Trek RP-ing denied

[prophetsteve]

Toronto conducted one of its annual game conventions this weekend - Orion.

I came for the Saturday sessions primarily because there was supposed to be a demo of the Star Trek RPG run in the morning.

Concidering I had no experience running the system and likely would never get to play it (at best I'd be the GM), I jumped at the chance to play the RPG and get practical experience with the CODA system.

So I got up very early in the morning, picked up a friend and headed down to Orion... only to find that the GM hadn't shown up for the Trek game...

The day wasn't a total loss - I got to try 3 systems I never played, two of which (Tri-Stat and Red Dwarf) I don't currently own.

All in all not a bad time (although I spend most of the day in a daze due to sleep-deprivation ). I played some games, got some used gaming material (including some real rare Cyberpunk 2020 supplements) but I am still rather bummed that I didn't get a chance to try out the CodaTrek game... oh well...

[D.S.McBride]

I hate to say it, but this makes me feel at least a bit better about having missed the damn thing...I had fully intended to get down there for eight-thirty, but ended up squeezing in a workout at Bally's before heading out to Kingston to see some friends. I was kicking myself most of Saturday and today for having missed out on the opportunity; no, my group and I don't use the Coda system, but it would have been nice to have a kick at the can (so to speak) and hob-nob with some industry professionals.

I hope that Decipher provides some kind of explanation as exactly where their Narrator absconded to. Anything less than hostage negotiations and I'd be sorely ticked...

[Doug Burke]

Actually, D.S., the demo wasn't set up by Decipher, so they couldn't explain what happened anyway...

[prophetsteve]

Actually, D.S., the demo wasn't set up by Decipher, so they couldn't explain what happened anyway...

I figured that. Most of the demos run by industry sponsors (like Steve Jackson games) ran as scheduled. It looked like a kick-@$$ game of In Nomine went on in the morning.

Though I think if there had been a demo of Coda at the con, it might have piqued the interest of those who attended the demos, most of which I met in the various games I played in were gamemasters rather than players in their local areas.

I mean, the Red Dwarf game had a huge impression on my friend, who is pretty archaic when it comes to game systems (AD&D is still his favorate game).

Small scale, sure - but is better than nothing...