Tag: Gen Con
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Shadow Scar – Never Mind The UFO, What About The Taxmen?
This is a game where the secretive Shadow Scar Detective Agency tries to keep multiple universes free of the malign influences of Demonic Yokai. It is extremely Anime. I played a one-hour demo of it last year, and enjoyed it, so decided to try a longer scenario. As it turns out, after a quick table-swap…
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Numenera – Worst In Show
On the face of it, this should have been a good game. Highly imaginative setting, game being run by someone picked by the game company in that game company’s space. But it was easily the worst game of the convention for me; Not completely bad, but not up to the same level as everything else.…
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Brancalonia – An Entertaining Disaster
I first found out about this “spaghetti fantasy” setting for D&D a few years ago, the day after Gen Con, when I found a flyer for it in the hallway of the ICC, run over by one of the little carts they use to get around. It’s carefully pasted into my diary of the time.…
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The Last Caravan – Best In Show
This is a “Cars & Aliens” roadtrip RPG; Aliens arrived, fighting broke out, the alien ship exploded for reasons nobody seems to know, and everything is just a bit messed up now. It has the role/playbook approach you see in a lot of PBTA systems, but isn’t one itself – I was playing the Bandage,…
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The Crooked Moon – Somehow, the Ghostlight Express is less creepy than The Polar Express
This was something we spotted last year, mostly because of the artwork, and decided that it could be our “everyone plays this” game for the year. (Our group filled the table, which was a relief because I’ve been That One Guy at a table where everyone else is a group of friends, and it can…
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Warhammer Painting Experience – The Games Workshop Outreach Program
One of the events I did was a one hour Paint And Take thing where they gave us a miniature with a base coat, some supplies, and someone to explain a few techniques and otherwise be enthusiastic and friendly while we blobbed paint around. It was a free event, though they did have tickets as…
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Journey To The West, Part One
I did most of my packing the day before, so that the day would be easier. Before any of the travel stuff, I went out & got myself breakfast, because that seemed like a good idea, and it meant that I wouldn’t need to lug the suitcase into a cafe or something. After approximately a…
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Gen Con Events
Day 1 / Thursday Off and On Again A ComEx transport has gone offline and needs a hard reboot before Carbon Reaver pirates find it. You’ll be egocast direct to the ship. Should be smooth sailing, right? A short intro scenario. Game System:Eclipse Phase I’ve played the Fate version of Eclipse Phase once before, but…
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Gen Con 2026: The Endless Spinning
The title eventually makes sense; Don’t worry about it for now. The first Gen Con thing of the year for me happened this weekend, when convention badges¹ went on sale & hotel rooms² became available. I get a special badge for special people who spend too much money on their badge because it comes with…
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Gen Con Sunday – A Gentle Rain on Our Brilliant Ruin
This was my earliest event of the con, at 9am, and it was a bit of a struggle. This doesn’t speak well for my transition back into working life. In previous years I’ve done early morning podcast recordings, or 5k runs, though at this particular moment I’m not sure how. The game that Tom &…