Conventions

Wherein I discuss my convention experiences.

IGX Summer Daze 2022

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What a weekend! IGX Summer Daze went so very well. I can’t overstate how great it was to see so many friends, both old and new, in such a relaxed, open, and fun atmosphere. We chatted, we ate, we celebrated birthdays, we ate, and we gamed! Thursday night I played For the Queen as the … Read more

IGX Face-to-Face Gathering, Spring 2022

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Kat and I ran a house-con this weekend for folks we know through running the Indie Games eXplosions at DEXCON and Dreamation. The location was a bed-and-breakfast in an amazing renovated church owned by a gamer friend of ours, in a small steel town in central Pennsylvania. It was a great get together of not-quite … Read more

Gaming in the Waning(?) Days of the Pandemic

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So, I recall an article that came across my feed in the spring with a title of “It Just Might Be a Wonderful Summer,” about how the widely-available vaccine and the lower transmission rates of outdoor activities would help Summer 2021 feel almost like Summer 2019. Well, my gaming life is a bit of living … Read more

Dreamation 2020

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Another February, another Dreamation! I did some great gaming this weekend. On Thursday, Richard and I hacked Swords Without Master into a two-player game of improvisational sword and sorcery adventure. We were opposed by the nefarious Guild of Provisioners to steal a Horn of Plenty, and pursued by an immense, surreal maw rising from beneath. … Read more

Metatopia 2019

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Is this what game conventions are like in Blade Runner? Metatopia was better than a floating sushi bar. I playtested Grognards & Gorgons, a GUMSHOE game of Napoleonic investigators facing down monsters from Greek mythology. It’s does some interesting things with troops, where we are commanding a few dozen soldiers, distributing them like resources, but … Read more

Dreamation 2019 – 15th annual IGX

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Had a good first full day at Dreamation. Started the day offering With Great Power for two players who had signed up for +Tony Lower-Basch ‘s Capes game. We had fun with an altruistic superhero whose parents wanted her to make some money of her powers, and a hero who was plagued by demons that caused calamity wherever he went.

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The First IGX at Dreamation

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I found this gem in the Wayback Machine, our first Indie Games Explosion at Dreamation 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20041212115812/http://incarnadine.indie-rpgs.com:80/ige.html And the schedule grid, handmade by me in CorelDRAW: We offered 26 game sessions and 3 seminars. This year, for our 15th annual IGX, we’ll be offering well over 80 sessions, including some of those same games that … Read more

Metatopia 2017

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Metatopia was great! The entire Double Exposure staff did a great job handling a record number of events and attendees. Personally, I really enjoyed not having to playtest any games all weekend. Instead, I got to be a tortured anime super soldier in Russell Collins’s Project Wingspan; a well-dressed angel hunter in Miguel Espinoza’s Nahuales; … Read more

DEXCON 2017 convention summary

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DEXCON 2017 Still exhausted from the best five days of gaming in my year. As always, Vinny, Avie and the entire Double Exposure staff put on a great show every year and I thank them for their tireless efforts.   Wednesday night, I taught four people how to play Joshua’s _The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze_ … Read more