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[morsla]

Whee!

The Maiden of Gears now has 16 preregistered players, which is the minimum needed to run it - we have 31 characters in total. Inventors, pirates, child prodigies, spies, diplomats, religious figures... I'll be writing a few more of them on the train tonight...

Snow and Thunder is also filling up quickly - we're not able to run in Session I (both GMs are running the freeform that session), but I'll be able to take three sessions on the Friday. A few sessions are already full. Luckily, I've deciphered the rest of the Weapons of the Gods system - I just need to create about two dozen martial arts styles (with accompanying rules)... the game can run systemless (like all our other con games), but I'd like to have an optional system in case people want to try out the new rules, as they are pretty cool. They work better than anything else I've tried, for that epic Hong Kong Action feel.

][con Warhammer 40,000 is now over - the Ringwood Games Club may be taking over the event in future, but it's my last one as organiser. And to think, that if bishi_wannabe and parakleta hadn't approached me about running a game at UniCon back in 2000, this might never have happened... In the last five years, I have:

* Booked five different venues, as the event kept growing
* Ordered 114 large pizzas to feed the players
* Given away about $3000 worth of prizes
* Shaved about ten years off the end of my life, from stress...
* Donated about $600 to various clubs that helped me assemble the monster
* Blown up the (fictional) world, at the end of Saturday's final round.

We had 30 teams, for a total of 60 players this year - not the largest event I've run, but a good crowd regardless. The Ringwood club got plenty of exposure from the event, and made lots of money from drink sales. Everyone seemed to have a good time; the painting standard has jumped another level, and there were quite a few first-time tournament players as well.

It's finally finished - and after Arcanacon, I can think about actually playing in a few games...

Comments

[jaquiej.livejournal.com]

What's the deal with choosing characters for the freeform?

Just curious, because everyone seems to have a different way of doing it.

[morsla.livejournal.com]

You can pick one from the list we'll have at the con, or you could choose one earlier if you'd like. mousebane and delphaeus already have characters in mind...

I'll post up a list of characters tonight - if any of them sound particularly interesting, I can send you some more information.