RE: Back from GenCon!

Glen wrote:
> Greetings all! GenCon was a blast. I did not get in as much gaming as
I
> would have liked, but I could only be in one place at a time. I
> thoroughly enjoyed the Full Thrust games that Dean ran, and was
> surprised to find a DSII game featuring Bolos from the Laumer books.

The FT and DS games we ran were always full.  Some were sold out but
there
are always no-shows but those slots always seemed to get filled quickly.

Thursday I ran 2 FT demos, they went well.

Friday I did my Sci-Fi Crossover: Empires & Rebels scenarios.  The 12:30
game resulted in the Star Wars Rebels rolling over the Klingons,
partially
due to the card based initiative system that I used which allowed all
the
rebels to go before the Klingon B-10 battleship had a chance to fire
back.
The 5:00 game had the Klingons blowing up all the Rebels.  The
initiative
was fixed, but the Rebels lost their fighters early because they didn't
adjust fighter tactics to the modified fighter rules I was using.

Saturday was the FT Admiral's Tournament.  8 players showed up and went
at
it.  This year's champion was Sidre Cools Berg from Oslo, Norway (a long
way
to go for a convention).  Since you could only use a fleet one time this
year, he played the 3 Phalon fleets in the first 3 rounds and the ESU
Carrier fleet in the finals.

Thanks to GZG, Valiant Models, and JR Miniatures for providing prizes
for
the tourney and other games.

I hope to have pictures of these games and the con up this weekend.

Overall GenCon was similar in that there were a lot of the same faces
around, like James, the guy running the Miniatures area, but there were
differences.  Better food choices were available.  Lines were very long
(like out the door around the building long) if you didn't have your
badge
sent to you but I didn't have to worry about them.  Indianapolis has a
nice
convention center and GenCon wasn't using all the available room so it
can
grow.

Some Indy businesses understood the potential market and adjusted (the
Hard
Rock Cafe stayed open late Thursday and was showing Star Wars on their
TV
screens) while others closed early when there were hungry and thirsty
gamers
roaming the streets.

> I understand that some GZG games and demos are being run at
> PentaCon....any one have more info?

Talk to Mike Miserendio, [gui_nut@yahoo.com] for more info about running
GZG
games.	He is organizing GZG games for PentaCon like he organized the
GZG
games for GenCon.  PentaCon is November 7, 8, and 9 in Fort Wayne,
Indiana
(http://www.pentacon.org/)

Dean Gundberg

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