Kids at GZG ECC?
From: agoodall@a...
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:58:43 +0000
Subject: Kids at GZG ECC?
Out of curiousity, how many people are going to bring kids (let's say,
under
13) to the ECC? Noam mentioned bringing Zev along, who is 6. Was anyone
else
thinking of taking kids? Would there be people who would take kids along
if
they knew there were games for them?
It's not possible for me to make it there this year, but I might be able
to
attend next year. The reason I'm asking is that, depending on the
weekend, I
would be bringing a 6 year old next year (Logan just turned 5). I sold
my
fantasy 25mm figures on eBay this year, but Target had a number of sets
of
Mega Bloks on deep discount. I now have a number of orcs and knights
that I
plan to use for playtesting FMAS as well as playing games with Logan. It
occurs to me that they would make great figures for kids games at a
convention. I was just curious if there would be enough interest to
warrant
some serious game designing, potentially for next year?
Note that I'm sure that adults would enjoy these games, too. For those
that
don't know, Mega Bloks are a Lego-compatable building block system. They
have
an interesting aesthetic, though. The Dragon line comes with castles,
sailing
ships, and a Vorgan (read "orc") stronghold. These look _very_ cool. I
also
bought a number of their "Alien Agency" sets, which were on _serious_
discount. These I plan to use in Delta Green, a roleplaying game about
the
Cthulhu Mythos and UFO conspiracies. They could also be used for FMAS.
At
some point I plan to get at least one of the warships from the Dragon
set,
and I already have a scenario in mind.
I'm just trying to gauge whether or not a kid game track would be of
interest. Or, for that matter, if adults wouldn't mind playing with
"toys"...
(which is sort of what we do all the time, anyway).
--
Allan Goodall agoodall@att.net
http://www.hyperbear.com agoodall@hyperbear.com