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Woke up lateish (11:30am, not bad for a 3am bedtime), arranged myself, and went seeking pancakes. The woman at the front desk had a very NPC-with-one-line-of-text response to my question about breakfast places, but pointed me true, and I had some french toast and a carafe of coffee at Le Peep, a block away from where I was sleeping. Then, back to the expo hall to pick up some more games:

• Jonathan Walton’s Geiger Counter
• Orx, by Raven Daegmorgan
• Annie Rush’s Red Robot Red (redux)
• Greg Stolze’s A Dirty World
• the Zanfabulous Zorceror of Zo, by Chad Underkoffler
• Josh Roby’s Sons of Liberty,
• Seth Ben-Ezra’s A Flower For Mara (which we played the night before with Seth and Emily and company)
• Dirty Secrets, also by Seth
• and Eero Tuovinen’s edition of the Solar System rules (which power games such as The Shadow of Yesterday)

So, yeah. Last night was a pretty intense game of A Flower For Mara, followed by a much lighter, but still fun, playtest of Misery Bubblegum. Today there was more chatting and less playing, but I still managed to get in part of a Fae Noir session, and got in some good zombie fleeing and fighting on a cruise liner, using the Solar System rules and a bunch of customized Keys and Secrets for that. More hanging out and game design/theory talk after, and now it’s late again. More thoroughness on what went down, later.

Acquired so far:

• Eero Tuovinen’s Zombie Cinema
• Josh Roby’s Conquer the Horizon
• Clint Krause’s Roanoke
• Gregor Hutton’s 3:16 - Carnage Amongst The Stars
• Anna Kreider’s Thou Art But A Warrior
• Emily Care Boss’s Under My Skin
• Josh Newman’s Beowulf (based on Vincent Baker’s In A Wicked Age)
• Vincent Baker’s new edition of Poison’d
• The full release of Kevin Allen Jr.’s Sweet Agatha
• Things We Think About Games
• Jared Sorenson’s ashcan of DarkPages
• Clyde Rhoer’s Silence Keeps Me A Victim
• D. Marshall Burns’s The Rustbelt
• Danielle Lewon’s Kagematsu
• Darcy Burgess’s riveting (ha!) ashcan of Black Cadillacs
• Shreyas Sampat’s Mist-Robed Gate
• Ralph Mazza’s stunning ashcan of Blood Red Sands
• Robert Bohl’s Misspent Youth
• Nathan Russell’s Space Rat
• Tony Dowler’s How to Host a Dungeon
• and a new copy of Tribes from SJG, because I forgot mine, and it was five bucks.

These are all pretty rad in their own ways, which I will go into detail about when time permits. Played a game of 1930’s Inspectres with Graham and some folks, and now we’re off to get some dinner before buckling down for a proper night of gaming at the Embassy. Looking forward to what’s to come…

After I sleep and fly today, I’ll be in Indianapolis at GenCon. Last year was pretty freaking awesome. Now that I have some idea of what I’m doing, and a hotel that’s right next to the convention center, instead of across town, and will know a few folks there, I expect it to be a hundred times as freaking awesome. My plan is to fly in with Dave tomorrow afternoon, get situated in the hotel, maybe make an early dinner at the Ram, and then play games until Sunday. Good plan, yes?

Here are a few things I am looking forward to seeing, buying, or playing, in no particular order:

• Zombie Cinema
• Maid RPG
• Geiger Counter
• Medical Hospital!
• In A Wicked Age
• Red Box Hack
• Don’t Rest Your Head
• Transantiago
• 3:16
• All the freaking ashcans
• All the sweet jeepform
• Playtesting, playtesting, playtesting
• Bliss Stage
• Poison’d
• Slag!
• Mouse Guard(?)
• Under My Skin
• Some sweet story game poems
• Tales of the Fisherman’s Wife
• How To Host A Dungeon
• Thou Art But A Warrior
• The Mist-Robed Gate
• Misspent Youth
• It’s Complicated
• Something Is Rotten
• Rumble
• Trollbabe
• NightTime Animals Save The World
• Best Friends
• Midnight hallway Werewolf!
• Any other awesome thing that anyone wants to swing my way
• And hey, board games. I think they have those there.

If you know me, and you’ll be there, email me at my last name at gmail dot com, and I’ll get you my number, and we’ll roll.

Coming soon to an improv stage near you.

Hello, neglected blog. I’m just going to use you to tell anyone who cares that I’ve got a new phone, and a new phone number to go with it. If you’re someone who calls me, give my old number a ring, and get the new number from the message. Or email me. Or whatever.

Been doing well. Busy busy busy. New sweet job making games, still working out the new house situation, lots of awesome improv. More later when less busy.