We're on for 2011!

So every year I help run this local gaming convention, Go Play NW. Well, we've finally got our dates and venue lined up for this year! We're getting together July 8-10 at the Seattle Center. There's going to be a ton of indie gaming, and plenty of old-school gaming too!

Discombobulated

I am very busy right now. With all the thinking and preparation around actually hanging my art in coffee shops and the like, it has been hard to focus on the dungeons, hence the lack of posts this week. And it's only going to get worse. There are a number of large writing assignments looming for October-November at work, not to mention continuing progress on The Purple Worm Graveyard. And then there's Go Play NW 2011 to think about. Also, I have more dungeon compilations from Nick to post! But I'm going to try and keep posting. After all, there are only a few months left in the year!

The Purple Worm Graveyard

What happens when you read those weird, squiggly inscriptions written along the bottom of that wall? What if you kneel in front of the altar of light and let what comes, come? And when you try to cast that really hard spell and it goes horribly wrong?

You open your mind to the worm god. The worm god is an ancient chaotic entity whose domains include destruction, decay, hunger, compost, and gardening.

Roll 2D6 plus your CON hit point bonus.

• On a 10+, your mind is in contact with the Worm god and it shows you what you want then offers you a bargain or a gift.


• On a 7-9, you receive a true impression or vision of what you're interested in, but then suffer a temporary insanity.


• On a 6 or less, the DM decides what happens.

Temporary Insanities:

1. Fall on your hands and knees and start eating dirt voraciously for 1-4 rounds


2. Projectile vomiting for several minutes


3. You realize that somewhere, somehow, there's a worm in your body. You can feel it, but you can't tell where it is.


4. The Worm god has a command for you, and he's watching to make sure you carry it out!

This is a little tidbit from the con scenario that I ran and Sage ran at Go Play NW. Opening your mind to the Worm god is fun!

Back from GPNW and Fully Recovered!

Vacation, work, and Go Play NW conspired to keep me from my dungeons for a couple weeks, but I'm back now.

Go Play NW was a real blast. I'll probably post a lengthlier writeup some time in the near future. Microdungeons figured large in my convention. I brought three microdungeon adventures with me to GPNW and got to run all of them using Apocalypse D&D. Plus the generous Sage offered to take one of them and run it for a couple of groups as well. That was a pretty amazing experience.

Apocalypse D&D fared very well at GPNW, despite the fact that Apoc D&D wizards are crazy. After each game I gathered up the pre-gens and handed them off to the next group to keep playing. The mage got to fifth level and blew up most of his buddies in a nasty fireball mishap. The Dwarven fighter went evil and ran off with a professional vampire slayer, while the theif was turned into a lesser wraith by one of the bad guys and later ran off with a risen saint to start a new undead religion.

I also got to run some Poison'd and played in a spectacular game of Fiasco and Brandon A's Minions hack for Apocalypse World. What a great con!

Have a Beer with Go Play NW

As many of you know, I'm one of the organizers of Go Play NW, a home-grown Seattle role-playing game convention. Well if you happen to live in the Seattle area, you can come down to the Big Time Brewery and have a beer with us on Sunday, May 23rd. We'll be hanging out, talking about gaming, and having fun from 7:30 onward. This is a great way to get to meet some of the Go Play crowd, or just find out what we're about.

Digging Go Play NW

A band of gamers assemble for an annual celebration of games and friendship...

An annual ritual, held in the heart of a great city...

Murderous zombies erupt from the Earth to interrupt a long-awaited feast with chaos...

It's Go Play NW!

This map is a little preview of the new venue for Go Play NW, the Richard Hugo House in Seattle's Capitol Hill Neighborhood. I'll be there running Apocalypse D&D microdungeons (and maybe some other stuff), along with dozens of others gamers and all-around awesome people. Registration is open now. Go Play NW is a great time, and well worth the cost of entry. We would love to see some of you there!

Play Games, Meet People, June 18-20, 2010

I'm on the board for a local convention called Go Play NW. We just opened up registration for 2010! Seriously, if you want to play some new games and make some friends, this is the convention for you.

Go Play NW started four years ago when I and the people I game with were regularly discovering and trying new games and having our minds blown by how much fun we were having. It seemed like people all over the country were doing the same thing, and putting together grassroots meetups to play them. That's where we got the idea to do one ourselves.

We've had some changes and additions in our crew since then, but the basic mission stays the same: play games, have fun, make friends.