DaveCon is
this weekend. I'm resigned to make the best of it. Actually, I'm
starting to look forward to it and I'm getting more enthusiastic every
day. Apparently I'm going to carpool there with Fulton. So on Thursday
I have to pick up my brother in Davis at 15:00, drive to Fulton's place
and hopefully get there by 17:30, then were off to Southern California
and if we don't get lost we should get to Dave's place by midnight I
suppose.
Sunday night we're heading back. Hopefully we can go to the barbequeue
and leave by 19:00 or so. Get back to Fulton's by 01:30 then drive my
brother to Davis by 03:30 then go to my parent's place because my Aunt
is staying there the weekend. Which reminds me that I'm going to have
to leave by noon so that I can drop her off at mom and dad's then get
to Christopher's on time.
I should take the BattleTech stuff, at least enough to finish the
current fight and do the next scenario just in case. All my players
will be there plus Rowe and Christopher and they can play the OPFOR if
they want to participate. I've been trying to get Dave to run Twilight
2000 but that doesn't like it's going to happen.
So Shannon and Pick are going to run campaigns starting in April when
Rowe moves to New Zealand or maybe even before. Pick wants to run a
pirate campaign though he's not sure on what system to use. The
strongest candidate so far is Rolemaster, which is a fine system.
Donald and I think Pick should combine his two favorite genres --
westerns and pirates -- and do a Prairie Pirates (aka Swashbucklers of
the Midwest) campaign.
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Shannon had
three options: an Ars Magica campaign with one GM, a Stormbringer/Elric
campaign using the BRP system, and a Gloranthan Hero Wars campaign.
From what I've heard, Hero Wars is just too rules light for my tastest,
and BRP is pretty rules light in my opinion. That leaves Ars Magica
which Shannon is very good at running.
Unfortunately we voted and Stormbringer won. Oh well, yet another
fantasy campaign using a BRP system. Frankly right now I'm not enthused
about this campaign. But in 6 months I may change my mind. In any case
there is the obligation to try to play well. I'm sure it'll be a good
game. I just don't like BRP for character development, which is my
favorite part of gaming.
Actually the campaign I'm really salivating over is Fulton's Middle
Earth D&D 3.5 campaign. Well, maybe it won't be D&D 3.5 but I
really hope it is. For fantasy I love the D&D 3.5 ruleset even
though apparently half the people (Shannon, Pick and Donald) do not,
which makes it unlikely that Fulton's campaign will run with the full
group.
Someday we'll have to find some time to play a bit so Fulton can
experiment. He's been wanting to do it but we have to wait until Donald
is not around for the night game and opportunity is scarce.
Then there's my Deadlands campaign which I will run someday. There is
just so much stuff for me to do though.
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