys alright u can count me in.

travelling is not very good idea, since we`ve got flashchat. maybe we should invite people from FTL to some sort of "flashchat close session" on 20th birthday and then publish that on a forum? do you think they would come for a while?

flashchat is not the most reliable of media!

It's been a long time since I was in touch with Doug or Andy and I suspect they are a bit disappointed with me for not doing anything with the info they gave me...

However, I'll see how they feel about somekind of 'get-together' -- Doug did previously mention making a FTL reunion and next year would be the perfect opportunity.

I suspect they are a bit disappointed with me for not doing anything with the info they gave me...

I will happily help you do something with this info. Whenever you want.

sorry to dig up an old thread, but did anything come of this. Only a few months to go till 2007 and all that.

A

well, it's a wee bit expensive for me..and I only have this week of at the moment. Maybe around christmas when I have time again.. but then I'll be broke from christmas presents

looking above, think there was talk of March 2007.

Well, it would make sense NEXT Christmas, in 2007, as that's when the game originally came out. You have over a year to save up, Cows.

I'm still all for it, I'd like to meet you guys (and gals) in person.

hehe, im still here, im all for sheffield, UK though. ^^

Good to here from you again! How are things?

Sheff sounds good, I live in Yorkshire too.