{"id":5254,"date":"2021-06-14T21:24:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T21:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=5254"},"modified":"2021-07-27T01:01:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T01:01:29","slug":"north-texas-rpg-con-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=5254","title":{"rendered":"North Texas RPG Con 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Marking our return to in-person gaming, NTRPGCON was a delight. Braving airports, airplanes, and hotels Unicorn Rampant founder Adam A. Thompson visited the lovely Westin in Irving, Texas, where a lightly-attended but extremely friendly old-school Dungeons & Dragons convention awaited. Immediately ran into some friends from HawaiiCon and GaryCon. And they had a great goodie bag!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The old-school feel started right away, when the very helpful convention staff directed me to the physical pen-and-paper post-it board where the game schedule was posted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was great to see my friends Ethan and Jeremy from Hawaii’s RPGs On The Beach<\/a>, and set up at their booth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I pinned up a piece of paper with Vampyre Women of Venus on it and set up in the main common gaming area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also signed up to play in a twelve- player D&D game entitled Return to the Isle of Dread, being run by Dave “Zeb” Cook himself, author of the famous adventure in question. Playing in that game was a highlight of my entire life’s experience with RPGs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday afternoon was spent learning and enjoying Artemis, a multiperson spaceship crew simulator, with some great folks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday was a round playing Freegrazers in the morning, and an afternoon working Slow Your Roll and Unicorn Rampant’s table in the exihibition hall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This marked the release of the limited-edition ten-copy first printing of Unicorn Rampant’s new OSRIC \/ D&D adventure Siege of Black Mountain. Coming soon to DriveThruRPG.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Followed by the Return to the Isle of Dread game. I played an 8th level human fighter with 8 Str, 7 Dex, 14 Con, and a 15 Wis who was returning to the Isle. I rationalized that he had survived mainly through his wits and toughness, and was scarred about the head from dinosaur bites. When we finished chasing down and confronted the magic-users who led the slavers, my character charged, swung his sword and missed, and was counterattacked with a feeblemind spell. I needed a 13 on my Saving Throw vs Spells but rolled an 11. Glorious! It was an honor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to put this great convention together, and to all the attendees! Look forward to seeing you next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marking our return to in-person gaming, NTRPGCON was a delight. Braving airports, airplanes, and hotels Unicorn Rampant founder Adam A. Thompson visited the lovely Westin in Irving, Texas, where a lightly-attended but extremely friendly old-school Dungeons & Dragons convention awaited. Immediately ran into some friends from HawaiiCon and GaryCon. And they had a great goodie bag! The old-school feel started right away, when the very helpful convention staff directed me to the physical pen-and-paper post-it board where the game schedule was posted. It was great to see my friends Ethan and Jeremy from Hawaii’s RPGs On The Beach, and set up at their booth. I pinned up a piece of paper with Vampyre Women of Venus on it and set up in the main common gaming area. I also signed up to play in a twelve- player D&D game entitled Return to the Isle of Dread, being run by Dave “Zeb” Cook himself, author of the famous adventure in question. Playing in that game was a highlight of my entire life’s experience with RPGs. Friday afternoon was spent learning and enjoying Artemis, a multiperson spaceship crew simulator, with some great folks. Saturday was a round playing Freegrazers in the morning, and an afternoon working Slow Your Roll and Unicorn Rampant’s table in the exihibition hall. This marked the release of the limited-edition ten-copy first printing of Unicorn Rampant’s new OSRIC \/ D&D adventure Siege of Black Mountain. Coming soon to DriveThruRPG.com. Followed by the Return to the Isle of Dread Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5254"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5282,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254\/revisions\/5282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}