We'll be using this page to track the bySwarm events and activities taking place at Gen Con 2011 in Indianapolis. If you have ideas or suggestions on things you would like to do with us or just want to let us know that you plan to attend, this is the place!
Gen Con 2010: You can read the notes from the E-tools seminar.
The Missing Currant
An agent of the Red Currant Syndicate has gone missing while investigating a lead on the cause of the Collapse of magic that seems to point to the conjurers of the School of Worlds. Willem Analore has dispatched the PCs to find out what happened to him and what secrets are being kept hidden. This adventure is set in the Dark Golden Age campaign setting from bySwarm. 7th level characters are provided.
In the Hands of Eternity (was called Enter the Dark Golden Age for last year's Gen Con)
The Thieving Prince of Halag has a task for you, his "subjects". His druid servant Maluk was scouting a Sascrian caravan with a small group of guards. As they watched the caravan, they were attacked by Sascrian witch hunters, and Maluk was captured. Rescue Maluk, and your Prince will be pleased. This adventure is set in the Dark Golden Age campaign setting from bySwarm. 5th level characters are provided.
A Lesson in the Divine
Before the Collapse, divine magic did not exist; arcane magic did everything anyone would want. After the Collapse of magic, tales of the devout manifesting magical power began to surface. You are being sent on a diplomatic mission to convince this cult to ally with the Wild Ones of Free Tesaya or to at least find out what you can. This adventure is set in the Dark Golden Age campaign setting from bySwarm. 7th level characters are provided.
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GC10
Saw your shirts a few times but I was always to busy to be able to say hello. Hope the Con went well for you.
Gen Con went very well
The seminars had great attendance with lots of people interested in participating, and the setting received very positive responses from players. My next con will likely be Con on the Cob in Ohio (http://cononthecob.com/). Robosnake is in that area and will be attending as well.
Possible Game
I am not sure if I will be attending Gen-Con this year. It really depends on if Anna and I have the time and money, but we're going to try to be there. If we can, I was thinking about setting up a time slot to run at least a beta of the BySwarm game, whichever one it may be. I hope we can reach this point, but if not I plan on running a game I've designed that's nearly finished and will advertise BySwarm while running the game. Finally, I'd be up for working on advertising BySwarm while there (nothing says 'join us' like a guy in cosplay handing out fliers!). If anyone is interested in working on any of this with me, or who happens to know how I register to run an official game at GenCon, please let me know! Also, any idea how far along our game will be by then (i.e. will be selling, at beta, or not there yet?).
Edit: Realized that I just needed to look at the Plan page, so scratch that.
Where we'll be at Gen Con time
We should have a lot of content for the setting by Gen Con up and running on the site. With the current schedule I have planned, we'll be closing the setting concept submissions on February 20 with choosing a system wrapped up before the end of March. That will give us four months to create content and continue getting more and more people involved. That will be plenty of time to at least have some gaming sessions. We may also have our first whole product by then, but it's hard to say since we won't know what we've got until June or July.
Cool!
Cool! In that case if I do make it to GenCon I'd like to run a game using the game (or games if we've made it that far) developed by BySwarm. I'd also still be interested in helping advertise while there too. I should know for definite if I will be going or not by April (I hope).