1. The orc hordes you encounter have noncoms and medics.
2. Healing potions also restore tattoos.
3. The Winged Horse won't fly until you do a full safety inspection.
4. The dungeons are patrolled by MP's that keep asking 'Who started this fight?'
5. If you don't state that your character is performing scheduled weapons and armor maintenance after each combat, they rust to powder in about a day.
6. Elves give directions with terms like 'Fore' and 'Aft.'
7. You learn to retreat from any monster with a Marine Corps tattoo.
8. The curses attached to some treasures include KP Duty and Full Kit Inspection.
9. You can't stop for a night without submitting a complete watchbill for the characters in camp.
10. New players joining after the adventure starts show up with Transfer Orders.
11. The kingdom has a number of trolls, minotaurs and giants caged in silos on the border. The thread of MAD (Monster Assured Destruction) seems to keep the peace.
12. No matter what sort of area you adventure in, or what background culture dwells there, or what the dominant race of the surroundings is, every town, keep, village, city or fish camp you enter has at least one bar, two brothels, three pawn shops, a tattoo parlor and a barber shop.
13. The Healing Cleric always makes you wait for two hours before trying to send you away with a pair of toadstools and forced fluids.
14. After the goblins pass by, all the dungeons have a fresh coat of paint
15. A mysterious figure, the Gunny, appears every time you make a mistake. Don't make mistakes. Just don't.
16. Saying 'we tie him up' always starts a 20 minute discussion of knots, with 4 skill rolls.
17. Guard Dogs are not just hit points that bark...they're chain saws with fur.
18. If captured by the monsters, your character always gets put to work digging latrines. Even if held by ethereal beings that don't use them.
19. Magic Users have to account for every ounce of equipment or supplies they carry, in careful attention to the rules for burdens. Blooded warriors can put 'One Piano' on their character sheet and it's just assumed they can 'handle the load.'
20. Every advancement to a new class level involves a trip to a tattoo parlor.

Hi Folks

We have a rather poor turn out for this game, due to me personaly not getting the invite out. The amount of people does not justifiy us renting the masion so we will be hosting the game at our home. 15 people said they were going to show up and due to us now being in the past this would be a good opertunity to for a smaller game. The location is about 40 minutes west of the Mansion directions are included below. The game will be free just bring money for Pizza or maybe some Burgers on the BBQ. Costumes are optional, however please bring a bathing suit as we have a hot tub to relax in. (Roman Bath IG). Looking forward to a fun night, see you there!

Pete & Karen.

Hope everyone can make it!

Pete

Last update has the game postponed on the grounds that too few people could make it (with less than a week's notice? go fig!!!)

So likely there will be a less formal (and free) gathering out in Easton for those who care for some hamburgers on the BBQ and maybe a little tabletop BGA action. The hot tub's hooked up by now, too, I hear.

I'm probably going to head out, so if folks in the North/Central Jersey areas need directions or to arrange a car pool, let me know.

So says the Petey:

Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006
From: "Peter Jay" <pdqgames@gmail.com>

Hi all
Sorry, due to personal issues I have not gotten out an invite to the July 22nd game scheduled for this Saturday. Several of the ST's have asked that we take a head count on who can attend a game this Saturday. We plan on running the dark age game with your current character (save for the few who have requested NPC's). Let us know if you can make the game. (That is besides the people who have written to let us know they were coming. :-)
Thanks
Pete

Registration usually opens at 4:00 PM for game start at 5:00 PM.

The site is the Fleetwood Musuum at the Vermuele Mansion.

My boss has just determined a useful thing! I was unable to adjust my chair yesterday because it is not a spinny chair! It's lever adjusted.

The facilities people who delivered it told me it was a spin-adjusted chair and I just took their word for it. But they were wrong. And now I am taller. Yay.

I'll be putting in my usual four four-hour slots to get my GenCon badge comped. Normally I run Attack of the Beautiful Princesses, Revenge of the Beautiful Princesses, Welcome Freshmen, and a subsequent University of Hellenback adventure.

It seems maybe I could mix that up a bit, though. Here are the games I think I could toss out there. The percentage is the "readyness" level (100% means I could print out character sheets and handouts and go). Keep in mind that I have limited time, so those games at under 50% readieness are really iffy.

Poll #672522
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

What FOUR games should I run at GenCon?

I won't make this a long post. It's late and I should go to bed soon. Oddly enough, for all that the hotel nickel-and-dimes you, the computers w/internet access in the business center are free of charge. Yet internet from the room racks up $11 a day. So I'm in the business center.

So far the games have all gone well. I actually did not take a single generic ticket this convention - I had full showings for every game. That's unprecedented. My games ran well, and the ones I played in was fun.

I slept in, hit the gym, and wandered the dealer's room Thursday morning. I didn't manage to find the HERO booth, but I have instructions to locate it now. I played the noon slot yesterday, a Call of Cthulhu game. There was no prize, but several players commented they'd been amused. (I was handed a bitchy debutante and hammed it appropriately for a 1920's adventure). I even survived (by the skin of my teeth.) The convention must be looking at table assignments, because my two consecutive games I ran were at the same table/room, and the same happened tonight.

My first game today was run by a teenaged GM running (it was clear) her first convention game ever. Aside from a tendancy to railroad and a little nervousness, she did a good job, and I figure she'll work those problems out with experience. Her father asked me quietly for a critique later. The Bureau 13 game was amusing, and ended early enough I was able to hit the hotel gym, shower, and still get back in time for the 5pm game. That... was a full day of gaming. I should sleep soon.

DexCon kind of tanked for me this year, but all for things that were pretty much my fault, so there's not much to complain about. Mostly it was a combination of being sick, having one of my rare episodes of really bad menstrual cramps. None of my games actually ran, mostly making me feel guilty that I didn't recruit harder. If I'd felt better, I could probably have dragooned passers by.

I did put together a quickie livejournal account for thejennychannel so I'll have a place to drop programming when I have it ready (and, of course, have the equipment and place to broadcast to officially in character.

Well, there's always Southern Exposure. I had enough Avatar players interested in reprising the Hellenback games (just not at the same sessions!) it's likely to be worth it. Now I just need to decide how much, if any, time off I'll be taking for SE. Cherry Hill is too far for me do do the Thursday evening commute.

The tag end of this cold thing is still hanging on, but really only by a thread. It really needs to be done already.

I picked up Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on my way back from the con and finished it early Tuesday. I rather liked it. At least, I liked it better than book 6. Rowling still needs to edit down and tighten a bit, but I've never seen a popular book series that didn't have that problem at this stage. When there's deadline and marketing pressure, and a certain level of sales are guaranteed, it's extra hard to go back and do that last traumatic edit where you butcher your dearest darling down to a smoother pace and svelter profile.

I have no trauma from the Big Character Death, but then, I didn't last book either. I had a little fun watching the fannish trauma via Fandom Wank though.

Sky High comes out next Firday, the 29th. Any takers on an expedition?

I've been far too busy to post updates, so here's an aggregate.

I'm still a little sick, although this time 95% better. I was at 80% friday night, and then woke up Saturday coughing up phlegm bunnies, darnit. That killed the weekend and wednesday night plans. Sorry to those who expected to see me at DexCon last night.

I have to be at DexCon tonight, though - I have a game on the schedule! And then I go home and go to work tomorrow.

Speaking of work, my boss put in her two weeks notice yesterday. This is good for her, but means a lot of crap is going to roll farther downhill. We'll see.

Oh, also, White Wolf seems to have retracted their new LARP policy.

Feh. Braaaiiins.