Kingdom con made me feel like a king. It could easily be my
favorite convention, even above comic con.
The con was
divided into four sections, as follows in order of favorite to least favorite;
The Tabletop room, the Board/Card game room, the RPG room, and the Wargaming
room.
I loved the
Tabletop room because of the Malifaux. Malifaux was the thing that I spent
hours playing. I got to participate in an achievement league, and an actual
tournament. I did well in the achievement league, but failed miserably at the
tournament. I won the Morgue Base for getting 5th place.
I liked the
Board/Card game room, because of the variety. One wall was completely lined
with games. Over 100 games sat on a table waiting to be checked-out.
The rest of the walls were lined with vendors from Villainous Lair, At Ease
Games, and Gamecrafter. The rest of the room was filled with tables, with tons
of people at them. I spent most of the first day in there doing a Warhammer kit-bash.
I spent
about a total of three hours in the RPG room. All I played was an Interface
Zero 2.0 playtest that my dad, Ron, was running for us. He wrote the entire equipment
section in the book, just in case you didn’t know.
Last was the Wargaming room. (No offense to any wargamers out there) The only
reason why I was in there was to do a raffle. Of course I didn’t win anything,
but the total value of the prizes was $800.
I forgot to
mention one last room, but I’ve saved the best for last. The Treasure Room. So much
loot and swag filled the room, and you could barely walk around in it. wargames, rpg games, card games, board games,
and much more. I got tons of stuff; Iron Kingdoms 3.5, Heap, Infernal Contraptions, terrain for Malifaux,
and lots of little insignificant swag. Overall, the convention was TOTALLY.
FREAKING. EPIIIIC!!!!
PS. If you go to the con after about 11:00pm, you will be
surrounded by drunkards. If you are over 21, you can join them. If not, LEAVE.
Trust me, it isn’t worth it to stay after that.
, Lord of the Fries, 
and 
!. Sean and Ian also did the demo for 
, then played in the tournament for fun and prizes! Ian got second place...EPIC! Later that evening we got to play Cubicle 7's 
. The game's got a point based system to balance out the doctor with the other characters, the vortex generator for Captain Jack Harkness seemed a bit too powerful and should have required a point each time it was used. Though I think it had enough points to pull off all the vortex jumps I did. It was a fun one-shot game, Ian enjoyed playing the Doctor and Sean played K-9, when he was constantly hacking the system. I liked the ladder system for success.
. The Epic boys played in the Killer Bunnies tournament again, but got knocked out in the first round...not so EPIC! I went to play 
while they were in the tournament, and I must say that is one of the best games I've played. I can't see Dresden Files being done justice under another system. The last thing we did was learn 
, the card based miniature war game, $15 gets you all you need for an army, another $15 gets you an expansion to that army. (Though I learned future armies will be combined base and expansion in one box for $25.) No painting required. Ian won his Lizardman deck, then we also bought the High Elf deck and the Monsters & Mercenaries deck.