Last night I finally caught up with what happen at Kapcon back in mid-January, as I got to read various peoples' blogs and posts about their experiences at the con. Not attending this year (I came down with the illness on the Thursday before the con) is a big disappointment for me, not only because it is one of the few opportunities I have to catch ( Read more... )

I was able to send in my SDC entry on Saturday. Unfortunately due to time contrains it is only of draft quality and is like full of typos and errors ( Read more... )

I always have numerous writing projects on the go at any one time. I used to see this as a weakness, a failure to finish what I've started, but now I see it as the best way I work (this came out of a conversation I had with Mat in the middle of last year, where he said that certain types of personality work this way and it was best to embrace it ( Read more... )

I thought, as I’m on the post-Kapcon spin (one moment full of enthusiasm for gaming, the next in a post-con funk - hell you should have seen me after GenCon :P), I would dedicate a little effort into doing some self analysis of the games I ran.

As a starter for ten, I’ll begin with my personal unexpected hit - Precinct ’77.

This game arose out of ( Read more... )

Hey! I'm writing this as a way to collect my various ideas and perceptions about Kapcon and was I think could be done to improve them... this isn't an attack in any way but rather a way to solicate feedback before I take them to the organising committee (whoever that might be).

The Future of the Con
Man it was great to see the increase in numbers, ( Read more... )

Well that is over and I'm still exhausted. It was a con of good & bad, repeats and first times for me, all of which accumulated into something a little bit special.

• Precon Drinks - What a prefect location for drinks, JJ Murphy's on Cuba street. Always good to chat to friends, be they new or old, over a cider. This year I took the opportunity to ( Read more... )

Last night, as I drifted off to sleep, I finally cracked how I'm going to complete my Snark adventure for Kapcon...

Happy now!

I had the fortunate opportunity to run a playtest of one of the adventures I'm running at Kapcon this year on Saturday night.

As there are likely to be some spoilers I continue after the break...

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I now have the two adventures I'll be running at Kapcon XX (2011) up on the con's website. This year I'm only running both once (1st session both days) as I want to do more gaming (if only to get to spend more time with my friends 'in character'). To this end I'm also going to do the LARP this year, and I'm going to see if the Aucklanders & Em want ( Read more... )

Rather than doing this in order of sessions, I thought I'd start off with the games I played in (rather than ran).

Normally I look for games that have a bit of buzz, or would allow some of the Auckland crew and myself to game together, but this year I was already keen on two games -  Warhammer 3rd edition, which Luke was offering in 5th session , ( Read more... )