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Consternation report - Friday
13 Aug 2005 02:35 amGot out of work nice and early, dropped off my deliveries at home, made some sandwiches and headed off to Consternation. Took me about 20 minutes because Histon Road was packed but got there eventually. Funnily enough, the first familiar face I met wasn't a roleplayer but ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
medieval_bunny who's currently staying at New Hall with the rest of her troupe before they go off on their big US tour.
Other familiar faces soon followed, the usual suspects really I only see at cons. Got my badge and programme, put up the sign up sheet for Midway City (5 of 6 slots filled at time of writing!), signed up for Dogs in the Vineyard run bygbsteve tomorrow morning and played San Juan (card game) with Hammy and some other people.
Sat in a bit on a panel about self-publishing RPGs with Allen Varney,ffutures and Nicholas Caldwell. Quite interesting.
Then it was time for the Paranoia freeform. Much fun but a bit short and showed that Allen Varney can not only write well but is a great player, too.
I chatted to him a bit afterwards and showed him Midway City, which he thought was a great idea and was well impressed with the layout and artwork. Too bad his Paranoia XP game clashes with it but I might run another one Sunday morning.
Wandered back to the walkway and found the boardgamers from earlier to join in a game of Puerto Rico, in which I unexpectedly came second. It's a very good game but not one for me as it's only strategy and has basically no random elements.
Quote of the evening:
D20 has eaten the brains of the RPG industry - Allen Varney, author of Paranoia XP (among others), at Consternation
Photos
Very good first evening of the con. Looking forward to tomorrow. Don't know what I'm doing tomorrow evening yet. Someone's running Kult but I don't think it's a good idea playing Kult with people I don't know. I'll take some small board/card games and do the quiz and things, I think.
medieval_bunny who's currently staying at New Hall with the rest of her troupe before they go off on their big US tour.Other familiar faces soon followed, the usual suspects really I only see at cons. Got my badge and programme, put up the sign up sheet for Midway City (5 of 6 slots filled at time of writing!), signed up for Dogs in the Vineyard run by
gbsteve tomorrow morning and played San Juan (card game) with Hammy and some other people.Sat in a bit on a panel about self-publishing RPGs with Allen Varney,
ffutures and Nicholas Caldwell. Quite interesting.Then it was time for the Paranoia freeform. Much fun but a bit short and showed that Allen Varney can not only write well but is a great player, too.
I chatted to him a bit afterwards and showed him Midway City, which he thought was a great idea and was well impressed with the layout and artwork. Too bad his Paranoia XP game clashes with it but I might run another one Sunday morning.
Wandered back to the walkway and found the boardgamers from earlier to join in a game of Puerto Rico, in which I unexpectedly came second. It's a very good game but not one for me as it's only strategy and has basically no random elements.
Quote of the evening:
D20 has eaten the brains of the RPG industry - Allen Varney, author of Paranoia XP (among others), at Consternation
Photos
Very good first evening of the con. Looking forward to tomorrow. Don't know what I'm doing tomorrow evening yet. Someone's running Kult but I don't think it's a good idea playing Kult with people I don't know. I'll take some small board/card games and do the quiz and things, I think.
