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The flights are purchased, and by the end of the this weekend, the RPG scenarios will be prepped and the games will be ready. Everything is nicely squared away for what is shaping up to be another GenCon filled with fun, festivities, grossly overpriced hotel rooms, and other things which we have become accustomed to out of Indianapolis. Things like militant homeless people, rampant uncontrolled hotel pricing (why is it $300 cheaper on Sunday night than on Friday night? Other than the reason, "because we can") and stifling heat. But still a good time will be had, and that is the important thing.
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My website is under constant onslaught by Bots who want to spam all sorts of things. Moderating and deleting the comments is both a source of amusement and frustration for me. Amusement when I see something new, frustration because some bot hordes will like to spam 100s of comments for the same thing over and over again. Oh well, it is part of the "joy" of the Internet, right?
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This week we had the finale of a long running pulp serial campaign using the Savage Worlds rules - specifically based off the Reality Blurs Ravaged Earth setting. It was amazing fun and ended in what could only be considered the most hysterically amusing way possible. The GM was out of bennies and the final end villain critically failed a Spirt check and activated the self destruct mechanism, destroying himself and pretty much many other things.
Yes, the end of the campaign was not some epic battle with a story for the ages - it was a CRITICAL FAILURE on a Spirit check. We all laughed for a long time and really reminisced about all the crazy silly things that happened.
Next up for the group I am running a Conan 2d20 campaign, expect to see chat logs starting here in the near future!
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For years I have wanted to be able to run Blood Bowl leagues online with my friends in a nice friendly competition. We have known each other for years and like Blood Bowl, but are not ultra-competitive Blood Bowl Trolls like those who frequent the forums. Ergo, it is hard to fill the remaining slots with people we actually want to play the game with. Finally they have added incredibly flexibility, not only in League play but also in Competitions. Plus you can mix in AI teams to fill out any missing gaps. This is pretty exciting. The only thing I wish Focus Interactive would add is the ability to setup "House Rules" in the Leagues, so we can enable or disable various popular house rules in our competitions. After all, we are playing this game for fun (i.e. the reason to play games) not because we are Blood Bowl Trolls who hate anything that is not a pure representation of the original board game.
The first competition ended with hijinks and hilarity for all. Well and gruesome injuries, fatalities, and misery for pixel representations of many types of people. Next round is coming up.
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Remember the "Good Old Days" - when GenCon Hotels did not cost over $2000 for the convention? I do. And every year I look at the pricing and think to myself, "one of these years, this is going to be the point where I decide it is not worth it to attend". That time is getting ever closer. I manage to make do every year by finding ways to get reimbursed by various companies, or split the hotel room multiple ways, or both. But honestly, the justification is getting harder to pull off, and the number of places I'd rather visit gets higher.
Sigh.
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