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GIANT Race to Adventure!

By Sean Nittner, on September 13th, 2012%

Remember last year when we demo’d the prototype for Race to Adventure? Well, RTA is back, and BIGGER than ever!

Eric K Lytle, one of the game designers will be back at Big Bad Con running not just the soon to b e released Race To Adventure, but a GIANT version of the soon to be released Race to Adventure. About the game:

Race to Adventure!™ is easy to learn, and you can play in 20-30 minutes. In each round, players will take turns selecting one of 6 different items … and then all players perform their action at the same time. Snatch a golden eagle egg from a Himalayan mountain peak, escape the Mummy King, rescue a prisoner from Atlantis and much more in this family adventure game!

Eric will be running games between the normal RPG time slots Saturday and Sunday evening at 7PM. Sign up for them now:

Saturday – GIANT Race to Adventure
Sunday – GIANT Race to Adventure

A picture of the GIANT board!

Bay Area Beware

By Sean Nittner, on July 31st, 2012%

The Wolf hasn’t got anything out for the Bay Area. It’s a nice place to huff and puff, you know.

But these GMs…i’m just saying.

Oakland Haze – Gamma World game set in the remains of Oakland.

Does History Repeat Itself – Dresden Files set in San Francisco – A city of dreams and nightmares.

Monsters Menace Modest0 – Last Stand game… I think that says it all! Okay… not quite the bay, but close!

Luke Crane events at Big Bad Con

By Sean Nittner, on July 30th, 2012%

Luke’s events are in. Check out all this awesomeness coming from Burning Wheel HQ and beyond!

Danger on the Scent Border (Mouse Guard)

Dungeoneers and Dragonslayers (New BWHQ Playtest)

Inheritance (Luke’s own LARP in Development)

Breakfast with Jason and Luke (Morning panel with Jason Morningstar and Luke Crane)

Make sure to get registered for the con by the time sign ups start (9/8) so you can get into games in the Burning Room, as I’m sure they will go fast!

Rigney’s Room

By Sean Nittner, on June 30th, 2012%

Carl Rigney, luminary of gaming, will be running not one or two, but five, yes FIVE games at Big Bad Con. Oh, and in his spare time he might run some games at Games on Demand Friday afternoon too. The Wolf, Little Red and Grandma are all itching to click “Book Now” NOW.

Here are Carl’s Games:

The New Girl – Monsterhearts

Operation Resplendent Crane – Lacuna Part I.

Hong Kong Blues – Don’t Push Your Luck

Dangerous Hungers – Monsterhearts

Dance of the Dead – Monsterhearts

Little Red is putting on her Riding Hoodie

By Sean Nittner, on June 26th, 2012%

Little Red is getting ready to don on her riding hood. Grandma is changing into her finest nightgown. Heck, even The Wolf is sharpening his teeth to look good. Why? Look at all these awesome LARPs at Big Bad Con:

	Attack of the Media Moguls – The Alien Brothers Xiggurkrakit, Media Moguls, have kidnapped the entire Junior and Senior Classes of Ferris Bueller High School! Can the remaining members of FBHS’s various Clubs and Societies put aside their mutual antagonism and band together to save their friends (and the rest of the Juniors and Seniors) before the abductees are forced to sign lifetime contracts to appear on “Galactic Gladiators”, Xiggurkrakit Media’s hot new Reality Show?
	Pax Occultus – A Dresden Files LARP – Despite the Unseelie Accords, San Francisco has circled the drain of all out war among the it’s supernatural denizens for decades. However, in recent years a powerful wizard named John A. Noroust has made powerful inroads towards peace with each faction. While not liked by many, especially the White council, he is respected by all, enough to call members of each group toward the creation of a stable peace tonight.
	Appledale – A Great Place To Live– “As your duly elected mayor for the year 1952, we find ourselves facing grave issues of national import. With the presence of Communists being uncovered on a daily basis, and the threat of the atom bomb hanging over us – every member of the Appledale community must pull together to repulse this hidden threat to our way of life. I am counting on all citizens of our fair town to do their part during this time of crisis”All small towns have secrets . . . some just have many more than others.
	Midnight Tribunal– Two soldiers from your unit have been charged with the crime of stealing bread. If found guilty, they will be shot. The problem is that they are innocent.The Tribunal is a short, intense participatory scenario about the mechanics of oppression, inspired by Orwell, Krylov, and Büchner. The scenario takes place in a space of waiting, just before the first one of you is called in to testify in front of the military tribunal.
	Houses of the Blooded – Ambition. Lust. Revenge. You can’t have one without the others.Thousands of years ago, the ven ruled the world. They were a passionate people, obsessed with Romance and Revenge, opera and theater, and all the forbidden delights their decadent culture provided. In the end, that which made them beautiful was also the key to their own destruction. A game of romance. A game of revenge. A game of invisible wars and sorcerous blood. A game with no victors. Only casualties.
	A Letter at the Door… – “Your presence is requested at the home of The Society on a matter of grave importance. We have been betrayed at the highest levels. A coachman will be dispatched to retrieve you all. Number One will be most disappointed if you do not appear. For if you do not arrive at the appointed hour, we can only assume that you are a traitor as well.”