Reapercon 2023 Excitement Thread!

[pcktlnt]

@Ludo and @OneBoot! Congratulations on the continued growth of the hijinks. ^.^

[Goddesstio]

9 hours ago, GoldenPiggy said:

I signed up for several of the Hobby Hijinks events, and I liked knowing there was a spot waiting for me even if I was rushing over to it from somewhere else.  I think the numbers might be adjusted (maybe 20 tickets and 20 walk-up?), and they could actually hand out tickets at registration to verify who actually had tickets, but I hope they don't get rid of those tickets entirely.

Technically they did have paper tickets in the folders, they just generally weren't checked/collected. I did get a few tickets, and it was kind of nice to have a guarantee, so I do kind of hope they keep it, even on a 50/50 split or something.

 

I think it would be nice to have more tables, but from what Jon said it might be beyond the runner's capacity to have that many people at once.

Edited September 13 by Goddesstio

[OneBoot]

On 9/12/2023 at 6:22 PM, Goddesstio said:

I think it would be nice to have more tables, but from what Jon said it might be beyond the runner's capacity to have that many people at once.

 

Yeah, even prepping minis, paints, supplies and awards for the (I think) 5 tables is a significant amount of work, besides running the events themselves and resetting each table in between. @Ludo could speak to it more, but I think it's about as big as it can get for now in the space it's in/amount of volunteers there are to help out. 

 

It is always a blast, and almost as much fun to run (particularly Sophie Says) as it is to participate! If I weren't also teaching classes, I would definitely be there a lot more.

 

Huzzah!

--OneBoot 😄

[Chaoswolf]

I agree.

 

Being asked to be a celebrity stunt judge for one event was pretty cool, too.

[PammyD2]

Crazy thing...I didn't do any Hobby Hijinks this year, although I did go around several times passing out Ribbons anytime they were singing, and I loved it!

 

But Hobby Hijinks is pretty much what sold me on ReaperCon and what has inspired me to keep painting. I didn't want to go to ReaperCon the first time I went because I was shy, nervous, and had just had Knee Surgery on my left knee not even 2 weeks before. My husband begged me to go, so I went. I think I only had 2 or 3 classes that year, but I had only ever painted 3 minis before ReaperCon 2021. But everyone at Hobby Hijinks was so encouraging, and since it was just painting for fun, and with random colors in the dice rolls, or with random tools in Sophie Says, there was no pressure to actually have a perfectly painted mini. @Ludo was just so much fun and seemed so happy to be there and so happy to have us all there that my walls started to come down and I started to feel comfortable there. I know that's where I first met @Dr Bob and @OneBoot and probably several others of you. I really think that had I not participated in Hobby Hijinks, I would not have wanted to keep going back, or try to improve my painting.

 

I tell everyone that I meet to go to ReaperCon and to start at the Hobby Hijinks if they are a new painter. This year a couple of the dads in a group of New to D&D players that I DM for went to RearperCon on Saturday with their kids and they loved Hobby Hijinks and are now really excited for next year's ReaperCon and want to start painting more. We're going to do painting club again so they can learn more and paint throughout the year. I'm super excited about it too!!

[Chaoswolf]

That's awesome, very glad to hear it!

I hope the painting club goes well.

[Dilvish the Deliverer]

Hooray for painting clubs! 

[klarg1]

On 9/15/2023 at 1:35 PM, PammyD2 said:

Crazy thing...I didn't do any Hobby Hijinks this year, although I did go around several times passing out Ribbons anytime they were singing, and I loved it!

 

But Hobby Hijinks is pretty much what sold me on ReaperCon and what has inspired me to keep painting. I didn't want to go to ReaperCon the first time I went because I was shy, nervous, and had just had Knee Surgery on my left knee not even 2 weeks before. My husband begged me to go, so I went. I think I only had 2 or 3 classes that year, but I had only ever painted 3 minis before ReaperCon 2021. But everyone at Hobby Hijinks was so encouraging, and since it was just painting for fun, and with random colors in the dice rolls, or with random tools in Sophie Says, there was no pressure to actually have a perfectly painted mini. @Ludo was just so much fun and seemed so happy to be there and so happy to have us all there that my walls started to come down and I started to feel comfortable there. I know that's where I first met @Dr Bob and @OneBoot and probably several others of you. I really think that had I not participated in Hobby Hijinks, I would not have wanted to keep going back, or try to improve my painting.

 

I tell everyone that I meet to go to ReaperCon and to start at the Hobby Hijinks if they are a new painter. This year a couple of the dads in a group of New to D&D players that I DM for went to RearperCon on Saturday with their kids and they loved Hobby Hijinks and are now really excited for next year's ReaperCon and want to start painting more. We're going to do painting club again so they can learn more and paint throughout the year. I'm super excited about it too!!

that is truly awesome.