Corwin ([info]prince_corwin) wrote,
@ 2007-03-24 23:53:00
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A Brief AmberCon Report
Best Silly Amber game: Nine Princes in High School, which was much more fun than I expected... and I had pretty high expectations. I am perfectly content with my image of Brand as the publisher of the subversive unofficial underground web-based school newspaper, Amber Yellow Journalism. Provoking civil war in the hallways, for fun and profit! Poor Corwin.

Best (Relatively) Straight Amber game: Arref's The Clandestine Chronicles of the Cobalt Charter, in which a bunch of (relatively) low power characters work for Julia (of all people) as we pre-emptively take care of "problems" in Shadow that seem to be strangely related to her personal problems. SOunds weird, but works surprisingly well, as a continuing game.

Best Non-Amber Game: FollyBard's emergency session of SuperHuman High School (I did seem to spend an inordinate amount of time this weekend playing high school aged characters...) which is in some ways too bizarre to be easily explained. At least right now.

Players/GMs most comprehensively missed: Immlass and Mcroft.

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[info]scifantasy
2007-03-25 05:14 am UTC (link)
Nine Princes in High School

That really does sound hilarious.

(Based on your many recommendations, by the way, I'm currently embroiled in a bidding war on eBay for a mint edition copy of the Amber Diceless core book...well, based on the recommendations and wanting to help the guy who's selling it, as I know who it is.)

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[info]prince_corwin
2007-03-25 05:30 am UTC (link)
Actually, the rules kinda suck, as far as I'm concerned. Wujcik wrote a perfect handbook for how to run an Amber game, if you happen to be Erick Wujcik, in much the same was as R Sean Borgstrom wrote a perfect handbook for how to run a Nobilis game if you happen to be her.

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[info]scifantasy
2007-03-25 05:31 am UTC (link)
Huh. Well, still, it's worth looking into. I've always been a bit curious about it, anyway.

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[info]stormfeather
2007-03-25 05:55 am UTC (link)
Well yeah, but you gotta know the rules in the first place before you start tailoring them to suit yourself.

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[info]prince_corwin
2007-03-25 06:01 am UTC (link)
Yeah, but truthfully, even my attempts to modify them (after using them straight) has yielded poor to bad results. There are a lot of ideas in there that really sound like they should work, but in my experience just really don't.

Besides, I would be remiss if I let someone get in a bidding war over something I thought was bad, on my recommendation, without at least saying something about it.

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[info]scifantasy
2007-03-25 01:28 pm UTC (link)
I would be remiss if I let someone get in a bidding war over something I thought was bad, on my recommendation, without at least saying something about it.

I appreciate that. Thanks.

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[info]desdenova
2007-03-25 11:42 pm UTC (link)
I once attended a gaming panel at a convention that he was on, and by the end of it I wanted to punch him in the face. The only reason I stayed was because [info]equusregia was also on the panel.

I would *certainly* never want to be in a game he was running!

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[info]prince_corwin
2007-03-26 06:22 am UTC (link)
I find myself morbidly fascinated to hear why.

At the post-con bullshit session, I chatted with a few people who had been going to this particular con long enough that they had met Wujcik and had played at con games run by him. If anything, I am convinced I may have been wrong in my descriptions... by having been too charitable.

The correction to my statement that rang the most true was along the lines of, "No, actually, the book describes the game that Erick thinks he's running, and that he thinks everyone wants to play," which is a much more devastating criticism than mine. They didn't get into any great details, as there were more fun things to discuss, but absolutely nothing about the early, early cons sounds like it would have been fun. ("So the first slot at one con was a great big attribute auction, and then you'd wander from game to game in subsequent slots, with the same characters in different games with no continuity...." "STOP!!")

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[info]arenson9
2007-03-26 02:49 am UTC (link)
I wish I could have been there to see the Malcomb Manor Freshman in action. I've been regaled with a few stories of the hilarity and look forward to more. Who was your favorite PC? NPC?

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