Thanks to Luke Gygax for mentioning in another thread about Mike Carr attending. I signed up for his game of FITS (Fighters in the Sky - also know as Dawn Patrol). Fabulous, fabulous game!! He’s been running it at every single GenCON!!
Mike was our squadron leader and Luke, myself and buttmonkey were wings. We were the Germans and we totally kicked ass and blew the Americans (Paul Stormberg, Blake, Kevin and Whitney) out of the sky.
In the second game, it was just Mike and myself against Blake, Kevin and another guy. They were Brits and we were Germans again. This time, my Pfalz D III (see cover of FITS) was tailed repeatedly and my tail got shot up real bad.
After stalling, looping, barrel rolling and one other maneuver, I couldn’t shake the pursuit and took like 11 hits to the tail section and ultimately my aircraft exploded and I failed my fall save. DOA!!!
Mike is a very nice, friendly and intelligent fellow. And I thank him for signing my copy of B1 In Search of the Unknown which I got in 1978 in my BD&D Holmes Box!!
Other thoughts . . .
Lots of great custom T-shirts including Frank’s DF shirt, KR Bougouine’s shirt, Chris Clarks’ cool shirt and the CON shirts that Luke made available (I got one and it’s very cool).
I was glad to play some Adventurer with KR and Chris Clark and then we played KR’s new game LINKZ which is totally great!
And on Sunday, I had the great pleasure to play in Tim Kask’s OD&D game ~ with Tim presenting an original module for GaryCON called Tower of the Mad Wizard. The players included Jeffery St. Clair, francisca, Doug from RPGBomb and some other great gamers. This was a fantastically rockin’ game that was old school to the MAX (heh, how could it not be that with Tim as DM. Sheesh, Tim could run 4E and we could be fairy princesses preparing for a ball and it would still be old school!!).
I will have to create another thread just to talk about this game . . . I’ll only say this, my 8th lvl halfling fighter was able to acquire and wield a giant troll morningstar (cause he had a good strength ability and was wearing a girdle of giant strength!!).
I do believe Tim is going to post a summary of his games and I direct peeps to check out his Q&A thread soon.
Pics to follow (and perhaps more commentary, as I think of stuff).
[Thanks Gary]
