Splicers and Gen Con

[NMI]

So how was Carmens game?
I would love to read what his game was like. The adventure itself etc...
Did he use the canon material/OCC's/Machines/etc...?
Did he go off of his stats for weapons, etc... or printed material?
Did he use any of Slappy's material in his game? If so, what did he use.
Did he give any hints or ideas as to what he is planning for the sourcebook? If so what were they?

[Stormseed]

So how was Carmens game?
I would love to read what his game was like. The adventure itself etc...
Did he use the canon material/OCC's/Machines/etc...?
Did he go off of his stats for weapons, etc... or printed material?
Did he use any of Slappy's material in his game? If so, what did he use.
Did he give any hints or ideas as to what he is planning for the sourcebook? If so what were they?

It was a pretty wild game. Carmen tries to kill characters at conventions, and he did a pretty good job - only two survived out of 20-something. We were fighting both humans and machines.

He pretty well used what was in the book, and he did use the Kraken from the Rifter. There weren't any hints about the new book.

[NMI]

What was the actual adventure?
The plot, the people, etc....

[Todd Yoho]

Rival House

That was House Shiva. They don't like anybody. Hopefully you'll be seeing more of them soon...

[NMI]

Carmens was pretty crazy, he basically stuck us all in a huge crater, trapped between the Machines and a rival House. The rival House was between us and where we needed to go, to get back home. There was also a possible escape route via a near by river.

We had 20 peeps, and for the most part there were at least two of every OCC possible, except as I recall nobody played a Healer.

In addition to the normal Splicers stuff, he used the new Splicer material from the recently released RIFTER. Which means our possible river escape route was actually an illusion as it was infested with Krakens.

I only got to play for the first hour. So I will let someone else post what happenned, as most of it, I got second hand from my kids later.

Did he go into why you were in the crate in the first place? why your house was a rival of this other house?

[Carl Gleba]

Yeah that was a great game!! This is to the best of my recollection. Sorry if some of the details are vague!

I was one of the survivors, but barely! As stated above we started out in a crater. We were on some kind of recon mission and all hell broke loose and that was where the adventure started. . I was playing a....(I can't remember the O.C.C. but I piloted a Grendal...very cool). House Shiva as Todd stated hates everyone. They had a sniper team and the machines started to come in from the other directions. We headed towards the woods, while some of the group dealt with the snipers. Some people died in volleys of missile fire from the aircraft. One poor dude was impaled by one and it then did a suicide crash into the ground. Yeah he was very dead. We then ran into a river bead with some type of organic dune snake that swallowed a few people. We all fired at it, not thinking that it was pretty weak and most of our shots went straight through injuring our own comrades. When we got past the river bed we came upon a large machine bunker that was between us where we needed to go. In the bunker was this huge land vehicle. Sorry can't remember the name. More of us got smoked and we basically ran for it! When we were far enough from the bunker we made it to the shore. I think behind us up the shore was a machine base so we couldn’t go that way and ahead of us out of the water emerged a giant Kraken (sp?) with one of those big dudes with the beam cannon in the chest. Well we had an epic battle on the beach against these crab things while fighting the dude on the Kraken. I think the Kraken launched a volley or two of missiles. Anyway we lost the rest of the party during this fight leaving me and one other! We were on the edge of our seat most of the night. Overall really cool.

Carmen runs a killer game.

Carl

[Stormseed]

One poor dude was impaled by one and it then did a suicide crash into the ground. Yeah he was very dead.

That was me... stupid natural 1's to dodge

[Greg]

I didn't really get into the game. There was no plot and was basically just kind of a way for Carmen to kill people. If you hadn't played Splicers before you probably left knowing as little as when you got there. There were something like 16 or so players with only half that many pre-mades so we were running duplicate characters. I think that's too big of a group to begin with, but there wasn't one instance of group interaction, role-playing or anything. I had it explained to me that it was dumb to just leap out of the crater when the real question is why would we be in a wide open area with airborne opponents directly above us? Because of the sheer number of people despite playing one of the 2 (identical) scarecrows I was limited to moving the same speed as everyone else. On top of it there were a couple hardcore fanboys that were basically sitting there showing how much of the book they had memorized. Who was the guy sitting to Carmen's left? Weird... There was a "typical" gamer type sitting 2 to my right who was being made fun of by Carmen and the other guy for being an introverted/nerdy guy. Ultimately, I didn't die per se, but I bailed out about halfway through and gave my character to the corpse next to me.

I still think Splicers is an incredibly cool book, but either Carmen has a completely different take on the game or just has an incompatible GM style to my play style.

[Prince Cherico]

man I would of loved to have been there