Hammercon
Next Saturday, Oct 17th, I’ll be appearing as Guest Of Honor at the inaugural edition of Hammercon, a game convention in Hamilton, ON. In addition to a couple of panels in the late afternoon / early evening, I’ll be running a playtest session of Skulduggery. This will be a true test of one of the game’s key features: although it requires an experienced, improv-ready GM, it’s also easy to run-or so I claim. The game tosses a whole lot of elements onto the table and lets the players run with them in a self-propelling series of schemes and counter-schemes. The GM becomes reactive while the players take center stage. This game session will be at the terrifying hour of 9 AM, meaning I have to get up at a seriously ungodly hour for my trip to a nearby city. So if the session is any good, it will be due to the design, not to any measurable brain activity on my part. And coffee. I expect that there will be coffee involved. The downtown Sheraton will have coffee nearby, won’t it?
Hamilton is the hometown to several notable LJ gaming worthies, including pyat, doc_mystery, and now nottheterritory, recently fled from Toronto and my gaming group. In Toronto myth and lore, it is to us what Newark is to New York City. I will do my best to be a proper guest and not make any Hamilton jokes before or during my visit there.
If you’re in the area, come by and say hello.