Ravenwood Castle - A GWJ Friendly Travel Destination

I will always support bigger kegs.

MonoCheli wrote:

I love the slogan but you realize that if we use either the slogan or the graphic we are going to have to get flagons or we will be miss advertising.

Find me some flagons at a reasonable price and we'll get them. Seriously. I'd love to have them as a possible add on for our gaming events.

Chaz wrote:

Start a Flagon Club.

Awesome, I like this idea.

Oh, and beer drinkers, I just got off the phone with one or our distributors. As of tomorrow we will now be carrying Dogfish 90 Minute along with our 60 Minute. And some cool Oktoberfest and Pumpkin ales, but those won't be out until we do our Oktoberfest Special.

Teneman wrote:

Oh, and beer drinkers, I just got off the phone with one or our distributors. As of tomorrow we will now be carrying Dogfish 90 Minute along with our 60 Minute. And some cool Oktoberfest and Pumpkin ales, but those won't be out until we do our Oktoberfest Special.

Damn it. Stop making me want to go.

Take MonoCheli's avatar, make the computer a dagger stuck in the table, the chair a little more renaissancy (sure, it's a word), and you've got your logo!

EDIT: And Dogfish 90 minute?! Can you please have your distributor swing by my place. I'm in CT so not sure how that will work but pleeeeeeease?

Mwuahaha, my evil plan is to carry such good beer that you have to visit tuffalobuffalo!

I'm not dodging the Raven's Roost logo suggestions either guys. I've sent the designer back to the drawing board with the slogan-less cask idea. Hoping to have a finished drawing to post shortly.

Chaz wrote:

Start a Flagon Club.

How would that work? Something like the frequent customers mugs at the local diner, except instead of free coffee, you get 50% off your first flagon of ale for the evening? And the custom flagons are etched with your name and displayed on a spiffy shelf somewhere in the Roost?

Katy wrote:
Chaz wrote:

Start a Flagon Club.

How would that work? Something like the frequent customers mugs at the local diner, except instead of free coffee, you get 50% off your first flagon of ale for the evening? And the custom flagons are etched with your name and displayed on a spiffy shelf somewhere in the Roost?

Pretty much every military club in the world does this, it's really not that difficult to pull off.

And various brew houses do it. It's actually cool to see all the mugs hanging behind the bar, especially if you let members customize them a bit.

I so wish I lived around the castle.

Chaz wrote:

And various brew houses do it. It's actually cool to see all the mugs hanging behind the bar, especially if you let members customize them a bit.

I so wish I lived around the castle.

agreed. Although I am trying to talk the wife into a nice outing to Ohio next April. My birthday is the 14th and I think it would be super cool to spend the weekend at this place.

Do we need a Frequent Flagon card?

Can I bring my own?

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That's generally the idea; you provide your own mug/stein and they maintain it on premises.

90 Minute IPA?!? That is dangerous stuff. I whole heartedly approve.

120 minute exists but we're in Ohio and can't get it here.

The 120 is simply amazing, and both rare and expensive. I found it on tap once, and had two 10 oz glasses for $10 each. SO worth it.

While I do enjoy living here...this is one of the few times I can say with complete pride that I live in Delaware.

GenCon was amazing. MonoCheli and I had a lot of fun, met some great GWJers, and accomplished a lot of business type stuff.

Some of that business type stuff is incredibly exciting. Far too exciting for me to tell you about I'm afraid. The shock of it would simply be too much for you to bear. I'm only being partially facetious. Seriously.

What I can tell you though, is that we:

  • Made the appropriate connections within both Paizo and Wizards of the Coast to become affiliated with their respective organized play programs.
  • Made arrangements to carry Pathfinder products onsite.
  • Sourced some other items, including some pretty cool polyhedral dice customized for Ravenwood Castle.
  • Made tentative arrangements with at least one game company to have them visit and demo their products.
  • Established the connections we needed for our first Gaming Getaway weekend, which we hope to be announcing soon.
  • Acquired a stack of new games for the Games Library.

Sadly, we failed in our quest to track down Wil Wheaton and browbeat him into filming his next episode of TableTop at Ravenwood.

Or did we?

Spoiler:

Yes, yes we did.

Fail, that is.

But there's always next year.

Teneman wrote:

Sadly, we failed in our quest to track down Wil Wheaton and browbeat him into filming his next episode of TableTop at Ravenwood.

AFAIK they filmed a ton of Tabletops pretty much at once, so I expect given his schedule it will be a bit before they do more...

Still, it would be cool.

Also, you would probably need to fly Wil, his game players and the production crew to Ohio. I doubt Geek & Sundry shows have much of a budget for location shoots.

Teneman wrote:
  • Made the appropriate connections within both Paizo and Wizards of the Coast to become affiliated with their respective organized play programs.
  • Made arrangements to carry Pathfinder products onsite.
  • Sourced some other items, including some pretty cool polyhedral dice customized for Ravenwood Castle.
  • Made tentative arrangements with at least one game company to have them visit and demo their products.

Will any of these be ready in time for PenCon? I've got moniez; why won't you take my moniez!?

I'm hoping we'll have the Paizo stuff up by PenCon Tiger, depends on how quickly the wheels turn. If you have something specifically you're after, send me a PM and I'll make sure we get it in in our first order.

Out of sheer curiosity, and not at all as a form of market research, which of these dice sets do you guys prefer?

Opaque
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Borealis
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Mother of Pearl
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Nebula
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Phantom
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or Vortex
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Edit: It's not so much the colors that I'm asking about, as the style, the opacity/clarity.

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If that's the case, I like Nebula or Phantom.

Phantom!

MonoCheli wrote:

I love the slogan but you realize that if we use either the slogan or the graphic we are going to have to get flagons or we will be miss advertising.

I'm disappointed no one else caught this. I think you need to make a Miss Advertising sash that mono has to wear (either just for Pencon, or whenever you two discuss advertisements for Ravenwood).

Tied between Phantom and Vortex

I don't like Opaque at all and kind of don't like Borealis. I enjoy the rest of them, not sure my favorite.

Phantom and/or Vortex.

momgamer wrote:

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If that's the case, I like Nebula or Phantom.

Didn't mean to Tannhauser ya momgamer!

I'm looking at style at the moment. Unfortunately I'm likely to be able to carry only one color of whatever style we choose, at least initially.

I'm thinking Hot Pink. That will go best with MonoCheli's "Miss Advertising" sash.

I vote Nebula or Vortex.