Have you published these demo scenarios somewhere? I plan to start demoing HQ since there are so few HQ players in my area, but being a beginner at HQ (but not RQ) I would like to run some well tested demo scenarios. I have found the two on RHQN and Issaries websites, but would love to see yours.
Cheers,
H�kan
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:06:51 -0000, Darran <darransims_at_...> wrote:
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> Greetings and Salutations
> 2004-12-06-2000.
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> Hi all,
> A quick report on this weekends Dragonmeet convention.
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> I had a lot of fun. Met up with a lot of old friends, saw a lot of
> regular faces from the RPG convention circuit, and met some friendly new
> gamers as well.
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> I ran two games of HeroQuest which went down very well [so I was told by
> the players anyway].
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> The first one, 'Dark Heart of the Dragon Lands' is one that I haved now
> demo'd 17 times now. I had four players that were now to HeroQuest and
> Glorantha and one other player that had played it before at another
> convention.
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> The new players took to the rules straight away, they played their
> characters well, got a little freaked out by some of my weird NPCs and
> successful completed the scenario by dispatching the 'bad guy' before he
> had chance to do any of his eevil deeds. The 'bad guy' did get to do his
> almost manical laughter before being thwarted by being dropped in a pit,
> beaten up, hog tied, tortured, and then executed- by javelin. :D
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> Straight after finishing that game I started another called 'Into the
> Trees'. I had six players this time, one young player was completely new
> to role-playing, another younger player had played before in another one
> of my games at an earlier convention. The other players had also played
> HeroQuest before at some of the Glorantha convnetions.
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> The game was simple, get one of the player's character hitched to his
> true love. Star crossed lovers though. She was from a different clan
> that was feuding with the players clan. She was also a worshipper of a
> nasty, women-only, Earth Protector cult called Babeester Gor that
> specialises in axes, hating men and NOT getting married. Her father was
> the clan chief that hated the player characters on sight. Her boss was
> the High-Priestess of another nasty, women-only, Earth Quake cult called
> Maran Gor that specialises in huge earthquakes, bigger axes, hating and
> mutilating men, growing obese. :O
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> What followed was a comedy of errors as they tried to get some nice
> 'gifts' to placate all parties concerned. Including getting a dinosaur
> across the River, past the Dragonewts, through the Haunted Forest to the
> enemy village while bringing along a white ram badly dyed black [and not
> colourfast either].
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> In all an excellent covention.
> Thanks to all the organisers of this great convnetion and to all the
> venue staff for being friendly and helpful.
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> |Darran
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