Chupacabracon VIII is on and I’m going

While I was listening to Brian Posehn’s Nerd Poker, I got to hear my always enjoyable shoutout from Brian! Every time he comes to Austin, I give him $100 to cover the show’s expenses with a little letter. The best part is him reading off our characters’ names from the letter. Meanwhile, I remembered to bug the team behind our local convention to update their site. Turns out they did, the host failed to get it to redirect correctly. Seems the Web host couldn’t handle the convention switching from standard numerals to Roman. Regardless, it will be good to play mostly in person. I passed on last year’s Twitch-based bullshit. As I’ve told my friend Mark B, my standards for a gaming convention are too high because I was spoiled by a half-dozen times at GenCon (1988-93, 1998) while it was in Milwaukee. I refuse to attend it in Indiacrapolis, a giant ‘burb with no city governed by people promoting the imaginary Fifties®.

My ambitious plan is in the crapper due to everything else going on in the last few weeks plus my partner in Call of Cthulhu, Mark B again, has been swamped into being a good parent. It’s noble of him and all his ilk, I would break down at the kid and go, “I didn’t go to college and work all week to be your fuckin’ Lyft driver! Take your bike.” I’ll try for next year while the house is more organized and enjoyable. I did get hooked a new take for an RPG set in modern times as WOTC gave up on their excellent d20 Modern which had great supplements via d20 Future and d20 Past. It’s written by the Green Ronin people who have some of the better WOTC exiles amongst them. I tried their free PDF but grew frustrated with the PDF’s navigation so there will always be a demand for hard copies in our digital nonsense age. I’m writing them to see if they have a convention scenario.

I love Chupa yet there’s one big peeve I have, it’s practically a marketing event for the Savage Worlds system. Savage has its moments and I even chipped in with a Kickstarter they did some years ago. I’m just not sold on it entirely due to the numerous vagaries it contains. Plus I always get annoyed with how all multi-genre systems bite off more than can chew exposing their shortcomings: Superheroes; Star Trek (Data/Lore and the Borg are intangible); and Fantasy. The other gripe…we don’t need another RPG dipping its toe into the Cthulhu Mythos.

Sadly, Cthulhu Dooby Doo is postponed until next year but I promise it’s going to kick ass with all the little Playmobil toys I’ve accrued and a modified set of house rules built upon Chaosium’s Seventh Edition using D&D’s 5E skill mechanics unless another system impresses me.

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