Origins

Last week was the Origins game con. The folks running it seemed pretty disorganized this year and I was tempted to bail after the train wreck of registering for games, but we'd gotten a non-refundable hotel room so we pressed on. In the end we played some good games, played one game that sounded good but is definitely not for us (better to find out this way), and met up with someone I met online to play a game we hadn't been able to get into (which was a highlight, both the game and the person). There's an open gaming area and some people bring wagons full of their own games, it turns out. I like role-playing games more than Dani does and I wanted to play some, so one day we split up for half a day and he played crunchy games that are more his style. That worked out. (I'm glad the schedules aligned, especially with all the registration snarls.) Games Four Years to Mars (run by the designer, who worked for NASA): players are competing to complete contracts (aided by research…