Knights & Knaves Alehouse

Friday...

Gizmo (standing) referees Circvs Maximvs






Morgan Hazel (what's his forum name at the AS&SH forum?) running AS&SH, with Handy, plus Kevin, James, and Emily from the Brooklyn crew:




I think this is from that same game — that looks like Handy's or Kevin's hat maybe?


Ancalagon's game (don't know the players)


Cloak & Dagger (blue shirt) running a game. I only recognize Manny (right side, from the Brooklyn crew) among the players




Only posted because of the Isle of the Ape wall hanging. I don't know the players


Welleran (red shirt, behind DM screen, duh) trying to kill more PCs. Players include Don (to Welleran's left) and Brian (left side, wearing dark hoodie) from Welleran's crew, and Alex (son of Noah from the Florida crew, to Brian's right), Mike (to Welleran's right)




Blurry picture of the player maps


Chainsaw's Hyperborea game on Friday afternoon. L-to-R: Dan (from Ghul's group), Eric, Josh, Paul, ? (from Ghul's group), Chainsaw




Mah Kelt Fighter haz Lazr Pistl. Bak off.


Ligedog's Hyperborea game at the same time (there was a crap-ton of AS&SH this year, can you tell?). L-to-R: Cloak & Dagger, Jeff, Ligedog, Manny


Handy and Kevin and somebody else joining Eli's game


Ancalagon there too now (to Eli's right)


Referee smiles equals player pain


Swords & Wizardry game run by Bill Webb. I played next to Don & Scott (from Welleran's group). Don's in the hat in the foreground.


... now the back of Scott's head in the foreground


The early version of Don's mapping from that game


Later, complete version of Don's mapping

Saturday (partial)

L-to-R: Tacojohn, Handy Haversack, James, Manny. More Hyperborea, obviously, but I don't know who was running. "Champions of Hyperborea," heh.


Ghul running Hyperborea. Like I said — a crap ton of AS&S games this year! One or two of the Brooklyn crew (I think) to Ghul's right




Chainsaw running more Hyperborea. Seriously guys, will you stop? (Don't stop.) From Chainsaw (standing) clockwise: Ernesto, ?, Scott, Brian, Welleran, Dex, Emily.




Traveller. Eli (face-can) & James (left side) among the players. (Side note. I gave up trying to spell liegedog, because I can't seem to spell it right. Ever. Plus "Eli" is way shorter. Fuck, I wasted so many letters to clear that up.)


gizmomathboy (right, with enough beard for both of them):


Grodog's Saturday Castle Greyhawk game, with Josh (back-left), Don (right side, gray sweatshirt), Carlos (next furthest), Axiom (bottom right), CJ (?) (bottom left) Tie-dye is Grodog's, obviously.


Axiom gives peace sign, CJ (?) in front of the window


My Paladin from Grodog's game


Cloak & Dagger's (facing camera) S&W game. Clockwise from him: Ancalagon (leaning over), Del Teigeler's son, Del Teigeler (artist for AS&SH among other stuff), my empty chair, ?, ?, Morgan.


Del's son after C&D gave him a copy of White Box:FMAG




Dinner in the bar. L-to-R: Grodog, deogolfenchanter, Zenopus Archives, Me. (Thanks gizmo, for taking that shot!)

Great pics, Guy! Thanks!

Great pics! This was my first con (almost four decades late), and I had a FRICKIN blast! It was great meeting everyone - you guys are all brilliant. Can't wait to do this again!

-Don (from Welleran's home group)

Welcome to the board, Don!

Donovan, Guy, Keith: do you guys mind if I cherry pick your photos from my games and repost them (properly credited of course) to FB? I took no photos at all after the booth setup on Wednesday

Allan.

Don — it was great playing with you! I enjoyed hanging with you and Scott in our cheap seats for the S&W game, and playing with you in Allan's game.

Allan — feel free to repost any of mine! (Same goes for the rest of y'all!)

Allan, post away!

Don, about time you started posting! (FYI to others, he DMs great games, especially TSR's Conan!)

More Saturday...

Artists extraordinaire Jason Braun (red hat) and Brian "GLAD" Thomas (back to camera, holding pizza box)


Brian Thomas glaring at me with his steely eyes


Chainsaw's Saturday night Foolsgrave. Clockwise from Chainsaw: Noah, Grodog, ? (a friend of Zenopus Archives), Mike, Tom, Noah, Patrick, Alex








Josh checking out how the game went. Zenopus Archives sitting in the background in Holmes shirt




Different room, shortly afterward. Not sure what we were about to do. Gizmomathboy looks to be cleaning up Circvs Maximvs



Sunday...

Dex playing in a game (right side, glasses). I think Merle Rasmussen ran this one?


Gizmo running Wreckvs Maximvs


Welleran running a naval game. Clockwise from Welleran: Francisca, Scott, ?, ?






Scott measuring


Gizmo running Mobivs Maximvs






The Mountain Top (needs to be in scare quotes) ski hill at the hotel resort:


After the Black Blade Publishing booth tear-down & load-up


Sunday night festivities…

Gizmomathboy bolsters himself for the Sunday night games




Getting ready for Mobivs Maximvs






Mid-game, resolving an attack and/or fall off the edge






Noah running Dark Tower














Rich’s OD&D game






Rich giving Dex some mapping guidance


Tacojohn, wake up!






Our map keeps growing…


Grodog running Castle Greyhawk for Eli, Handy, and the Brooklyn crew

Great photos, guys!! Lossa great memories from this year!!

"Tacojohn, wake up!"
This!

Looks like it was great con!

I wish I could have been there, but too many logistical hurdles. Maybe in 7 or 8 years when a few af my kids are out of the house!

tacojohn4547 wrote:"Tacojohn, wake up!"

I remember saying that to you, Jon, back in 2010 when you were "co-DMing" for Dennis Sustare at NTRPG Con.

austinjimm wrote:Looks like it was great con!

tacojohn4547 wrote:"Tacojohn, wake up!"

I remember saying that to you, Jon, back in 2010 when you were "co-DMing" for Dennis Sustare at NTRPG Con.

True story, sadly!!! I did the same thing at NTX 1, in a Frank Mentzer game on opening night!!

I've always had trouble staying up late, even as a kid. But it seems to only have gotten worse over the years.

Donovan, what carousing table did you use at the Saturday Foolsgrave session? IIRC it was based on a Jeff Rients table, but enhanced by you, or maybe Kevin?

Guy Fullerton wrote:Donovan, what carousing table did you use at the Saturday Foolsgrave session? IIRC it was based on a Jeff Rients table, but enhanced by you, or maybe Kevin?

I used http://jrients.blogspot.com/2008/12/par ... 9.html?m=1 as presented. Next time I may tweak it a bit though.

Thanks, man!

Had a great time at Gary Con! I put the photo I took up (mostly of games I played in/exhibits) in a public FB album: Gary Con IX Annotated Slideshow
The slideshow should be viewable even if you don't have a FB account. Follow the link and click on the first photo (of the Zenopus Archives badge) to start viewing the photos.

My schedule was so packed I didn't have much time to look for people and the ZA badge I wore was woefully small for recognition unless I was already talking to someone. But Sat afternoon I was able to hunt Allan (who I met last year at NTRPG Con) down at the end of his Greyhawk game. He introduced me to Guy, Gizmomathboy and Deogolf, and I was able to have dinner with them in the bar area, although I had to leave early for a 7 PM game.

Guy Fullerton wrote:More Saturday...

Chainsaw's Saturday night Foolsgrave. Clockwise from Chainsaw: Noah, Grodog, [Scott] (a friend of Zenopus Archives), Mike, Tom, Noah, Patrick, Alex

That's Scott. He ran four or five games, inc one of the AD&D Open sessions & Gamma 1E. He's been running our local AD&D game for the past 6 years. He puts much effort into prepping his con games; play in one next year if you get a chance!




Josh checking out how the game went. Zenopus Archives sitting in the background in Holmes shirt


I played Chainmail (Orc's Drift) with Josh Saturday morning. My evening Chainmail game ended around midnight, the forces of Law defeated badly, so I hung out by this game until it ended. I was able to meet Chainsaw briefly afterwards. It was ~1AM and he had run something like 7 games at that point so not sure if he remembers.

Scott and I plan to return next year, and I will run a game!