Basedstein: Turn 6

        Very little happened this week. This is probably a projection of me being busy this week, but that is fine. Turn 7 will be a LOT more interesting, I reckon. Anyways, here are the reports:

An Abridged Recap of ArneCon 4

         As of writing this, the event is officially over. At ArneCon 4, I participated in some fun events, bought some games, met some people, and had a great time. The people there were all super cool and I am very glad I ended up going. I will write a more detailed recollection when I am not tired as hell from the convention, but here is what I did roughly:

I bought (or was given):
        Empire of the Petal Throne RPG in its Entirety  
        Barons of Blackmoor
        Barrowmail

I played:
        Holmes Basic Set D&D
        Empire of the Petal Throne
        OD&D
        Braunstein I
        Braunstein IV (Banania)  
        Chainmail
        Various games on the PLATO system, including Camelot (hard but fun; like Wizardry) and Oubliette.

I met:
        Griffith Morgan (Fellowship of the Thing; Blackmoor Secrets)
        Chris Graves (see above)
        Greg Svenson (aka the Great Svenni)
        Matt Tapp (Barrowmail)
        David Megarry (Dungeon!)
        David Wesley (Braunstein)
        Alexander Macris (ACKS; Autarch Games)
        Paul Stormberg (Collector's Trove, among other things)
        About 50 other great people who's names you won't recognize and I maybe won't remember        

Ideas for House Rules

             I put out a poll to my players detailing some ideas I had for the game. A few things were split quite evenly between "meh" and "sure!", so I don't know what I will add. I have also been struggling to find the energy to write up a new document for it recently, which sucks. However, combat tweaks are something that people WERE interested in! Here are a few of those that I was thinking of implementing. For the players: let me know what you think of these.