PhoeB-8Now that #bigbadcon2024 is done, I thought I'd do a recap of my games & characters.
The Expanse RPG (Phoenix Wu, pilot): This was a good intro to the Expanse RPG system! We played a fun module where our transport ship encountered an automated SOS and checked it out, only for things to go horribly, horribly wrong... I think the system is, hm, not really for me all in all, but I still enjoyed getting hands-on exposure to it!
Dread (Jeanette Harris, stagehand): There was no way I was letting this weekend go by without playing some Dread, and happily I got into TWO very different but great scenarios. The first one, The Phantom of Off-Broadway, was mostly a black comedy, and had fictional scenes and songs for the fictional stage show that started going off the rails when the leading lady was found dead -- by yours truly, the stagehand.
(Dread 1, cont'd): I had a funny, weirdly mutually-respectful dynamic with the overbearing scenery-chewing elder statesman actor playing the role of the ghost in the play -- not to be confused with the actual ghost(s) haunting the production.