Gypsycon V

Just back from four solid days of gaming at Gypsycon in deepest Cambridgeshire, hence the total lack of blogging for so long that the blog disappeared!

Gypsycon is hosted by one of the founders of Dreamlyrics, and attended by about two dozen members of that site. Over the course of the four day weekend eleven day-long RPGs took place, including one GMed by myself; I'm sure you can guess which one.

If the games we played are typical of what gamers are up to, the "All your game are belong to d20" plan for world domination just isn't happening:

• Castle Falkenstein
• Call of Cthulhu
• "Work in Progress" (Completely systemless, with no character sheets!)
• Fudge
• Cyberpunk (2 games)
• GURPS Kalyr
• Adventure!
• D&D3
• Conspiracy X
• Marvel Superheroes

I can't comment on the games I didn't play in, although the MSH game ended up in the swimming pool!. The games I played in involved preventing Confederate terrorists with a midgit submarine from blowing up the Brooklyn Bridge on it's opening ceremony, finding a subterranian city of snake people ruled by a corrupt Frenchman, and keeping alien weaponry out of the hands of the Chinese military. Meanwhile the game I ran demonstrated just what happens when you fire an electrolaser inside a flour mill.

With this long standing gathering over the Easter weekend, I was disappointed that Gen Con UK chose to move from their long established September date to the same weekend. For me, it was no contest as to which one to go to. Now I hear reports that attendance at GenCon UK is sixty percent down this year. Serves them right!

And I've still got "If I was a Deep One" from "Shoggoth on the Roof" stuck in my head.

Bloblobloblobloblobloblobloblobloblobloblobloblob!