A Great WEEK For Gaming!
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Forget my last post; it didn’t cut it: it’s been a great week for gaming!
On Thursday, I sat down with my brother, sister-in-law and Ross Watson to play some Mouse Guard. Yes, that Ross Watson, the designer of Deathwatch and Rogue Trader. How’s that for intimidation!
If you’ll allow me a moment to digress, before the game, while Andrew (brother) was finishing up working at the store, I sat down with Tricia (sister-in-law) and played both Drakon and Cave Troll, two great games, and we were able to finish a game of both in one hour. Tricia is a brutal player, and won both games. She holds no punches, and is sneaky and manipulative. In other words, everything a player should be.
Back to Mouse Guard… I’m glad the players had fun, because, even though I did as well, I felt like an utter failure. Things didn’t go the way I expected, I got flustered over some rules I couldn’t figure out, I forgot how a lot of stuff went, and in the end it really, really wasn’t my best job GMing.
Ross was fantastic. He’s a great guy, and played a mouse whose instinct is to always tell a story. He would. At length. He had a story for any situation, and couldn’t keep his nose out of trouble. They ended up fighting off a crow and a badger, but when they went back to town, he began telling tales, describing the crow as “big as an eagle,” and the injuries he sustained as from those of a bear rather than a badger.
In the end, they succeeded at their mission, and Ross walked away with the most Persona points from doing so well at his character. It was great to have him at the table.
Yesterday, before surprising my brother with a birthday dinner at Old Chicago, I went over to his house, where I played with Tricia, the Sadler twins (who I played in that WFRP game with), and Brady’s fiance. We played a game of Condottiere, a card game by (who else?) FFG.
At Andrew’s surprise party, he received, among other things, WHFRP, so he’ll have his own set now, as well as the Winds of Magic supplement. I had some great conversations with the Sadlers, Ross, the FFG art director, as well as Dan Clark, the co-creator of the FFG game Android.
It was great to be among so many gamers and geeks. It feels like a small taste of GenCon.
Today, I’ll be playing in the Journey to Black Fire Pass event, which is a demo scenario for WFRP (which I learned is pronounced “wiffrip”) at the FFG Event Center, then, this evening, we’ll be either playing Android or Battlestar Galactica. I look forward to it!
