I did my first GenCon last year with the Nerd Night™ group. Someone suggested we should all go and it was settled in about five minutes. I had fun playing in a bunch of games but the highlight was seeing a bunch of old military buddies and meeting some of the people I’ve worked with in the industry in person for once. I wasn’t really set on going back.
Well, looks like I’m going back. I've been tapped to run Outgunned! on Thursday morning and evening. The adventure is The Lagos Job -- and will run the players through character creation and a mission in the four hour block. Yes -- we can do a full adventure and character creation in that time. Character creation is staggeringly easy, and with the stretch goals card deck, the players can find their roles and tropes and knock out their character in under half an hour. I've already done it with a five person table in that time.
Friday is Blade Runner -- I'll be running the original Electric Dreams adventure from the Starter Set with pre-gen characters from the same. Got a morning and afternoon game. I've played in this one last year at GenCon and it's a good mission.
Saturday is my working the whole day -- Alien, running the original Chariot of the Gods adventure. If I can get Free League to drop me a PDF (or if I can score a hard copy) of the new edition, I might even run the games using the new rules.
Sunday morning is Outgunned! again, then I have to move fast to catch my flight out of Indianapolis.
Looking forward to it.