I just flew in from Houston, and boy are my arms tired of these ancient jokes. Okay, technically I got in last night, but since I spent most of the evening dealing with a car window that had been broken out while it waited for me in the airport parking lot… it feels like I’ve just now truly achieved being home.
I spent the weekend at Space City Con running demos of the new Anointed RPG. The demos went well. People had a good time playing heroes of the gods in a bronze-age fantasy setting, and loved finding creative new uses for the powers the gods had given them and the designer (*cough* me) had never intended. (“Why yes, I suppose you could use River of Earth to swim through the ground to directly beneath your enemy, and then use Stoneshape to open a hole beneath him to swallow him up… and thereby avoid the boss fight altogether. Sure! That’d be great!”)
When I looked up from the demo table, I was amazed at the quality and variety of costumes people were wearing. You had your usual array of stormtroopers and Doctors Who, but I also caught a movie-quality Iron Man, War Machine, Boba Fett, Predator (from the movie of the same name), and even a weeping angel, amongst others. I only wish I’d been faster on the camera-phone, to prove I wasn’t hallucinating the whole thing. (“No, really! She was right here! And made of stone!”)
Also: many, many women were dressed as the TARDIS.
Over the weekend, the Space City crew announced that the show has been such a success that, after just two years, they are adding a second convention to their schedule. The next con will be in January, followed by the regularly-scheduled event in August.
That’s good news for me. It’s a great con, and I’ll definitely be back. But now that I’ve visited Houston in August, I can safely say I think I’d prefer to be there in January.
