Ran this as a playtest with 4 players are my house. It went very well and prepared me some for MACE West. However, I could not ask for two more totally different outcomes.
Category: Cons
Sci-fi & Gaming Cons
Star Trek: Ascendancy (MACE 2017)
This is the first time I played this game with the new expansions. Both were played with a 4 player game, leaving the Romulans out. I think most of the players played conservatively at the beginning. That tends to make the game go longer. I was the Feds and I purposely tried to always find…
Man in the Moon 2: Ice Station Schatzgräber (MACE 2017)
My Savage Blood & Suns game at MACE 2017. Ice Station Schatzgräber. The crafts included the ruined New York City block (New York was nuked in 1942 in this timeline), the initiative Savage Skulls in use, and the pièce de résistance – the Ice Station V2 Launch Bay where the final battle occurred. A two table…
Shatterzone: Xenos Alpha (MACE 2017)
Some crafts I used in my Shatterzone RPG at MACE 2017 – billowing fires (explosions), and body markers. Inspired by many crafts from here. This game went well but took too long. I decided to do a random encounter en-route from Point A to point B and while fun, it took too long. I did…
My MACE 2017 Schedule
Fri 8 pm – 12 am: Shatterzone Xenos Alpha I play tested this at RonCon. I am not sure how well this is going to go. I never ran SZ at a Con because of its complexities. I am going to try my best to nail those down and avoid book diving, but it may be…
Managing Gaming at a Convention, Part 1: Intro
Post-That Con (ConCarolinas) feedback
So we got feedback from That Con because they like to do surveys and all that. While I am sure they have more than enough to deal with on the fandom end, by statistics, we did fine. Out of 66 respondents, about 3 were rather scathing and hurtful. So, cathartically, I am posting them here. It is a realization that if my work with That Con is going to continue, I have to really look inside myself and figure out what is going on. Is it burnout? Or is it something else? Can it change?
4 years of almost nothing should say something…
In the case of ConGregate, I am either a big failure or circumstances surrounding the convention are not conducive to a success gaming track. Three of those four years, I gave it everything I could give. It was like squeezing water out of a rock. GMs would not sign up, thus games were not on…
Necropolis (ConCarolinas 2017)
SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu 7e Another one of the canned adventures by Chaosium for the summer convention season, Necropolis is a short introductions adventure with a simple premise and straightforward purpose. It is meant to help the players get used to the new aspect of 7th edition Call of Cthulhu. Again, it is nice to have…
The Dreaming Ward (ConCarolinas 2017)
SYSTEM: Call of Cthulhu 7e Chaosium released a few free adventures for the summer con season and I decided to run some of those. Key word is that these are free. You get what you pay for. Although they are complete adventures thankfully all with pregenerated characters, they are … let’s just say… a little…