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Reminder: @WashingCon this weekend.

I will be running two games at WashingCon: Hall of Judgment on Saturday (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy) and The Great Cow Race of 2018 on Sunday (In Nomine).  The second one will definitely have seats, but I suspect that the first one isn’t as sold out as it says it is.  There’s always somebody who doesn’t show.

Will be doing a lot of prep for these tomorrow: character sheets for the In Nomine game, more review of the GURPS one.

Reminder: WashingCon is this weekend, and I’m running games.

GURPS (Hall of Judgement) and In Nomine, to be specific. I have some hopes of getting people for the Saturday GURPS game but I am preparing myself for the possibility that nobody’s gonna show for the Sunday In Nomine game. Or even probability. Sunday morning is often not the best time to run a con game, and WashingCon is a board game convention in its heart. The gaming pool may be, ah, small.

Guess we’ll see!

My 2018 WashingCon RPG schedule. (Dungeon Fantasy and In Nomine)

WashingCon is on September 8th and 9th: I will be running two games.  On Saturday (2 PM) I will be running the Hall of Judgement adventure for GURPS Dungeon Fantasy — yup, the one from the Kickstarter.  All official-like, too; by which I mean I told Doug Cole I’d run it at WashingCon if he liked, and Doug liked.  Which is hardly surprising, of course.

The second game is on Sunday (10 AM), and will be The Great Cow Race of 2003.  What’s that?  I’m giving away the adventure with that link? Folks, read the write-up again.  It’s not an adventure: it’s four hours of applied Chaos and Old Night.  I never ran that adventure the same way twice; shoot, I never ran it the same way twice from hour to hour inside the adventure itself.  I fear nothing from having my players know ahead of time what the adventure might be; in fact, I welcome their growing madness.

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MADNESS!

@WashingCon tickets now on sale.

$40 bucks now; they’ll be $65 at the door, so if you like board games and/or RPGs and live in the DC area you probably want to go to WashingCon.  Honestly, this is much more a board game convention — an intensely family-friendly board game convention; a lot of families show up to run every game under the sun — than an RPG one, but they’ve been good about letting us roleplayers come in and get our game on. September 8th and 9th: I haven’t got official confirmation that I’m doing some games, but that’s only because they’ll start scheduling that later in the year. I see no major obstacles in my way for running a couple of games.

@WashingCon dates, ticket availability announced.

September 8-9, 2018. Tickets for WashingCon go on sale March 1st; I plan to run a couple of games again this year (assuming that they agree, of course).  As I’ve noted before, this year it’s going to be GURPS Dungeon Fantasy and In Nomine, because I can run either without having to look everything up all the time.

So I’m trying to decide what the @washingcon In Nomine game will be.

Assuming, of course, that they sign off on me doing an In Nomine game there. Although I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t: I’ve run games for them in the last two cons, I’ve caused no drama, and my other game’s going to be GURPS Dungeon Fantasy, which will be a whole lot simpler to plot out. I figure that they won’t even blink an eye, honestly. Continue reading So I’m trying to decide what the @washingcon In Nomine game will be.

Back from WashingCon.

Both games went well: the Sunday morning game had a couple of cancellations, but you have to expect that on the second day. It meant that the adventure ended a little early, but at that point I was ready to go home and collapse anyway. GMing takes it out of you, or at least me. Happy players both times, so I assume that it all went well.

And, hey, I went to a panel for once. It was on publishing and selling RPGs; there were a bunch of industry pros at that one. Very practical stuff, and I got to ask a question or two. Well worth the time investment. All in all, WashingCon is definitely cool. Especially if you like board games; in that case, it’s practically Nirvana.

Moe Lane

PS: Unfortunately, Georgetown University is a howling wilderness where the bars do not open until noon, and shut down at ten PM. This was almost legitimately horrifying. Isn’t it a college, or something?

Off to WashingCon!

There’s actually a panel I want to catch for once, so I’m going early. I will be back tomorrow, and I am deliberately not taking the Chromebook so that I can, you know, have a beer and relax a little instead. I am looking forward to it!

Moe Lane