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Gencon from awesome to suck.
Aug. 21st, 2008 | 05:54 pm
My first attended roleplaying con is officially over. Four days of gaming ten to twelve hours a day, each day waking up earlier than I do to go to work. Tis crazy, but overall worth it. Got to play a bunch of systems I hadn't tried and here's how the games stacked up.
1. Buffy. What can I say, without a doubt the funnest game I played there. Definitely helped by a great group and flexible GM. Playing the bratty teenage Slayer Mae was a blast. Stealing a car from a priest, telling your mother your watcher/teacher wants to molest you, having your boyfriend try to convince your mom you're on drugs, riffing with another player on a continual series of witty puttdowns for the watcher from her majesty's island. Good times all around.
2. Savage Worlds. For the most part this was a fairly straighforward Vietnam War shoot-em-up. But little touches of the system, like the flaw that made me charge down a blind hall when I heard a woman scream for help, made this game soar. Each of our soldiers had a sense of character that elevated this above rolling dice.
3. DnD Silent Tide. Compelling modules, even for low level characters, can be written well. It especially helps to have an excellent DM who can give the NPCs unique and believable voices. My hats off to her, as immersion wise, she was the best game runner of the bunch we had over the four days.
4. Cyberpunk. Not so simple snatch and grab. Got to hollow some people out with a barrett sniper rifle so you can't beat that. Overall, most impressive bit was the open ended nature of this scenario. We had the mission to grab an asset alive at a high security hotel conference. I felt confidant the GM would have played the game well no matter how we approached the mission.
5 and so on. Mostly a bunch of hit and miss stuff not worth mentioning. If you like games, roleplaying or board or anime, I would suggest going to a con at least once. Definitely an experience.
1. Buffy. What can I say, without a doubt the funnest game I played there. Definitely helped by a great group and flexible GM. Playing the bratty teenage Slayer Mae was a blast. Stealing a car from a priest, telling your mother your watcher/teacher wants to molest you, having your boyfriend try to convince your mom you're on drugs, riffing with another player on a continual series of witty puttdowns for the watcher from her majesty's island. Good times all around.
2. Savage Worlds. For the most part this was a fairly straighforward Vietnam War shoot-em-up. But little touches of the system, like the flaw that made me charge down a blind hall when I heard a woman scream for help, made this game soar. Each of our soldiers had a sense of character that elevated this above rolling dice.
3. DnD Silent Tide. Compelling modules, even for low level characters, can be written well. It especially helps to have an excellent DM who can give the NPCs unique and believable voices. My hats off to her, as immersion wise, she was the best game runner of the bunch we had over the four days.
4. Cyberpunk. Not so simple snatch and grab. Got to hollow some people out with a barrett sniper rifle so you can't beat that. Overall, most impressive bit was the open ended nature of this scenario. We had the mission to grab an asset alive at a high security hotel conference. I felt confidant the GM would have played the game well no matter how we approached the mission.
5 and so on. Mostly a bunch of hit and miss stuff not worth mentioning. If you like games, roleplaying or board or anime, I would suggest going to a con at least once. Definitely an experience.
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Oh, the nerdfest is coming.
Aug. 9th, 2008 | 10:10 pm
So, I'm back in Illinois and Michigan this week visiting family. Going to see my last remaining grandparent and play the "do you remember me" game. The last time my parents and sister came out to visit, my grandmother hit on my dad, that being her son. I believe it was traumatizing for all parties involved.
Anyway, should be interesting and strange at the same time so big thumbs for that. Later this week, I will be attending my first roleplaying game convention. Please feel free to step back with appropriate awe. I went to a general con once when I was a teenager for a few hours at around 2 in the morning. I was not impressed.
However, I'm much more looking forward to this one, even if Anne Bowman won't be making it out ;). For one thing I'll get to play Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yes, for those who are unaware, Buffy actually has a roleplaying game based on it. I will be some kind of whitehat investigating the hellmouth in Cleveland. Even if it sucks it's going to rule!
In fact it will be wall to wall super dork funtime hour for four days straight. With any luck it will hark back the summer I spent after senior year, gaming with my buds in a friend's basement before having to run our separate ways off to college. Since it's those same high school buds I'll be meeting there it should all fit together quite nicely.
Anyway, should be interesting and strange at the same time so big thumbs for that. Later this week, I will be attending my first roleplaying game convention. Please feel free to step back with appropriate awe. I went to a general con once when I was a teenager for a few hours at around 2 in the morning. I was not impressed.
However, I'm much more looking forward to this one, even if Anne Bowman won't be making it out ;). For one thing I'll get to play Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yes, for those who are unaware, Buffy actually has a roleplaying game based on it. I will be some kind of whitehat investigating the hellmouth in Cleveland. Even if it sucks it's going to rule!
In fact it will be wall to wall super dork funtime hour for four days straight. With any luck it will hark back the summer I spent after senior year, gaming with my buds in a friend's basement before having to run our separate ways off to college. Since it's those same high school buds I'll be meeting there it should all fit together quite nicely.