So a couple weeks ago, Alexander the Hoax (long story) talked me into going to the Forge Midwest gaming convention. That’s good.
\nThe scheduling of games for the convention, which usually numbers about fifty people, is REALLY informal. Totally. There’s a thread on the Forge forum where people say what they want to play, and what they want to GM, and a list of the time slots, and the con organizer (wisely) just lets everyone find similarly interested folks and sort out what they’re playing and who they’re playing with, in the thread.
\nSo I post to the thread and list off all those neat games that I have that I haven’t had a chance to play yet, and then I list a couple of the games I think I’d be willing to GM — Sorcerer, Mountain WItch, Mortal Coil, Dogs in the Vineyard, and Shadow of Yesterday.
\nThe next guy who posts says he’d be willing to run Agon (yay!) and would be really interested in a Shadow of Yesterday game.
\nOkay… I wasn’t expecting that, as it was basically an afterthought on my list, but cool. I mean… yeah, it’s cool. I’ve never REALLY had a group fire on all cylinders with that system, yet (largely because we can’t seem to SCHEDULE GAME SESSIONS), but I’m sure it’ll come together, and hey, that’s just one guy? Maybe no one else will be interested in that.
\nThe next guy posts that he’d like to play TSoY.
\nThen there’s a few other posts…
\nThen another guy says he’d like to play TSoY…
\nOkay.
\nSo I jump on the thread and say “Hey, this is cool, we’ve got three people interested in Shadow of Yesterday. Awesome. What time slot? Also, I’ll take one, maybe two more interested people — any takers?”
\nThe very next post says “Doyce, I’d like to play in that TSOY game with you guys.”
\nThe post author? Clinton R. Nixon.
\nThe guy that WROTE THE GAME.
\n…
\nI’m not panicking. I’m not. I swear.<\/p>\n
\nMaybe a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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