Yesterday was the second one-day convention organised by the
yog-sothoth.com crew.
As last time, I made a day trip of it: three and a half hours of
driving each way, for around five hours of gaming. What can I say, I
enjoy driving, though for the next one I'll probably try to stay
overnight in the area. The convention is limited to 25 members (plus
five GMs), and essentially consists of a single role-playing session
by each GM, all running simultaneously.
I had an emergency backup scenario available in case of GM
indisposition, but in the end it wasn't needed, so Bughunt: Fiorina
will have to wait for another day. So I ended in playing in Paul of
Cthulhu's game of Machine Tractor Station Kharkov-37, a scenario
with which I was slightly familiar (having used it in my WWII
campaign) but about which I'd forgotten the details. (In any case,
that party took one look at the setup and sensibly moved on; playing
with the original configuration, it was our job to work out what had
happened.)
We achieved this with a remarkably low casualty rate: three NPC
soldiers died, but this was probably inevitable (shut up, we
couldn't have safely let them in no matter how much they pleaded),
and nobody in the party shot any other members (though it did,
perhaps, come close). I think this is the lowest death rate for this
scenario that I've ever heard of.
Apart from this there was lots of general chat, and discussion of
plans to expand the show, another reason to try to stay nearby;
there's already a pub meet on the Friday night and a curry outing
afterwards, and this "extra" time may become even more substantial for
future events.
As always, many thanks to Paul and the crew for organising this, and
I'll hope to see you at the next one. Which is in September. Hmm, I'm
sure I can come up with something Cthulhuish set in the Second World
War.
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