| From: | The Bookworm <Thomas.M.Price@*******.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Gencon Report |
| Date: | Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:42:03 -0500 |
what all happened at Gencon. Im sure other people will be able to tell
you a lot more than i can since they taped the important parts of the con
and i was going through sleep deprevation:) but heres what i remember.
excuse the incoherence im still punchy even after 10 hours of sleep:).
First though we didnt have an official List.Party planned we managed to
meet at the FASA seminars and the Shadowrun tourny. It was a blast
meeting you all in the meat and put faces with the handles we all know and
love. A couple of us eneded up staying near each other at UWM an i would
recomend we all try to stay there next year. Its cheep(18 dollars a night
per person for a 5 person 3 room suite), nice and uncrowded(no 5 people in
one room deals, you each get your own bed), about 15 minutes from the Con,
and has great central lounges on each floor to have the list.party in at
night:). The other sugestion ive heard is for us to run an Event or
seminar as a list.event so we get a room and timeslot at the Con.
The Whats up with FASA Seminar on Thursday was great with standing room
only. They gave us the smallest conference room in the con and we could
only get about 2/3 of the people inside the room even standing. Ill leave
out a list of whats comming up since that has been already covered by
people. The Shadowrun Q&A on Sunday was in a larger room that was still
packed though not out the doror:). Mike basicaly tried his best on all
the magic questions but said most of the problems brought up will be
answered in the redefining of the basis of how magic works in SR3. He
spent about 20 min or so talking about how the RBB2 rules work and whats
all in it. He had a xerox copy of the he text layout with him and could
look up our questions directly:). It is suposed to have a lot more on
drones and security rigging, a constrction system based off of
templetes(ie your basic van or car or limo or bike ect and the HUGE list
of mods you can make), a chapter on new technoligy and weapons ect hes
calling New Toys(including the cranial remote deck:)), a large chapter on
combat with vehicles and drones, chapter on magic and vehicles. And of
course the 30 page list of all the vehicles in all the books from
shadowrun.
On Sat night i got to sit in and watch the Net.Tem play in the Shadowrun
Tourny finals. The tourny took the form of a cross country road race with
pregenerated characters that were definatly not your standard starting
PCs. They got off to a bit of a rocky start with everyone tired and the
DVixen's meds wearing off so she had a headache but they soon got into the
swing of things. The team came up with character quotes from the previous
sessions for the signes each had infront of them with player and charecter
names. The team was Dvixen (Qvick,rigger,"what do you mean its comming
toward us?!"), Mike (ThinkTank,EWO,"How would you like that GMC?med or
well done?"), Loki (Crapgame,munchie sammy,"Why are you callin me Bitch
like its an insult?"), Bull (R.C. , Rigger, "Crapgame you BITCH!"), Garic
(Peirce de la Crox, darf mage, "shut up and watch the dirt"), and finaly
Buck (Aristotal Valentyn, Physsad, I want to kill it before its dead") I
thought that they played vary well together specialy for a group that
never had actualy seen eachother before the tourniment. I was very
impresed with how they handled things and had fun watching them
Unforntualty they lost tin a close finals to the winners from last year a
group that games together on a regular basis(they also won the EarthDawn
Tourny).
I know that i have more to say but im fallin asleep at the keyboard so
talk to you all later when im somwhat coherent.:)
Thomas Price
aka The Bookworm
thomas.m.price@*******.edu
tmprice@***********.com
