What was your Jackercon experience like... even if you didn't play?

Vyrrk

So Jackercon. I've been hearing about Jackercon for as long as I have listened, and I finally got to play in a game this year.
@CADave ran a Tales from the Loop game on the colony that Aliens the movie happened. It was awesome. The players were great, we all rolled like crap, and it was awesome! I recorded it here if anyone is interested.

Oddly, I also ran a "Shadow" Jackercon game. I was asking around if people would even be interested in a For the Queen game, and I ended up filling the group without posting my game. But I was lucky enough to play with @probablyFine and @RedPandroid and it was kinda awesome!

What about you all? Did you get in some games? How were they? Or did you not play, and why? Lets talk about it!

EricfromNJ

I did not play because the Week fell on a family holiday. I will admit I am scared to run a game. It’s the logistics of getting everyone their characters and all that.

Ayslyn

I did not get to play anything. My schedule is so fluid that I didn't feel right signing up for anything.

ProbieTim

Once again, I completely failed to play or run a game. I love the concept of Jackercon and I hope it continues. I also hope that someday, I'll be able to actually run a game for it.

Kairaku

I tried to run a game, but no one signed up.?

uncommonman

I ran one game and played one.

I posted about it in another thread.

I only had 2 players for the Mutant Year Zero game but it was fun.

I played in Bills starwars traveler game and that was great

JDGriz

I am trapped in the my life is too fluid to plan... I would love to try to get into or shake off the GM cobwebs sometime and try to play. So many systems, so little time.

Kimi

I was super impressed by how JC went! Thank you to everyone who helped organize it, ran games, played in games, etc! I think that it's really a great success for the first one after a long break! ?

d47

Tales from the Loop with @CADave and @Vyrrk and others was great. Doing the character generation at the outset really seeded the story.

Discord worked great for the actual game and having a dedicated site to see the schedule and sign up was nice, but I think these forums might be a better place to plan and organize. Jumping around three sites to figure out what was going on was a bit of a hassle. I might just be old-fashioned.

I’m behind on the podcast, so maybe it has been done, but perhaps @Kimi and other hosts could plug the games that still have openings during the week before the con.

Kimi

We were plugging the site and stuff. I think people might have been a little skeptical because it's been a while since a JackerCon happened? I think now that we had a successful one more people will buy in next time. I'll try to be more specific about the game offerings and stuff too.

uncommonman

Kimi maby you could link to the Jackercon schedule as well as the Happyjacks schedule a few times just before it happens next time?

rob

I had a desire to play, but the times didn't line up when i was available. i hope it keeps going.

ProbieTim

Hey! I just discovered that JackerCon has a Twitter account. followed

Question!

I'm working on a couple of one-shot and extended one-shot games, designed to be run online. I'm not sure that I want to wait until the next JackerCon to run them. If I run them before then, could the JackerCon site be used for scheduling? Could they be "tagged" as JackerCon adjacent, or something, to keep the interest in JackerCon between cons?

uncommonman

ProbieTim I'm sort of in the same seat.

It would be fun to run a game before next Jackercon.

JoeGun

ProbieTim Yes you can!!!

Host a game and choose "JackerOff-Con" and then you can choose any date! ( this was one of the things I requested to schedule games not during JackerCon Proper!

JoeGun

So a couple of notes...it seems like a lot of games were posted at times that nobody could play in. And the other complaint was people not being able to commit until they had actual free time.

Someone requested a Games on Demand type thing. So my proposed solution:

I created a Games on Demand Catagory on the jackercon discord. It contains two things:

A voice channel called "ready to play" - this will show you who
is actively in the channel and ready to play, run, whatever. If you
want to play right now, stop reading this and go there!
A #logistics chat channel. This channel is for people in the "Ready to Play" voice channel to send links for information on their games. Links to Roll20, Fantasy Grounds,another discord server, ect. aka... logistics.

So the idea here is a more fluid design. If you have time to kill, feel free to hop into the "ready to play" channel. If enough people show up, pitch some games, and go forth and play!

As for my Jackercon experience.... I only had time to run a game. I had 3 of 4 players, ( the 4th dropped last minute). We ran for about 3 hours and had a blast. We are continuing the game via PbP and additional live sessions when schedules line up )

ProbieTim

JoeGun That is... awesome and a half. ?

bobcatt

Both Jackercon and Fear the cOnline happened to be scheduled when I couldn't make time to play.
No surprise, really.

uncommonman

bobcatt when is your preferred time to play?

Flyingjackelope

bobcatt the hope was to crossover for more exposure to both cons.

bobcatt

uncommonman I can usually manage something in the 09:00-13:00 EDT timeslot on weekdays and 19:00-23:00 on weekends, but my wedding anniversary and other activities were also jammed in around the two con date blocks so I was extra-busy this time around.

Flyingjackelope Doing so did offer more choices, but I still couldn't make it happen.