A little… different… than what I was expecting. To be honest, I was expecting more of a vendors’ presence from the sponsors, but I guess that’s not how it works. The game I ran was well-received, although I had to scramble to get a third person after the guy who triple-booked a slot decided not to show up; the endgame went completely differently than it did in playtest, which is exciting news! That makes the setup marketable, I think.
The game I played in (Bookhounds of London/Trail of Cthulhu) was fun, too. I ended up going mad, because I will be damned if I play a Cthulhu game where nobody goes mad and gibbering insanely is part of the fun. I managed to not be there for the occult stuff until the very end, and had spent the game genially insisting that there was no such thing as real magic – which led nicely to me emptying my revolver into the magician and then running out, shaken and broken, into the night.
So, good gaming even if I wasn’t able to do any professional networking. So it goes…
I burn the book!*
*Classical reference
I know that Hal Mangold was there, but unless a company has staff (like Hal) nearby, they don’t usually show up at regional cons, sponsored or no.
So it goes. My Saturday game players enjoyed BubbleGUMSHOE a great deal, by the way. So go you. 🙂