On Saturday I spent the day at Dragonmeet, in its new venue at the
Ilec Convention Centre round the back of Earl's Court. All images are
cc-by-sa.
As a rule I assume that normal convention space in London is
prohibitively expensive, and the trick here seemed to have been to
pick a hotel in a dodgy area replete with pawnbrokers, cheque-cashing
services and, um, fabric shops.
However, I was able to get in fairly promptly (some of the demo team
were less lucky with transport), and got things set up before the
flood arrived.
Slightly later I got a chance to look around a bit. Shadow Warriors
were running Wings of War.
Dropzone Commander is still going strong. I have to say that this
looked like a gimmick when I first saw it at Salute last year but it
seems to have some legs.
The main focus of this show seemed to be the trading. Where previous
Dragonmeets have had two double-sided aisles of stalls, this one had
definitely expanded. And the punters turned up. People were already
talking about a larger venue for next year.
Yes, there really is a Primeval RPG. Based on the
TV series that's now been
off the air for three years after truly ghastly ratings, and which
shows no sign of being resurrected. Gareth knows his stuff and I'm
sure he did a decent job, but… wow.
Yet more miniatures skirmish gaming. Miniatures skirmish is still
apparently the Big Thing, either fantasy or SF, either way you don't
have to do lots of fiddly historical research. (Me-ow.) Being fair to
Spartan Games, whose
Firestorm: Planetfall
this is, it did look very good indeed.
Though I couldn't help feeling that some of the miniatures available
for some games were, um, a bit specialised…
There was also Dark Armada, a starship combat game. Didn't see it
being demonstrated but the record cards make it look fairly
lightweight and playable.
And of course Giant Pandemic.
Someone had bought this rather attractive dice tower. If I played at a
table, and wanted a dice tower at all…
Of course, I ran quite a lot of games too. Revolution and The Stars
Are Right are two of my favourites, and both of them got outings this
time.
I got out around 7pm fairly wiped (wasn't feeling great before I got up
at 6.50am to get there in time for setup and then spent ten hours
mostly running games).
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