Origins, Day 5
The main reasons I stayed over for the Sunday of Origins were to attend the Christian Gamers Guild worship service and to avoid driving through the night to get to my in-laws’ home, my next stop after Origins.
9:00–10:00 AM: Christian Gamers Guild Worship Service
I’m not going to “review” the service. We worshiped; that’s all that needs to be said, except for “thank yous” to Dave Mattingly, Tom Vasel, Shari Armstrong, Dave Brown, and the other guy—Steve something? sorry, I don’t know his name—who led the service. Check out the Christian Gamers’ Guild web site if you’re not familiar with the group.
After the service, I thought about doing another dungeon delve, but there was a pretty long wait and I had saved enough tokens to get the repainted ochre jelly. I don’t have a photograph to show you, but if you’ve seen the ochre jelly preview for Against the Giants, just imagine that in olive green.
I took one last swing through the exhibit hall to pick up a couple of dice with “Aargh” printed on the face where you normally see a 1, and was delighted to run into my cousing David there. I knew he was at the con and we’d spoken a couple of times before that, but didn’t get to spend much time together as our schedules took us in different directions. David and his friend Tim (that part where David mentions that “his cousins introduced him to Dungeons & Dragons”—that would be me) have started a new D&D 4e podcast called Radio Free Hommlet. Check it out!
Finally, props to everyone who ran the games in which I played. I don’t know all of their names, but I’ll specifically mention Andrew Shockney of Amorphous Blob Games (“Return to the Keep on the Borderlands,” D&D), Kevin Hake of the Crimson Hand club (“Hell Hath No Fury,” Mutants & Masterminds), Matthew Muth (“Gotham City Showdown,” M&M), Obed Lopez (“Return to the Moathouse,” D&D), and the half-dozen or so RPGA volunteers who ran the delves that I joined. Special props to Chris Tulach for all his fine work at the RPGA that helped to make Origins a great con for me this year.
The CAR-PGa is now online
The Committee for the Advancement of Role-Playing Games now has a web presence, with their web site launched on January 1.
