Quote from: Zachary The First;780367OK, guys, I'm done for the evening. Off to bed. I hope everyone has a good evening, and is enjoying the coverage. I'll wrap things up tomorrow:

So... what you're saying is that at the end of such a long day, you're very Thor?

Quote from: BigWeather;780366I don't know how I missed them as a kid -- I played CYoA, Endless Quest, and also the Steve Jackson ones, but never saw Lone Wolf.  Was this mainly a UK thing?

No, I discovered them at K-Mart, of all places.

Quote from: Endless Flight;780351I was interested, but I was disappointed to find out they were using the same system that Dever used for the books. It was good for that format, but I'd like a little more meat for an actual RPG.

They adding Backgrounds, Skills and Traits, as well as a balancing mechanism for PC Creation. That is a significant bunch of added meat for the RPG.

Quote from: BigWeather;780366I don't know how I missed them as a kid -- I played CYoA, Endless Quest, and also the Steve Jackson ones, but never saw Lone Wolf.  Was this mainly a UK thing?

Like Fighting Fantasy, they are British and had a much wider release in UK and Commonwealth countries like Australia and New Zealand. US got them much later in the day and on a much smaller distribution.

IIRC they are second best selling solo gamebooks after Fighting Fantasy. They excelled in that they told a single large consistent story in a more cohesive setting than any other solo gamebook of the time.

I still remember being asked if I had found something some 5 or so books after I had done it, and being gobsmacked at the continuity

Quote from: Skywalker;780381They adding Backgrounds, Skills and Traits, as well as a balancing mechanism for PC Creation. That is a significant bunch of added meat for the RPG.

I'd like to see a new resolution mechanic. Like I said, I was fine with Combat Skill and Endurance and the random table in the books. I'd just like something with a bit more heft for an RPG.

Quote from: Zachary The First;780353So, for all the good at Gen Con, there's also a booth advertising some sort of furry erotica game. I am really, really glad this shot is a little blurry, but this seriously has to go against some standard of Gen Con, and possibly the universe:

You obviously have never seen some of Liz Danfourth or Phil Foglios pieces then... ahem.

Looks like Furoticon. an adult CCG in the same vein as XXXenophile.

That said... This is the sort of thing generally the furry community tries to tone down. And to date this would make the first blatantly adult anthro game. As opposed by the dozens of adult non-furry RPGs out there. Yeah, especially THAT one... :rolleyes:

I am surprised though that Furroticon is now big enough to afford a booth at Gen Con and FA:United at the same time, then hitting up Indy Fur Con a week later.

And thanks for all the pics! Wish I had the funds to hit up Gen Con again like used to in the 90s. I'd love to see first hand how the new place looks! I miss getting to talk with other game designers and artists too.

Quote from: BigWeather;780366I don't know how I missed them as a kid -- I played CYoA, Endless Quest, and also the Steve Jackson ones, but never saw Lone Wolf.  Was this mainly a UK thing?

No, I'm in the US, and it was a contemporary of the ICE version called "Middle Earth Quest" or "Tolkien Quest" back in the early/mid 80s. I have to admit that I mainly bought those books from independent booksellers, so they might have been geared to the UK market.

Just like the ICE ones, you could take your character and progress through the storyline just like a regular RPG. Since they'd written the books to accommodate people who were jumping in for the first time, characters tended to be OP by the midway point in each 5-book sequence.

Quote from: Zachary The First;780353Sorry this one is coming in late. We had our GM's Jam seminar, which was in a room in the Crowne Plaza apparently located underneath a heavy railroad track. .......

(A board for Battle of the Five Armies. I love this. A lot):

That does look fabulous. Some parts I recognize from other older out of print games. The fortress towers are from 'MAGE KNIGHT', all of the trees appear to be from HEROSCAPE sets.

I DID make it there today! (YAY!!).

Enjoyed the GM seminar you ran a couple of years ago that you ran and I attended.

- Ed C.

P.s. - The Food trucks were a good idea and nice surprise this year...

Quote from: Endless Flight;780383I'd like to see a new resolution mechanic. Like I said, I was fine with Combat Skill and Endurance and the random table in the books. I'd just like something with a bit more heft for an RPG.

It looks like Skills will modify the roll and Traits add additional effects, along with more mechanics around Discpline and the like. It's not just CS and End anymore than D&D is Attack Bonus and HP.

As for a d10 dice mechanic as the resolution mechanic, that's not significantly different from a number of hefty RPG systems like d20.

I get what your saying. The Mongoose Multiplayer Game did suffer as a full RPG for sticking with the solo Gamebooks. But C7 look to be building on that base to give you something more like you are wanting.

Quote from: jcfiala;780368So... what you're saying is that at the end of such a long day, you're very Thor?

He's a very modest reporter, likes to keep things Loki.

Quote from: Ladybird;780432He's a very modest reporter, likes to keep things Loki.

Maybe he was just so Frigga tired.

A prize to all of you.

I'll get some more photos up a bit later on today.

Here are a few more from the wargaming area. Imagining transporting all this and setting it up! Some of these guys have made a science of it:



(Chik-fil-A is very popular here, since it is at the Mall Food Court, and [for fast food] delicious)

Pretty a-maze-ing, right guys? Right? Ahahahahahaha--eh, forget it. I'm too tired.



Pieces from the Miniature Building Authority:



You get to play dragons in this one, laying waste to a town and getting points for it. Think of a Death Race for Dragons. I am SO playing in this next year!





Another cool one:



There was some animated discussion going on over this one while I was there. Japan was up to some mischief, apparently:



Grimdarkness makes an appearance, of course!



Custom map of Westeros:




Will try to get some IGDN shots today...

A few more I didn't get to post up yesterday--

They had a neat set-up for this game called Rivet Wars: Eastern Front. You could get your picture taken in the tank. I did not get my picture taken in the tank:



More costume contest stuff:



My close-up encounter with a Jawa. I couldn't get him to turn around for a picture, so I had to resort to speaking to him in his native language. It worked:



Another shot of the (oh so pretty) One Ring line at Cubicle 7:



Lots of nerdy t-shirt booths, as always:



I would play this so hard:



It seemed to me 5e traffic had picked up considerably by yesterday in the D&D area. There was a queue to start playing, and they were really having organizers hustle people off the tables ASAP:



Pic from the Soda Pop Miniatures/Ninja Division booth (Super Dungeon Explore, I believe):



An unfortunately blurry photo of Margaret Weis Publishing. I think I took this one on the run (sorry):

Awesome photos this year, Thank You!

Did manage to do a stealth drive-by this year, dropping off Koltar, and then picking him up around midnight last night. Would have stopped in to check everything out for myself, however had another Traveller's aid obligation that involved getting a young lady safely on her way home to her mother in NYC. This took me back over to Dayton for most of Saturday.

I'm pretty sure some new attendance records were shattered overall. Downtown Indianapolis was buried in geeks. I think the Colts had an exhibition game so with both events there was probably 100,000 extra people in the immediate downtown area yesterday.

Traffic and driving was all big-city like.