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luke
10-20-2003, 02:50 PM
So Ubercon was this past weekend. Myself, Don (Eruditus), Joanna (Spring Violet), Radek (Drozdal) and the inimitable Nerd Aaron (Nerdnyc) all attended.

This time around Aaron was kind enough to split his booth with Burning Wheel and company. Personally, I think this worked great. We had a lot of fun stuff for folks to look at and had a lot of cool people manning the table (so we could all pee when we had to!).

Being at a booth is wierd, for me it changes the dynamic of what I am at the con for. Mainly I am there to play BW with whomever. But at the booth, the pressure is on to be a salesman which is not my natural state.

We ran some GReAT games, though. Don started us off on Friday night with a session of Bound in Darkness for 9 peeps! I was manning the table, but from what I heard it all went very well. Don's Sherim world stuff is always a big hit.

I ran a couple of demos on Friday night, but nothing too spectacular. Saturday was a busy day for Aaron. T-shirts were flying off the table. My turn came to run games. I had an 8 hr slot booked from 4 pm to midnight.

First off we ran some melee demos -- three in all, I think. Dro "helped" by first willingly getting his ass kicked as a Black Wolf and then by killing nearly the entire table of 8 players as a Named Orc. Oops! All in all, I think we ran thirteen players through the melee demos.

After that, we played Poisonous Ambition with 6 players. Two players were experienced gamers, three hadn't played rpgs before at all and one had played BW a few times before, but wasn't a die-hard rpger.

At first, I think the players didn't know what to do with PA. There isn't a McGuffin or Mr Johnson, initiating the action is entirely up the players. But after everyone caught on to what was going on we had: eavesdropping, lying, fomenting dissent, assassination, backstabbing, interrogation, torture, betrayal and outright murder. It was a blast! I hope everyone who played had as much fun as I did.

On Sunday, Don made us all eat Dunkin Donuts for breakfast. Drozdal and I were in a sugar coma for the whole day. Fortunately it was Don's turn to run an adventure again. He had a good group of 6 players and ran a short adventure set in the world of Sherim. Apparently, everyone had a good time. I think three of his 6 players bought the game!

While Don was away and Aaron and I were nerding and shivving each other at the booth, some really nice kids came up (one of them was a ninja!) and said they wanted to play BW. I ran a melee demo for them right there, and afterwards we ran a lightnining fast 2-hour Von Goten's Predictament for them and a few other interested parties. That was a lot of fun. Despite the fact that they rushed the house, they managed to get very lucky and kill the Orcs while the squire was rescued. (What was very funny was that they kept coming up with all these great ideas for saving the day without risking their lives, but when I asked them, "Ok, how do you do that?" They just shrugged their shoulders and chewed their lips! Ugh! So close!)

So we all had a really good time and were glad to meet and play with a whole bunch of cool people!

thanks!
Luke

eruditus
10-22-2003, 04:33 PM
There were some ideosyncracies to get used to - like having to walk outside and around the front of the hotel to get from the dealers room to the gaming area due to a wedding like so many f'in pariah.

Other than that we had a blast. This was such a refreshing trip since last month's DragonCon (which I love and will always return to but it's a much harder sell than UberCon). spring_violet mentioned what great peeps the fellahs are :) and much shoppe talk was had by all.

Zev from Z-Man games was part of the fun as well as CJ Henderson and his talented daughter, Erica. It barely felt like selling with so much going on.

I am very much looking forward to our busy convention schedule. There is always so much support and good will. I have to say that the Ubercon people, as a whole were nice as well. Not much in the way of pretention despite its uber-name :)

Wish we could get more of you to come down!!! Lollagazebo comes and it would be cool if we could get a situation where folk are there to play BW. We would love to be able to move into running games for our devoted peeps and not just demos (well, at least I would). Full BW games draw crowds! I eventually want people to be drawn to the Wheel like CoC. Every CoC game was filled in preRegistration. We'd love to see that sort of excitement with Luke's game as well :)

And lets not forget PhilCon!! We have a lot planned. The Arena is gearing up. Scripting galore with over 20 gladiators plus monsters, orcs and trolls to boot! This PhilCOn I am dubbing PHILCON ON FIRE! Make it down and you won't be disappointed - YAY!

hope to see you all soon

Catalyst
10-22-2003, 05:58 PM
I'd be happy to come out if you guys were within a 2 hour one way drive radius, but I'm on that west coast thing.... heh

Conniving Wolf
10-22-2003, 08:30 PM
Yeah, Ubercon was fun.

Having to go outside and around was not the greatest of ideas, but they had their reasons. There was a wedding going on and they blocked off the two main, I think they were, convention rooms.
It sucked for me mainly because I didn't have long pants, or a long sleve shirt. Especally at night, when the temparture went down. :)

But it was really fun. First time playing Burning Wheel was even funner. Now I'm hooked and I can't stop wanting to play. :D

spring_violet
10-23-2003, 09:37 AM
Catalyst - Eruditus and I are thinking about going to KublaCon in May. So if you are w/in 2 hours of San Francisco and can wait patiently for 7 months... :)

eruditus
10-23-2003, 11:30 AM
Also, there is a new set of the Wheel over in San Jose I have yet to catch up on. I will check into the status and interest on that front, Cataylst, and see about a get together :)

Catalyst
10-25-2003, 01:50 PM
Catalyst - Eruditus and I are thinking about going to KublaCon in May. So if you are w/in 2 hours of San Francisco and can wait patiently for 7 months... :)

I'm in San Diego, which is a bit out of that 2 hour range, even at high driving speed :(

realityisfortheweak
10-25-2003, 07:47 PM
:D Bwaha. Meg (yes, the "Lets torture Tammy some more for no reason!! WHOO!! PARTY!" Meg :wink: ). Just wanted to say I'll definately be at Ubercon 3- hope we can play again! Billy (that dumb troll who's favorite passtimes include digging and talking to spiders) and I have been plotifizing (anyone who corrects anything about the word "plotifizing" shalt be smacked ^_^) about glueing ourselves to the burning wheel table. :roll:

DumbTrolls
10-27-2003, 09:18 PM
ahh, yes. Tis the worst troll on earth! We will find and stay at your tabel FOREVER! MUHAHAHAHA! AND I WILL FINALLY GET TO USE MEH MAD RPG SK1LLZ! ....im never saying that again.......

luke
10-28-2003, 12:33 AM
:D Bwaha. Meg (yes, the "Lets torture Tammy some more for no reason!! WHOO!! PARTY!" Meg :wink: ).


Oh, in addition to torturing you like to lie, too? "No reason?" I think not! There was every reason in the world to continue torturing poor Tammy. I know you didn't do it out of pure spite. So long as I live i'll never forget you leaning over to her --after you had saved her from the troll -- and saying, "Now don't tell a soul."

Brilliant! About as cut throat and twisted as I could dare hope for!

Conniving Wolf
10-28-2003, 10:59 PM
I wish I was there for the rest of the game. Evil mothers! :twisted:

Dumb troll, go talk to some spiders!

realityisfortheweak
11-13-2003, 02:12 PM
Yeah, wished you could have stayed too! Was a blast- and the more the merrier. Are you going to Uber3, Monsieur Wolf??

Conniving Wolf
02-10-2004, 07:23 PM
Of course I'll be going to Ubercon 3...

And just to remind all of you, it is comming up soon! :D