At-Home Con - The Wrap-Up

I said I would tell you more about At-Home Con and so I shall:

The guys got here early Friday night and we started drinking. I think we played something that night, but I don't recall what it was. At some point, we tried playing Dark Conspiracy, but I was simply too messed-up to make heads or tails of it. Add that to not having run a game in nearly 10 years and suffice it to say, it did not go well.

At some point, we made characters for D&D 3.x and played that for a few hours before we got back to drinking. I mean, we drank while we played but not seriously - more as a thing to do while we played. The game was a lot of fun, but not knowing a system and wanting to do things is pretty tough. I kept having to ask questions as to what, exactly, my character was allowed to do - that is, can he Bend Bars/Lift Gates or is that now a Feat, for example. It was still a great game though, all things considered.

We played D&D again, but we were all out of it by that point. We drank the entire weekend away but had the best time doing it!

I went to a gaming convention back in 2003. I had a pretty good time even though I didn't know anyone and it was a small affair. Most of the people I grew-up gaming with have since lost interest and the scene had really changed a lot even then. Now I wouldn't know anything about it. I'm about to learn Savage Worlds, which should bring me up to speed a little bit, but other than that, I simply don't know much about the modern tabletop RPG scene.

At-Home Con was a great way to enjoy gaming with good, old-fashioned partying - the way cons used to be (when they were more gaming/comic book conventions and not separated) - and we had a blast. I don't know that we'll ever get the chance to do it again, but I certainly hope we do. Either way, nothing will beat the memories of the first At-Home Con!

© C Harris Lynn, 2011