Check out my Pictures from the Con HERE
We begin by wandering into Anaheim Convention
Center - Hall D around 9 am, having already eaten
breakfast at the Mecca of fast food: *Sonic.
Everyone seems drawn to the exhibit hall even
though it doesn't open until 10am -just like every
year. Lines and crowds were formed into the hall's
2 entrances.
DING! 10 AM- Half the people who pile in immediately
veer to the Booth/Station for Wizards of the Coast.
This year however Most people got in line to get
raffle tickets instead of hopping on the Demos-for-Swag
train. The Raffle Tickets allowed the winners (only 40) a
chance to buy a starter and a booster for the newest Star Wars
game that releases 11/24/2006. Star Wars Starship Battles.
Ok, so let's face it. Getting a new game 2 weeks before it
actually releases is great. SO GREAT that I found one guy
who went to GenCon who won the chance to buy the minis
and is now selling them on EBAY!
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I was the first person on Saturday to Demo Starship Battles
and I won against my hubby. It's actually a great game.
I have seen a guy already get a Milennium Falcon.
The worst thing I demo'd at Wizards was Dreamblade.
Reviews later...All in all Wizards sported some of the best swag.
Worst Swag: World of Warcraft Trading card game -
You had to complete 5 of 8 quests and your reward
for hunting down junk was a booster of the game.
I heard that other swag was given but i didn't see it.
Again Reviews later...
Scary - World of Warcraft RPG people!!! Run Away.
They are taking over the real world now.
I also took a spin on the Paint and Take Table.
It's where you go and pick out a free Figurine and paint it.
There are helpers if you need it and then you get to keep
the mini. I had a blast there. Met some awesome people
& had some great conversation.
During this time hubby was doing the Halo Tournament
Coolest News for me: White Wolf Publishing who puts
out World of Darkness games has added Promethean
It is completely interchangeable into the vamp/were
worlds. The best thing though is that:
CHANGELING LIVES! That's right folks they finally
re-designed the Changeling system and origin. The
new Changeling will be interchangeable like all of the
World of Darkness games and debuting at GenCon
Indy 2007!!!
Another Fave RPG - Shadowrun has come out with
Version 4.0 - It's been a long time since a new one
has and it seems that the systems for character
creation has finally been smoothed out some. Deckers
are no longer useless in a group who travels and
I totally look forward to the possible Deal they might
have in the works with HeroLab.... It's possible the
Character generator will take on Shadowrun.
I hope so it would rock.
Picked up at the Con:
Cheapass cardgames - Totally Renamed Spy Game
Cheapass Cardgames - Light Speed
Hero Lab and Army Builder
Pirates VS Ninjas Gear
VooDoo Babies!!!!
A rambling melange of pop-culture.
5 comments:
Rock on! I envy you so!
I take it the WoW uses the White Wolf multiple d10 system? I've never gotten into WoW, which is just as well, since I've never particularly cared for the WW system.
Did you happen to see Otherworld Creations booth? I just wonder if they had any mock-ups of the new Chill. We've been playtesting it for well over a year now, but it still isn't ready to go to print. I'm sure I'll hear something about it from them, but let me know if you recall them.
Great pics, too!
Thanks so much for this virtual tour!
didn't see them... could have been there in a smaller presence but I don't know anything about Chill..
Perhaps you should post about Chill. Unless it's not something you CAN post about yet. Whatcha think boss?
I will soon. I can give some general information, but I'd prefer to pass it through Hyrum first (EW!), just to make sure.
The site will have full support for all versions of Chill, including the yet-to-be-released 3rd-ed.
I'm likeing the look of The Wierding much better these days than the horrible black n Red theme. I just wish it was nicer to the browser window. I have to scroll all over to get the whole picture. Then again, that's an age-old fight the IE users vs other browsers.
You need to set your monitor to a higher display. You prolly have it at 800x600. The site is best viewed at 1024x768.
That's one of the things I need to put on there. Plus, I am going to do a little renegade coding so that the whole page shows up in the window, no matter the size, but I haven't been able to do much of anything just yet.
I'll make a post in a second and explain everything. Thanks for the heads-up, though!
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