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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 2359615" data-attributes="member: 326">Hey guys! <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=":)" />Very nice work Alzrius matey! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Okay, basically I got back from Q-Con just over an hour ago, had my dinner so I am am just getting online now (after 10pm).Originally I had intended to only attend on the Saturday, however I won the Street Fighter 3 competition and was told the prizes (which were far too good to turn down) would be awarded at the end on Sunday. So that meant I had to go Sunday as well. During which I won the Burnout 3 competition too.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Unfortunately the Krusts 100% record was dented at the Tekken 5 competition, however with THREE legitimate excuses: firstly the 'x' button on the PS2 controller for player 1 was wonky (because some doofus playing earlier on freeplay for an hour was a complete button masher) and it only worked part of the time; secondly the tournament was played using team battle rather than versus and the Krust has only learnt a few characters; thirdly the guy who won the competition OWNS the arcade machine! Nevertheless a half decent showing by yours truly given that I don't actually own an x-box or PS2.While I was there I also managed to pick up the DMG 2, Monte's Requiem for a God and the Hellsing d20...Alucard is 34th-level in the book in case you were wondering. Haven't done much more than breeze through the books at this point obviously. But I'll probably do a review of Requiem at some point.Kudos to the LARPers putting on a swordplay exhibition and demonstration. Very interesting, and it felt weird holding the replica 18th-century fencing sword, the blade must have been 4 feet long. Felt very 'unwieldy', the fighting seemed much less about moving the blade itself and far more about your own movement.I also got chatting to Marc Farrimond of Mongoose Publishing who seems a very decent chap, and I was shown one of their forthcoming releases. Starship Troopers d20. I have to admit I was very impressed with the quality of it. Full colour, glossy pages, good art, they have the bugs (over a dozen different types) and the skinny's detailed (for those who know their Starship Troopers). I only had about 20-30 minutes to breeze through it but it looks glorious it really does. Thats one to look out for in a week or two, it'll be interesting reading the reviews to see if under close scrutiny the content matches my first impressions.Anyway, I had a great time, though next year I'll prebook and get some more roleplaying done. This weekend I was attending with a non-roleplayer so it was more of an anime/video game centric event for me. But I had a great time, met some cool people and had a lot of fun. However, all that fun has a flip side and meant I haven't been able to get anything done on the Bestiary over the weekend, which still needs about 7-8 hours work. So the chances of it being onsale Monday are pretty slim. Tuesday should be okay though. *touch wood*</blockquote>

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