JADettman12/14: Do you have a favorite convention you like to attend?
My favorite convention is Forge Midwest, in sunny Madison WI. Usually held in March or April, it is a lovely small con with lots of indie games on offer.
AquaVertigo12/9: What is your favorite genre of roleplaying game (if you have one)?
I don't know if I have a favorite genre of ttrpg.
I have moods that fit with different kinds of games, but as games blur what they can do I'm sure my interests will do so too.
The Quiet Year is a game that opened me up to gaming drastically differently.
12/8: What is an ambitious game idea that you haven’t gotten to the table (yet)?
The first thing that comes to mind at the moment is some combination of ttrpgs, like what I did for a long convention in 2019 that brought three games together for us to tell a generational story (https://aquavertigo.com/monarchy-games-at-a-long-con/).
I repeated this more recently for a pair of games run online in The Queen and I (For the Queen, and then Hillfolk/DramaSystem with our PCs).
The go-to for some might be to use a combination of Microscope/Kingdom/Follow, Fall of Magic, and/or The Quiet Year.
A not-ambitious idea that I have been curious about trying is the idea of a one- or two-shot with characters who all supposedly died (during character generation) in Traveller. I don't know enough about Traveller having only played it once, but the concept of "deceased" revived for a mission or during transport could be done in many systems.
12/6: What was an interesting and/or important location in one of your games this year?
I got to play Heart: The City Beneath for a handful of sessions with a great GM and fellow players.
To me, it felt like each "location" in Heart was a new scene adjacent to the last, like one giant dungeon, but instead of mapping it with grids or hexes we used the theatre of the mind and narration.
I still don't understand how the game works fundamentally. But in any case, exploring this surreal and looming doom of a space was interesting.
We dealt with healing a stomach in a lake, surviving our fears, creating and destroying a Sentai combiner monster opponent, and faced ourselves inside out.
I don't know if I need to revisit this nightmare undercity again, but if I do, I'll be better prepared to embrace the horror as friendship as magic again.
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