{"id":3996,"date":"2023-08-06T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2023-08-13T21:56:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T20:56:45","slug":"sunday-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=3996","title":{"rendered":"Sunday: Day 4 :: Urban Shadows & The Hall Of Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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 <\/em>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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s a con game, so a lot of stuff doesn’t come up, but I kind of liked the idea that this is someone who was killed (eventually) in a hit and run on their way back from the gym sometime in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They were four of us at the table, plus the GM, and in a Gen Con first for me I was the only male player. The GM was maybe another professional GM, or maybe a producer of stuff, I’m not certain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He had little bottles of water, and also a dicebag of m&ms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was a four hour block, but we finished in 2 hours, which I don’t think anyone was mad about; It’s a Sunday, and energy is flagging at that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We didn’t so much hurry through the scenario as come up with a plan that sort of bypassed a chunk of it. The Fae Court were planning to make a power play to de-power the Werewolves by essentially silver-coating ancestral remains & sowing wolfsbane all around the site. Our plan was to swap out the remains for a different skeleton (cashed in a debt from a vampire for that one) and substitute a similar plant for the wolfsbane, then just let the Fae Court waste their time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worked pretty well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’d been going back & forth on getting dice for the Avatar Legends game; They’re pretty, and thematic, but I don’t need them. Then again, that could be said for all of my purchases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea I’d come to, after some mild enablement from Frank, was that if the Magpie Games Avatar Legends room (they had a room in the ICC done up a bit like a teahouse, and were running demos and selling stuff in there) was still open after my Urban Shadows game, I’d get the dice, and if not, then so be it; I’d not go visit their booth in the Exhibit Hall. Well, it was still open, so I got the dice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a dicebag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because I have poor sales resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These next bits are things I saw in the Exhibit\/Dealer\/Vendor Hall that looked interesting enough that I wanted to make a note of them. And a few “look at the cool banner” pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[28,85,86],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gencon","tag-gen-con","tag-powered-by-the-apocalypse","tag-urban-shadows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-12s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4044,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/4044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}