{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Downtime, April 2010: Idealcon","description":"Downtime:  What would you have at your ideal gaming convention?  That's not what this episode is about.  It's about what Shane, Liam, Cillian and humbeg would like at their ideal gaming convention, or more correctly conventions, because of course opinions vary dramatically.  Convention organisers take note!  But not too much note.  Apologies for Cillian's faintness, he was actually in the recording room but slouching very far from his microphone like a big slobby gamer.  Features:\r\n\r\nLord of the Pies\r\nThere's 'ideal' and there's 'ideal'\r\nMaslow's hierarchy of needs\r\nPub quiz time\r\nConduration\r\nLooking at wargamers\r\nLayout by the guys who did R'lyeh\r\nVenue for atmosphere\r\nMedieval or at least pre-60s\r\nLots and lots of delicious trade\r\nhumbug's junk\r\nLots of travel or none at all\r\nGirlfriends in another country\r\nUnspecified vague adversity\r\nPeople talking to you\r\nStyle over substance\r\nSlots a day\r\nRPGs versus pub quiz\r\nCall of Cthulhu\r\nSavage Worlds\r\nSpecial events\r\nBattleTech\r\nSpace Hulk\r\nVariety\r\nElaborate GMed wargame scenarios\r\nSerious boardgame throw-down\r\nBattlestar Galactica\r\nTwilight Imperium\r\nAxis & Allies\r\nPie-corresponding toilet facilities\r\nUp-front information\r\nLeaving the con excited\r\nThe prize fight\r\nRPG and LARP coordinator\r\nScenarios ready\r\nNice weather\r\nBelt up!\r\nThe crack is ninety\r\nHow not to organise a con\r\n\r\nDiscuss this episode at IrishGaming.Com!\r\n ","author_name":"The Adventuring Party","author_url":"http:\/\/theadventuringparty.libsyn.com","html":"