Three full tables of Alidor

I did it. I ran my home game dungeon at a convention with great success! Three games with three full tables of 6 players each. I was a little skeptical that I would get any players at all, but people actually showed up. Yup it was a boost to my GM confidence. I ran Wolf’s Den which was a traditional start as a caravan guard, that lead into snooping around town, and eventually, to a dungeon crawl. With Rathkip’s Stinking Den, the party snooped around town in the aftermath of a giant attack, and then wandered out into the marsh to find kobolds impersonating as a giant and then eventually finding a real Cyclops, all to rescue a barmaid. My final dungeon was the hardest, it started with the party throwing day old brownies in a spectacular bar fight, before venturing forth into a miserable death trap in an old mansion taken over by grocery shopping squatters.

Everyone had fun. I even gave away a free market map from GameMastery Maps. I threw out four GameMastery maps: the market, the arena, the ship and the basic map. They all grabbed for the basic and then I realized I would still need it for my other two dungeons. I took it out of the pile. Out of the remaining three, the players chose to fight over the market map. It was the good old roll a D20 and the highest roll get it. So if you are thinking of buying the GameMastery maps it appears the basic blank one is preferred and the market on is the next most handy map they make.

I really had fun this year and all the players were awesome. I have to thank Dave the local game store guy and Jeff from Jeff’s Gameblog for inspiring me to attempt running my home game at a con. It really turned out better than I expected.

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