We realized this was our fifth GenCon, which is pretty cool! And despite being awake on Friday from about 3:30am to 2:30 am, we had a great time... There are some pics on a web album to check out. Some are just minis we thought were cool in various cases. Jon also did an Infinity tournament, so there are a few photos of that, and demoed at the Heroscape booth. We took a lot of pics of new items at the Heroscape booth and our favorite minis companies.
We did play the HaloClix game - Jon like it more than I, but it was pretty fun. They had a huge vehicle thingie (I don't know Halo) as a raffle giveaway, and some Halo guys dressed up. But other than that and a few demo tables, it was pretty low key. They did not have figs displayed other than the ones being used in the demos. I'm guessing that since the game isn't actually available for purchase yet they didn't give it quite the splash they might have. If you want to see photos of the HaloClix that were there, check here.
The pics of lined-up painted minis are from the speed painting finals. Jon and I entered a Rackham painting contest - $1.50 entry gets you a fig to keep and 45 minutes to paint it, in heats with about 16 others. I came in 4th place, and Jon came in 3rd, which he was very excited about! So he got to go to the finals, and paint an elf, which is in the picture (his has the orangish robe). Very cool...
Other than that, we demoed a bunch of games. We bought Tannhauser, a board game with minis combat in a sort of alt-WWII setting. We also bought a lot of Rackham figs at 50% off since they didn't want to cart them back to France at the end of the con.
The picture in this post was taken at a new game company who had an "angel" there, and they printed the photos for you. I can probably get a better picture later. We are both wearing our "bling" gold chains that were given to us by the guy leading one of our events. We got tons of comments, which is weird since there are people dressed up in many odd ways at GenCon. I saw a Tuskan Raider wandering around with his "head" in his hands, 2 Darth Vaders staring each other down, a sad Captain America who was overshadowed by someone's cool homemade superhero costume, and lots of Ren-Faire costumes. I am wearing a pirate bandana from the Privateer Press people, which is another minis game we're always tempted to buy. So I felt very swash buckly all day.
We enjoyed the free breakfast at the hotel, and we did 3 events to learn the new Rackham Roleplaying Game, Cadwallon. All in all, it was a very pleasing convention. We got home and crashed on Sunday night, and did a little sorting through the loot. So now we have a few new games to play, and we're even further behind on our minis painting! Sigh...
3 comments:
I love the "Coming Fall 2006" no..."Coming Fall 2007" poster behind you. Looks like they've had some trouble hitting their ship dates.
Thanks for checking out the Halo Clix as well, they look kinda neat and I've have to give them a look when they are actually out.
Pretty crazy Heroscape layout that Jon was looking at in the pics. It must take a lot to get all those cool accessories and scenery pieces.
I now HAVE some of said scenery!! They tear the table down and dist. it @ ~3:30 on Sunday. It's AWESOME :)
Yeah, I actually kind'a know the game designer for that game, so I come bug him off and on during the Con.
About the Angel booth--that was one of several inexplicable booths. Several times we were accosted by bums looking for money, but they all did it in creative ways. Like one guy said he had a "question" for me and proceeded to tell some sob story about his 4H pig or whatnot that he'd just dropped off at the fair. I said, I can see where this is going and got in the car and left. Well, anyway, at this booth they had. . . pretty much nothing except the guy they hired in the costume. I stopped to look at what was on the table and couldn't tell if we were into an MMORPG, a pen/pencil RPG, a tabletop game. Who knew? There were some figures from other companies on the table and a laminated excel spreadsheet with some stats. I asked the guy what was up--and after about 60 seconds of God only knows what, I just walked away. You never know!
Halo Clix is a buy game. Laura doesn't like so WE won't be buying any (except for some grunts and brutes--they're SUPER CUTE!), but you should. The only thing I didn't like is having to add two dice to a stat between 7-9, for some reason I turn stupid whenever I have to--who knows what 3 + 6 + 7 is!!!? Anyway, it demoed at a comfortable level of detail and replay-ability. And when a demo has those elements, the full game with all the rules, the correct amt. of figures per side, and full size map is bound to be good.
Honestly, I was most excited about the off-grid opportunities. I remember level 3 in the original Halo out in the pine trees. I'd love to build something like that. Snowy terrain and trees always looks good in miniature :)
Yeah, the best parts of Halo were always finally getting to have big outdoor levels after years of FPS games sticking you in small, narrow, dim corridors. Seems like you would get that halo feel best battling in a snowy plain surrounded by broken forerunner architecture.
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