While not exactly what I anticipated, and a bit surprising to boot, the March get-together was a fantastic success in my book. Four games were played, of which I ran 2, we traded some secrets to theme and pacing, everyone seemed to have a good time, we covered the gambit of genres, and we all talked about doing it again next year.

Game #1 consisted of an old-school Boot Hill game run by Mark in which we were aboard a Kansas train that got robbed. Awesome fun combined with deadly Boot Hill mechanics. I’ll scan in and post my character “Three Finger Jim” soon.

Game #2 was the suspenseful and deadly, “You’re All Going to Die” run by me. Characters were assigned by random selection of Pinochle cards. The players took on the roles of B-movie victims in a no-win situation. I can’t say enough how much fun it was to run this scenario. So much so that I’m going to do this again next year… I mean who can’t come up with a slasher setting to put high school students into?

Game #3 was a 3rd Edition D&D game run by Luke. Let me tell you, we were seriously outmatched. And yet it was still a blast to try to pit our collective wits against his dragons and that dracolich… that’s right, dracolich. Luke always did have a nack for bringing out the big guns. And these guns were beyond compare.

Game #4 was a KORE quick and dirty mash-up Superhero game. Lots of fun until the end when I couldn’t find any way of ending the thing nicely after being outwitted by the 3 players. Someone inform me how to make a good ending of a summoning that has the summoner sent into low Earth orbit, the sacrifice snatched away and sent to the hospital, and the summoning locale buried under a metric ton of steel and iron… The best parts of the game were in using a technique of throwing a fight at the players every time they got stumped.

All in all a great success. I learned a lot and am looking forward to next year’s Convergence.

Up to 1d6-1 Related posts:

1. March Trip
2. Convergence: Not My First Choice
3. Deadly Systems are Doomed
4. When all else fails… start a fight
5. Fall Convergence wrap-up

Tags: Boot Hill, Characters, Convergence, D&D, game, KORE rpg, rpg, Setting, Superhero, technique