Post Sydcon News
Sydcon went well. I ran my freeform, 'the Queen of Love and Beauty' twice and went well, even with the first session having eleven out of twenty players and stripping it down to the core elements! Freeforms work well with a bit of structure. In 'Queen', it was about three tourney bouts with intrigue going on in the middle bits. In the Cam, the games that worked best had a sort of framework, such as when we had to elect a new Mage consilium or when we ran Greyhound Night in the vampire court. Milling around in a crowd for three hours (punctuated by the occaisional random fight or histrionics) can lead a freeform to run out of puff. This I say, with my expert designer hat off after writing a total of one freeform (and helping run two!)
Also, it was handy to build it around a spine donated by Martin's excellent books, although it does mean I'm getting excessively irritable about the delays facing book 5 :) Mind you, any further books may invalidate my freeform!
Also, there was some fantastic constuming going on. If I run this at Pheno, I'll put the house colours in the sign-up sheet as that's what I was asked most about by people. I understand there's a decent LARP community down there, so I hope the session fills up nicely.
Anyway, Sydcon went well. I played in a Savage Worlds game, some D&D (I went with a Dragonborn Fighter at the end) and played in Pack of Lies, an awesome Werewolf the Apocalypse game. I also played and then ran the Lake District Needlework and Adventuring Society to help outcapnoblivious, which went smoothly, even though I think my improvised plot was a bit different to his improvised plot!
So yean, Sydcon went well. Matt K is keen to run 'Amnesia on a Boat' at Eyecon, but I'll see how it goes. I'd suggested to the con orgs to allow 'short run' games - e.g. if a person can only run on Saturday, then schedule that game on in Saturday, but that isn't part of their vision for the cons. I think it works for Arcanancon, because you can see all of the schedule at once in that database grid, including which sessions are blocked out and schedule accordingly.
Also, it was handy to build it around a spine donated by Martin's excellent books, although it does mean I'm getting excessively irritable about the delays facing book 5 :) Mind you, any further books may invalidate my freeform!
Also, there was some fantastic constuming going on. If I run this at Pheno, I'll put the house colours in the sign-up sheet as that's what I was asked most about by people. I understand there's a decent LARP community down there, so I hope the session fills up nicely.
Anyway, Sydcon went well. I played in a Savage Worlds game, some D&D (I went with a Dragonborn Fighter at the end) and played in Pack of Lies, an awesome Werewolf the Apocalypse game. I also played and then ran the Lake District Needlework and Adventuring Society to help outcapnoblivious, which went smoothly, even though I think my improvised plot was a bit different to his improvised plot!
So yean, Sydcon went well. Matt K is keen to run 'Amnesia on a Boat' at Eyecon, but I'll see how it goes. I'd suggested to the con orgs to allow 'short run' games - e.g. if a person can only run on Saturday, then schedule that game on in Saturday, but that isn't part of their vision for the cons. I think it works for Arcanancon, because you can see all of the schedule at once in that database grid, including which sessions are blocked out and schedule accordingly.