My Kubla this year was fun, but not over the top.

It started when we got to the hotel. My group of friends (the people sharing my hotel room) spent most of the afternoon working out what they were going to sign up for. I had done that the previous week with the online shuffler.
There wasn’t much in the 3:30 Friday games I wanted to crash, so I hung around with people in our room until they decided that they were ready to Sign up for stuff.

Then Jarys, Lesley, Sean N, and I went to Sizzler. It was okay, I wasn’t that hungry so I just nibbled off of Lesley’s Salad Bar. We also sat Next to my friend Neil, John, his wife Janelle, and Kat. Overall it was okay.

I got into Carl Rigny’s Don’t Rest Your Head game. I got the PDF a little while ago and was interested, and have been looking it over for a few weeks now, looking for a very surreal experience. Carl did not disappoint. I started out as a convict who was convicted for a murder he didn’t commit. At the Bazaar I sold my First Name, a savage beating, my cousin’s drugs, and some rage, for the knowledge between right and wrong, and some faith, and some coins. In turn, by the end of the night, I had sold out a friend to gain some happiness in the Mad City. I became the War Master for the Wax King, the “Titan of Chaos”, destroying all the clockworks in the Mad City. It was awesome and I will defiantly be picking this one up soon.

The next morning I played in Kevin’s Scion Hero game. It was awesome, with the only downside being that we ran out of time. Tear! But it was a lot of fun. I played a daughter of Odin, and Man if it didn’t emphasis why I like Scion. I got to play in machinations between gods, and the entire plot boiled down to Odin and Zeus having a pissing contest over Pandora’s Box; which I found hilarious.

I ran my game that night and it went much better than I expected. There was only a single person in my game that I had not played with before. My plot went fairly timely, we ended a little after 1 AM with the game scheduled for 2. The mystery unfolded organically, and I really got to try out some of my experiments for satisfying spontaneous characters. I laid out skeleton character and made the players fill in the important stuff, drives, names, and Pillars of sanity. Then everyone made a strong connection between two of the other characters, the PC’s sitting to their left and right. Man, I am going to do this every time that I think I can get away with it.

On Sunday we slept in, checked out of our room and just hung out and around with people. I was chilling with the hosts of This Modern Death, and they decided that they were going to get an interview with Good Omens, and 4 other GM’s showed up and game a wonderful show. There interview is up now for listening. Just seee our other articles.

Over all not a Fantastic Con, but very enjoyable.