If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
I’m thinking some kind of subscription-model gaming cafe. It’d probably only make sense in a place where housing is sufficiently small that gaming space is at a premium, so that it’d make sense to book a space somewhere.
Bonus if you could do a deal with local food places for delivery or “we’ll message when it’s ready” pickup.
Walk to the JW, Taxi to the Airport, Flight to Chicago, Airport Transit to T5, Long-Ass line for Security, Flight to Dublin, Flight to Heathrow, Train into Paddington, Tube to Marylebone, Train to Princes Risborough, Rail Replacement Bus to Aylesbury, Walk to the Travelodge.
Gave myself plenty of time with an afternoon flight so I was able to take a leisurely breakfast at Cafe Patachou, wander around the almost entirely Gen Con free convention center, and check out a smidge before noon. Patachou isn’t so much a tradition for me as it is a very nice, chill place to have breakfast. It’s absolutely rammed during Gen Con, so I like to visit when it’s quiet, and I can mooch back & forth to the coffee, take my time, and know that I’m not taking up a table they could be filling with more patrons.
Continue readingOnce they start packing up Gen Con, it happens really quickly. By Monday morning, after I’d packed the suitcase & checked out, there were signs in various stages of dismantlement, most of the Gaming Hall was clear, and the Exhibit Hall was a mass of boxes and people packing up their stuff.
I normally stay an extra day at the end of the convention just so that I’m not immediately packing up and leaving. Usually I’m able to stay at the same hotel, but in this case the price shot up as soon as the convention block ended, so I switched to a different hotel in the same city block which was about half the price for that one night. (I’d already booked the flights)
Urban Shadows again. This time I went for something about as far from ‘normal person’ as possible, and played a ghost. I feel like I got the game more this time, the idea of using the influence of your group, the trading of debts to get things done, that sort of thing
Urban Shadows is a game I’d heard of, but never played, and was down in the unfashionable “these will never come up” tail end of my event wishlist.
Well, it did, and after some misgivings during the game, I’m glad it did.
Urban Shadows is political urban fantasy, so there’s a lot going on with debts owed & owing, the power+influence of your circle/group, that sort of thing.
The Orc Stomp is a 5k allegedly fun run, which I, and a fair number of others, walk. I did it with Mini & Frank a few years back, found that I oddly enjoyed it, and so kept doing it; There’s a charity element, so I can pretend that it’s not completely about me, and because it’s exercise I can also pretend that it offsets some of the terrible dietary decisions I’m no doubt going to make, or may have already made, during the con.
Continue readingFirst up was Rapscallion; I’d never heard of this game prior to the event wishlist process, and I’m so very glad that I spotted it, because it was my standout game of the Con.
Looking at the various documentation I have for events, I must have spotted it while looking for things to fill it out the tail end of my wish list. Presumably I was looking through events by Magpie Games, or maybe games that were Powered By The Apocalypse or Forged In The Dark.
Went to the Newfields Art Museum with Tom, where there was a multimedia Van Gogh exhibition;
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