GAELCON-89 -- the first Irish International Games Competition
Well for the participants it was a great success; financially it
was rather worse. My own little corner of it was the MegaTraveller
Role-Playing competition. We had planned for ten tables of eight
people with a terminal displaying library data on each table. Having
been roped into general organisation at the very end coupled with
hardware inconsistancies we only managed eight tables with sparodic
operation.
Myself and the other two organisers (Lesley Grant & Oisin Murphy-
Lawless) put an awful lot of work into the scenario. In the end it
weighed in at 98 pages and 33,000 words. It was purely a role-playing
scenario. I.e. people were judged on how well they role-played. The
players were all playing doctors who had requisitioned space on a
luxary liner for a mission of mercy. All 41 NPCs of the ship were
detailed with loads of interaction. No personal objectives for the PCs
and no central plot.
This had two effects. First you had the player that is used to
having paths lead out for them. The kind the referee has to lead around
by their nose. These were at a complete loss. They wandered around
provoking NPCs in a most undoctorlike fashion. Trying to make trouble
so "something would happen".
Then you had the real role players. These had a field day. There was
a great variety in background amongst the NPCs and as we had play-tested
it ten times the referees were very familiar with them.
If the whole scenario was played from day one to day five it would
probably take 18 hours. But then it was designed to be a 3.5 open ended
competition. If there are enough people interested (and there is the
space) I will upload them to the server.
-- Jo Jaquinta
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