Carnage Con went off without a hitch this year. I arrived at Lake Morey at noon on Friday. Checked in, and got set up for my first game. I ran a 10th level module for D&D 3.5, bring your own Character. I ran from the hip, using an old campaign world that I was familiar with. Got three players and we had a blast. I ran this game 3 times over the weekend. Different group every time. Different situation every time. It's interesting to see how different people approach gaming. I had a group of 30 somethings who were all zap kapow throughout the adventure. They maintained the pace just fine on their own, and I got to throw sick shit at them. Everything from a Giant football game, to an elaborate demon trap where they rescue the succubus. She later almost ate them.
The second group I ran for I sent into the sewers after a goblin thieve's guild. They weren't so spry, but they chugged through the myriad of traps and rounds and rounds of goblin archery like a bunch of champs. One of them, the cat person, died toward the end and got reincarnated as a rhino. From Cat person to Rhino. Epic. Then they ran into the beholder, a mere gauth, and one of them ran away. It all went downhill from there.
The final group was a mother and son team, and some deep one kid from somewhere unsavory. He didn't communicate with me, the other two players, or himself. His character died too right at the end. They ended up on the top of a roof with three vrocks completing their dance of ruin. They ran and leapt off the roof Die Hard style. I was pretty proud.
I also ran a Labrynth Lord pick up game on Saturday. It was pretty fun. 3 newish players trying to figure out how to weaponize a potion that inflates pigs into balloons (thanks Zach). There was a couple there and he was pretty whipped.
The only game I played all weekend was a Dark Heresy game. There's something wrong with a game system that doesn't respect bullets. When you can put 7 rounds of accurate shooting into a dude and nothing comes of it what the fucks the point? Oh but that guy with the chainsword? He's cutting limbs off like nothing. Someone at GW needs to watch some Mythbusters or Deadliest Warrior or something to see how much damage bullets ACTUALLY do to stuff compared to choppy things. Just sayin.
All in all a blast of a weekend. Got two free buffet's. Some fancy dice with dice inside of them. And ate some winning BBQ brisket. Shazam.
