[Deptheads] Wil Wheaton Blog write up

[XH - R.J. Held]

Paragraph two is the important part:

Cal and Raellen went home after that, because Cal, Steve, and I were
planning to go to OrcCon by LAX on Sunday, and we didn't want to get down
there too late.


I've written about OrcCon before, but a quick recap: it's a mid-sized
gaming con that I just love. I've been going to it since I was in high
school (not every year, sadly), and it is what comes to mind when I think
of "going to a con." It has a great community feel, tons of open gaming, a
great library of games to check out, and tremendous volunteers.


So Steve and I drove down to LAX around 10, met Cal, and found our friend
Shane, who was volunteering to run tournaments, teach games, and generally
help make the con awesome for its attendees.


We had hoped to get into the Dragon Age RPG, but we missed the start time
by nearly 2 hours, and we'd missed the BSG start time by over an hour, so
we grabbed a copy of Forbidden Island from the game library, and played it
in Open Gaming, while we waited for Shane to finish running a tournament.


It was a seriously fun game, and we beat it on Hard (I wanted to play
Legendary, but they were chicken.) My friend Paul Tevis, creator of the
fantastic indie rpg A Penny For My Thoughts joined us, and we played Tales
of the Arabian Nights with him. This is a great game that is truly about
the journey instead of the destination. The goal is to have an interesting
life that's filled with stories and adventure, even if terrible, terrible,
terrible things happen to your character. It's a polarizing game, but I
love it.


Paul had to leave for a game, so we wandered the dealer's room for a bit. I
bought a copy of Lunch Money (finally) and considered buying coasters with
dragons on them.


"I don't think I can sell these to Anne," I said.


"Hey, if the wives want us to use coasters, we should get to pick them
out," Steve said.


"You know what? That makes a whole lot of sense to me," I said, and I
bought four of them.


Our shopping completed, Steve headed down to the airport to fly home. Cal
and I found Shane and played Power Grid Japan with him and a young couple
(Crystal and Kevin) who I think Shane knows from the con. I was in the lead
for the entire game, until Crystal connected and 15 cities when I had 13
and needed one more turn. Oh well, second place was fine.


I could have stayed at the con and played more games, but I wanted to have
dinner with Anne, so I thanked my friends for playing with me, and left
around 6:30.


When I got home, I proudly showed Anne our new coasters.


She was Not Amused™. "How about you use those on game day, and we pick out
some different ones ... together," She said.


I silently cursed Steve, even though I still thought that his idea was
intriguing, and I wished to subscribe to his newsletter.