Convention Scenario Thoughts (and a Bit of Whining)
Don't get me wrong. I love roleplaying games. Some of them I even GM. :) I love gaming conventions, even if they do stress me out somewhat and I'll moan and whine about going to them and all the problems and inconveniences that that entails. However, in some ways, the most stressful part of gaming conventions that I'm going to be attending is actually the writing of adventures and scenarios for players at the conventions to play.
Like one of the ones I'm dealing with now. I've been working for the last week on getting one of the Primeval RPG scenarios ready for CanGames, which begins a week today. I'm not telling you which adventure, but push comes to shove what I thought was going to be a couple of days work may stretch into much longer than that because the scenario, to begin with, is such a mess. This is not one of the scenarios for the game that I've written, but one that has been written for a supplement for the game, and which I thought would be perfect to run at the convention.
The problem is that the scenario is still at the manuscript form (it may or may not be run at this year's GenCon Indy), and so I'm having to correct the scenario, add the NPC and beastie stats, and the like, and to be honest, it's been a lot more work than I expected it to be. Don't get me wrong; I'm happy to clean this up, add the beasties and stats for NPCs and the like, but I had thought that it would be more...complete than it is.
The real problem is that I wasn't able to start the work on the games that I'm running for CanGames until around a week or two ago because of the illness and everything that I've been suffering from (which may or may not be allergies, and which have returned full force this week again).
Ah, well... just means there may be no rest for me this weekend.
Like one of the ones I'm dealing with now. I've been working for the last week on getting one of the Primeval RPG scenarios ready for CanGames, which begins a week today. I'm not telling you which adventure, but push comes to shove what I thought was going to be a couple of days work may stretch into much longer than that because the scenario, to begin with, is such a mess. This is not one of the scenarios for the game that I've written, but one that has been written for a supplement for the game, and which I thought would be perfect to run at the convention.
The problem is that the scenario is still at the manuscript form (it may or may not be run at this year's GenCon Indy), and so I'm having to correct the scenario, add the NPC and beastie stats, and the like, and to be honest, it's been a lot more work than I expected it to be. Don't get me wrong; I'm happy to clean this up, add the beasties and stats for NPCs and the like, but I had thought that it would be more...complete than it is.
The real problem is that I wasn't able to start the work on the games that I'm running for CanGames until around a week or two ago because of the illness and everything that I've been suffering from (which may or may not be allergies, and which have returned full force this week again).
Ah, well... just means there may be no rest for me this weekend.