Gencon SoCal 04

I headed up to Anaheim last weekend for tons of gaming and geekdom and I wasn't let down. Jonathan and I hopped into a car Friday morning and took a quick drive up to the convention center. We arrived around 9:30am. I'm slightly panicked as my first game, Werewolf: The Forsaken, is at 10am. I rush, get my passes and head off to the game.

I'm not dissappointed as I meet the GM, Dave, who is crazy, bald and thinks he is funny. The game runs for four hours and is loads of fun as we watch our human characters get brutalized and killed by a player who turns into a werewolf. The Werewolf game is tournament style and I advance to round 2 which is 2 hours later. After the game I meet up with Glen and Andy who are playing Adventure! right next to me. We got something to eat real quick but they had to head back to their game.

I called up Jonathan and I met up with him, Chris (aka soop) and his girlfriend Destiny. We walked around for a bit killing two hours until I had to go and play round two of Werewolf. In round two we get play Werewolves who track down the insane Werewolf who killed our previous characters. Tons of fun but I hadn't eaten and started to get dizzy. Got to howl... loudly! Advanced to round 3.

After the game I called Jonathan again and he was hanging in the Hilton with Destiny, Chris and two other guys. When I got to the room they were drinking a beer and playing Munchkin. Looked like they had been playing for about half an hour but I jumped in anyway, had a beer and won the game!!!

After that we checked into our hotel. Chris and Destiny stayed with us because they were originally staying with Warmachine Nachos who were stinky and wierd. Next day we got some breakfast at Cocos and headed back to the convention center. I didn't have anything scheduled until 1pm so I got a good chance to walk around and buy stuff. Stuff list:

World of Darkness: Antagonists
Werewolf the Forsaken: Dice (free from tournament)
Werewolf the Forsaken: T-shirt (free from tournament)
A-state: Mires End
Orbital RPG
Emperor and the Assassin DVD

Also got to talk to developers and play a demo of Wars, Deciphers new game based off their old Star Wars CCG. Game sucked! After that Jonathan and I headed to True Dungeon! Not much had changed about TD this year except they added a Paladin Class, souped up the effects, reduced the amount of time per room and dumbed down the puzzles. Well, it sounds like a lot but it was more or less the same. Unfortunatly, Jonathan died in room 4 with our Cleric. It was a stupid way to die (fell off a bridge) as the rest of the dungeon was incredibly easy except for 1 puzzle (compared to the 3 puzzles last year). I actually made it all the way through which was kind of cool. Only made it to room 6 or 8 last year.

After that I had a quick beer and then round 3 of the Werewolf game. Got to play the same characters from round two and finish up the game. Round 3 went an hour over. Got out of the convention center around 9pm, got something to eat and then headed home.

Here are some pictures of freaks in costume that I took.