After Hours: Con Games
Added 2017-09-09 19:22:26 +0000 UTCHuge gaming cons like Gen Con are fun, but what about specialized cons? Aaron, Caleb, Tom, and I discuss some ideas we have for some unusual cons. Plus we review:
The Razing of Redshore, an adventure in Dungeon #92
Time and Time Again
Street Fighter: Contenders
Song: Dungeons and Flagons by Magma Action
Comments
Weirdly enough Kotaku recently did an article on Campaign for North Africa: <a href="https://kotaku.com/the-notorious-board-game-that-takes-1500-hours-to-compl-1818510912" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://kotaku.com/the-notorious-board-game-that-takes-1500-hours-to-compl-1818510912</a>
Ross Payton
2017-09-22 23:14:13 +0000 UTCOn the subject of big old strategic level wargames, an older gamer I knew told me about playing an "Eastern Front" wargame (with all of the supplements, covering 1941-1945) with his gaming group in the 80's or 90's. One of players hosted the game and set up the hexmap, which covered an area of Europe from westen Germany to East of the Ural mountains, in his basement. The players met every Saturday and played a half German turn in the morning, broke for lunch, and then played a half Soviet turn in the afternoon, they then left everything as it was until they met again the next week. The game went on for years, at least until the player who related the story to me moved to another city.
Bryan Rombough
2017-09-21 16:51:41 +0000 UTCYou know, there's one problem with Ross' "Campaign for North Africa Con" idea: it's been done, it's called GenCon. Playing bloody enormous hex-and-counter wargames was a big part of GenCon for decades. In fact I'm pretty sure it's still being done at GenCon. And wasn't Battle of Britain the game where you kept track of each individual airplane in the battle? Did Campaign for North Africa do that as well? Or is Ross conflating the two? And regarding Tom's "Hit Con" idea: while I don't think that's actually been done, there is an assasination LARP: Killer, from Steve Jackson Games, which was actually the first published LARP. Killer has the honour of having been banned from one of the local universities, after a visiting foreign dignitary was "assasinated" with a water ballon.
Bryan Rombough
2017-09-21 16:49:14 +0000 UTCCan confirm sumo wrestling in Kentucky. You can't go to the county or state fair without seeing tractor pulls, sumo wrestling, deep-fried Twinkies or horse meat.
Adam Thornsburg
2017-09-15 00:34:14 +0000 UTCI remember when the 3.x epic level handbook came out, there was an epic level adventure module as well (can't remember the name now). A friend of mine decided to run that adventure for a lark, letting players build epic level characters from scratch just for that adventure. He ended up running two groups through the adventure (sort of). The first group was entirely made up of PCs designed have fun with the premise: weird races, classes and magic items that the players would never get a chance to play with in a normal campaign. They attacked the module head on and reportedly had a lot of fun. The second group was mostly like the first, except for one guy: he played a straight-up human magic user maxed out for spellcasting. In the first few minutes of play, that PC cast two spells and killed the evil wizard at the heart of the adventure dead. The rest of the players in that group swore to never play with that guy again.
Bryan Rombough
2017-09-11 23:12:08 +0000 UTCI'm not Adam, but I feel I can speak for RPX when I say that our official position is that Kentucky is not known for her horse meat eating, sour mash drinking Sumo wrestlers. Sincerely, Darth of RPX
Darth
2017-09-10 05:43:50 +0000 UTC
