GenCon 2005
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davywavyAlthough I say at gencon every year that I will not do this again, every year I come back and do it again.Tthe odd thing about GenCon this year was that it was good fun - something that has been missing from the atmosphere for some time.
As such I cam e back with a veritable fizzing noise from the bit of my brain where the thinking happens as I've got several ideas of what to run next year. And I thought you lot, as potential players, should get the opportunity to influence what I write for you. So I've got three ideas...and a poll.
Game 1:
Vietnam: 1968
It's the eve of the Vietnamese New Year and the NVA are massing on the border for what will be the biggest co-ordinated miliary action since D-Day. In Forward Firebase Delta X-Ray, rival Colonels John 'Hannibal' Smith and William Kurtz have wildly differing ideas on what their men should do. Meanwhile the men pursue their different motivations; Corporal Pez insists on wearing his lucky red shirt with a week to go before mustering out, Stringfellow Hawke And 'Howling Mad' Murdoch fight over who will be pilot on the last flight out, and will someone please take that bow off John Rambo?
"The last Plane to Clarksville" A true-life LARP depicting the reality of the Vietnam War.
Game 2:
Texas 1902.
The British may rule the stars, but American know-how is turning this backwater country into a powerhouse. In Cade County, Texas, a mysterious explosion has turned the old swimmin' hole into the richest oil strike in the state. Now the great and good have come to get the claims; John D. Rockefeller and Dale Carnegie in person. But who does own the rights to the ol' swimmin hole? Is it Old Jesse Duke and his Duke boys? Grandpa Jones of Jonestown, perhaps? Ma Baker and her Baker Boys? Or old Mr. Willikins, the Carny owner?
Will the locals be divdied by the promise of wealth? Or will the team up, possibly to form:
"The League of Ornery Gentlemen"
A gaming Pean to every shotgun-toting grizzled old timer with a short temper who ever strode the silver screen, set in the same universe and "Mars or Bust!"
Game 3:
Hollywood 1978.
It's the golden era for the adult entertainment industry, and everyone who is anyone has shown up to the wrap party for Swedish Porn Auteur Hugh Jdik's latest Magnus Opus. But in this seedy world everyone is out for themselves, and when Hugh is found dead the fur is sure to fly!
"PORNO: The RPG". A LARP game you wouldn't want your children to play. For that matter, I really wouldn't recommend this game to anyone who has any standards.
[Poll #373692]
As such I cam e back with a veritable fizzing noise from the bit of my brain where the thinking happens as I've got several ideas of what to run next year. And I thought you lot, as potential players, should get the opportunity to influence what I write for you. So I've got three ideas...and a poll.
Game 1:
Vietnam: 1968
It's the eve of the Vietnamese New Year and the NVA are massing on the border for what will be the biggest co-ordinated miliary action since D-Day. In Forward Firebase Delta X-Ray, rival Colonels John 'Hannibal' Smith and William Kurtz have wildly differing ideas on what their men should do. Meanwhile the men pursue their different motivations; Corporal Pez insists on wearing his lucky red shirt with a week to go before mustering out, Stringfellow Hawke And 'Howling Mad' Murdoch fight over who will be pilot on the last flight out, and will someone please take that bow off John Rambo?
"The last Plane to Clarksville" A true-life LARP depicting the reality of the Vietnam War.
Game 2:
Texas 1902.
The British may rule the stars, but American know-how is turning this backwater country into a powerhouse. In Cade County, Texas, a mysterious explosion has turned the old swimmin' hole into the richest oil strike in the state. Now the great and good have come to get the claims; John D. Rockefeller and Dale Carnegie in person. But who does own the rights to the ol' swimmin hole? Is it Old Jesse Duke and his Duke boys? Grandpa Jones of Jonestown, perhaps? Ma Baker and her Baker Boys? Or old Mr. Willikins, the Carny owner?
Will the locals be divdied by the promise of wealth? Or will the team up, possibly to form:
"The League of Ornery Gentlemen"
A gaming Pean to every shotgun-toting grizzled old timer with a short temper who ever strode the silver screen, set in the same universe and "Mars or Bust!"
Game 3:
Hollywood 1978.
It's the golden era for the adult entertainment industry, and everyone who is anyone has shown up to the wrap party for Swedish Porn Auteur Hugh Jdik's latest Magnus Opus. But in this seedy world everyone is out for themselves, and when Hugh is found dead the fur is sure to fly!
"PORNO: The RPG". A LARP game you wouldn't want your children to play. For that matter, I really wouldn't recommend this game to anyone who has any standards.
[Poll #373692]
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Date: 2004-10-27 07:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-27 07:27 am (UTC)Trivia Moment
Date: 2004-10-27 07:32 am (UTC)Re: Trivia Moment
Date: 2004-10-27 07:52 am (UTC)One moment...
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Google has failed me. I would guess Clarkesville would contain a military base from which people were shipped off to Vietnam, though I could be wrong. It had a "Going to War" feeling to it, even before I knew much about that era.
Re: Trivia Moment
Date: 2004-10-27 07:53 am (UTC)Re: Trivia Moment
Date: 2004-10-27 07:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-27 09:01 am (UTC)Just wondering...
Date: 2004-10-27 09:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-28 08:54 am (UTC)