Comments on: What Happened At SimCon

By: Painting With Shotguns XIV

Painting With Shotguns XIV — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:03:33 +0000

[...] Hey! Stuff. Not much new, really. I did SimCon last weekend, and you can read the recap here. [...]

By: terribleminds

terribleminds — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:45:13 +0000

Were I to change my name to Chris Wendig, then I will be named after my mother instead of my father, and I will further share my name with an aunt.

@Rob:

For years, YEARS, I never brought business cards. This was an ass-kick of a mistake. I should’ve done something, even something simple — so, yes, good advice. For me especially, because nobody can spell my damn name and they need a reference!

– c.

By: terribleminds

terribleminds — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:45:13 +0000

Were I to change my name to Chris Wendig, then I will be named after my mother instead of my father, and I will further share my name with an aunt.

@Rob:

– c.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:40:46 +0000

I dunno, Chuck. Chris Wendig has a nice ring to it. Have you considered legally changing your name?

By: terribleminds

terribleminds — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:34:54 +0000

@Filamena — oops. Pre-gens went home with the players.

@Keith — thanky!

@Andrew — thanks for coming to the event. My name is Chuck, by the way.

– c.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:53:10 +0000

Congrats on what sounds like a fun day of gaming, and affirmation of your props as a nerd-prince of gaming!

By: Filamena

Filamena — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:24:40 +0000

Wooo! Show us your pre gens!

I mean boobies.

No, wait, I mean pre gens.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:25:21 +0000

Chris, thanks for coming up to Rochester. I was the tall guy who was the first to show up for the game-writing talk. I didn’t know you before the con, so it felt wrong showing up for the games you ran. I appreciate the advice, even though I doubt much will happen there. There’s a lot of supply.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:38:32 +0000

Nicely done! Sounds like it was an awesome time.

By: terribleminds

terribleminds — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:27:19 +0000

Will –

Each was four hours. Got maybe halfway through Fear-Maker’s. Got all the way through Blackmoon.

Fear-Maker’s, since people had played it, seemed especially to call for a rearrangement and reintro, so I started the story in a different place (changeling characters out in the Hedge hunting for stabapple thorns for Red Wren’s shopping list, and they don’t know that they’re providing elements for the Children’s Contract).

Blackmoon also demanded I start deeper in — so, the hunters all awoke as prisoners inside the farm compound.

Unexpected? I dunno. Hard to say, because by and large everything is unexpected at a con game. The fact that during Blackmoon they all played very well together and basically cemented a six-person hunter cell comprising total strangers? Awesome. The fact that in Fear-Maker’s, political considerations rose to the fore even tough I didn’t make them an elevated part of the story? Great stuff.

The game that had 16 people — I didn’t have to deal with all 16. Some of them obviously were told and didn’t show. But nine did show, and I did pretty much just as I described: six stayed and played for two hours, then the remaining three came back and swapped characters with three of the current players, but the story itself continued from the same spot (meaning, we didn’t start over).

– c.