Wheeee, photos!

The first of the photos from Gencon are up. This is actually almost all of my Gencon photos - well, that I will post. I took 167 photos of either the con or Indy, of which 149 survived the test to see whether I'd keep it (the others were too blurry or whatever to retain). However, a number of those "keepers" are keepers only 'cos I think they were of cool things; they're not really great and are not going to be shared. A bunch more are duplicate photos of something, crowd shots, or other things I don't think belong on Buzznet. So, there are ten shots today - one of the rainbow yesterday, nine from Gencon (including one of Scott, and five of various people in costume). There'll be another 5-6 tomorrow - I mostly have Indy shots, rather than con shots, left.

Photos are here or can be found in bn_kyrielle.

Gencon notes/report.

Real ones, rather.

Wednesday, August 18

( Just travel and initial arrival notes. )

Thursday, August 19

( First full day of gaming. And I do mean full in this case. Fireborn, 7th Sea, Deliria. )

Friday, August 20

( Second day of gaming. Early ending, fortunately. Dragonquest, 7th Sea, Exhibit Hall, guy grumpy at IT. )

Saturday, August 21

( Seminars, Earthdawn, something-or-other hideous I walked out of, and Deliria. )

Sunday, August 22

( 7th Sea again; White Wolf's new/modified Storyteller system; end of the con. )

Monday, August 23

Out of the hotel early and off to the airport. Everything went pretty smoothly from there, really - I've already posted about the luggage, and they got it to us, and I still think we came out ahead. Nothing exciting there that I have not already mentioned.

It was a good con. I want the next one, please.

Deliria musings.

I'm not sure why the subject line for this post amuses me so. So far, I quite like Deliria. I have a few "issues" with the CD rom. It's very cool, mind, and my biggest issue around it has nothing to do with it (it wasn't even in the picture, I was just prepping a connection to a drive to back it up and my computer got snappish about it). But the auto-run bit with the music, and the web pages where you can click on stuff but there's no hand/visual cue that you can, like you get with a link? So not cool! I'm sitting there poking around trying to figure out what to click on. Ew.

But, the CD is fairly well-organized and, once the auto-run what-not is shut down so it's not in the way, it is easy to go find what you need.

Other than that, the CD just needs to be labelled - it's a blank white CD (which is at least not like the blanks I have, but...).

No material that I can find on creating Legacies, but then again, the process of making them up seems fairly intuitive - I'm just curious how you decide/work out what's reasonably balanced and was hoping for some design notes there. None that I can find. Some of the other stuff looks fascinating but so far I only skimmed it looking for that (and who knows, I may have missed what I sought in the skimming). I'll have to go back and read it properly later.

I am struck by a strong desire to run a game. Again. If these impulses ever went anywhere.... Of course, on the rare occasion (all a decade ago or more now, so possibly no longer applicable) when the impulse did go somewhere, I absolutely sucked as a GM. Sigh. Part of that is, of course, not thinking on my feet well enough - and those were face-to-face games. Online games are another ball of wax. But I don't see it as doable. I'll confine myself to jotting idea-lings and creating characters and whatnot for now if I must. I'm much better at that and it is actually just as amusing, perhaps moreso. I already have another character entirely in the back of my head, although I have the sinking feeling she'll turn out to be far too annoying to actually have anything done with her other than be sketched out.