Dreamation 2009
I just got back from Dreamation 2009 unlike Dexcon this was in Morristown instead of New Brunswick. The hotel was better and worse in different ways. There were was a recurring theme of hallways that just weren’t wide enough for the traffic they needed to carry. Particularly the Big Board for the Indie RPGs really had no space in front of it.
The small hallways led to not really being able to take advantage of the con-suite or the anime room. I got in there for the Ice cream night but skipped chocolate night all together. The lack of lemonade in con suite this time around meant there really wasn’t really a need to make it through. This was also a problem with the hallway to registration, board games and the dealer room, especially when they set up a lunch table in that hallway.
That’s probably enough of the downsides, there were other places were there were huge galleries with plenty of room. he actual gamespace for the IGE games was pretty good. It was a much larger space with so it felt a lot less cramped. It got a bit loud for some of the 8pm games when a majority of the tables were occupied. I got to play a bunch of games with people who do or I heard on podcasts.
I played:
- Mortal Coil run run by Brennan Taylor, the creator
- Misspent Youth run by Robert Bohl, the creator
- Coming of Age run by Mendel Schmiedekamp, the creator. Coming of Age isn’t published yet.
- InSpectres run by Fred Hicks, creator of different games
- Shock: Social Science Fiction run by Joshua A.C. Newman the creator
- Mouseguard run by Matt Weber
I’ll try and write up a few of those before the details fade.