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yendiWe hit Vericon this Saturday, so I’ve now attended the four Boston-area cons I’d meant to hit when we first decided to move up here. It was a nice contrast to Arisia, as laid-back as one could hope for, with almost none of that overwhelming pressure and chaos of the bigger cons.
The only true panel I hit was the Children’s Literature one, with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sdn moderating a whole slew of awesome talents, including Lois Lowry, Kelly Link, and Donna Jo Napoli, who is simply fabulous to listen to. Elayna went to Napoli's reading later, and we grabbed her book Hush at her signing.
The open gaming room was pretty dead for most of the time I was there (and granted, I didn’t stay late at night, when gaming was most likely to have picked up), but I did participate in a bunch of Verilympics events, including Shadows over Camelot, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Zendo, and Betrayal at House on the Hill. The first two there were new games for me, and both were fun. Puerto Rico was won by an interesting strategy, as one player grabbed a harbor very early on, and was pretty much scooping up victory points while the rest of us played catch-up with buildings and crops. It’s the first four-player game I’ve seen in which two players broke 50 points. I fully expect the early harbor strategy, like any and all PR strategies, to fail miserably the next time it’s tried.
I also saw my first episode of Powerpuff Girls Z, which is fourteen kinds of wrong. Elayna saw her first episodes of Moyashimon, which she adored. The con suite, incidentally, kicked ass, although I suspect a small con is in a better position than a large one when presenting a wide variety of food (thanks to economies of scale). Although I did miss having a Viable Paradise breakfast on Sunday for the first con in a while. My only mild complaint: I wouldn’t mind seeing programming more balanced over three days (Sunday had almost nothing but gaming and anime, neither of which really justified the cost of attending). Still, a fun con, and a nice counterpoint to Arisia.
ETA: And how could I forget? 'song got sketches from the webcomics artists who were there, and she got Pete Abrams to do a "Kiki as Green Lantern" sketch! Yay!
The only true panel I hit was the Children’s Literature one, with
sdn moderating a whole slew of awesome talents, including Lois Lowry, Kelly Link, and Donna Jo Napoli, who is simply fabulous to listen to. Elayna went to Napoli's reading later, and we grabbed her book Hush at her signing.The open gaming room was pretty dead for most of the time I was there (and granted, I didn’t stay late at night, when gaming was most likely to have picked up), but I did participate in a bunch of Verilympics events, including Shadows over Camelot, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Zendo, and Betrayal at House on the Hill. The first two there were new games for me, and both were fun. Puerto Rico was won by an interesting strategy, as one player grabbed a harbor very early on, and was pretty much scooping up victory points while the rest of us played catch-up with buildings and crops. It’s the first four-player game I’ve seen in which two players broke 50 points. I fully expect the early harbor strategy, like any and all PR strategies, to fail miserably the next time it’s tried.
I also saw my first episode of Powerpuff Girls Z, which is fourteen kinds of wrong. Elayna saw her first episodes of Moyashimon, which she adored. The con suite, incidentally, kicked ass, although I suspect a small con is in a better position than a large one when presenting a wide variety of food (thanks to economies of scale). Although I did miss having a Viable Paradise breakfast on Sunday for the first con in a while. My only mild complaint: I wouldn’t mind seeing programming more balanced over three days (Sunday had almost nothing but gaming and anime, neither of which really justified the cost of attending). Still, a fun con, and a nice counterpoint to Arisia.
ETA: And how could I forget? 'song got sketches from the webcomics artists who were there, and she got Pete Abrams to do a "Kiki as Green Lantern" sketch! Yay!