Judd
05-08-2005, 09:51 AM
I have slept 2 hours all weekend. I am going to post my first impression thoughts, crash and hope that others who were there can fill in the holes:
Wow, what a whirlwind of gaming all packed into 12 hours.
The following gaming took place in 12 hours.
Amazing.
Spiders & Roden Game...Nest of Somethin'
It was fun gaming amidst another Luke-made dysfunctional gang but unlike Poisonous Ambition, this one just wasn't firing on all cylinders. This ain't news, Luke said it himself.
I think it is the lack of GM's handles. There is no way for Luke to turn up the heat...no Hatred, no Goblin Messengers, and no returning army fake-out and no Lash.
But it was a grand warm-up.
Luke's tabletop games with over a dozen people must be seen to be believed. He bounces around the room, laughs, mediates conflicts and when it works, drives it like a rough taskmaster.
This scenario is in need of some workshopping.
Thor's Resources and Circles Game
This is a strong effin' con game, no doubt about it. It is a more traditional group of four, so the average gamer's head won't explode upon being thrown in the middle of The Gift or P.A. These are wonderful games that have made me re-think how I want to run con games and one-shots but it was neat to play in a traditional party.
Circles rock so hard. When I realized how much player authorship it gave me...HOLY SHIT. I am going home and burning up a ton of Circle heavy PC's right the eff now.
I basically busted open the game when I said to Thor, "Um, can Jay's Dwarf roll on his Circles to meet the high-price whore the Abbot visits?"
Thor's eyes lit up. "Yes, you can."
But we hadn't even met the Abbot. I turned the scenario on its ear. Jay not only created the NPC but by suggesting it, I created a whole bunch of new information on the Abbot. It was the second Circles roll I made that game, both were doozies, both set the game careening off into exciting and unexpected new directions.
Cirlces, read the damned Circles.
Under a Serpent Moon
This was the last four hours. This game took us until almost seven in the morning.
What to say about this setting?
Take Mad Max, mix in a Matrix mind-fuck and the entire life of Hunter S. Thompson, right up to the moment where his family shot his remains out of a cannon after his suicide. That is this setting. I'd call it grim but that doesn't begin to cope with it.
The characters I thought were nice guys turned out to be monsters and the characters I thought were monsters turned out to be DEMONS...my own character very much included.
If Jack Chick had ever read this setting he would have killed himself and the monstrous aliens poising as angels would have laughed.
Wow, what a whirlwind of gaming all packed into 12 hours.
The following gaming took place in 12 hours.
Amazing.
Spiders & Roden Game...Nest of Somethin'
It was fun gaming amidst another Luke-made dysfunctional gang but unlike Poisonous Ambition, this one just wasn't firing on all cylinders. This ain't news, Luke said it himself.
I think it is the lack of GM's handles. There is no way for Luke to turn up the heat...no Hatred, no Goblin Messengers, and no returning army fake-out and no Lash.
But it was a grand warm-up.
Luke's tabletop games with over a dozen people must be seen to be believed. He bounces around the room, laughs, mediates conflicts and when it works, drives it like a rough taskmaster.
This scenario is in need of some workshopping.
Thor's Resources and Circles Game
This is a strong effin' con game, no doubt about it. It is a more traditional group of four, so the average gamer's head won't explode upon being thrown in the middle of The Gift or P.A. These are wonderful games that have made me re-think how I want to run con games and one-shots but it was neat to play in a traditional party.
Circles rock so hard. When I realized how much player authorship it gave me...HOLY SHIT. I am going home and burning up a ton of Circle heavy PC's right the eff now.
I basically busted open the game when I said to Thor, "Um, can Jay's Dwarf roll on his Circles to meet the high-price whore the Abbot visits?"
Thor's eyes lit up. "Yes, you can."
But we hadn't even met the Abbot. I turned the scenario on its ear. Jay not only created the NPC but by suggesting it, I created a whole bunch of new information on the Abbot. It was the second Circles roll I made that game, both were doozies, both set the game careening off into exciting and unexpected new directions.
Cirlces, read the damned Circles.
Under a Serpent Moon
This was the last four hours. This game took us until almost seven in the morning.
What to say about this setting?
Take Mad Max, mix in a Matrix mind-fuck and the entire life of Hunter S. Thompson, right up to the moment where his family shot his remains out of a cannon after his suicide. That is this setting. I'd call it grim but that doesn't begin to cope with it.
The characters I thought were nice guys turned out to be monsters and the characters I thought were monsters turned out to be DEMONS...my own character very much included.
If Jack Chick had ever read this setting he would have killed himself and the monstrous aliens poising as angels would have laughed.