Prepping a little for GC '06

[romp]

I had a such fun this year playing in the ENWorlder games at GenCon this year that I am going to give some time back and run a couple of games for next year. Been tossing around some ideas, what would you guys like to see? I am only going to run a couple so I can play in a bunch also ...

Dogs in the Vineyard - this has some real possibilities but I am wondering if the tone is what I want out of a game at a con. laughing through this seems like such wrongbadfun and I want a lighthearted, fun game. The system is awesome but more of a campaign oriented thing than a fun one-shot.

Conan OGL or Iron Heroes - it would start out as a straight "meet in the tavern" fantasy game, I have a few ideas about what to do next, which system to use though, Conan or IH?

D20 Complete Mafia - This is a must run, I can just see The Universe and Teflon Billy as mooks

maybe a d20 Modern horror movie type game where the goal is to survive and escape from the sewers and waves of zombie attackers...

I can just see the ENWorld games getting more and more popular as word spreads and they become almost a hip underground thing to do at Gen Con

 

[Crothian]

Dogs of the Vineyard sounds interesting, but I'm not a big fan of the western setting it is in. AS a one shot though I'd give it a try (I'll try anything once).

THe mafia games would be relaly fun, I like that idea.

I'll be running my Paranoia Orc and Pie, it turned out to be a bigger hit then anticipated. I'll have to recalculate that.

where in central ohio are you anyway?

 

[romp]

where in central ohio are you anyway?

yeah, we gotta get together sometime and swap stories, I am in Lancaster just SE of Columbus, I work over by the airport.

Do you make it to the Armoury in Pickerington much? I am going there this Saturday after mandatory OT at work. I used to go to the Soldiery on the North Side, but only stop rarely now since I moved my comic list away from the Ogre comic shop.

 

[Crothian]

yeah, we gotta get together sometime and swap stories, I am in Lancaster just SE of Columbus, I work over by the airport.

Do you make it to the Armoury in Pickerington much? I am going there this Saturday after mandatory OT at work. I used to go to the Soldiery on the North Side, but only stop rarely now since I moved my comic list away from the Ogre comic shop.

I'm a tiny bit south of Polaris mall, but have family in Pickerington. I don't make it out there a lot though.

 

[romp]

I'm a tiny bit south of Polaris mall, but have family in Pickerington. I don't make it out there a lot though.

Crothian, send me an email: romper at gmail dot com and we will set up a time and place to get together, I did not get into any of the Orc and Pie games and did not meet you until Sunday when there was precious little time to chat, but you were one that I really wanted to sit down with ...

 

[Crothian]

Nothing like a thread that ios just a conversation

Rel, you have to make it back to Gen Con as I have to get into your games. They were really the talk of the con.

 

[Buttercup]

D20 Complete Mafia

Now this would be crazy fun. Can I have a machine gun?

 

[Bront]

Conan seems well built for a One-shot, and, in particular, a set of One-shots run as an ongoing story, since you're never garunteed to start off with the same stuff between adventures, so they are generaly like independant stories with the same or similar characters. I also like the general feal of that system.

I've not gotten a chance to look at Iron Heroes, so not sure about that one, but if the choice is between Conan and this, I'd probably lean towards Conan, perhaps simply for the likely hood of drawing a few new players by name.

Glad to hear Paranoia Orc and Pie went well. If I had had the time and knew where it was, I might have attempted to try that. I'm likely booked up for next year, given it will be the grand finalle of the living campaign I've been heavily involved in, but you never know if I can find some extra time.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

First thing you have to do when running a game at a con is pick a system that everyone knows or can understand very quickly. I use Call of Cthulhu since it is a simple system. The second thing you have to do is create a scenario that can be done in about four hours. Otherwise players (ENWorld or otherwise) will be left with a feeling that not much happened.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Look to NASGRAG (sp) for thoughts, in one form or another it has been around for a very long time and has a very loyal following, this is do to 1) being fun 2) DM knows the material 3) focus on role-playing not rolling.