Con Report: Kumoricon 2025

https://countzeroor.com/2025/11/26/con-report-kumoricon-2025/

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Vlog: Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2025

https://countzeroor.com/2025/11/05/vlog-portland-retro-gaming-expo-2025/

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Con Report – TravellerCon USA 2025

Last weekend I attended TravellerCon/USA, the yearly RPG convention dedicated to the sci-fi RPG Traveller and its many Cepheus Engine variations. This year’s theme was Bwaps, the newt-like species from the official Traveller setting. Many of the sessions included Bwaps as part of the setting.

You can see the list of events at the TravellerCon USA page at tabletop.events

The Hotel

It’s held at the Hilton DoubleTree Resort in Lancaster, PA. It’s a pleasant little hotel in Pennsylvania Dutch country. I signed up late, so I had to stay at a different hotel, but I remember the rooms being reasonably nice when I stayed there in previous years.

Vendors

TravellerCon/USA is usually fairly light on vendors, and it was particularly thin this year. There were only three vendor tables:

• A sci-fi author selling his works.
• A seller of 3D printed objects – including a lot of Traveller ship models.
• Burnt City Games – a small game company that is working on an RPG based on the old Dumarest books. They did have one playtest version of the rules for sale.
  I’d love to see some of the Cepheus Engine companies show up, but as

Friday

There was another, larger event using most of the hotel’s event rooms, so the few games were run out of some of the smaller rooms. It was a little cramped, but it seems most attendees don’t arrive until Saturday.

Here’s what I played in:

Traveller 1700: Something’s Stirring in Newport

Traveller: 1700 is a free setting using Classic Traveller rules to run adventures in colonial America. We played sailors recently arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, who started investigating a local troublemaker who had mysteriously gained power over the city.

It was an interesting little mystery/action adventure.

Avast ye dirtwalkers

In this Traveller adventure we played a band of space pirates who followed a treasure map from a long-dead legendary pirate. Fun and pulpy.

Saturday

We had access to the full ballrooms starting on Saturday. Most of the attendees showed up this day.

TOY: Experience the Adventure

This was the playtest version of the Dumarest RPG from Burnt City Games that I mentioned above. The Dumarest books were a series of sci-fi novels from E.C. Tubb that were apparently a big influence on Traveller.

I was the only player who signed up for this one, but the GM was kind enough to run this for me anyway. I played a shanghaied slave forced to play in high-tech gladiatorial games on the planet Toy. Supposedly this is based one of the novels. A lot of the adventure was planning and preparation for a gladiatorial contest. This provided the opportunity to explore the various regions of the planet, before the big action scene.

I liked this enough to buy the playtest version.

Traveller ‘77 — The Kinunir

Unfortunately, the GM had to cancel this one at the last minute. One of the players was kind enough to run an adventure from memory.
One of the nice things about a convention as focused as TravellerCon, is that all the attendees are generally well prepared for this sort of thing. Many of us had copies of the rules, and one person even had a few blank character sheets, so were able to improvise a fun little adventure.

The Apocalypse Squad

This is the adventure I ran using the Hostile system from Zozer games. Hostile is designed to run retro-80s style sci-fi adventures similar to Aliens or Outland.

My adventure was an Apocalypse Now inspired adventure on a dinosaur ridden jungle planet. I wrote up this adventure in a previous post.

After a great deal of gunplay (the team almost ran out of ammo), the mission was mostly successful. One player escaped, and one was arrested.

Sunday

On Sunday there was only one morning session.

Traveller: Encounters – 23-0 A Prelude to Adventure

This was part of a Living Traveller campaign, in which players can attend different events using the same character. I’d never played in one, so a pregen was provided.

We played the crew of a merchant ship investigating a distress signal in a red zoned system.

Conclusion

I had a good time at TravellerCon as I usually do. My game went well, and everything I played in was fun.

I would have liked to see more attendees and vendors, but I imagine the economy had an effect on turnout. A con based on a single game system is always going to be a little self-limiting, but I think it might be possible to get more people, both players and referees.

Next year, I’m going to try running a few more games, possibly something a bit more elaborate. I’d encourage everyone to spread the word, and give Travellercon/USA a try.

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Con Report: Kumoricon 2024

https://countzeroor.com/2024/11/27/con-report-kumoricon-2024/

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Vlog: Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2024 Con Report

https://countzeroor.com/2024/10/16/vlog-portland-retro-gaming-expo-2024-con-report/

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There is a Quest located in the middle of DJ @solarsymposium 's dance floor.

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Last weekend, I went to Dreamation 2024, a gaming convention in New Jersey. I threw together a little con report.

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2024/02/29/dreamation-2024-con-report/

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I'm at Dreamation 2024 in New Jersey today. Played an interesting rotating GM game called Exquisite Corpse, where we changed GMs and genre every twenty minutes.

The basic mechanic was drawing playing cards. Red is fail, Black a success. The more skill you had at something, the more cards you could draw.

Fun little storytelling game. I think it's in playtesting.
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Vlog: Kumoricon 2023 Con Report

https://countzeroor.com/2023/11/29/vlog-kumoricon-2023-con-report/

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Kumoricon 2023 Photo Galleries

https://countzeroor.com/2023/11/25/kumoricon-2023-photo-galleries/

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