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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zog" data-source="post: 325410" data-attributes="member: 5083">I've done both - and run both!The Intercon's on the East coast of the US - in Boston and New Jersey - are a great place to be exposed to all of the options and varieties of games, styles, and rules.Intercon C - in March, in Chelmsford Mass, is the next one.  I don't have a handy link, but try a google search for it, it will pop up.The Intercon's are weekend long conventions.  There tend to be 5 game slots over the weekend - with some games taking up two slots.  Friday night, Sat morning, afternoon and night, and Sunday morning.  Occasionally you'll see a midnight game tucked in somewhere.  Most games tend to be theater style - with Pre-gen characters and their own rules.  You generally get about 4 or 5 games for each slot, with about 20-30 players needed for each game.  Sometimes more, sometimes less.  Intercon C, the next one, apparently has tons of pre-registered guests, and long list of games.  You generally have a few White Wolf games, using one of their published systems, a few Rules to live by games - as the author is a regular con attendee, and a whole lot of home-brew rules light systems.  The one I wrote and ran was called 'The Unexpected Storm' - 27 odd travelers end up in a strange Inn during a freak snow storm.  Plot and character interactions and chaos ensue.  It ran, um, a year and a half ago at Intercon A - and was fairly well received, I think.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   It was mechanics light, I do need to work on the combat system, try and make it easier and faster, but the plot and characters worked well I think.Partly because of Intercon, and several healthy LARPing groups in the Boston area, there is lots of cross-over between tabletop and live action gaming.  I, at least, haven't seen much animosity.  Expect perhaps towards certain *poorly run/written* games - but that can only be expected.</blockquote>

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