I took a Saturday to make a trip out to SSC 2013 to run a session of The Tomb of Athganazar.<\/p>\n
The adventure went well \u2014 even had a few folks playing who expressed interest in seeing our other adventures, so I\u2019ve pointed them to this site. \u00a0If you, dear reader, are one of them, thanks for the kindly-worded validation. \u00a0The adventuring party found a very creative solution to the wizard\u2019s challenge, different than those at the last con, but just as off-the-wall and fun for all. \u00a0This seems to be the norm for games I run at cons, which is very encouraging, both in the flexibility of the adventure as well as the creativity of the players at Texas gaming cons. \u00a0Excessive hack-n-slash isn\u2019t as fun for me as a storyteller, as it too often turns adventures into glorified calculators. \u00a0The question for me has always been whether players enjoy this outside-the-lines style of session, and it seems they do. Again, thank you all players who roll with these adventures. \u00a0I am grateful for your participation and positivity.<\/p>\n
On the floor, I met a visual artist, Joey Blackard<\/a>, with an intriguing, yet simple style, and picked up one of his framed originals. \u00a0I\u2019d love to use more of his work in our adventures; more on that in time. \u00a0Then, after running the session, happened upon Diesel on the vendor\u2019s floor, and though I usually don\u2019t approach such luminaries in the history of role playing, he seemed very approachable, so I decided I\u2019d say hi. \u00a0Thirty minutes into our discussion of role playing, scoping projects, the experience of working at TSR, then WoTC, and finally life in Austin, I realized that we had a lot of common ground. \u00a0He was so down to earth and genuinely interested that I had to cut myself short or I would have kept talking with him all evening. \u00a0I\u2019ll definitely look him up at other Texas cons; he tends to make the rounds each year. \u00a0One of my favorite con experiences ever.<\/p>\n As usual, the Houston hospitality was second to none, the organizers, gamers, and other locals taking care of me as they always do. \u00a0Special shout out to Leo and Phil for the discussions and good times on Saturday night after we\u2019d packed out of the con. \u00a0Always great to hear about your campaigns and story ideas and to meet more of your friends and colleagues in adventurecraft.<\/p>\n More to come as we are already hard at work on an adventure to run atOwlCon<\/a> in early 2014. \u00a0This one will showcase the Dungeonstone Caves and Caverns Set that recently closed on Kickstarter<\/a>. \u00a0Odds are they\u2019ll have some sets available for purchase at the con. \u00a0So in six months, come check out the booth; the adventure will be run in multiple sessions at the neighboring table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I took a Saturday to make a trip out to SSC 2013 to run a session of The Tomb of Athganazar. The adventure went well \u2014 even had a few folks playing who expressed interest in seeing our other adventures, so I\u2019ve pointed them to this site. \u00a0If you, dear reader, are one of them, thanks for the kindly-worded validation. \u00a0The adventuring party found a very creative solution to the wizard\u2019s challenge, different than those at the last con, but just as off-the-wall and fun for all. \u00a0This seems to be the norm for games I run at cons, which is very encouraging, both in the flexibility of the adventure as well as the creativity of the players at Texas gaming cons. \u00a0Excessive hack-n-slash isn\u2019t as fun for me as a storyteller, as it too often turns adventures into glorified calculators. \u00a0The question for me has always been whether players enjoy this outside-the-lines style of session, and it seems they do. Again, thank you all players who roll with these adventures. \u00a0I am grateful for your participation and positivity. On the floor, I met a visual artist, Joey Blackard, with an intriguing, yet simple style, and picked up one of his framed originals. \u00a0I\u2019d love to use more of his work in our adventures; more on that in time. \u00a0Then, after running the session, happened upon Diesel on the vendor\u2019s floor, and though I usually don\u2019t approach such luminaries in the history of role playing, he seemed very approachable, so Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}