It’s here! It’s here! My copy of The Burning Wheel’s Magic Burner is here! The Mail-Man brought it in the mail today. You may recall that Magic Burner is the book I was unable to purchase due to unavailability at this month’s Fear the Con 2. So I ordered the thing. Now it’s here and […]
As long as it seems to be taking for DC’s Universe Online to be released, I wouldn’t be surprised if Marvel didn’t try to trump them by coming out first. Still, I get that these things take time – you don’t want to end up with another Matrix Online (Ugh). So, according to Marvel.com: Been […]
The Nintendo Wii is going to get in trouble for promoting itself as a family friendly system, then releasing an M-Rated game? And the game is released by once competitors Sega? Where have I heard that before? Hmmm…. So, our favorite gestapo, the National Institute on Media and the Family, is firing back on Nintendo […]
I can’t believe I haven’t posted this any earlier! The tradition of any hunter is to display the trophies of the kill, evidence of victory in the wilds. The same is true of the con-goer. Half the fun is bragging about the haul. Last year when I went to Fear the Con, I was on […]
The very last game I was supposed to be in was a session of Dread: The Last Hurrah. I’d been looking forward to Dread since the moment I had registered for it on the Warhorn site many weeks ago. The problem was that it was in the last slot of the last day of the […]
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the spectacular food prepared for us all weekend by the fine ladies of the Kitchen Kill Krewe (not their official designation, but shouldn’t it be?). Food was hot, tasty, and inexpensive. Seriously, all con food should be as good and affordable. There were several standout items on […]
After Saturday’s morning games wrapped up, Fear the Boot provided a live podcast. This is the element I felt was missing from last year’s convention, thus a very welcome addition this year. It was great to see the guys all bantering amongst each other. Additionally, they made the audience the fifth host providing a microphone […]
Sleep deprivation had absolutely no impact on the Battletech players running their game at the table across from our Savage Ghostbusters game. Yet another Chris Hussey game (YACHG), it was packed with twelve players. Hussey had ’em pumped. So much so that that at the beginning of each round, they all shouted: “Fear the Wind, […]
Day 2 of the con got off to what I would characterize as a rather groggy start. Many of the con-goers went to see a midnight showing of Watchmen at the conclusion of Day 1’s activities. You’ve never seen so many sleep deprived gamers! As much as I wanted to, I chose not to go […]
In Friday’s third and final slot, I ran the sequel to the game I ran last year: “…And a Little Child Shall Eat Them.” It’s a zombie setting in which the zombie apocalypse breaks out first amongst the worlds children rendering them fierce predators with supernatural strength. Imagine, a toddler with the strength to tear […]