In just under 6 hours, the link will be published live at the top of the home page on here on PrairieCon.com.
Once you get to the registration site, then you will have to:
Create an account, with an email validation
Purchase your pass (or redeem your gift pass)
Then choose your games!.
There is no ‘save games’ button at the bottom of the site. Your game choices are saved as you select them!
*IMPORTANT*
If people have technical problems during registration, they have to use the “Contact Us” through the registration page.
Please do not go and post on Facebook looking for help or support. The Contact Us button goes directly to the web administrator who built the registration system and he is the only one who can help you if there is a technical issue.
We don’t foresee any issues, but we want to make sure you have your problem resolved as soon as possible!
As this new character artwork (by Alyssa Fraser) for the D&D Tournament shows, The Rookie is just as excited as I am!
The tournament has been play-tested by our loyal cadre of DM’s, and it is all ready to go. All that remains is for you to register!
A quick reminder: if you intend to participate in the D&D Tournament as a team, each of your players will need to register, just like they normally would every year. To indicate who is on your team, have your team captain send an email to craigdedrick@hotmail.com
I would also like to remind everyone that you can pre-order buttons featuring your team name and the six different character portraits from Alyssa Fraser at Alyssamaydraw@gmail.com by May 19th.
I have shared quite a bit of information and artwork for the D&D Tournament over the past few weeks, but it occurs to me that I have told you all virtually nothing about the scenario itself, “Shadows over Blue Harbour”:
The world is not a good place for humanoids, or “demi-humans,” as the humans call you. The humans have established military dominance over the less populous other races, such as the elves, orcs, dwarves, gnomes and halflings. Only The Resistance, a loose organization of humanoids, stands against human domination. In order to accomplish your mission, your group of rebels must sneak into the human-only city of Blue Harbour as a growing shadow from the sea ominously covers the city in darkness.
If that isn’t enough to get you excited, check out the artwork for one of the characters, “The Leader,” by Alyssa Fraser:
Remember that you can order team-themed buttons featuring the character artwork from Alyssa by sending her an email at: alyssamaydraw@gmail.com by May 19th.
Behold! New character artwork, fresh from the talented pen of Alyssa Fraser!
This year, I have had the great fortune of working with talented artists who are producing artwork, terrain and painted miniatures for the tournament. Rick Pemkowski is hard at work painting a set of character figures that will be given out to the winning team, and Ernie Cameron has created some terrific terrain that will be used during the scenario and given out as a prize. Alyssa will also be selling some character-themed buttons at her table at the convention, along with some other groovy artwork. If you are interested in custom buttons for your team, she is accepting pre-orders until May 19th. A set of 6 buttons (one for each character) will run your team $15, and you can order them by emailing her at alyssamaydraw@gmail.com with your team name (and logo or colour if you have one).
In the interest of fostering team spirit, we have a couple of incentives for your team at the big event:
If your group wears team uniforms, all of your characters will begin the first round with a bonus point of inspiration!
In lieu of a team uniform, if you are wearing a PrairieCon T-Shirt (from any year), your character will begin the first round with a bonus point of inspiration.
The team judged to have the most awesome uniform/theme will get to play the second round of the tournament using the custom terrain and miniatures that will eventually be awarded as prizes at the end of the event.
Be creative and have some fun with your fellow teammates!
As the end of April and registration for PrairieCon rapidly approaches, I wanted to take a moment to talk about how registering your team for the PrairieCon D&D Tournament is going to work. As with all PrairieCon registration, it is first come, first serve. If you have a team of six players, all six still need to sign up. Let me repeat that – all six need to sign up.
Team captains will need to send an email to the contact address listed in the game description, and they can list all of the members of their team, as well as their team name. However, this email does not guarantee that anyone will be registered, nor does it save a spot. If someone on your team does not register, and the event fills up before they have a chance to do so, your team will be assigned someone from the pool of individual registrants who are not already on a team. So… get your people together and ensure that they register as soon as they can once registration opens.
If you plan to register as an individual without a team, that is totally cool. You will be assigned to a team that has room.
Not excited enough about the tournament yet? Here are a few more pictures of the super awesome terrain designed by Ernie Cameron to keep you on the edge of your set with anticipation!
Rogrog needs to a sink a hole in one here to win this round.
There’s probably monkeys in that barrel.
Awww, look at this nice setting, I’m sure nothing bad ever happens around here.
We are at less than half of what we need (but over 40%!).
So, with a little bit of suppressed panic, we want to ask you if you would like to run some games at the convention this year? Boardgames, card games, role-playing games, mini games, we need them all!
PrairieCon 2017 (XXXVIII/38) will be at Assiniboine Community College this year, on June 2-4, 2016. Like last year, we have 17 slots running throughout the weekend with a duration of 2 hours each. We run shorter sots so we can cram more games into the weekend, but if you know your game will take closer to four hours just let us know and we’l run it over two slots.
We know that many of you area already planning on running games and probably have already decided what you want to run. If that’s the case, please submit then as soon as possible so James can put them in our system and you’re not overwhelming James at the last second
Attached are the .pdfs with the information you will need.
