The five or so weeks from the start of September to the start of the October was an intense mini-con season for me with weekend long trips to Gateway 2011 in Los Angeles, Nerdly Beach Party VIII in San Simeon State Park and finally Big Bad Con in Oakland last weekend.

As with Nerdly, Colin, Andrew and I piled into Morgan's MAGNUM!!! and hit the 5 ( Read more... )

Earlier, I described the Nerdly Beach Party and the foodie peripherals. The ostensible reason for the weekend was the gaming. I say "ostensible" because the weekend is at least as much about hanging out with friends, as is most gaming anyway (on that note, cheers to all my gaming friends!).

BlowbackWe arrived at around 7, in time for a little ( Read more... )

My fall con season starts with Gateway (Strategicon) at LAX this weekend. Three weeks after that, I'll be at Nerdly Beach Party 8 in San Simeon State Park. Two weeks after that, I'll be attending Big Bad Con in Oakland. Event submission for Big Bad Con closes tomorrow, so I just submitted my games.

Tree of Souls (Dungeon World)
4 players, 4 hours ( Read more... )

I can't point to any one thing in Sean Nittner's Neoncon interview with Adam Jury, but it sparked some inspiration for A Certain Kind of Decision.

I'm still riding the post-Neoncon wave, and these are some of the games I'm excited about, in no particular order:

• Mike Olsen's simulation of 80s action movies, Action City! is a Gamechef finalist.
  
• At ( Read more... )

Friday would prove to be the most gaming intensive day of the con. After a late night of Barcon, our room got up and hit the buffet. Much better than that of the Flamingo in 2008 (Apparently I didn't post about my first Vegas experience at all!), mostly because it was a lot cheaper at $10, but also because I wasn't as rough at the time ( Read more... )

My final day at Gateway was my first full day of roleplaying, and a good one it was too! I had a room in the hotel for Saturday night, so I just had to shower, stumble downstairs, find some coffee and a donut and find my game.

The Hardholder from Saturday night's Apocalypse World game returned as the GM in the my morning game: Swashbucklers of the ( Read more... )

I'll be running two games at Gateway in a couple of weeks:

Black Dog PassSystem: FATE (Deadlands ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was Confusion (Wellington's one day roleplaying con, read the tag) followed by adrexia's Burning Bedlam party. Wellington turned on a gorgeous morning, but the sky-taps came on in the early afternoon, threatening that evening's fiery activities.

I didn't realise it at the time, but I played every game with exiledinpn, so here's his report. My work here ( Read more... )