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Weekend report.
Oct. 24th, 2005 08:37 amI hope everything's ok.
Tactical Retreat was... ok. Then again, I'm not a miniatures player, so I don't really know how that part of it went. And it was a *big* part of the event.
I did get to play a neat RPG- Complete Mafia for d20 (and I did fairly well in it), Arkham Horror (LONG game based on Lovecraft, but it was cool), and "Oh my God! There's an Axe in my Head!" (by the people who did the Yamara comic for Dragon Magazine and are part of Aetherco games).
There's also a card game that I'm getting called Gloom. The cards are printed on clear plastic so you can see through them, the basis of the game is that you play modifiers on character cards and whichever modifiers can been seen "on top" are the active modifiers (even if it's a layer or two down but that modifier is not covered up by a card higher in the stack). And the artwork (and flavor text) is in Edward Gorey style.
I also got a good chance to talk with the organizers. They want to keep the con small, but they do want to get more role-players, and fantasy oriented people (including SCAdians) into the mix. I also offered my years of troll for SCAdian events to help with registration.
It's definitely a con with potential, as everyone gets more experience and the con matures.
Looking forward to future cons... Philcon (Decemeber 9-11 in Philly) is looking good. David Weber is going to be there (so if certain people decide not to come down with me, I can get books signed....). And there will be 3 LARP events during the weekend (1 new WOD vamp and 2 Call of Cuthulu- one 1890s and 1 1930s). Yay LARP....
Tactical Retreat was... ok. Then again, I'm not a miniatures player, so I don't really know how that part of it went. And it was a *big* part of the event.
I did get to play a neat RPG- Complete Mafia for d20 (and I did fairly well in it), Arkham Horror (LONG game based on Lovecraft, but it was cool), and "Oh my God! There's an Axe in my Head!" (by the people who did the Yamara comic for Dragon Magazine and are part of Aetherco games).
There's also a card game that I'm getting called Gloom. The cards are printed on clear plastic so you can see through them, the basis of the game is that you play modifiers on character cards and whichever modifiers can been seen "on top" are the active modifiers (even if it's a layer or two down but that modifier is not covered up by a card higher in the stack). And the artwork (and flavor text) is in Edward Gorey style.
I also got a good chance to talk with the organizers. They want to keep the con small, but they do want to get more role-players, and fantasy oriented people (including SCAdians) into the mix. I also offered my years of troll for SCAdian events to help with registration.
It's definitely a con with potential, as everyone gets more experience and the con matures.
Looking forward to future cons... Philcon (Decemeber 9-11 in Philly) is looking good. David Weber is going to be there (so if certain people decide not to come down with me, I can get books signed....). And there will be 3 LARP events during the weekend (1 new WOD vamp and 2 Call of Cuthulu- one 1890s and 1 1930s). Yay LARP....
