Well folks I’m back from Anaheim, CA. I’d tell you about the city, but I really didn’t see any of it. I was at the convention pretty much from waking up until crashing out. Now, this was my first experience at GenCon. I’ve been to conventions in the past, but not many. Primarily my marketing has involved driving thousands of miles to run demos in game stores or just sit around talking about my book to folks. I must say though, there is something to be said for being around thousands of gamers for four days in a row. It’s kinda cool and kinda scary at the same time. If you’ve had the pleasure of checking out Weird Al’s new hit single “White an Nerdy” that pretty much sums it all up. None of you gaming folks can be offended by this, you all know it’s true.
GenCon was not so much of a selling trip for me as it was a learning and networking experience, which was the plan. I met tons of folks and had a hell of a good time. A lot of this was spent just mulling about the floor and playing a lot of laser recon, which totally rocks, check out this link for info on that. I played in White Wolf’s Camarilla LARP thursday thru saturday, which was very cool. I got to chill with some of the design team of the Great War of Magellan RPG, an upcoming scifi epic game that’s currently, I believe, close to completion. I’m not sure if they have a web site for that one but you should check it out if you dig scifi, it was a cool game with a nice system in my opinion. Also, I got to talk to Luke, designer of the Burning Wheel and Burning Empires RPGs, which was awesome. If you haven’t heard of them, these are some excellent RPGs in the indie community check this out for burning wheel info. Other than that, I played an open beta of the Spoils (very nice CCG), crossed foam swords with the guys from H.A.C.S. (awesome) and plaed a bit of WarMachine and Hordes (very nice tabletop battlegames). Overall it was an awesome experience and I definitely plan to start hitting more cons and whatnot.
So I think after that I’m done with touring for the rest of the year, I plan to spend the rest of this year working up some free content for the site, working on suppements and writing a novel base on the Siege (at least the first part of it is). I know I always say this, but keep checking back as I plan on updating a lot more soon and doing more work on the site. Until next time (hopefully part IV of my design feature). Until then, keep the Memory, Live in the Now, believe in the dream.
– Ashe
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