Gen Con 2010 Friday Overview

After having a pretty shaky experience in Meadbrook mine I was really looking forward to Pulp Friday.  I really enjoy the setting personally and I think it lends itself very well to con play as characters tend to be awesome doing amazing things!

First off was Men without Minds a Spirit of the Century / FATE game I was surprised I was able to get into at all.  Two of the people playing in this Spirit game were the same people I had played Inspectres with last year so I knew I was in for a fun game.  The GM has pre-generated almost all of our character's back-story leaving only the last novel for us to do so we could tie our characters together and see how the novel system of back-story development worked.  This was a great idea as it took a little time and gave us a taste as to what the system was like.  I highly recommended anyone else running this in a con setting to do the same thing.

The plot was pretty standard pulp but we all had a fun time tracking down the big bad guy to his lair.  This was the first time I had played Spirit so I was a little disappointed as to how it handed combat with multiple lesser opponents.  I like FATE / FUDGE but I was a little let down, probably due to my to extremely high expectations.  Overall, it was a good game and I learned a lot as well.  I would definitely play in another Spirit game con registration system willing.

Pulp Friday continued with Frogs in the Machine an Adventure! game.  I have owned this book for quite awhile and it has been gathering dust on the shelf so I was looking forward to cracking it out.

The characters for this game were great.  One was a sentient gorilla scientist, to help set the stage.  I got to play what I would later refer to as "the worst monster a child could ever imagine" trust me the monster under the bed had nothing on this guy.  We were playing in pre-WWII England and I was a German character who was a dentist.  Not just any dentist, but, "THE GREATEST DENTIST IN THE WORLD"  it said so, right on the character sheet.  So we were already off to a cracking start.  The GM for the game had an amazing array of different British accents and he was always consistent with the accents as he changed NPCs.

The other players were all very interesting and we had a great time getting to the bottom of the mystery.  I would definitely like to play more games with the same group of guys.  Upon reflection I doubt that I will be playing in any more Adventure! games in the future.  I like the game just not as much as I like Hollow Earth Expeditions so sorry Adventure! off to Half-Priced books you go!