It’s a week ago, and I haven’t written a report of this. Call myself a blogger?
Stabcon is the bi-annual games convention, focussing on board games and RPGs, currently held at the Britannia Hotel in Stockport. It tends to be a lot of the same people year after year, and it’s small enough that everyone knows everyone else. I to the registration desk to find a roomfull of familiar faces. Like a Breathing Space gig, only even more so! In fact, it didn’t seem like six months since the last con, more like a couple of weeks.
As always, the gaming was of good quality; and since I now know most of the players and GMs it’s more like an infrequent regular gaming group than RPing with a bunch of random strangers. Three of the four games were with GMs I know well from previous Stabcons, Kev, Amanda and Phil Masters.
This year I played not one by two games of Call of Cthulhu, one featuring a sinister magic mirror that wanted us as a sacrifice, the other a sorceror/mad scientist performing the Schrödinger’s Cat experiment, with the player characters as the cat.. In both games I failed some SAN rolls and went ‘wibble’ quite a bit. Other games were Stargate SG-13 using the system from Blue Planet, where we visited the Planet of the the Pear-Shaped Women, and GURPS Transhuman Space with a school trip in the year 2100. All were great fun.
Roll on the next one!
