GZG East Coast Con Report

Hi all,

Congratulations to Jon Davis, Mark Kochte and Gil Huan -- the first
annual(?) east coast GZG convention was quite a success! I drove up on
Saturday morning (from Washington DC) and drove back Saturday evening,
so I can't comment on Friday or Sunday's events. Saturday, however, was
a hell of a lot of fun!

Twelve people showed up, and we occupied a single conference room in
the Brunswick Hotel. The games went very well -- I played Tom McCarthy's
Stargrunt/Kryomek scenario, and the bugs won hands-down, partly due to
Thomas Barclay's miserable die-rolls (sorry, Thomas!).

There were about 20 entries in the painting contest (I won 2nd place in
the Stargrunt category for my scratch-built 25mm scale grav tank, and
Stuart Murray's well-painted Stargrunt squad won 1st place).

There were no game dealers, but Geo-Hex arranged to have prizes given to
the winners of the games and the painting contest, and I think everyone
came away from the convention with at least one blister pack of figures
(thanks, KR!).

One thing I think deserves specific attention: everyone at the
convention 
was making a serious effort to be good sports, whether or not they won
or
lost their game. When I was trying to get some of my local friends to 
drive up with me, one of their arguments against it was, "why should I
go
all the way to Lancaster, PA just to get into rule arguments with a
bunch
of gamers?" (and my response was, "...and how would that be different
from
our weekly games?" :) However, we seem to have gathered together some
of the best people in this hobby -- the level of sportsmanship was quite
high, and everyone gave their opponent(s) the benefit of the doubt
whenever a questionable situation arose.

--
Rick Rutherford
rickr@digex.net
Private Networks Group
DIGEX Inc.