The down side is that I didn’t get into any of the games
that I had wanted. In fact, I didn’t
even get into games in the genres that I had wanted. This year it was my intent to avoid high
fantasy as much as possible, and aim for supers, sci-fi, and maybe some
modern/spy. That meant no D&D or any
of its clones or direct competitors. In
this, I had a 90% failure rate.
The five games I got into are a D&D 3.5 game, an
AD&D 2E game, a Dungeon Crawl Classics game, an Empire of the Petal Throne
game, and a Castles & Crusades game.
The only thing that keeps my stated goal from being a 100% failure is
that the DCC game is actually a post-apocalypse game in a world that I believe
is based on the world of Thundarr the Barbarian (“Under the Broken Moon”). Which is actually pretty awesome, honestly.
I blame Gary Con’s registration system. It’s kind of clunky and unwieldy to begin
with. And when you add to that the fact
that it obviously didn’t like my iPad…well, at one point I got pissed and
rage-quit. It didn’t help that I was
trying (unsuccessfully) to watch Agent Carter during the time. And finally, there was the expected rush on
registrations, so the servers were pretty bogged down the whole time.
But, I am trying to stay positive about it. And really, that’s not too difficult. All of the games I got into sound pretty
cool. The Petal Throne game is a nice
throwback to the origins of the hobby.
And I know of at least one of my friends who will be in a game with
me. Sadly, my wife and I have no games together. But, we’re cool with
that. It just means we’ll have more
stories to tell each other afterwards.
I’m thinking about ordering some print copies of Mutants & Marvels to sell, if anyone is interested. I might also get a T-shirt made from the cover image. You just never know. Either way, I’ll probably still do the T-shirt, simply because I like the design.
So, anyone else going to Gary Con?
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