Sun Nov 10 12:00:00 EST 2018

[Making this entry on the eleventh, after I got home.]

At U-Con.

Slept fitfully from twelve-thirty to seven.
The hotel's comfortable enough, but unfamiliar an noisy.

9 AM–12 PM: Neoclassical Geek Revival, "The Gnomes of Levnec", GM Dan Domme.
Dan plays in Zzarchov Kowolski's group.
Zzarchov is pseudonym, because he has some sort of sensitive job where writing weird D&D stuff might be a problem.
Three adult men playing, two early-teen boys, and a trans woman.
The NGR system itself didn't add much value for me over basic D&D, but maybe I'd like it more if I understood it better.
The adventure was a lot of fun.
Zzarchov took a novel idea about gnomes, worked the implications of the idea into a local setting, and dropped the players into the situation without expectations and with plenty of rope....
Right up my alley.
Both the boys started the game in typical taciturn teen mode, but it was fun to watch one of them become excited about the whole make-people-eat-gnomes-and-burn-down-the-world thing by the end.

2–6 PM: Lamentations of the Flame Princess, "The Incompetent Watchmaker", GM Stacy Dellorfano.
Six or seven adult men playing.
This is a city crawl that Stacy's been working on for a couple of years and plans to publish with LotFP.
Lethal fun;
Stacy said we were the first group to survive!
I'll buy the book when it comes out.
Stacy also created and runs Contessa;
I pulled her aside after the session to mention how much I value her work.

8 PM–12 AM: Runequest Glorantha, "Griffin Mountain", GM Andrew Moss.
The GM didn't show for this game, but anther GM had his players not show.
We combined, and played D&D 2e instead of Runequest.
Three men playing, a ten-ish-year-old boy, and a fifteen-ish-year-old girl.
AD&D 2E, "Escape from Tideman's Folly", GM Brett Gossiaux.
The kids were the best thing about the session.
The boy was super-excited to play a singing bard and loot corpses.
The girl played a huge, meat-grinder minotaur, and did a deep voice and finger horns.
Beyond that pair, not much fun in the session.
The "adventure" was a single long fight with no clear purpose in a single room.
Zero player choice, zero exploration.

Breakfast: bread with peanut butter, banana, tomato, coffee
Lunch: apple, pulled pork sandwich, sweet potato
Dinner: chicken sandwich, tomato, apple