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National Silver
Mar. 24th, 2003 06:43 pmAt this weekend's Student National Wargaming And Roleplaying Championships 2003, I was judged by the Storytellers in the White Wolf category (no other company is ever given a category) to be the second best in a field of 13.
Scoring being 7-3-1, I brought in 3 points.
Overall, the team did very well. We came third with 21 points (although admittedly three teams came second with 24) and were just 7 points (that's one category win) behind the winners, Sheffield. Had the smallish contingent from the Edinburgh Uni team combined with us, and still won the 7 points they did, we could have co-hosted. It demonstrates that we could.
It would be fun if we did (and not just because as an associate member I can't be roped into the boring organisational stuff at all, mwahaha) but it's generally fun to go and play as well. At their best, Nationals games spark new ideas that can be taken home and spread.
Both days were Vampire this year, with one Really Weird Story and one Fairly Normal Story (which made a pleasant change from the too-frequent case of two Really Weird Stories). I didn't really do all that well on Weird Day (Marge in a Simpsons-based Sabbat pack) but I guess some of my attempts at comedy were heard. I got through the Fairly Normal Elders Story without being stabbed in the back by any of the other elders, letting out my dark secret or dying, and managed a few in-character wisecracks. Neither was my best performance of a pregen character coming in cold (the way the Nats work) but obviously I was entertaining somebody. Go me.
Then again, my favourite film with a shot at the big Oscars was entirely locked out. So what do I know?
Ah well. Maybe now I'll manage to get some players when I want to run something at the society.
Scoring being 7-3-1, I brought in 3 points.
Overall, the team did very well. We came third with 21 points (although admittedly three teams came second with 24) and were just 7 points (that's one category win) behind the winners, Sheffield. Had the smallish contingent from the Edinburgh Uni team combined with us, and still won the 7 points they did, we could have co-hosted. It demonstrates that we could.
It would be fun if we did (and not just because as an associate member I can't be roped into the boring organisational stuff at all, mwahaha) but it's generally fun to go and play as well. At their best, Nationals games spark new ideas that can be taken home and spread.
Both days were Vampire this year, with one Really Weird Story and one Fairly Normal Story (which made a pleasant change from the too-frequent case of two Really Weird Stories). I didn't really do all that well on Weird Day (Marge in a Simpsons-based Sabbat pack) but I guess some of my attempts at comedy were heard. I got through the Fairly Normal Elders Story without being stabbed in the back by any of the other elders, letting out my dark secret or dying, and managed a few in-character wisecracks. Neither was my best performance of a pregen character coming in cold (the way the Nats work) but obviously I was entertaining somebody. Go me.
Then again, my favourite film with a shot at the big Oscars was entirely locked out. So what do I know?
Ah well. Maybe now I'll manage to get some players when I want to run something at the society.
