Unigames Committee Meeting #14 - 05/06/2023

tags: committee meeting 2023

Attending

• Jackie
• Gibbi
• Josh
• David
• Connor
• Gen
• Chris
• Hannah
• Oscar

Apologies

• James
• Emerald

Absent

Meeting scheduled: 3:00PM

Meeting open: 3:22PM

Reports:

President's Report (Jackie):

• unredacted the re-redacted and can think about non-camp finally now
  • please buy camp tickets (idk what emojis these were supposed to be)
• reminded emerald about ball save the date stuff
• ran chill painting day & unigames goes to panto's GYAD (good times had)
• for those curious, i'm still in fob smfsd lockdown

Vice President's Report (Gibbi):

• Hi Josh, hows it going
• Ive definitely written my report
• Precon announcement up
• LOTR announcement going up now
  • not as good as mh2 probably
• Oh boy I wish I had watched my lectures
• Dragged half the club into omegastrikers

Treasurer's Report (Connyah):

• sniffles (probably), readjusted camp budget with jackie, camp is back on the menu!
• was the first person gibbi dragged into his addiction (i’ve escaped)
• Account Balance: $2545.89

Secretary's Report (Josh):

• Hyped for LotR prerelease
• Sorted some mini's out and fixed some up, as well as did some paintin'
• Heyyyyyy Emerald :)
• Heyyyyyy Gibbi :)
• Newsletter out after my exams.

Librarian's Report (David):

• book buy research any% speedrun
• painted a colossal dread lizard
• IGOWALLAH (skrrt)
• COME ON ENGERLAND (score some cores)
• bought camp ticket (AND EVERYONE ELSE YOU SHOULD BUY YOURS)

Fresher Rep's Report (Gen):

• Went to painting mini event!!
  • painted a lovely headless lesbian orc >>>
• pink hair era (exciting)

Reports de la OCM (Chris, Hannah, James, Oscar):

• Chris:
  • auuuggghhh (nothing to re🅱️ort)
  • Also fell into the Omegastrikers train
• Hannah:
  • hnnnnnn examsssss
  • i have not socialized except for making feijoada yesterday
  • also militarism and imperialism haunts me in every historical time period
• James:
  • Jackie did not do an accent (physically cannot)
  • I am not at the meeting
  • I wish I was
  • I really wish I was
  • Anyway, was at the painting day at the end while people went to SocPac, everyone seemed to have fun
• Oscar:
  • Went to painting day; was a lot of people there, but very fun
  • Just bought my camp ticket
    • If you haven't you should.

Immediate Past President's Report (Emerald):

• Emerald has attended: ==9/15 (60% WR)== Meeting
  • hi boys~
  • apologies book buy gamers, you know I love a book buy
  • unfortunately I’m going on a date with Michael Bublé and my mum decided being 5 hours early is an appropriate amount of time to park and get dinner before a show
  • please double root buy its soooo deserved at this point I feel like the oracle at Delphi at this point saying “we should buy two” and then we do the opposite
  • GOOD LUCK WITH EXAMS EVERYONE! Remember: Removing the label from watermelon Gatorade makes it a legal drink for an in person exam

Past action Items:

Action Items:

Jackie:

• Get back to GM's for Warhammer RPG Night - Done

• Print off infopacks and poster - Doneish (infopacks not done because UCC problems)

• (with Connor) Camp budget 2 (Please Do) - Done

• Speedrun EMP for camp + Admin - Done

• Give links out for subcom discords - Done

• Message webkeepers about large scale borrowing issues. - Done

Ethan:

• Make quick play Guide - Long term in progress

• Commander Precon League Announcement - Done

• LotR pre-release Announcement - Done

• Message committee about deck boxes - Not Done

Connor:

• (with Jackie) Camp budget 2 (Please Do) - Done

David:

• Book buy research - Done

Emerald:

• Send out a Save The Date for 40th Anniversary - Not Done

• Mailing list for 40th - Done

ALL:

• Certificates for Camp - Not Done

Usual Suspects

Board Games

Camp Boardgames - Week of the 26th

• Not at camp
• Theme can be based off Jocks & Jokers or names starting with J
• 20 days or so
• Will organise later

RPGs

Warhammer RPG Night - Post-Exams

• Will be getting a day this week
• Reconnect with the old people
  • Cam - Down
  • Winslade - Down
  • Lewis - Happy to be back up
    • Suggested Imperium Maledictum
  • Jack - Seems Down

    Jackie: Warhammer RPG Night EMP

TCGs

Magic: The Gavining

• There will be a quick play guide for Otharri in the next week or so or so or so or so or so or so

  Gibbi: Make Quickplay Guide

Booster Box buying Bhenanigans

• halfway through last booster box
• Holding off on buying LOTR booster boxes until we see how the set is received

Commander Precon League - Every Thursday starting 22nd of June

• Announcement up
• Forum is up
• Its looking pretty good
• People seem excited
• It's Commanding time

LOTR Prerelease - 18/06/23

• Announcement going up now
• Pricing has been weird, will talk to Jason
• Ticket pricing will be $70
  • We will breakeven on this event

Wargaming

Painting Day & Chill - Tuesday 30/05/23 12pm

• Good attendance
• Very hype
• 10-12 throughout the day
• People like painting days

Fresher Campaigns

• seem to be alive
• will vibe check after exams

Charity Vigil - 14/04/2023 - 15/04/2023

• In progress

Unigames goes: Panto - Friday 02/06/23

• Happened, 4 attendees including Jackie
• Good time
• Jackie enjoyed it
• not as good as murder! at the circus

Unigames Camp 2023 - 30/06/2023 - 3/07/2023

• Tickets are now available!
• Early bird available before 17th of June
• Purchase with cash in the clubroom
  • if you are unable to make it to the whole camp, or cannot come to the club in person, please message a member of committee
• We will need to put up borrowing restrictions soon
• Carpool thread is up
• Will need to ask in the future about materials we may need to bring for oneshots
• Hannah has been stolen by Germany
• Committee will replace the roster positions for her

• Everyone: Certificates for Camp

Far Future Events

Joint [Redacted] 2023

• Jackie - Knowledge Bearer
• Gen
• Connor
• Subcom discord has been made

Role Play 4 LYFE - 2nd-3rd of September

• Gen
• David

Quiz Night - ???

• Lightmittee
  • Gibbi
• Darkmittee
  • Chris
• Might try to find a good date after exams

Relay4Lyfe

• Josh
• James Secret Captain
  • (he will be Captain for UniHall or smth)

Uncharity Vigil

• James
• Gibbi

Reimbursements:

• Approved
• Pending
  • $548.80 to Jackie for Rood Fun
• Unsubmitted

Guild:

Tenancy

• Consultation - Tuesday 13th of June 5pm
• Busy Bee - Tuesday 13th of June 3pm

Grants

• Posters for can hall will be done soon (people will be less busy)
• Semester grants are also due (16/06 11:59PM)

SOCPAC - Tuesday 30/05/23 6pm

• Josh's Notes
  • Cultural Awareness seminar coming up, if anyone is interested I can send you the link
  • SLT Training coming up, if anyone is interested I can send you the link
  • $1000 free money for the club opportunity?
    • We would need to assemble a lot of people, 60 odd
    • Basically people will need to eat meat/seafood to participate
  • Sem 2 club carnival - Tuesday 8 August 2023
    • Register by 11:59pm Friday 28th of July
  • Tenancy Consultation
    • Tuesday 13th of June 5pm
  • Busy Bee
    • Tuesday 13th of June 3pm

Jackie: Talk to river about meat/seafood testing opportunity

General Business:

Custom Playmats

• 1 to go ;-; please come get it if it is yours PWEASE PWEASEEEEE PLEASEEEEEEEE I STG WAAAA AAAAAA REEEEE am done pleading. Come and get it "bucko". pwease. Pretty please. Gibbi is trying his best. Gibbi is done trying...

Westmarche 2

• Gibbi has a clip
  • "WoooOOOOOooOO" - David

40th Anniversary - Octoberish

• Mailing list has been created
  • Emerald wants to test it before sending out the save the date

Emerald: Send out a Save The Date for 40th Anniversary

Gatekeepers

• No new Gatekeepers

Webkeepers

• No new Webkeepers

Room Update

Hole

• :hole:
• Under the "President's" chair, a floorboard seems to have broken under one of the carpet tiles
• We have already messaged Guild/Kelvin about this
• Just don't put your weight on the concave part
• be smart
• Mandatory Committee Hole Inspection after meeting

New Kallax

• Nupdates

New Printed Banner and Table Cloth

• Table cloth for club carnival trestle tables.
• Would be cute
• Sort of in the same vein as the banner
• Kids do not like naked table (It is so white)
• No updates on printed banner

Library

Book Buy

• IT IS BOOK BUYING TIME
• If your suggestion is not on the below list, it may have been submitted previously, and not accepted. If you have any questions, message David our Librarian
• Games we actually got:
  • Bang!
  • Busy Beaks
  • Codenames: Pictures
  • Just One
  • Root: The Underworld Expansion
  • Mothership (Sci-Fi Horror RPG)
• Thoughts from the meeting:
  • Root: The Underworld Expansion
    • sneaky (terrorist?) birds and mole men, plus 2 dlc maps
    • There are two maps (two games of root can happen at the same time.)
    • Club interest
    • Root price tag :/
  • Root: The Marauder Expansion
    • (fort) knight badgers and warlord rats. also mini faction mans???
    • New factions
    • Club interest
    • Root price tag :/ but slightly cheaper
    • Hirelings are sort of mid
  • Root: The Clockwork Expansion
    • root, but if you are friendless and lonely (ai factions)
    • you get bots, yeah
    • so mid
  • The Quacks of Quedlinburg
    • potion brewing, luck pushing, gambling, and maybe death!
    • pretty game
    • bags bad sometimes
    • $120???
    • IT IS ABSOLUTELY HUGE (in shelf space)
  • Busy Beaks
    • engine building aussie bird card game! like wingspan but mtg.
    • Better than its competitors (sushi go-likes)
  • Just One
    • communal codenames: find clues, guess words, try to score 13!
    • "Bit of a shitpost"
    • Small box
    • cheap
    • fun
    • yippee
  • Codenames: Pictures
    • codenames but pictures (hope y'all are enjoying book buy meeting)
    • Jackie very much endorses.
    • Its a bit like dixit
    • It's a bit like guess who
    • Unique enough ig
  • Blood on the Clocktower
    • drop in/out team-based bluffing game. so many scenarios...
    • more complex werewolf
    • Gen: Werewolf but everyone has a role and get info and a bunch more complex and some are fun and some are evil its very much a "drama" kids game. It is really dependent on the storyteller. If they don't know what they are doing it will not be fun. Games vary a lot in time. Highly variable.
    • People are interested.
    • It is huge
    • It is expensive
  • Breaking Bad: The Board Game
    • and then Walter White said: JESSE WE NEED TO COOK
    • it sure is breaking bad the board game
    • player elimination in long form game is kinda cringe
    • limited availability
    • there are gun fights
    • gives tingleverse vibes (meme funny haha)
    • "Not the best use of our money"
  • Scribbly Gum
    • casual randomised moth larvae line drawing. erasable markers sold separately!
    • Tayu/tsuro core
    • "back of the cereal box core kinda?"
  • BANG! (Card Game)
    • love letter + colt express secret role spaghetti western. yee haw!
    • high player count
    • strong western theming
    • bit difficult
    • can be sad if you get ewiminated
  • Skulls (Skulls & Roses)
    • bluffin time! skulls? roses? who knows? pick them up (maybe).
    • easy
    • tom scott played it
    • lots of club interest
    • latin american vibes, very cool
    • pro-culture, diversity is good
    • can be very dumb but also very intelligent core
    • certified not cultural-appropriation
  • Mothership: Player's Survival Guide
    • A rules-lite, pick up and play, high stakes sci-fi horror RPG.
    • Popular amongst us
    • How is this the only flippin' RPG?

Card Sleeving

David: Research sleeving Boardgames - This action item exists only to make David look bad - (Jokes aside this is part of a long term card sleeving project that is dependant largely on card sleeve supplies)

Library System

• Have contacted Donald about large scale borrowing issues, will be fixed soon

Food runs

• We can think about this after exams

Webkeeping

• Mailing system can be discussed after Gozz PhD

Committee Business

• Panadol is out of date in medkit
  • "Just get some on food run" Said Jackie
  • she lied
    • "I will get some on the way in to uni sometime"
    • She has lied again
      • "I will be in the city tomorrow"
• Gibbi: we getting there I prommy

  Jackie: Get Panadol Gibbi: Message committee about deck boxes

Meeting closed: 4:05 PM