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Gen Con 2019

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 00:14:56 -0500

This year I attended Gen Con for the first time. For those that are not familiar, Gen Con is four days of gaming madness. While there were some electronic games, the primary focus is on board games, tabletop role-playing games, miniature war games, and trading card games. I went almost exclusively for RPGs, but ended up only seeing a couple demos in the exhibit hall and watching some live one-shots. I love board games, and ended up playing several that were pretty neat, but I was ultimately disappointed with myself for not playing in any RPGs. In the weeks leading up to the con, I felt a bit foolish for spending so much money when I am ~~a filthy normie~~ fairly far removed from the fandom that this sort of event attracts. I definitely could have done a better job researching and signing up for events before I arrived at the con. My intention was to go into this first time without any planning and get used to how the convention was laid out and not have to rush around a bunch. As luck would have it, I ran into several friends that I didn’t know were going to attend, and they ended up serving as my guides around the convention and Indianapolis at large.

Quinn and MJ at Izzy’s

First Game

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:09:23 -0600

As I mentioned in my previous post, I am going to be running a Stars Without Number game for some of my IRL friends. Up to this point, I have played in a lot of different role-playing games, but I have never been the game master for any of them.

Joe’s Gaming History

A long time ago, my older brother was really into Vampire: The Masquerade with his friends, and of course I wanted to do what the cool, older kids were doing, so I convinced my brother and his goth high school friends to let me play with them for a couple of sessions. He also played some Palladium and GURPS at the time, so naturally I read all of the rulebooks that he had. Also, since I was really into LEGO, he and I devised our own LEGO RPG using GURPS, which was pretty cool, although a bit unwieldy because players fictionally travel through a world much faster than we could possibly construct it on the fly.

NaNoWriMo 2018

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 22:45:08 -0500

I have been enamored with the idea of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) since I first heard about it. I do not remember the first time I attempted doing it, but it has been going on 6 years that I have made an attempt each year, and hopefully this year will be more successful than in the past.

Part of the reason for my optimism is that I am finally finished with school. It only took 10 years for me to finish my undergrad, but hey, that’s life right? I ultimately learned more from the time I spent working in the industry, but it is a relief to be done in any case.