GaryCON I

Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:24 am

Well, needless to say, it was a fantastic event and a great weekend. Im thankful for the opportunity to attend. Great to see all the TLG and DF regulars and meet a few more.

Thanks to Luke Gygax for mentioning in another thread about Mike Carr attending. I signed up for his game of FITS (Fighters in the Sky also know as Dawn Patrol). Fabulous, fabulous game!! Hes been running it at every single GenCON!!

Mike was our squadron leader and Luke, myself and buttmonkey were wings. We were the Germans and we totally kicked ass and blew the Americans (Paul Stormberg, Blake, Kevin and Whitney) out of the sky.

In the second game, it was just Mike and myself against Blake, Kevin and another guy. They were Brits and we were Germans again. This time, my Pfalz D III (see cover of FITS) was tailed repeatedly and my tail got shot up real bad.

After stalling, looping, barrel rolling and one other maneuver, I couldnt shake the pursuit and took like 11 hits to the tail section and ultimately my plan exploded and I failed my fall save. DOA!!!

Mike is a very nice, friendly and intelligent fellow. And I thank him for signing my copy of B1 In Search of the Unknown which I got in 1978 in my BD&D Holmes Box!!

Other thoughts . . .

Lots of great custom T-shirts including Franks DF shirt, KR Bougouines shirt, Chris Clarks cool shirt and the CON shirts that Luke made available (I got one and its very cool).

I was glad to play some Adventurer with KR and Chris Clark and then we played KRs new game LINKZ which is totally great!

And on Sunday, I had the great pleasure to play in Tim Kasks OD&D game ~ with Tim presenting an original module for GaryCON called Tower of the Mad Wizard. The players included Jeffery St. Clair, francisca, Doug from RPGBomb and some other great gamers. This was a fantastically rockin game that was old school to the MAX (heh, how could it not be that with Tim as DM. Sheesh, Tim could run 4E and we could be fairy princesses preparing for a ball and it would still be old school!!).

I will have to create another thread just to talk about this game . . . Ill only say this, my 8th lve halfling fighter was able to acquire and wield a giant troll mace (cause he had a good strength ability and was wearing a girdle of giant strength!!).

I do believe Tim is going to post a summary of his games and I direct peeps to check out his DF Q&A thread soon.

Pics to follow (and perhaps more commentary, as I think of stuff).

[Thanks for everything, Gary]

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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:04 am

Sorry y'all. I'm too tired to cut and paste into this thread, so I hope you don't mind if I just drop a link to my DF thread for the pics.

Thanks.
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewt ... 11&t=35020
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Post by **Breakdaddy** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:12 am

Sounds like fun. Wish I had gotten to go

DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:14 am

No doubt. The threads and pics posted make me rather envious.

Rigon · Post by **Rigon** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:59 am

Sounds like a good time was had by all.

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huds0n · Post by **huds0n** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:12 pm

Anyone have any pics they took of the Con?
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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:16 pm

Sounds awesome, Rhu. Glad to hear you had a good time. By the pics, looked like the place to be over the weekend!
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Deogolf · Post by **Deogolf** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:24 pm

huds0n wrote:
Anyone have any pics they took of the Con?

Yes, I do. I'll post them as soon as I get home from work!

Stupid work!
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Dranoel · Post by **Dranoel** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:47 pm

The gathering was a lot of fun! It was great to hang out & spend time with everyone. If you couldn't make it this year- I would encourage you to show up next year. You won't be disappointed!

Actually, I am disappointed about one thing (now that I mention it). I placed a $20 bounty on Luke Gygax's head during the Circus Maximus chariot game and the bounty went unpaid as time expired for us at the Legion Hall (10 pm). His death was so close with 11 players gunning for him- he was an incredible luck donkey for surviving. All I can say is next year my friend...

I'll post some pics when I get back home. Getting ready to check out of the hotel and catch a flight back to Virginia.

Buttmonkey · Post by **Buttmonkey** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:30 pm

Rhuvein is right about Mike Carr. Luke Gygax snagged me when the first game of Fight in the Skies was about to start Saturday morning. Mike, Luke, and Rhu were very friendly and I was happily blowing up Brits about 15 minutes after I arrived on site.

I got to play in Tim Kask's OD&D game Saturday afternoon. It was fun, but the Legion Hall was incredibly loud by then and it was very difficult to hear. I'm not sure how people at the other end of the table were able to tell what was going on.

Unfortunately, my dad (who has health problems) had a very, very bad night Saturday and we headed home instead of attending on Sunday.

I'm looking forward to Gary Con II next year. I hope they move to a different venue, though. The Legion Hall is just too cramped and loud for a convention this size.

KRBourgoine · Post by **KRBourgoine** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:13 pm

Looks like it was great fun. Wish I could have been there.
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seskis281 · Post by **seskis281** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:28 pm

KRBourgoine wrote:
Looks like it was great fun. Wish I could have been there.

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Deogolf · Post by **Deogolf** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:06 pm

KRBourgoine wrote:
Looks like it was great fun. Wish I could have been there.

Ya mean I played the Adventurer card game with his double??!! Maybe it was Lodrac himself??!!
I need a drink...
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Hrolfgar · Post by **Hrolfgar** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:41 pm

Great pictures Rhu , I see that I managed to stay out your pictures and I didn't meet you.

I played in 2 games on Saturday and enjoyed getting killed in both of them
I was very tired and left early Sunday, driving from Michigan in a rainstorm with little sleep did me in.

Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:30 am

Hrolfgar wrote:
Great pictures Rhu , I see that I managed to stay out your pictures and I didn't meet you.

I played in 2 games on Saturday and enjoyed getting killed in both of them
I was very tired and left early Sunday, driving from Michigan in a rainstorm with little sleep did me in.

Wow, sorry I missed meeting ya.

It was definitely loud, crazy and wild as BM mentions. A packed house to the max - easy to not meet or see all who attended. Sunday was much better, since many went home on Sat night or Sunday morn.

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Dranoel · Post by **Dranoel** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:27 pm

Update: The photos have been posted, but they are on my Facebook account:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= ... ef=profile

There is also a GaryCon Facebook group- so while you are there- join that for the other photos & upcoming information on GaryCon II!

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