Host: Sean Nittner
Players: Sean Nittner, Karen Twelves, Eric Zimmerman and Chris Bennett
System: Drance (Play-test)

Karen saw a tweet from Jason that he wanted play testers for Durance and quickly hopped on it. She rounded up some locals (and me) and we play tested the game. As I was the one who read the rules in advance, I acted as host, though ( Read more... )

GM: Chris Vincenti and Tracy Pinkelton
Players: Matt, Travis, Chrissy, Jessie, Brook, and Sean
System: Legend of the Five Rings (4th Edition)

Normal Playtest AP disclaimer: I’m going to do my best to not give out any spoilers for this game, as it will be run at DundraCon. Here is the official game write up:

The Festival
Monday 10 AM in 377 for 6 hours
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Watchtower: Sean Nittner
Leads: Tracy Pinklton, Travis Lindquist, Chris Vincenti, and Steven Dunn
System: Smallville, hacked to Dune.

This was my play test game for the upcoming Endgame Minicon. I find it a little strange that I prep more for the one day minicons than I sometimes do for the big con events. I think it is because I know the people ( Read more... )

GM: Karen Twelves
Patients: Sean, Ben, Shannon, and Chris
System: Take another pill Sean; it’ll make you feel better

This was a play-test for a con game and even though the con game has already been run, I’ve encouraged Karen to run this game a few times, and given the chance that she might, I’m keeping the details light.

Ever get the feeling that ( Read more... )

GM: Josh Roby
Players: Sean, Ryan, Will, and Tim
System: Vicious Crucible

Discussion of this game was done pretty well in the This Just in From Neoncon show (http://www.thisjustinfromneoncon.com/?p=20)
Ryan and Josh are making this game that, as the podcast indicates is very “situation” first. They come up with a killer situation (in this case a ( Read more... )

GM: Tracy
Players: Mike, Marianne, Sean and Jessie
System: 7th Sea (with Cthulhu variations)

Tracy was running a play-test of the game Chris and she had run at DundraCon and were going to (now have) run at KublaCon. There were some changes that she wanted to try out and I think we gave them a good run.

The story was a well done mystery that leaves the ( Read more... )

GM: Sean Nittner
Players: Matt, Rich, The Russian, Shaun and Travis.
System: Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies

November play-test of the same game: http://seannittner.livejournal.com/90148.html

This game is a lot of fun. If you are going to DundraCon this weekend and free Saturday night, you should be in it. Either that or walk the plank into the Blue! ( Read more... )

I’ve been in a gaming funk for a while. Specifically, since GenCon. It’s taken me a long time to admit it to myself, let alone to the public, but I (for the first time in my life) got burnt out on gaming. I’m still not exactly sure why. Too much in the 2009 con season? Disappointment with my inability to break into the industry? Feeling like I was ( Read more... )

GM: Sean Nittner
Players: Trevor, Joel, Meghan, Alex and Sam
System: Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies

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GM: None
Players: Sean, Travis, Chirssy
System: 15 Minutes

This is a little late, but I think the notes are still good.

We got together to try and give the system a complete run through, but only got through the pitch and character creation.

Pitch

We opted for a boy band, specifically a young boy band (pre-teen to early teen), and decided these ( Read more... )