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[Nev the Deranged]

Good times as always. Thanks Buzz, Kurt, WJ, and all my fellow players. I'll probably see some of you at GenCon.

D.

 

[buzz]

Finally, a spare moment to sit down at my home computer!

From the pics, it looks like everything went smoothly. Mark, thank you once again for keeping an eye on things in my absence. And thanks to Games Plus and everyone who attended! I look forward to seeing you all again next time and actually playing.

So, ekb, it looks like there were some folks in your afternoon-moved PX Poker Night event. Excellent!

And, hey, what did Fugue turn out to be? Lacuna?

 

[MythosaAkira]

Just wanted to chime in to say my wife and I had a great time in Vyvyan Basterd's 4E game. It's nice (for me) to be able to play 4E for once (we've been playing since last summer but I'm the DM )

I believe Deron (our walk-in friend) had a good time, too! (He has an ENWorld account - I forget his screenname - but he doesn't post much so I'm not sure if he'll see this thread).

(Oh, and thanks for introducing me to the "vine horror"; I definitely need to drop that into our game )

Thanks!

 

[Nazriel]

Lacuna it was. And awesome it was.

Discovering the surreal world and game mechanics in tandem was well done; and the group made for hilarity at many turns!

Enjoyed Trev's D&D game in the morning and WJ's Lacuna game in the evening. Just plain fun all day long, and I thank everyone involved for making it happen.

 

[Gwen110]

thanks

Thanks for the nice picassa album. It was so nice.

 

[Mark]

Thanks for the nice picassa album. It was so nice.

Thanks for bringing the donuts and to "the woman who prefers no photos" for bringining a huge cake, partially devoted to a B-Day and mostly devoted to keeping us all fat and sassy!

 

[Ninjacat]

Man, what is with us breaking EnWorld with our GameDays? Heh.


As always, major thanks to Games Plus for hosting us buncha weirdos (And I thank Curt especially for letting my SPN game run until 9:30 or whateveritwas...we started late thanks to my birthday shenanigans, but I like to think I was just channeling Rob, since he couldn't join us [busy getting married and honeymooning, and all...]) and to Buzz for organizing...Buzz deserves extra kudos for organizing when he couldn't even stay long enough to play anything!


To my morning players, Many Thanks for a fantastic romp with Mutant X. My poor Gypsy event just Was Not Ready, nor was I ready to run it, being the zombie I was, so I'm glad everyone had a good time playing present-era sci-fi superheroes instead of Medieval Renaissance Gypsy monster-slayers. I think Der Spot was the only one who had even the vaguest idea about the show, but everyone was very Into Character, and you all worked beautifully as a team. The camaraderie and so-close-you're-family-so-you-can-pick-on-each-other is a difficult nuance to recreate, but you guys did great! All the more impressive since it was pretty much all new to you.

And to my afternoon players, THANK YOU for making my Cortex Con Debut go so well...I hit you hard right out of the gate and did not offer a clear, linear plot for people to grasp the mechanics with...but you all helped tell a great story with the craziness you were handed anyway, bravo! My especial apologies to Zach(Lothos), who missed the end...it turned out it was a/the Sphinx...who was completely NUTS, and "Elaina" was actually the Trickster, manipulating the party into doing his dirty work! *g*


Finally, thanks to everyone for the brief pause for my birthday shoutout. Definitely appreciated!

 

[WJMacGuffin]

Ah, another great Gameday. Special thanks to the people who brought in cake and donuts! You girls rock!

Thanks to everyone in my morning game of Shock for some fantastic stories. All hail the RoboPope!

Thanks to everyone in my afternoon mystery game, which was based on Lacuna, Pt. 1 but with a mostly new setting. If you're curious, I wrote a bit about the new setting on my design blog: Happy Bishop Games

 

[ekb]

So, ekb, it looks like there were some folks in your afternoon-moved PX Poker Night event. Excellent!

No small thanks to CMG Mark's pimpage of me. Danke schoen, and all that.

quick AP: I think it worked especially well as a small group - more time for character interaction between sanity-blasting EMP weapons testing. Shannon came in with massive discomfort but seemed suitably distracted from it by the game (in a system she said she didn't like, even), so I'd say it was a win. Curt was excellent as Klein aka "Face," what with the wiping and picking at his face. And yes, it pushed the envelope of PG-13 pretty hard with some of the (well-played) violence and language - but staying realistic and quite dramatically appropriate. The use of chain-of-command also became a factor it hadn't in previous times I'd ran this, as did the sub-references to "The Dirty Dozen." And aside from the timed sanity checks, there were VERY few rolls in this session - almost all of it was handled as a social sandbox with a timeline of events. Just the way I like it...

Basically, it was about as good a game as it could've been. AND it helped show off a system and sell product based on such, which never hurts...

Am I bummed to have missed out on Lacuna - a game that's been sitting in the pile of "when we get to it" for my Saturday night group? Oh, yeah - but it was well worth it. Again, Shannon, David, Rich and Curt - you made it great.

 

[Mark]

No small thanks to CMG Mark's pimpage of me. Danke schoen, and all that.

Glad to help out and glad it worked out.