[Gaming] Gencon

One thing which I forget is that antibiotics do strange things to my brain. None so bad as Flucloxacillin, which gives me hallucinations*, but any of the damn things make me act a little strangely - so it was unfortunate that I got a dental abcess two days before GenCon and spent the entire time I was there hopped up on 3000mg a day of a cocktail of drugs and painkillers. This resulted in me wandering over to angusabranson in the bar at 2am on Sunday morning and woozily telling him that GenCon would be so much better if he ran it...only to discover that he was standing next to one of the actual GenCon organisers. Ah, embarrassment all round.

Anyway, the short version was that despite my drug-addled brain, Reginald Jeeves and the Lost Ark seemed to run very well, concluding with Hitler in a suit of power armour falling out of the back of an airship over the Atlantic in the arms of the blazing mummy of Imhotep the Undying One.
So a win all round there, I think.
It's been three years since I sat down and wrote/ran anything of that scale and I was very nervous indeed - possibly this was a side effect of the crack sloshing round in my veins, but I do feel more confident about writing stuff again and I spent about an hour after the game jotting down ideas for things like Bertie Wooster and the Temple of Doom so who knows?

Anyway, GenCon was good fun, possibly because I spent more time playing and less time organising in previous years (one thing that became clear is that the Saturday night vampire is more trouble than it is worth, so I shan't be running that again), and I'm seroiusly considering going back next year.

This post brought to you by Erythrocin, Metronidazole and Nurofen. Mmm, drugs.



^{*Which once put me in bed for three days thinking 'Gosh, I wonder what could be giving me these intense hallucinations? Oh! time for another tablet'}