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Back From Carnage
Nov. 9th, 2008 12:17 amWe just got back from Carnage, a gaming convention in Fairlee, VT, a couple of hours ago and I am plum tuckered out. It was a great day and we pimped EconoCon like crazy, so that's a good thing, too.
We stopped at Dunkin Donuts on the way to get coffee and a little breakfast, though Adam got crullers at another place previously and shared them. PW and I had to split one they were so huge and even still we were stuffed from it! We rolled into Fairlee around 7:50 am after about an hour drive from Plymouth. We were pretty much just in time for the first official slot of the day. I made my way to the board gaming area, which was the back half of the enormous ballroom behind the miniatures gaming. Randy and I managed to get into the Ticket to Ride: London Underground game and play a game on a map of the Underground made for the Ticket to Ride game by some guy that's freely available online. It was a really cool map based almost directly on a 1930s map of the Underground and apparently the colors for the actual lines matched many of the car colors for Ticket to Ride, which made it even cooler. We played two games of that and I won both. It's basically like regular TtR with stations from TtR Europe and the many dead-end branches like the TtR Marklin board except without the ability to pass through the country, hence the need for the stations. Our third game was regular Ttr and Randy won that quite handsomely.
We went off in search of lunch and managed to get subs at Subway in Bradford pretty much right down the road from the resort in Fairle where the convention was held. When we got back we checked out the vendor area. I finally got myself a copy of the Fishermen of Catan expansion! You know, the expansion that was suppose to come to me over a year ago in my Games Quarterly subscription but didn't because Games Quarterly went belly up without warning between my first and second issue! I had seen a copy of Seafarers of Catan for sale for $5 (big bargain!) but by the time I returned with cash it had sold. :( We got![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
painted_wolf a copy of Og, a very humorous caveman roleplaying game. We both love it and she's wanted it for a while. It was only $13, so why not? Later in the day we bought Unspeakable Words, which is basically like Scrabble in card game form but with cutesy Lovecraft mythos stuff on the letter cards and sanity checks every time a player forms a word. We love playing with the variant rule that lets you make up complete gibberish when you're down to your last sanity point.
For the midday slot I played Rock Promoters of Catan, which was basically a homebrew basic Catan themed on promoting rock concerts and building venues. It was actually pretty neat! Oh! Since it was Carnage 11, they went with a Spinal Tap theme and even handed out Carnage guitar picks to people that pre-registered, so PW and I each got picks. :) Anyhow, Rock Promoters went well and I managed to interest two families in attending EconoCon. Sweet!
During dinner break we just ran to the market to get food and then all ate as a group and had loads of fun at the tables in the vendor area. We were actually a rather rowdy crew but it was all good. At one point a guy walked through in nothing but a towel around his waist and another around his head (presumably after getting out of the pool and looking for his room). He kinda looked like Frank Zappa, so it was rather surreal and very much a WTFLOL moment. At another point a guy walked in wearing a giant minotaur mask and then another guy walking past on his way out looked toward us and started jumping up and down shouting "I'm a stupid cow! I'm a stupid cow!" We all burst out in laughter.
My first choice for the night block was full so I got scheduled for my second choice, which was Die Macher. For those that don't know, this is a classic German board game that is an incredibly intense political board game. I've played it once maybe a couple of years ago when Geeks and Gamers was still open. I was kind of looking forward to it, but at the same time it would have extended beyond the end of the block and my ride wanted to try to leave early, nevermind stay late. So I had to back out unfortunately. I'm actually kind of glad, because after getting up so incredibly early on little sleep I was feeling pretty braindead and I don't think I would have performed well playing Die Macher anyhow. It's very intense and lasts for several hours.
The ride home went much quicker. We had a lot of fun chatting and sharing our individual stories from the day. Now I'm going to bed and crashing, because I'm beat and I have church in the morning.
We stopped at Dunkin Donuts on the way to get coffee and a little breakfast, though Adam got crullers at another place previously and shared them. PW and I had to split one they were so huge and even still we were stuffed from it! We rolled into Fairlee around 7:50 am after about an hour drive from Plymouth. We were pretty much just in time for the first official slot of the day. I made my way to the board gaming area, which was the back half of the enormous ballroom behind the miniatures gaming. Randy and I managed to get into the Ticket to Ride: London Underground game and play a game on a map of the Underground made for the Ticket to Ride game by some guy that's freely available online. It was a really cool map based almost directly on a 1930s map of the Underground and apparently the colors for the actual lines matched many of the car colors for Ticket to Ride, which made it even cooler. We played two games of that and I won both. It's basically like regular TtR with stations from TtR Europe and the many dead-end branches like the TtR Marklin board except without the ability to pass through the country, hence the need for the stations. Our third game was regular Ttr and Randy won that quite handsomely.
We went off in search of lunch and managed to get subs at Subway in Bradford pretty much right down the road from the resort in Fairle where the convention was held. When we got back we checked out the vendor area. I finally got myself a copy of the Fishermen of Catan expansion! You know, the expansion that was suppose to come to me over a year ago in my Games Quarterly subscription but didn't because Games Quarterly went belly up without warning between my first and second issue! I had seen a copy of Seafarers of Catan for sale for $5 (big bargain!) but by the time I returned with cash it had sold. :( We got
painted_wolf a copy of Og, a very humorous caveman roleplaying game. We both love it and she's wanted it for a while. It was only $13, so why not? Later in the day we bought Unspeakable Words, which is basically like Scrabble in card game form but with cutesy Lovecraft mythos stuff on the letter cards and sanity checks every time a player forms a word. We love playing with the variant rule that lets you make up complete gibberish when you're down to your last sanity point.For the midday slot I played Rock Promoters of Catan, which was basically a homebrew basic Catan themed on promoting rock concerts and building venues. It was actually pretty neat! Oh! Since it was Carnage 11, they went with a Spinal Tap theme and even handed out Carnage guitar picks to people that pre-registered, so PW and I each got picks. :) Anyhow, Rock Promoters went well and I managed to interest two families in attending EconoCon. Sweet!
During dinner break we just ran to the market to get food and then all ate as a group and had loads of fun at the tables in the vendor area. We were actually a rather rowdy crew but it was all good. At one point a guy walked through in nothing but a towel around his waist and another around his head (presumably after getting out of the pool and looking for his room). He kinda looked like Frank Zappa, so it was rather surreal and very much a WTFLOL moment. At another point a guy walked in wearing a giant minotaur mask and then another guy walking past on his way out looked toward us and started jumping up and down shouting "I'm a stupid cow! I'm a stupid cow!" We all burst out in laughter.
My first choice for the night block was full so I got scheduled for my second choice, which was Die Macher. For those that don't know, this is a classic German board game that is an incredibly intense political board game. I've played it once maybe a couple of years ago when Geeks and Gamers was still open. I was kind of looking forward to it, but at the same time it would have extended beyond the end of the block and my ride wanted to try to leave early, nevermind stay late. So I had to back out unfortunately. I'm actually kind of glad, because after getting up so incredibly early on little sleep I was feeling pretty braindead and I don't think I would have performed well playing Die Macher anyhow. It's very intense and lasts for several hours.
The ride home went much quicker. We had a lot of fun chatting and sharing our individual stories from the day. Now I'm going to bed and crashing, because I'm beat and I have church in the morning.
