Traveller At RockCon!

[Mark A. Siefert]

Hey all:

As promised--or threatened, depending on your point of view--I'm running a couple of Traveller games at RockCon, in Rockford, IL this weekend (10/24-10/26). I'll be running the following games:

Saturday: 7 pm-11 pm

Taveller: Yet Another Bug Hunt.

All right marines, listen up! Our orders are to boost to some little rock owned by Weyland-Yutani.... Yeah, yeah, I know, "Building better worlds..." right! They lost contact with a group of corporate eggheads and one of the researches just so happens to be the kid of a US senator. Could be a downed transmitter, could not, but it's our job to find out! So stow you're gear and write your e-mails home, 'cause the L-T wants us in freezers at 1700! Dismissed!

Sunday: 9 am-1 pm

Traveller: The Starchild

There you are: Stuck with your crew on some backwater planet with no job, no ship, and no prospects. You running short on funds and the TAS hostels you're crashing at are getting progressively raunchier. Somethings gotta happen soon, right? Play the new Traveller, the classic game of sci-fi role playing, now published by Mongoose Publishing.

One thing I'd like to do is start a block of events dedicated to all things Traveller (RPGs, miniature games, etc) at RockCon. This year I'm going to have to start with just two events, but if local gamers are interested, I could see this growing.

 

[Mark A. Siefert]

Well, I'm back... Guess how many people showed up for my games.

Come on, guess...

One

That's right. ONE! I sat on my ass for about a hour into each session looking like a gorram fool.

I'm pretty damn disgusted right now. I'm this close to giving up on running convention games ever again.

 

[TrippyHippy]

Sorry, the plane flight was all booked up.

 

[Alan Hume]

Sorry to hear that
but well done for flying the flag
it must have been an awful lot of work
but hey, it isnt wasted, you can use to run games
for your friends, very dissapointing though

still, well done you anyway 8)

 

[Jame Rowe]

The only reason I didn't go is the same as for why I didn't go to GenCon: no money. If not for that, I'd have been there and you'd have had two.

 

[Paladin]

Sorry to hear about the poor turn out. Don't give up.

Just a suggestion for future listings. Put "Newcomers welcome." as the first two words in your promo text. Then if anyone is just skimming for games they will be more apt to try it (even if another column of the registration flags experience needed).
Or perhaps a specific title of "Introduction to Traveller" as a short session or even the title.

Did you have any decent traffic in your area to draw interest?
-Print a mini poster version of the traveller book cover to put on the table or larger one on a tripod to draw attention.
-Might try some minis on the table, even if you never use them.

 

[SSWarlock]

The only reason I didn't go is the same as for why I didn't go to GenCon: no money. If not for that, I'd have been there and you'd have had two.

Make that three.