Thats right. I'm tracking down  Bloggers, Reviews, Podcasters, and boardgame pundits at Gencon to unbashedly shill games. If you know someone who you might be interested, please send them my way.... OR better yet. Email me at averygraphics@yahoo.com

The short story is that I didn't think I was going to be able to go to GenCon so I didn't make any arrangements before hand. Nothing like waiting until the last minute...but after selling my soul to my pricinipal (and probably weeks of indentured labor) I was able to finangle a trip out there.

The upcoming release of "Nothing Personal" is my primary reason for the trip. I'll be demoing it as often as possible. Tom and I are  pretty happy with the result of the game- especially after a bunch of F:ATtie input from ConnCon. It has a new look and and name and is almost ready for the whole KS thing with Game Salute.
Dartgun Desperados- Ok, no one is ever going to pick this up...but it is damn fun shooting stuff with dart guns. Zev's suggestion to retheme it to coincide with Ca$h n Guns was a great idea... though I haven't done it yet.

Masterminds and Spies- a light card game co designed with Launius. I admit he did the lion's share of the work .He is so prolific, I could barely keep up with him.

FengShui the board game - I've put a lot of work into this one and I'm *still* a long way from being done.  nonetheless, I hope to get some feedback on it to see if I've got something worth pursuing.

Those are my protos. I had hoped to finish one that Frank and I had put together (a mission based dungeon crawl) and a few others

All that aside though I'm torn. What I *really* want to do is track down the most fun people I can find and play games, go out to eat and drink until the wee hours of the morning. If I have one gift- thats it. I was born to party. We'll see if my Ego wins out over my Id. Personally, I don't think my Ego stands a chance...

Steve"Gearing up for GCon"Avery

Yes, I am so incredibly lame for waiting so long to post this but since the FatCast came out I was shamed into getting off my lazy ass to do it. This was the third year and I tried some news things. The most notable of which was sending my family packing. It made for a very easy time, but I dropped the ball on a few details that my wife would have been on top of.
I am incredibly thankful to all those that participated and came down. THANK YOU!!!

I also want to thank the Mystery benefactor who sent down a box of games.
John Clowdus who brought a copy of Hemlock and Omen (two outstanding games) to everyone.
And most of all, Richard Launius who lent out his clubhouse and helps me coordinate all the details.




Left to Right
Chris Tandimeyer (a strange Aeon) -ave-osrell (going incognito) and Dair

Coming back from the airport, we decided to stop at The Varisty which is an Atlanta landmark: home of overpriced and incredibly greasy food.  It is definately between  somewhere 10th and 14th...NOT!  I circled 3 times. Duh.



-ave will shortly thereafter suffer a Gran Mal heart attack after eating some unspecified fried food.


Left to Right Dair, Bernie(Bstyles), Mjl(foreground), Zev, JoshLook(Foreground),Frank

Morning BS session. There was a lot lot lot of BSing...


Left to right ??, Jeremy(milliondollarMimring), Ian(gloocose), KenB

More BSing and playing...Something.


Left to Right   JoshLook and John Clowdus

Drunk or concentrating. I can't tell which.  Playing Sentinals of the Universe.


Frank with the very first copy of Battle Beyond Space.  I still can't get over him with short hair and beard.


Left to Right Clowdus(Maybe?), Zev, MattLoter, Dair

We kicked Loters ass in Fury of Dracula. He was a wiley one though...


Left to Right MJL, aStrangeAeon,Frank,JoshLook

Frank teaches Intrusion. Apparently it is much better with only 4...


Left To Right Zev, RichardLaunius, JohnClowdus, Rilyen(Scott)

The group tries out the latest incarnation of Richard's Spy game prototype at the clubhouse.


Left to right KenB, -ave-oswell,Evilgit(Darric), MillionDollarMimring(Jeremy), Gloocose (Ian)
The group slugs it out in Chaos in the Old World


Left to right MattLoter, ??, BStyles, WillKenyon(Foreground), Dair

Day2 The group fired up a day long game of TwilightImperium 3 (along with JoshLook and ?) On Day three the scene was exactly the same but with Game of Thrones instead.


Left to Right, Chris, Zev, MJL, and Frank

War of 1812. Chris, Zev and Mjl play the Canadian French/Indian agaist Frank and I americans. This game looks like a dry euro but plays GREAT. We pulled off a hard fought win for the Americans.

That is about 1/2 of the photos that I took. Typically in the evenings  I would be a bit too buzzy to remember to take photos so many of them are in the mornings. Also I forgot ot take one with everyone wearing their F:ATtie shirt. Ah well.

More photos to come in Part Deux

Steve"Slacker"Avery

It has been two weeks and you may be wondering why there is no Post ConnCon write-up. Indeed it is as if the event never happened: a dark ship passing in the night. A whisper on a summer’s night breeze, The faintest shadow in the darkest night.

Even though she is no longer FFG's Queen of Components, Thaadd still reigns supreme as a  gaming giantess amongst men.

...and today is her birthday. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY THAADD!!


Steve"breaking out party favors"Avery

I am dead tired. It is a good tired though. It is the kind of tired that lab monkeys get when they electrify  pleasure center so many times that they pass out. It has been a whirlwind of activity until just now. The last guests are on their way home. The last beer bottle has been picked up. The last game has been shelved.