Gen Con 50 museum stuff

I thought this little "museum" of gaming history was kind of cool.
It was a little showcase of gaming through the ages and a rough history of  Gen Con.

However, seeing some of the games displayed made me feel old and drug up a lot of nostalgia.

Not sure who this sleepy guy is, but it he is huge.

Another horror icon gone......

Well another fan favorite horror director has passed.

Tobe Hooper.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Life Force and Poltergeist; three movies that he was a part of. Three movies that are favorites of mine. They all get air time in my house at least once every year.

Gen Con 2017 painting competition

A collection of the pretties that people painted for judging.

Star Wars tabletop mini game?

I see this at the Fantasy Flight booth.

What?

Why?

What?

A tabletop mini Star Wars wargame with pre-painted models?

What?

I don’t get this. I mean there is Imperial Assault which is already a strategy boardgame using Star Wars people places and know characters.

Now they are putting out a tabletop miniature wargame that isn’t X-Wing?

I get that they have a license and are using it for everything they can.

I get that Star Wars is popular.

I get that this will make money as it fulfills fans of Star Wars and mini wargames.

It does seem a bit off that this will probably cut into their Imperial Assault sales. I mean if I knew this was in the pipes a year plus ago, then I would have passed on Imperial Assault and just waited for Legion.

Sadly, I will not be getting this game as I have too much stuff to play already and Fantasy Flight has pillaged my wallet enough with tiny ships and models.

Gen Con 2017 Starfinder demo

Alright, Lew and myself got a demo of Starfinder in on Friday.

It was exactly what I thought it would be.

Alright so Starfinder. We sit down with four other people for a party of six. We are the only two at the table who have no real grasp of the Pathfinder system, but rolling a D20 is standard stuff.

I play some sort of bug, who happens to be the healer. At first I grabbed the little rat guy with a remote drone. Then I paused and asked if anyone else wanted to try this guy. Yes, I was hoping for a nope. Instead I got a guy who wanted to use it. I should have just held on to it, but I didn’t want to be “that guy” at the demo. Lew is some alien with four arms who was….I have no idea what class this thing was.

We were thrown into a scenario to retrieve Starfinder badges for some reason. We had no idea what that was about, nor was it explained to us. I guess everyone else knows about this kind of shit from playing Pathfinder? Do they hunt for Pathfinder badges?

Anyway we found those with a seamless and pretty pointless bit of dialogue with a space lizard guy. Then we were sent to look into rat men who were using dead bodies as fertilizer in some sort of greenhouse. I guess fertilizer is hard to come by on a space station. Oh and there was an undead lady who was involved with all this and the badges too. Why? Why not? The whole plot was skimmed over really fast and this is all I really remember about it.

So we go check out this greenhouse place and find the undead lady and some gardeners. They attack us and we have our combat encounter.

The tank is a lizard guy and he dives into melee combat. The rest of us hang back and shoot laser guns. It was now that the guy running the game said the lizard guy was the first to go down in all the games so far. Well I took that as a challenge. The bug cleric was not going to let that happen!

Lew did this attunement bit that let him do extra fire damage because four arm aliens do this. Well that or pull people toward them, which is what every other player had done so far according to our DM/GM or whatever they are officially called. We both were confused about why not choose to do more damage instead of movement shenanigans, but what do we know. We are D&D guys in a Pathfinder/Starfinder game.

We kill the undead lady and two of the three gardeners and win the scenario. I keep the lizard guy alive, so screw you guy running the game!

Gen Con stuff from the floor

Pics from the Privateer Press booth.

Soon to be out on table trolls.

Gen Con 2017 Loot

Well another long weekend of gaming, eating, walking and shopping.

The only 50th Anniversary button worth getting.

 My small pile of loot.

An adorable Friday 13th T-shirt.

Two monster/scenario packs for Shadows of Brimstone.

A new hero for Brimstone.

A new set of heroes for Last Night on Earth.

A box of Swine Cursed for Farrow "counts as."

A Death Star Droid pop to add to the collection.

I bought the stuff I was hoping to get and just a couple other bits.

A very low cost Gen Con for me.

I'll get more pics up tomorrow, that is if my dark powers don't manifest during the eclipse today......