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theronIt's still months away (February 19-21), but it's already grabbing my creative attention. For the uninitiated, OwlCon is Rice University's annual gaming convention. It's also my annual chance to break out an GM different games for (usually) a bunch of strangers and have a grand old time doing it. Also, also, if you GM at least two session, you get in for free and get a t-shirt. Bonus.
For the past two years, my mainstay has been "Heroes of the New Wave," a "Neo-Pulp 80s" game that takes the rock-star scientist vibe of "Buckaroo Banzai" and mashes it up with every Duran Duran video ever made. The first session had our heroes square off against the Terrible Mr. Tolhurst. Last year, they learned that "Nobody Walks In LA." This year's adventure is called "Save a Prayer," and honestly, that's all I've got at the moment. This is pretty much par for the course, but I know I'll have it figured out by the time the con rolls around. The one thing I'm looking to change this year is the game system. In the past, I've run it with a slightly modified version of Feng Shui, but this year I'm leaning towards either the Ubiquity System from Hollow Earth Expedition or Cinematic Unisystem, as seen in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel RPGs. Either one would run great. I'm leaning towards the former simply because the game is still being supported and the HEX folks were really nice to me at Gen Con.
The other game is more certain. It will be Lucha Libre Hero, "Los Miraculos Contra La Hija de Franquestein," a title I'm happily swiping from one of the guys on the Hero Games Boards. LLH is possibly the greatest single supplement for The HERO System's fifth edition. It is gleefully, gloriously psychotronic, a labor of love that grabs the reader, puts him in a headlock, tosses him with an El Hurracan to the mat, pins him and demands to be played.
I don't even particularly care for professional wrestling and I'm still compelled to run it.
I may try to run a third as yet to be determined game. Even though I only have to run two and that seriously cuts into my ability to actually play anything, I've found that I really prefer GMing to playing, even if it does completely wear me out.
As always, if any out-of-towners want to come to Houston for the con, we've got lots of crash space
For the past two years, my mainstay has been "Heroes of the New Wave," a "Neo-Pulp 80s" game that takes the rock-star scientist vibe of "Buckaroo Banzai" and mashes it up with every Duran Duran video ever made. The first session had our heroes square off against the Terrible Mr. Tolhurst. Last year, they learned that "Nobody Walks In LA." This year's adventure is called "Save a Prayer," and honestly, that's all I've got at the moment. This is pretty much par for the course, but I know I'll have it figured out by the time the con rolls around. The one thing I'm looking to change this year is the game system. In the past, I've run it with a slightly modified version of Feng Shui, but this year I'm leaning towards either the Ubiquity System from Hollow Earth Expedition or Cinematic Unisystem, as seen in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel RPGs. Either one would run great. I'm leaning towards the former simply because the game is still being supported and the HEX folks were really nice to me at Gen Con.
The other game is more certain. It will be Lucha Libre Hero, "Los Miraculos Contra La Hija de Franquestein," a title I'm happily swiping from one of the guys on the Hero Games Boards. LLH is possibly the greatest single supplement for The HERO System's fifth edition. It is gleefully, gloriously psychotronic, a labor of love that grabs the reader, puts him in a headlock, tosses him with an El Hurracan to the mat, pins him and demands to be played.
I don't even particularly care for professional wrestling and I'm still compelled to run it.
I may try to run a third as yet to be determined game. Even though I only have to run two and that seriously cuts into my ability to actually play anything, I've found that I really prefer GMing to playing, even if it does completely wear me out.
As always, if any out-of-towners want to come to Houston for the con, we've got lots of crash space
You Will Be Responsible For My First OwlCon
Date: 2009-09-25 02:58 am (UTC)But one key question remains about your adventure...will The Devil have built a robot?
--Justin (as if you didn't know)