A few notes about GaryCon II
Mar. 21st, 2010 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athornton#1: DUDE THAT WAS FUCKING AMAZING.
More lucidly: I played something like 28 hours of RPGs with maybe 50 different people, some of them Very Big Names Indeed, and no one was a douche. I had a great time. I talked game design and sandbox vs. narrative and edition differences and stuff, and, you know what, no one got mad about it.
#1b: Not only are the Gygaxes actually human, but it turns out they're nice humans.
That goes for the Other Big Names. Frank Mentzer, Jim Ward, Tim Kask, Jeff Talanian, Joe Goodman, etc. The thing that I guess I should have realized but never really, really did: these folks really, really like playing games. And they are intensely fun to play with.
#1c: Oh, yeah, it also goes for the people whose names I didn't recognize
Well, we all came to GaryCon because, basically, we wanted to play some RPGs. Turns out that that, if you're not being an Internet Fuckwad, is a much bigger similarity than the Difference Of What Variant You Play.
#1d: At least ONE Catholic priest is really cool.
That'd be Father Brian (Graywolf), who was an excellent man to have holding off the skeletons while I bombarded the Sightless Serpent with fireballs.
#2: I wish I knew who Ken and Ida were.
Everyone else seemed to know them--everyone besides them that everyone knew I eventually figured out who it was (and, generally, which of their books I'd read/not read/loved/hated). But not them. Only I didn't want to look like a dumbass by asking.
#3: New Glarus Spotted Cow is really quite good.
#4: I now own (one of) Luke Gygax's copy of Gods, Demigods, and Heroes, signed by Kuntz and Ward, and by Tim Kask, who edited it...and I got Luke to write "Property of Luke Gygax" in it and Ernie to write "Ernie is king!" above that.
Luke mentioned that it might hurt the resale value. Like I'm gonna sell it. Pfah! That one goes next to my autographed Spawn of Fashan (yes, really).
More lucidly: I played something like 28 hours of RPGs with maybe 50 different people, some of them Very Big Names Indeed, and no one was a douche. I had a great time. I talked game design and sandbox vs. narrative and edition differences and stuff, and, you know what, no one got mad about it.
#1b: Not only are the Gygaxes actually human, but it turns out they're nice humans.
That goes for the Other Big Names. Frank Mentzer, Jim Ward, Tim Kask, Jeff Talanian, Joe Goodman, etc. The thing that I guess I should have realized but never really, really did: these folks really, really like playing games. And they are intensely fun to play with.
#1c: Oh, yeah, it also goes for the people whose names I didn't recognize
Well, we all came to GaryCon because, basically, we wanted to play some RPGs. Turns out that that, if you're not being an Internet Fuckwad, is a much bigger similarity than the Difference Of What Variant You Play.
#1d: At least ONE Catholic priest is really cool.
That'd be Father Brian (Graywolf), who was an excellent man to have holding off the skeletons while I bombarded the Sightless Serpent with fireballs.
#2: I wish I knew who Ken and Ida were.
Everyone else seemed to know them--everyone besides them that everyone knew I eventually figured out who it was (and, generally, which of their books I'd read/not read/loved/hated). But not them. Only I didn't want to look like a dumbass by asking.
#3: New Glarus Spotted Cow is really quite good.
#4: I now own (one of) Luke Gygax's copy of Gods, Demigods, and Heroes, signed by Kuntz and Ward, and by Tim Kask, who edited it...and I got Luke to write "Property of Luke Gygax" in it and Ernie to write "Ernie is king!" above that.
Luke mentioned that it might hurt the resale value. Like I'm gonna sell it. Pfah! That one goes next to my autographed Spawn of Fashan (yes, really).
