Monday, August 27, 2007

GenCon Indy 2007

GenCon was again, very much fun. It's a relatively cheap vacation and I always end up wondering why I ever think of NOT attending if I have the means to do so. Good fun, good friends, good geeking.

Pinnacle Entertainment Group released The Savage World of Solomon Kane for the Savage Worlds game system. For those who don't know, Solomon Kane is a character created by Robert E. Howard, more popularly known for his Conan novels. PEG acquired the license to publish a role-playing game based on Solomon Kane a couple of years back, and now here it is! I have an "Additional Material" credit for writing four of the adventures in there. It is being shipped out to your local gaming store soon. Check it out - it is "teh awesome"!


Oooooh! Shiny new book!

GenCon has a costume contest every Saturday, and there are a lot of AWESOME costumes there. TUO being TUO, she couldn't resist getting involved, and dragged cenobyte along with her. What did they come up with? Victorian Steampunk. How cool is that? Inspired by Girl Genius, of course.


"SCIENCE!"

You also start seeing the video game industry making its way into GenCon as well. A number of companies had exhibits there, and along with the video game exhibits comes the inevitable onslaught of booth babes.


I asked her what is best in life, but she seemed kinda confused. I don't think she's a REAL barbarian.



And a little somethin' for the ladies!

GENCON 2008! If you are interested in coming out with us to GenCon next year (Aug. 14-17, 2008), START PLANNING NOW! Start budgeting for the trip, making plans for meeting up with us, share hotel rooms, etc. Every gamer should go to GenCon at least once in their life, and it's worth some serious geek cred! :-)

Family Visit

My brother came to visit with his family, so we had a nice visit as they toured the sights of the Bay Area.


Boxing on the Wii


Alcatraz boat tour


Golden Gate view

We also ended up going down to the beach in Santa Cruz (the one they used for filming of the Lost Boys - good vampire flick if you've never seen it).