Thing Four in my 52 Weeks of Done project is a preparation push for Dundracon. Thing : Dundracon Preparations Type : Game Design, Writing, Making and Organization Size : Scattered, Smothered, Covered and Chunked Description undracon is a local convention that takes place during President’s Day weekend in San Ramon. I’m running an official game [...]

KublaCon is this weekend. Are you going? I sure am! If you’re an early bird, I’m running an official Shambles game at 8:00pm Friday Night. I’ll likely be running some demos or drop-ins as well. Look for posters, posts, or ask me directly for details. I’m also running a super-secret Paranoia game in a super-secret [...]

Dundracon 34 wrapped up yesterday. I don’t know why, but conventions always make me feel like I’ve just gone toe-to-toe with a gorilla. This one, this year, especially so. This convention was marked by two very different gaming experiences as a GM. But I’ll come to those in a minute. First, let’s talk about everything [...]

I’ve been running Paranoia games at local conventions ever since XP was released.  Running games in a convention setting can really be a crapshoot.  You don’t know what kind of players you’re going to get, if they are going to follow what you’re trying to do, or if they are coming in with set expectations. [...]

Folks, I’ll be running a ParanoiaXP game at DunDracon This weekend, Feb 16-19. I offered them two games, Shambles and ParanoiaXP. They chose ParanoiaXP. Ah me. But sod it. I love running Paranoia (my game is Sunday, 10am.) And I can spend the rest of the weekend doing what I want. Mainly, gaming, running Shambles [...]