December 11th, 2014
Conventions, Gary Con, News, The WEGS Fray
Hear ye! Hear ye! Gary Con VII (2015) is coming and you are herewith warned!
I am currently submitting our WEGS Old Skool events, one of which will be:
How Many Heroes Does It Take To Slay A Dragon?
This will likely be a Sunday event, 11 AM (pending submission approval). I ran this scenario at this past Gary Con (2014). Nine heroes tried to dispatch the dread dragon, Jrragnaraffen, the magical glaive dragon. They failed. To be perfectly honest, they only succeeded in annoying her greatly.
She has had a year to recoil and grow larger. In game terms:
She will have one more blood chip (from 50 to 100 more wounds)*.
She starts with a number of blood chips for each Gary Con to date.
This means that Jrragnaraffen (the magical glaive dragon) will have VII blood chips to supplement her 264 starting wounds**. If she rolls really well, that’s almost 1000 wounds.
Uh… Good luck?
* Calculation is (d6+4)x10 wounds per blood chip.
** As a minion, she is a Triple 88 (3 x 88 = 264 starting wounds).
Gary Con VII Event Details Coming Soon!
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February 5th, 2014
Gary Con, News, The WEGS Fray
GameWick Games is heading to GaryCon VI in Lake Geneva, WI (March 27-30). This is THE place where Dungeons & Dragons got its start and THE convention that honors its founding father, Gary Gygax. Both TSR Games (the original publishers of D&D) and GenCon (now the largest tabletop gaming convention in the US) were started here by Gary as well. Like Gandalf the Grey, Gygax took us on an unexpected journey to a fantasy world where we could create heroic characters, swing swords, cast spells, and meet dragons head on. If you cannot tell already, we are super excited to be attending our first GaryCon!
We will be running two classic dungeon modules written by Dungeonmaster Gygax: Keep on the Borderlands and Descent into the Depths of the Earth. Our WEGS Old Skool system will be used for these games. Players will also find two of our convention favorites on the menu: Dwarf Walks Into A Bar and Just How Many Heroes Does It Take To Slay A Dragon?
For players who don’t know what WEGS Old Skool is all about, that is no problem! Rules will be taught at each session. WEGS, the Wickedly Errant Game System, revels in unfettered heroic action and dramatic dice rolls. This sword-n-sorcery system was inspired from the basic Dungeons and Dragons rule set (1979), and focuses on easy character creation and all-out dungeon adventure. Unlike the D&D system, four dice alone fuel the WEGS battle frenzy: two six-sided dice and two ten-sided dice (or 2d6 and 2d10 in geek speak).
Join us for some wicked adventure in the place where it all began!
The Old Skool Menu at GaryCon
Dungeon Fun 101-WEGS Style!
Thu:11am-1pm; Fri:11am-1pm
Dungeon Heroes Wanted! Never rolled up a character before? No worries. Character creation is a breeze and you’ll be face-to-face with some monsters in minutes. We’ll teach you everything you need to know to survive in this wicked dungeon crawl. In fact, you get to choose how difficult the first encounter will be: Mild, Medium, or Spicy! With its easy rules and wild dice rolls, WEGS Old Skool is designed for over-the-top heroic encounters. All you need is a sense of adventure to get started!
Keep on the Borderlands-B2-WEGS Style!
Thu: 2pm-5pm; Fri: 2pm-5pm; Sat: 10am-1pm; Sat: 2pm-5pm
Get ready for some old skool adventure with a whole new system! We’re cracking open the classic intro dungeon module Keep on the Borderlands and heading straight into the dread Caves of Chaos! WEGS, the Wickedly Errant Game System, will be used as the system. Fantastic heroes will be created in minutes and, moments later, face-to-face with terrible foes. The cultists and minotaur and owlbear and oozes are waiting! Set your dice to 1980 and let’s have some fun! All.Rules.Taught.
Descent into the Depths of the Earth-D1-WEGS Style!
Thu:8pm-11pm; Fri:8pm-11pm
Get ready for some old skool adventure with a whole new system! We’re cracking open the classic dungeon module Descent into the Depths of the Earth and heading straight into the caverns of the Drow! WEGS, the Wickedly Errant Game System, will be used as the system. Fantastic heroes will be created in minutes and, moments later, on their way to battle trolls and bugbears and troglodytes! Maybe even a lich if they wander into the wrong cave… Set your dice to 1978 and let’s roll! All.Rules.Taught.
Dwarf Walks Into A Bar
Sat:8pm-12am
Swords. Sorcery. Wizards. Whatever! Anything goes in this barbarian bar room brawl! A rag-tag assortment of adventurers are having a real slow night at the Tongue of Dung, a seedy tavern in the bad part of a town called Ikkspatt. In one dark corner, a drunken Dwarf slumbers. In the other, the Goblin chieftain Borkfu and his gang are getting rowdy. The Ogre barkeep looks like he is itching for a reason to hit something with his club. Keep one hand on your tankard and the other on your hilt, it is gonna be one of those nights. A great intro to WEGS, the Wickedly Errant Game System. A GenCon fan favorite since 2006!
Just How Many Heroes Does It Take To Slay A Dragon?
Sun:11am-1:30pm
Come join the dragon-slaying party and let’s find out! If you haven’t slain a dragon the whole con, what have you been waiting for?!? New players are welcome to join us in this free-for-all dragon brawl. WEGS Old Skool rules will be taught. We will wrap up character creation in minutes, declare marching order, and then bring out the fire-breathing beasty. Don’t get too attached to your characters, though… Heroes will be roasted!
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February 3rd, 2014
Conventions, Gary Con, News
GameWick Games is attending our first GaryCon this March. The convention is held in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, the birthplace of Dungeons & Dragons! In its sixth year, GaryCon honors the memory of the father of role-playing games, E. Gary Gygax. Lake Geneva is also the place where the first Gen Con was held by Gary (1968) and the place where he established TSR (Tactical Studies Rules), the publisher of D&D. The first 1000 copies of Dungeons and Dragons hit the streets in 1974, so this year marks the 40th anniversary of the game’s first printing!
We are very excited to be making this pilgrimage to the fabled land where it all began. To celebrate, we will be running two of Gary’s greatest dungeon creations: Keep on the Borderlands and Descent into the Depths of the Earth. For all you Old Skool-ers out there, you are probably well aware of the dangers that await in these classic dungeon modules. As we are running these with the WEGS Old Skool system, there’s no telling where these adventures will take us!
Here’s a sneak peek at what’s in store, folks!
(The D&D module covers pictured above are from the original TSR, Inc printings.)
Our full event list for GaryCon will be posted this week,
but it is already live on the GaryCon website, located here).
Select “Other” in the Game System field to find all of our events.
Get ready for adventure, friends!
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