Everybody is usually pretty zombified by the third day of a con, and we had a bonus Fire Alarm Incident at 1am, so today was not a bright or energetic day. I got into a Slugblaster game in Games on Demand, which is something that I’ve wanted to play for a while since it looks like the new generation’s TFOS. There were only two players and the GM was kind of out of it, but we did get to stream us doing skateboard tricks in another dimension while a giant robot launched from a silo, and isn’t that what it’s all about?

The afternoon game was a playtest and apparently the previous run of it showed too many problems, so it got switched to a different in-development game, Gallant. This put off some of the players so again it was only two of us and a GM, but we buckled the swashes and retrieved the stolen documents from the vile Comte. This game’s mechanical gimmick is that you need to decide on three things you want to accomplish each turn, and then once you’ve rolled your pile of d8s, you have to assign them to the three goals, so you may get any combination of success, mixed success, and failure. When it comes out, I will probably buy it for Jeremy, because he is all about swashbuckling in fake France. No idea when that might be, though.

And that was it! I trundled back home and was very blargh.

Read: Gahi-chan! vol 1 (Tirotata): Tentacled yōkai that eat human art to take the shape of the characters therein could be interesting even if lewd, but here it’s just lewd.

Read: Hot Reset (Elliott Kay): Extremely male-fantasy space opera about a down-on-his-luck guy who uses the power of not being a complete dick to get a harem of hot, bi, poly girls and a sweet spaceship, and also blow up the bad guys and save the day.

Written: FAIL.