Jack of Harts

I’m home from KSAGG. The Fifth Annual Krull Siblings Annual Gathering of Gamers. And the first one taking place in the old FFG gaming center. It was a fun time that included around one hundred gamers coming to place Alpha Strike and BattleTech. Somewhere around a dozen game masters and organizers ran the gamers through three Alpha Strike tournaments and one major BattleTech event, each bringing around twenty players a piece, and several smaller events brought players as well. I and a couple other grey beards ushered two newbies through the BattleTech Grinder, and I ran two through a Alpha Strike demos and one through BattleTech Encounters. It was a successful convention by all involved, and I loved it.

This weekend I’ve been attending the first public all-BattleTech convention I’ve ever heard of in America. The official and marketable name is Krull Siblings Annual Gathering of Gamers. If you remember it as Krull Sisters A-Go-Go, that is the past, and we are men, not archeologists. We do not dig up the past. It is three days of playing nothing but BattleTech and BattleTech-related games. I brought an army for the 350-tournament rules, an Alpha Strike Demo Set, the new BattleTech Encounters game, and a pair of miniatures for the painting contest. That’s a fairly light load for me when I come to conventions. But this is also the first gaming convention I’ve been to in many years. So I’m coming in light.

Raconteur Press is publishing the Goblin Bazaar this weekend. It will include many interesting stories about the strange places you can find strange things for strange prices. And while you are waiting for it, check out the first in the series, Goblin Market. In it you can find many interesting stories about the strange places you can find strange things for strange prices. Mmmm… I sense a theme here. And in it you can find my story, Goblins in the Marketplace, where a hunter of otherworldly beings faces a great and terrible price for the weapons of his profession.