{"id":3442,"date":"2022-08-04T14:38:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T13:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2026-08-15T20:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:44:18","slug":"4-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=3442","title":{"rendered":"4\/8 – Tales From The Floating Vagabond & Crossroads Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve given up on figuring out how the JW assigns people to tables for breakfast. I got a 6-8 seater to myself, having been walked past a few two-seaters, and I was in a section which maybe wasn’t assigned to anyone, as it had no silverware, glasses, coffee cups, …
These things eventually happened, piecemeal, over the course of the meal, though I did go and ask someone in a neighboring section for silverware.

The Exhibit\/Vendor hall Running Of The Nerds was entirely over by ten minutes after opening, when I got there, so I was able to grab the all-important souvenir dice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tales from the Floating Vagabond.
It was … OK.
The GM hadn’t run the thing since the 90s, and it was his first time GMing at Gen Con, so he did pretty well. There were only three players; me, Frank, and one other guy who was making a hobby of sticking polyhedral dice with magnets on them to stuff scattered around the con.
That said, game was done in 2 hours, and that included making up our character. I think I actually made one skill check or dice roll during the game, to pretend to enjoy a terrible beer. Probably goes longer if there are more players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Somewhere along the line the VIG Swag arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crossroads Carnival.
That was awesome; carnival sideshow freaks try to save people from the encroaching darkness in dustbowl America.
I had the Dog Faced, and we had a Geek, a Snake Charmer, and a Fortune Teller, trying to save a town a few days away from falling into darkness .
The game isn’t out yet, but I can see myself picking it up.
Also, the words Creature & Preacher sound very similar through a mask, which caused confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The VIG Mixer.
Big space, crowded with people. Folks seemed to be having a good time?
I left pretty early because of an early start, but also because of crowd & noise issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did a lot of walking this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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