TridentCon Prep Progress Update

When I posted again for the first time in a year, I listed some items that I needed to complete prior to TridentCon in October. I have been making good progress so far.

~~Refresh my Savage Worlds rules knowledge~~
~~Refresh my Star Wars rules knowledge~~
~~Make pregens for Savage Rifts~~
Make pregens for Star Wars
Write Savage Rifts adventure
Write Star Wars adventure
Play test?
Find Savage Rifts minis
Finish Final Fantasy V
Finish Pokemon Yellow

I have also made some progress on finding minis for my Savage Rifts game, I plan to use the Token Tool and just use tokens. I used to use Token Tool all the time for Savage Worlds, but I completely forgot about it. Now I just need to find some good pictures and get to work.

I haven't made as much progress on the video game front. I have not touched Final Fantasy V, and I have barely played Pokemon Yellow. The main culprit here is the arrival of Dragon Quest VII for the 3DS. I pre-ordered it, but thought it came out in October for some reason. I barely put any time in to DWVII on the PS1, because it was so rough for its time and had such a slow start. I am about 5 hours in to DQVII and I am loving it so far.

I am still debating whether or not to back the GURPS Dungeon Fantasy kickstarter. I love GURPS, but I have not had a chance to play it in years. Maybe the box set will grab some attention and I can find folks into giving it a try. I have been running old school style D&D for about 8 years straight, other than Edge of Empire, and I am itching to do something at least a little bit different. I primarily used GURPS for hard scifi in the past, I would love to get back to that again.

We had a good Stonehell session this weekend. The players finally explored another one of my sublevels, The Conquistador's Tomb, thhat they discovered over a year ago, but never entered. I had a group explore the tomb at TridentCon last year, but I changed it quite a bit after that. If I can find an easy to use map making tool, I will draw it up and post it here.

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