Game Report: Over the Edge
At Gencon, I was a player (along with looneykristin, Alison, and Robin) in an evening-long session of a Role Playing Game (RPG) called Over the Edge (OTE). The Gamemaster (GM) for that session was my old friend gloomforge, but since he lives in Colorado, it's been up to me to take over as the GM. However, I've been slow to make it happen because we've all been super busy with the release of Zombie Fluxx, plus I haven't actually been a GM in many years (and never with this RPG system) so I was just a wee bit nervous about how it would go. But we finally held our first session and I think it went great!

I started them off (as Keith recommends) by recounting the dreams each of their characters had just woken up from. Then they set about continuing to explore the mysterious Rose Hotel. Veda, Veronica, and Sylvia are gradually unraveling the place's secrets while also getting to know its strange occupants, however they haven't figured out yet any way of leaving. Meanwhile, my own character (you know, Frank) has been drawn into a poker game, where he's really quite content. (We'll see if he even wants to leave when the ladies eventually locate an exit.)

[BTW, for any of you OTE experts in the audience, the module I'm using here is part of "At Your Service" published by Atlas Games in October 2001.]

Incidentally, one of the featured characters in this story is an insane person clearly based on a real woman, whom Keith and I often encountered when we worked together at Magnet Interactive Studios back in 1995. She lived on the street outside our company's office in Georgetown, and every day she'd write mysterious messages in huge letters with red and black magic markers on big pieces of cardboard. (They'd say things like "Government Lawyers Sold Part of My Brain to Africa to Control The Weather.") She displayed these signs at the Wisconsin / M St corner, and I'm sure other Washingtonians know who I'm talking about. Her name was Beth, but everyone called her the Crazy Sign Lady.