RinCon Report: Friday
My original plan was to use Twitter to report from the gaming convention, and then let Twitter Tools (a WordPress plugin) compile them into a daily digest. Unfortunately, Twitter sort of freaked out today and was delaying tweets, causing them to appear out of chronological order. Pretty annoying, and useless for my intended purpose. So, here’s a quick overview, with more detailed reports and reviews in the coming week.
All of the usual SAGA suspects were there: the lovely and talented ThomasD, Don and Derek of Pulp Gamer, Ron Blessing of The Game’s The Thing, and JDCorley among others. I met John Wick and got my autoographed copy of Houses of the Blooded, and I’m signed up to play in a session he’s running Saturday evening. Met some interesting people.
Played Primetime Adventures, which is always fun, and I’ll have a full report on that in a few days. In a place filled with people playing wizards and warriors and fantastic stuff like that, I played an unassuming, mild-mannered accountant. That’s how I roll, yo. It was a great character, and I had fun.
I was signed up to play Sundered Skies, a Savage Worlds setting, bit it was cancelled due to a lack of players (as an official demo, it required a minimum of 4 players). Other smaller games were folding for the same reason. the play was hopping during the day, but after about 6 p.m. folks bailed to go do Halloween stuff. The fractured tables reformed pretty muich exclusively around D&D and White Wolf games, or board games. The sad part was watching Rick Loomis of Flying Buffalo running a Tunnels & Trolls demo with only one player (note to self: if I ever climb out of this financial hole, but a copy of T&T for my “old grognard” shelf). I thought about joining the T&T game, but decided that fate was telling me to go home earlier than planned and get some extra rest. Saturday is gong to be off the hook.
I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing tomorrow. I’m signed up for Wick’s game in the evening, but during theday I’m still debating either Scion or Werewolf in the morning, or Werewolf or D&D in the afternoon. I don’t want to play Werewolf twice. nothing against the game, but I’m trying to play as many different things as possible. And no offense to D&D, but I’m leaning towards Scion. I know practically nothing about the game, but it looks like White Wolf’s riff on Unknown Armies and the plot of the adventure appeals to me.
Oh, and I should mention that I was invited to join in a seekrit playtest of an unreleased product on Sunday morning, for which I’ll be getting a playtest credit when the book is released. Sunday afternoon there’s a film noir mystery game that I’m looking to get in on.
Other odd notes: some folks have offered me some free swag, which I’ll review. Steve Jackson Games’ Men in black were supposed to be there, but I didn’t see them; maybe they’ll be in tomorrow. There were no GURPS games on the schedule, but there’s plenty of space and free tables for a pickup game. I’ve been taking tons of pictures, and the ones taken with my camera phone have been sent to Twitter and Twitpic. I’ll upload and link to the pics taken with the higher-resolution digital camera on Monday.
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