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| Monday, September 10th, 2018 | |
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| _5:00 am_[docwatson42] |
I suppose everyone has moved to Facebook...though I was just checking. (Comment on this) |
| Friday, September 25th, 2009 | |
| _4:19 pm_[kgb666000] |
Magic: The Gathering - Zendikar Prerelease Sealed Deck Tournament  Where: Worlds Apart Games 48 N. Pleasant St (Down town Amherst between the ABC and the fire station) Amherst, MA 01002 413-259-6893   When: Sunday, September 27th 1pmWhat: Sealed deck Magic tournament with prizes Entry Fee for this event will be $25.00Tournament Structure: The format for this event is a Swiss Rounds Sealed Deck using 6 Boosters of Zendikar. Each player will build their decks from their boosters adding as much basic land as they wish, to construct a deck of at least 40 cards. We will have basic land on site that may be borrowed for this event, just please make sure that you return any land that you borrow.Prizes: For this event, we have the following up for grabs....The first 36 attendees receive a free receive mythic foil promo card Rampaging Baloth! AND a Planechase Celestine Reef Zendikar Packs based on attendance (3 packs per person!). 90% of the Prize pool will be split among the top placers (Based on attendance).The remaining 10% of the prize pool will be given out as random door prizes throughout the tournament. Playmats and other merchandise will also be given out as door prizes and to the top placer(s).Open Dueling -Players who are new to the game may want to join in the festivities without being in a tournament. That Cool! There is open dueling all Sunday with brand new intro packs,and booster draft sets. Plus, a promo card will be awarded if you fill out your open dueling card!!! (While supplies last) Current Mood: accomplished (1 Comment |Comment on this) |
| Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 | |
| _2:02 pm_[kgb666000] |
I hope to see many of you at Pi-Con! As everyone makes their summer plans, I wish to remind you to consider attending Pi-Con! Pi-Con is a weekend-long celebration of science fiction and other fan interests - there's webcomics, science, costuming, gaming, larping, filk, lifestyle, and lots more. This year, it's happening August 21-23 in Enfield, CT right off 91, just south of the MA border. Register today! This year will feature Author Guest of Honor Mary Doria Russell (award winning author of The Sparrow and Children of God), Webcomic Guest of Honor Jeffrey Rowland (creator of Wigu, Overcompensating, and the awesome t-shirt site Topatoco), and Guest of Awesome Genevieve Iseult Eldredge. We will also see the return of our video game room, two full rooms of all day board/card/table top gaming, many favorite panels and events including the panel in the pool, and the new addition of Filk programming! There will also be performances by our local Rocky Horror and Repo casts (The Come Again Players and Genetic Imperfection)Full weekend pre-registration rates for Pi-Con are currently 40foradultsor∗∗only40 for adults or only 40foradultsor∗∗only25 for students! Get your registrations in at the early rate!Room reservations are *open* for Pi-Con! Room rate will be $109/night + tax. Just go to http://www.pi-con.org/hotel.php and you can register online for a room. For more information, to volunteer, sign up to vend, or otherwise contact us, check out our web page at www.pi-con.orgCurrent Mood:  excited (Comment on this) |
| Friday, July 17th, 2009 | |
| _5:04 pm_[kgb666000] |
Magic 2010 Release Sealed Deck Tournament |
| Friday, July 10th, 2009 | |
| _1:46 am_[kgb666000] |
New Gamer Email list for the Valley Once upon a time, there was an email list for gamers in the Pioneer Valley. That list has fallen into disrepair. The Pioneer Valley Gamer Collective has stepped in to create a new list to keep Valley gamers in contact. To join the list visit the link below.http://pvgaming.org/mailman/listinfo/thelist_pvgaming.orgJoin the list. Post your events, GM/player requests, comments, thoughts, and anything else that the gamers of the Valley may be interested in.Feel free to repost this anywhere you like. Current Mood: pleased (Comment on this) |
| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | |
| _10:42 am_[kgb666000] |
Worlds Apart Games is hosting a Magic 2010 Prerelease tournament this Sunday! Magic 2010 Prerelease Sealed Deck Tournament amused (Comment on this) |
| Saturday, April 25th, 2009 | |
| _3:49 am_[docwatson42] |
H.C. article: "The Excalibur Club" An article about Excalibur was just posted on the Hampshire Web site:http://www.hampshire.edu/news/11940.htm (4 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Sunday, November 4th, 2007 | |
| _9:11 pm_[morganminstrel] | Ravenloft History Here, as I promised, is that follow-up to my post about Ravenloft with some historical rememberances. I got some really good feedback from folks, filling in a good deal of the blanks, but we can always use more info! Especially about events at Hampshire post 1994! Here's what we have so far:( here we go!Collapse )I'll leave things for now with this from  spoomeister: More! Need more history! Fill in the rest of those sessions - we need more hx here, I know I can't remember them all...Current Mood: impressed (4 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Friday, November 2nd, 2007 | |
| _3:20 pm_[morganminstrel] | It's that most wonderful time of the year.... Yes, it's that time...the weekend that is most special to a certain group of people, ex-Hamsters and Excaliburites all--it's Ravenloft weekend!What is Ravenloft, I hear you cry. Well, (in this context, not in its official definition) it's essentially a tournament-style role playing game that a bunch of us started at Hampshire college in 1991. I wrote about those beginnings here. And this year is the 17th consecutive year that we have had a quorum of the circle of friends who started the thing (as well as many who joined in later on) get together to spend a night (and, these days, most of a day as well--we're old and can't stay up as late!) fighting the forces of darkness. (Not sure whether I'm referring to the game masters or the dice here.) And, for many of us, getting our butts handed to us by said forces. Of course, we haven't always been using a D&D setting each year. We did the first, but we've varied (this year, for example, everyone will be kung fu fighting...and it might get a little bit frightning)....can anyone help reconstruct the general settings over the years? (We can start in the comments and I can post a follow-up later...) Also, I'm of the belief that the only person who can say they've taken part in every durn one, each year--or at least one per year in the times when we had competing games--is ronelyn. Am I wrong in this?Ravenloft does survive at Hampshire as an event sponsored by what must be Fourth Wave (at least) Excalibur called "DeathFest," which name probably captures the spirit of the original tourney quite well. ("Have you killed any characters yet? Geeze, we have too many for the final battle!") And it's great to know an Excal tourney still goes on.But Ravenloft? That's ours. Has been for seventeen years now. And I, for one, cannot wait until Saturday! Current Mood: excited (4 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Thursday, January 4th, 2007 | |
| _8:47 pm_[morganminstrel] | Two of our own! Congratulations to ashnistrike(F91, I think, or was it F92?) for having her short story, "Exposure Therapy," in the January/February issue of Analog! (I finally got my hands on a copy today and am looking forward to reading the story this weekend.)Congrats also to ronelyn(F90) for becoming a freelance copyeditor for R.Talsorian Games, publisher of the Cyberpunk RPG!Excalibur alums, makin' it in the world of professional SF/F/RPGs! Makes me proud. :-)Good going, folks! Current Mood: pleased (1 Comment |Comment on this) |
| Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 | |
| _2:34 am_[morganminstrel] | Traditions Crossposted to  hampshire_alumn( The story of a Hampshire TraditionCollapse ) Current Mood:  tired (3 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Monday, January 2nd, 2006 | |
| _11:12 pm_[morganminstrel] | Starting a history? So, I guess it's going to take some specific requests to get a history post started here. As far as I know, asim is the oldest member here. (Not meaning to call you old, of course...) He's the person who could tell us something about the pre-90s club. So, I hereby request that asim either comment or start a new post. Then some of the rest of us could take up the story. Think about how nice it'd be to have a history of Excalibur ready for the 20th anniversary.....asim? Anybody? Current Mood: hopeful (2 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Thursday, December 29th, 2005 | |
| _9:47 pm_[folzgold] |
Hi! I'm Jacob, one of the three current signers of Excalibur.I have recently realized that Excalibur will be celebrating 20 years probably in Fall 2006. We'll ask you to contact all your friends and have them contact their friends from Hampshire, and try to hold a big event. Now would be the time to start thinking of what that event would be, so if you have any ideas for the 20th anniversary, please do tell us! (1 Comment |Comment on this) |
| Monday, December 26th, 2005 | |
| _11:47 am_[morganminstrel] | All right, let's get started! Well, we have our first current member, which means all of our members no longer know each other. ;-) I wanted to use this thread for folks to introduce themselves in the comments. In an e-mail to me, folzgold also mentions that Excalibur's 20th anniversary is coming up (does 1986 sound right to you, asim?), and that they don't know how it will be commemorated. So if anyone has a suggestion for the celebration, why not share that too?I'll start. As you all know by now, I'm morganminstrelF90 and I was officially in Excalibur from its resurrection in 1991ish. I was involved in running the first Ravenloft tournament (who came up with that idea? strahd72?), now called "Deathmatch," starting the tradition of showing movies, etc. I was also one of the crazy people who thought Hampshire was a good place to hold a convention. We tried it twice (Convocation--now OurCon--in 1992 and the first 5Con in 1993) and....well, at least 5Con was fun! (spoomeister can tell stories, oh the stories we can tell...) I left Hampshire in 1993, never to return, though I kicked around the area for awhile before finally landing in the Seattle area. (Otherwise known as early 90s Excalibur West.) Married a woman I met one of the years I went back as a guest for 5Con (so founding it was good for something, right?) and finally got my BA (after 15 years) this year. As for the 20th anniversary, I'd suggest a reunion, but I don't know who'd actually be able to come. So I'll say a BIG party with a huge game (or a bunch of them) going on. And it needs to happen on both coasts. :-)So, that's me. Now it's everyone else's turn. (20 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Sunday, December 18th, 2005 | |
| _3:36 pm_[morganminstrel] | Welcome! Hi everyone! My name is morganminstrel and I'm a Hampshire alum--F90, to be specific. I was at the forefront of "Excalibur, phase two," otherwise known as "the first version of the club that actually did anything." I'm hoping that between the lot of us, we'll be able to cobble together a history of the club from the late 80s through the mid 90s....and I'm also hoping any later members will be able to help us fill in the gaps between then and today.So why did I do this, you ask? Not a bad question. Well, as the userinfo I wrote says, I'm hoping this can become a forum for members and alums to share stories, information*, etc. and make and keep connections between we old fogeys and you new young'ins. Back when I was at Camp Hamp, the college President (Greg Prince) kept going on and on and on about how we needed to "build traditions" at Hampshire. We used to joke that Hamp traditions lasted about five years and were then forgotten. Imagine my delight, then, when I discovered that the Hallow'een RPG tournament we started in the Fall of 1991 still gets played! (Admittedly, under a different name.) It made me think about how Excalibur must be one of the oldest student groups on campus, yet members today have no contact with alums. Other college SF clubs (Stoneybrook's "SF Forum" being a big example) have traditions and contacts that go back decades...so, why not Excalibur? So, here I am. And, if I'm lucky, here we are! Let's talk about Excalibur, shall we?*=not general current Excal announcements, like movie showings and such. You current members have a mailing list for that, right?P.S. I'm a lowly unpaid user, who doesn't use icons or anything like that. If anyone has icons they want to contribute or suggestions for layout or whatnot, let me know! Current Mood: excited (Comment on this) |