I ran this at Con of the North, and since I had good luck with rerunning a game at last WisCon, I decided to do so again at WisCon 39. I was a little worried about whether or not anyone … Continue reading
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Minicon started well before the con itself for me. I’m on the programming staff, and have been for about the past decade, so I was partly involved in thinking up the panels and other events. I’ve also been doing the … Continue reading
Overall, this year’s Convergence was pretty good. It was, very interestingly, slightly smaller than last year’s. This may have been due to the loss of the Sofitel for this year, or because people are staying away due to crowding, or … Continue reading
The next, second, and last, panel I was on at Convergence 2014. The topic was pretty similar to last year’s “I’m Getting Too Old to Find Time to Game”, so we were a little worried about repeating territory already trod. … Continue reading
Convergence 2014 is nigh — this coming weekend, in fact. Convergence is getting bigger and bigger. So big that people are avoiding it. As Yogi Berra said, “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” So big, too, that it feels … Continue reading
This WisCon, I did a fair amount of actual gaming. Foremost among these, of course, was my Mountain Monastery Murder Mystery. As I’ve mentioned before, this is set in a monastery/abbey of Sister Earth, in my main campaign world, Calteir. … Continue reading
A hallmark of modern life is we are all being pulled in different directions at once. We have a constantly increasing number of things competing for our time and brain-space: work (and off-hours work, and looking for work, and overtime, … Continue reading
This past weekend, for various reasons, I felt like playing Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim again. After a long time getting it to update, I was back in the Velothi Mountains and soon exploring Tolvald’s Cave. It was just as pretty … Continue reading
After tonight’s game (a fun take on the standard train robbery scenario), we briefly listed what games we currently have on the back burner: Eric’s Blade & Crown game. The two main PCs (here’s mine) had managed to become members … Continue reading
My last panel of Convergence. This one also went pretty well. We started by discussing how different types of gaming are socially sanctioned. Are social games more acceptable somehow? What about games that are easier to interrupt with other activities? … Continue reading