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palfrey at 09:12am on 01/08/2009
palfrey at 09:12am on 01/08/2009Between Friday 31st (i.e. yesterday) and Sunday 2nd, I'm attending the Constitution con in Cambridge. Excepting Picocon (which as a one day con doesn't really count), this is my first proper SF convention. I've been meaning to get to one for *years*, and only being prodded by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hazyjayne got me finally getting around to doing it. I'm very glad she did that, because it's very fun, and that's only the first evening.
Didn't get in until ~8:30, in time for the session on long-running RPGs ("This campaign is not just for Christmas"), in which I learnt quite a few things about general-purpose GM'ing (another item on the todo list), followed by a game of "Baron Munchausen". I've seen the latter done once before, but only as a group of 5 people at the front being watched by a larger crowd, not this fully-involved version. For people unaware of this game, you are a series of noble folk, stuck indoors and telling tales of their fantastic deeds (in a pseudo-Victorian era). At any point, other people can challenge the current storyteller on a detail of their plot, with the possible consequence that you get asked about your part in the tale, and must weave something appropriate. For my part, I told how I came to lose my nose and eyes in a duel with the champion of the 1st English fusillers (having insulted their honour by mistaking them for the Welsh fusillers), as well as managing to restore said items with the aid of the philosophers stone held by the undying Isaac Newton... and that's before we get to the flying yaks, yetis and mountain spiders of Tibet, which is several tales in itself.
I've now taken a bit of advice told to me in various places regarding con's to heart ("Eat lots of the breakfast, it's free") while discussing the difference between henchmen and minions, as well as uses for lawyers in repelling alien invasions, with a side-plot regarding the uses of the DDA for the Daleks. Next up: locating money, having a shower and listening to a talk about rules systems in games and can they still be fun while broken!
hazyjayne got me finally getting around to doing it. I'm very glad she did that, because it's very fun, and that's only the first evening.Didn't get in until ~8:30, in time for the session on long-running RPGs ("This campaign is not just for Christmas"), in which I learnt quite a few things about general-purpose GM'ing (another item on the todo list), followed by a game of "Baron Munchausen". I've seen the latter done once before, but only as a group of 5 people at the front being watched by a larger crowd, not this fully-involved version. For people unaware of this game, you are a series of noble folk, stuck indoors and telling tales of their fantastic deeds (in a pseudo-Victorian era). At any point, other people can challenge the current storyteller on a detail of their plot, with the possible consequence that you get asked about your part in the tale, and must weave something appropriate. For my part, I told how I came to lose my nose and eyes in a duel with the champion of the 1st English fusillers (having insulted their honour by mistaking them for the Welsh fusillers), as well as managing to restore said items with the aid of the philosophers stone held by the undying Isaac Newton... and that's before we get to the flying yaks, yetis and mountain spiders of Tibet, which is several tales in itself.
I've now taken a bit of advice told to me in various places regarding con's to heart ("Eat lots of the breakfast, it's free") while discussing the difference between henchmen and minions, as well as uses for lawyers in repelling alien invasions, with a side-plot regarding the uses of the DDA for the Daleks. Next up: locating money, having a shower and listening to a talk about rules systems in games and can they still be fun while broken!
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