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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Gam3rCon Gam3day February 9th-10th

Well Well, Gam3rCon mini-con coming up.

Come on down and help me celebrate my Meaning of Life birthday...the Big 42, by playing in my alpha play-test for Unleashed Role-playing.

I'll also be running my last RPG demo for Mongoose, as their new support is miniature based Demonstration teams.

Judge Dredd (Traveller) Hot Dog Run [4 hour time slot, 4-6 players]

You're an Academy of Law Cadet in Mega-City One, You're Academy of Law tutor is taking you on the Hot Dog run. The Hot Dog run is the trip into the Cursed Earth that every Cadet makes. Here the cadets are expected to become acquainted with life beyond Mega-City One, and to demonstrate their skills in handling the various hazardous conditions of the Cursed Earth.

By this time in their life, Cadets have been in the academy for a decade, now as teenagers they are expected to prove themselves. The hazards of the Cursed Earth are many, and entire Hot Dog runs never return, do you have what it takes to survive?

Unleashed RPG Playtest [4+ Hours, 4 players]

The Unleashed Role-Playing Game brings you cinematic role-playing using streamlined rules with an old-school feel. Utilizing an explosive 2d10 based system, it allows you to simulate fantastic combat. Few constraints are imposed in what you can attempt, heroic aspects allow you to accomplish amazing feats of heroism, even at first level. Declare what you want to do, then roll to see what your margin of success was.

At the core of the system lies the OGL of the World’s Most Famous Role-playing Game. But its buried pretty deep, having been re-built based on 28 years of gaming experience. A combination of Old School and Indie design, this game brings you something old, something new, something borrowed, something woo!

Come help Alpha Test Unleashed and you will be included in the Playtest credits upon publication. You can also sign up for continuing playtesting of Unleashed.Brought to you by EpicRPGBlog, San Diego's RPG Blog.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Gam3rCon Gamesday coming up

If you check the Convention Schedule, you'll see the Gam3rCon Gameday is coming up...THIS SUNDAY

Chris Czerniak has arranged lots of gaming for this one day event that only costs $5. Here's what's on the docket: (I'll probably be playing Dominion until 2:00 when the event I want to play in happens....)

Pathfinder (12:00)
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game puts you in the role of a brave adventurer fighting to survive in a world beset by magic and evil! Take on the role of a canny fighter hacking through enemies with an enchanted sword, a powerful sorceress blessed with magic by the hint of demon blood in her veins, a wise cleric of gods benevolent or malign, a witty rogue ready to defuse even the deadliest of traps, or any of countless other heroes. The only limit is your imagination!

Call of Chtulhu (5:00)
If you have ever been enthralled by a ghost story or spellbound at a horror movie, you are in for a treat. Part the veil that separates frail humanity from the terror that lurks beyond space and time. Investigate forgotten ruins, haunted woods, and nameless menaces.

Savage Worlds: Slipstream (12:00)
Beyond the black holes lies the Slipstream, a pocket universe of shattered worlds, desperate aliens, and savage monsters. Ruling over the shattered isles is the diabolical Queen Anathraxa, who some say is close to finding a way to escape this interstellar prison.

Marvel RPG (5:00)
Greetings True Believers! Today you and your friends can play as Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Miss Marvel, and/or Spiderman as they respond to a break out at the supermax prison facility for super powered criminals on Rykers Island in New York City. Make Mine Marvel! and Try Marvel Heroic Roleplaying today.

Fiasco: Hero City (12:00)
Welcome to Hero City, home to some of the world's most popular superheroes. Heroes like Captain Crusader! Masked Revenger! Dynamo-Man! And the rest of the Defenders of Justice!

Exalted (12:00)
Exalted is a game of epic fantasy set during the Second Age of Man, a time before our own. It is an age of magic and adventure, when heroes of legend are reborn into a time of woe.

Vampire the Masquerade (5:00)
A group of young vampires are sent on a mission only to find that status quo has changed on their return and that they now have the power to control the city.

Board and Card Games:
Boards and card games are going to be fast and loose. The games below will have Gamemasters who will be ready to run/or teach the game. Of course everyone who is interested is encouraged to bring games. More information will be provided at the check-in.

Munchkin
Lords of Waterdeep
Cosmic Encounters
Guillotine
Fluxx
Dominion
Pandemic
Quarriors
Bang
I left off one item, so if you want to see what it is I left off, head to the website

Monday, January 30, 2012

Gamesday Report & 200th post

The Gamesday was a blast, Not enough people showed for Traveller, however I was able to play some Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG...not the beta, the GM had an editing copy of the final rules, and they definitely seemed better than the beta rules!! Well done. We played a standard kill the kobolds/goblins game and bring back their right ear...

Not being constrained by good and evil in the alignment system, we decided to dominate capture and harvest said ears rather than killing them all for the ears. My character, being a cleric and chaotic was a real nutjob...Cujo the Confused...Got himself killed when he decided to relieve himself in the sewage filled room. The giant centipedes didn't approve. (technically it would have gotten 4 of the 6 players killed had he used the actual save or die rules for the centipedes..instead it did Stamina damage...my character had 8 Stamina, lost 3 during the surprise round, and then keeled over dead at -2 Stamina before he could react in the first round.) Ian picked up the table in the card room and then rushed the 6 kobolds from the secret passage...the magic user charmed one and I commanded another to surrender, the warrior killed one and the others then surrendered!!! Several great rolls in the final encounter really made it a cake walk....Especially since both the Warrior (played by an old-school player in his 60s, that used to play with his sons since he picked up the old red box for them in the 80s) and Sean who joined after he finished with the Pathfinder Game he jumped into, both got criticals in the final battle. All in All a GREAT time was had at that table.

What I like about DCCRPG is that it is designed to be like OD&D dungeon crawls, but it uses some cool table-related mechanics to change it up, and having a luck score is quite fun. The different mechanics for each class actually make the game REALLY REALLY interesting because they all feel unique, and not at all confusing. I love that the game uses the weird dice, d16s, d22s, d24s and d30s!!! While I still hate d20s, it's neat to see other dice being used!! I bet Game Science is giddy about that...I have a d16 that I used for Bloodbowl, I may just have to pick up DCCRPG when it drops in April. I'm glad I got to play during this Gamesday.

After DCCRPG, the boys joined MIB Robert and 4 other players in a massive 4 board game of FRAG!.
I joined on the third turn when I wasn't able to secure enough players to attempt to run the Traveller game. I popped in the spawn zone, rolled 4 on my move which was enough to close with Ian with the Chainsaw 2H+1D=3D, however I had also drawn the HUD (+1 accuracy), so I had two attacks....Fragged Ian, then used my teleport hack to get into one of those fun rooms with lots of guns and equipment tiles. Second Turn, Sean was close enough to close with, Fragged! picked up his flamer. Third turn, rolled a nice 8 on my move...closed within 4 squares of Robert....6 dice rolled 17 to his 9, 1 wound...+1 wound for no armor. Fragged!!, Second shot just for fun...Fragged Ian again...3 Turns 4 Frags, I win...Robert likes to give out prizes, So I got a "My Little Cthulhu" munchkin card and a Undead Task Force hat he picked up at SDCC last year.