Gen Con UK report, part 1

I've survived the first day of Gen Con UK, even if we made a complete mess of the GURPS Cliffhangers adventure. For once it was truly bad tactical decisions, not awful dice rolling which caused things like my character getting stuck inside a crashing plane. At least I didn't completely miss the bad guys' Zeppellin!

Don't like the way the demo hall closes at 6pm, which means any in-progress games have to relocate if they haven't finished by then. Fortunately there was a free table tonight in the CCG hall; probably by the weekend these tables will be filled with hordes of Magic:the Gathering players so such an option won't be possible.

Full report on the rest of the con on Sunday - Tomorrow night I'm at the Pyramidian dinner at Belgo's in Covent Garden.

Posted by TimHall at August 29, 2002 11:29 PM

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