Manny, per the e-mail I sent you:

I think it would be easiest to simply have everyone bring a few figures, maybe something like 1 rare, 1 or 2 uncommons, 3 or so commons.

I'm not sure about everyone else, but I really dislike the idea of buying boosters to bring to prize support.  I'm not sure about everyone else, but I have ENOUGH figures as it is!!!!  I don't want any more.  John and I are actually looking to probably sell or trade off about half of our collection because we simply have too much stuff.

Personally, I think that most people are probably in a similar boat, and I think people would much rather bring some figures to put into a prize pool rather than pay another $10-20 PER MATCH that they play in...

Derek

Manny, formats look great, particularly the 200pt theme.

Maybe next time we can look at doing a 250pt team event with 2 people bringing 250 pt warbands, limit 5 figures to combine for a 500pt team.  Something like that.

Anyway, I sent you an e-mail, just let me know...

Derek

The next D&D Miniatures game day will be January 16^th

http://www.gulfcoastgamersclub.com/index.php/component/ccboard/view-postlist/forum-35-january-16-2010/topic-23-dad-miniatures-events

Using my voting system at http://examples.xocomp.net/iaa/survey/DDMsurvey.aspx? The results look like http://examples.xocomp.net/iaa/survey/DDMsurvey_Says.aspx

So, I’m going to make a call now in advance for the tournament formats:

1. We will have a 200 point standard assault tournament
2. We will have a 500 point standard assault tournament with a twist
   1. You can win by eliminating all but 1 enemy – that enemy surrenders
   2. This will prevent Beholder Ultimate Tyrant warbands because if the BUT is alive and everything else is dead that player surrenders
   3. We will have a special 200 point standard assault tournament
      1. 12 figure limit
      2. 200 point limit
      3. Still needs to meet faction requirements and alignment requirements
      4. 32 point maximum single figure cost ( I’m trying to see some new stated figures from the early sets)
      5. At least 125 points must come from a common theme (keyword is an example theme)

                                                               i.      Some sample themed warbands by racial keyword

1. Most gnolls
2. Most demons
3. Most elves
4. Most dwarves
5. Most drow
6. Most undead

                                                             ii.      Some example mixed but still with a theme

1. A party of fighter, rogue, wizard, cleric, with other character classes
2. All divine, all martial, all arcane
3. Because of the forced theme, these are disallowed

                                                               i.      the witchknife’s power, you can run a witchknife but he can’t use his power to stun a keyword

                                                             ii.      No powers that target an enemy keyword

1. No bonus against evil
2. No bonus against faction
3. No bonus against keyword (race or type)

                                                            iii.      Useful keyword ally bonuses still apply

I doubt we will have boosters to run a 200 point sealed tournament.  I'l check with Battleworks.

I was also thinking of a low-level battle, like a 200 point assault with an unlimited # of figures, but no figure costing more than 25 pts.

Some options

Everyone bring a booster and we can divide them up across the 3 tournaments to give out as prizes.  Everyone bring something D&D or DDM related, boosters, books, modules, counters, tiles, maps etc... 

Everyone bring anything, beer, money, games, cards, miniatures, repaints (official or personal)

Everyone bring something in a box so that no-one knows what is in each package.

The last tournament we had almost 8-14 players in each event, I'm hoping we can increase that to 16 players in some event so we can get a 4 round tournament going.

Let me know your ideas on prize support.

I'll still have a few miniatures for everyone, but it might come down to rares for undefeated, uncommons for 1 loss, commons for everyone else.  We will just have to wait and see.

Ok, so January game day we will test out the player presented prize support.

I need some suggestions.

Here is a link to the December Game Day Geek List on BoardGameGeek.com. Thanks to Gene for the photos.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/49288

Does anyone have any board game requests for the upcoming game day?

I'm considering: Agricola, Feudal, Cash n Guns, Pandemic, Stone Age, Age of Steam, Atticka, Puerto Rico, Yspahan, Taj Mahal, Arena Maximus, and Mississippi Queen.

I'll also be providing a door prize or two. See you there.

I'd like to find out how many of you would be interested in a retro-tile placement game of D&D Miniatures.  If we have enough players that have sets of tiles we could run a 200 point standard assault with tiles.

I'd have to take a look at the rules, but I don't think there would be much to modify from the origina.

200 point, 10 figure limit

3 tiles and 1 starting tile on blank or we could try on maps that already have terrain.

Anyone interested?

We cannot restict the use of the Beholder Ultimate Tyrant, but we can make a gentleman's agreement.

Of course I thought we had an agreement for the 500pt and we saw how that turned out.  It might be a bit different in the 750 point, but I really doubt it.  I'll have to test and see.

Moving up and down in ratings:

Since I track this stuff, I like to point out the big movers.

In Standard

Jerry went from 1814 down to 1806

Greg G jumped from 1695 to 1721 (thanks to that Beholder)

Craig jumped from 1609 to 1637

In Limited

Jerry went up to 1681 from 1676

Greg went up from 1618 to 1627

Craig went up from 1616 to 1639

No beholder_ultimate_tyrant

1. 200 point limited draft team tournament
2. 750 point assault
3. 300 point standard assault

i liked the wretched event, it was fun.  This past tournament in general was alot of fun (so close to beating craig ;) ) even the purple disco ball was ok.

I too, would like to see another wretched event, a 300 & maybe a 750, but I personally don't think I'd do so hot yet in a 1000.  50 point could be fun, if you limit the minis to a min of 3 so we don't have people with just 1 strong mini.  ocre jelly will get some real play.