...And The Winner Is...

Big news - My BRP adventure TERROR AT 6666 FEET was selected as a winner of Chaosium's BRP Adventure contest. The pdf version of the 13 part adventure compilation became available 3/13. My lucky day. I'm now a published writer. Sweeeeet! The bound version should be available early April.

Attended ConQuest Sacramento last weekend. Didn't expect much as I was told not to. The con isn't much to speak of, but I did get to play 3 games I've never had a chance to try, 7th Sea, Buffy and Alternity. Average adventures all, but it was cool to try new games. I was barely able to find enough people to run my Cthulhu game. Daaaaang! My Paranoia game didn't go as only 1 person signed up for it. Double daaaaang! I'm used to turning people away. Seems that 6-8 hour games with 6 Players are not the norm. More like 4.5 hour games with 4-5 Players. Weird. I did get to hang with my friend Matt DeHayes & his girl, Nicole. That was cool. We live nearly 3 hrs apart, so don't get much hang time. We gamed together most of the weekend & he let me crash at his place, which made the adventure affordable.

I did a fair amount of networking at ConQuest + met some new people. I also bumped into folks who attend KublaCon and DunDraCon. 2 of them had played in my games and said nice things about them. One even mentioned that he was talking about my game on his way to the convention. I'm honored and glad that I was able to entertain.

The weekly group finally finished the 'sample' C-punk game I've been running for them. Now onto creating new characters for an ongoing game. Gonna start with TALES FROM THE FORLORN HOPE adventure pack. I good central location to start with, though I can't believe I'm gonna start a game in a bar. We'll spend one evening creating characters which will give me a week to get good hooks for them. We'll see what the LifePath generates.

I'm in negotiations with the Brookdale Lodge, a local haunted hotel in the Santa Cruz mountains, to run a gaming event of my own. It's the DEAD OF WINTER HORROR INVITATIONAL. It'll take place December 11,12,13, 2009. I'll host a mixer at the hotel lounge on Friday night as folks arrive. It will be an all horror RPG weekend. Games will start Saturday at 10AM. 1st session will run for 6 hours. 2nd session will run 6PM to midnight or so. Repeat on Sunday. Hoping to get 28ish people. That would make 4 groups of 7 (6-Players, 1-GM) I'm renting the 19th Century Log Cabin, part of the original hotel, built in 1870. A big log room with giant fireplace, it should be a great place for horror. I'll have to figure out how to keep the noise down. No 'open gaming room' for this event. Once a vacation destination for movie stars and gangsters, the lodge has seen better days but is currently being renovated and will emerge as the Brookdale Inn & Spa. Most of the rooms will be finished by December, so there'll be an excellent combination of rustic and modern. So far everyone I've pitched the idea to, likes it. More here as it evolves.