#GenCon2015 Day2b: Wait? Who Are You?

Continuing...

Some of the best Drow costumes I've seen:

Walking down the hallway, I saw a guy wearing and OGRE shirt.  Him seeing my hat, we got to talking. When I mentioned that I supported Nihon, the lady w/ him asked "Wait? Who are you again?"  Turned out she was Jen Atkinson, Line Editor for OGRE at SJGames.

A very long wait at the Battletech simulators from  the old 'VirtualWorld' sites resulted in me getting my @ss kicked 5 ways to Sunday.  10th out of 13.  Ah well.  It's been 20 yrs since I've done it.  Then up to a screening of Gamers3: Hands of Fate introduced by Carol Roscoe, Brian Lewis and Steven Wolbrecht. and a photo of me w/ Ben Dobyns.

I had to skip out on the end because it was running late and I had a ticket for the premier of Chaldea: War Room, an up-coming web series.    The art and production were very good and the story was entertaining. Definitely worth a watch when it comes online.  I got the DVD since I had a ticket and the spawnlings watched it first thing when I got home.  "This is really good' and 'This is exciting' were two comments.

After the showing I went back to the room to collapse.  Even at 1am, things were hopping:

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#GenCon 2015 Day 2a: Swag & Autographs

Have spent most of the day in the Vendor's Hall, wandering around, getting autographs, picking up 'needs' and a few 'wants', and chatting w/ as many people as possible.

 Kevin Siembieda from Palladium books.  Spend quite awhile talking with him about systems, players, GM'ing, trolls, etc.  he did answer one burning question for me.  W/ the 'Earth Defenders' minis coming out, I asked him why he went w/ the T-55 tank instead of the more modern T-72 or T-90.  His response?  Because it looked the coolest.    Works for me.

The KS/Con exclusives assembled and mostly painted.  They are really nice minis.

Jolly Blackburn of Kenzerco w/ my signed copy of the 25th Anniv. of KODT. I asked him if there was any more in the drama over the KODT Live Action and he told me the KS organizer has 'gone silent'.

And my gamers/Zombie Orpheus Entertainment bonanza:

 Maggie Ferguson-Wagstaffe from Gemers Live and Sarah Sanders-Ode from House Rulez

 Christian Doyle and Steve Wolbrecht w/ a special message for a friend.

Carol Roscoe, Brian Lewis, Nathan Rice, Steven Wolbrecht, Christian Doyle.

From Steve Jackson Games:

I got a personal demo of the OGRE card game prototype which is being finalized now.  This is going to be one of my purchases when it hits the shelves.

 Phil Reed and Andrew Hackard

Howard Taylor drawing in Schlock Mercenary #11

 John Kovalic signing the T-shirt verboten at the local elementary school:

Swag:

some Cosplay:

More after I get some food in me and my feet stop hurting as much.

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GenCon2015 Day 1: YOUR Bell Sucks!!

I have arrived.  Made good time on the road but almost forgot about the time difference again. A quick refresher shower and some organization then a short trip to the floor before one of two main events for the evening.

With only a little while, two tables were closest to the door.

The Chaldea booth w/ Jen Page (I have tickets for tomorrow night):

And the guys from Dog Might Games.  Makes of some sweet wood gaming accessories:

 I picked up that monocromatic blue beauty in the middle.  More pics later.

 We chatted for a bitbefore I had to run off and get in line for Gamers Live: Curse of the Blind Swordsman.  The title of the post is a reference to a line in it.  It was fully videoed w/ sound effects and crowd participation.  A few very short clips from it:

 Couldn't get my camera to take any decent pics w/o flash so I did these instead. Next up is the 'Late Night Puppet Slam' which I went to last year and had an absolute blast at.  I'll update later w/ hopefully some more video.

Update:  Only a little video.  They didn't allow video or pics so I shut it off.  Honestly I was really disappointed in the show this year.  Nowhere near as entertaining as last year and they threw in a bunch of politics. Really soured the evening.  Short clip before I shut the camera off.

Some pics of my new dice tower:

Really nice woodworking, paint, and felting.  The drawbridge is removable and stays in place using a few small magnets as shown above. I'm looking forward to breaking this in at the next game session.

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A Package Full Of Gamer Hate

Just in time to hand them out at GenCon

I only had 5 left of my original order from years ago, three of which autographed.  At least one of which is promised to try and divert my painter friend from his evil hobby. I went to look to see if they were still in print.  Lo and behold they were.

Today in the mail I received an envelope w/ this return address:

My true gamer friends now probably have confirmed their suspicions of what I'm talking about.

I opened the envelope and true joy fell out. THE holy grail of 80's era gamer hatred.  Of course I'm speaking of:

DARK DUNGEONS

Yes, 100 brand new copies although they are subtly different from the 2nd ed. ones (yeah, I did that intentionally) that were the same as 1st Ed. w/ the exception of removing references to Tolkein and C.S. Lewis as occult figures.

If you have never read or heard of 'Dark Dungeons' before, that means that #1, you don't read my site often enough, and #2, that you absolutely must. Here is the first panel:




Then go here and read the rest. As a friendly warning, do NOT be drinking anything while you're reading it.

They also have made a movie of it which is insanely true to the comic.  Here's the trailer:



Then go here and buy the digital full version.  It is entirely worth it, especially if you watch it w/ subtitles on.

Methinks this weekend is going to be a little Gamer history lesson for the spawnlings as well as some presents to my regular group.