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... )

My plan entirely survived contact with the con on Saturday, although my execution of my last scheduled game left something to be desired.

After feasting like kings atop the hotel in the 15th floor lounge, I ran Dungeon World at 9am. I had expanded Jason Morningstar's two-hour Dungeon World demo "The Temple of UNGU" by adding some additional ( Read more... )

I returned from Gateway this afternoon. My con schedule pretty much went as planned.

In the first session, I ran Monster of the Week for a full table of four players. I had played with three of the four before and GMed for two of them a couple of times. Monster of the Week is designed to handle episodic monster hunting settings (Buffy, Angel, ( Read more... )

As I just mentioned, Gateway is this weekend. I just updated my game blurbs. I preregistered for a few things as well, so my schedule is mostly full and will be fuller when I get there on Friday and grab a couple of the non-pre-reg slots for a couple of the other games that reached max pre-reg in the first 5-10 minutes of going live.

• Friday ( Read more... )