The Opinionated Gamers

The fellow in the green shirt and hat there would turn out to be my friend Rikki, but I didn’t know I’d put it that way when the day started.

As usual, I like to walk up and down the registration line to see what interesting games and activities folks are getting into.  Rikki had brought a chromebook and a large monitor, and the folks below were playing a horse race gambling game on their phones – think JackBox style where they are each logged into a website that they are interacting with while the screen narrates the activities and the results and what not.

The players were quite engaged, and clearing having a great time.  It turns out Rikki makes large group games professionally, and tomorrow I’ve signed up for a 20-30 person game he’s running, of which I know no details, so more on that tomorrow.

But before we get to tomorrow, we need to get the con open, play a few games, and probably eat something.

To be honest, while I went into RollingCon with the intent to play only train games, I reached an inflection point Tuesday morning, where I was ready to play some light, whimsical, new Essen titles, but would pass on train titles so that I could rest – or look at the window to see excavators balanced on hopper cars.

Luckily, there was some of that on the train as well. One table played Smartphone, Inc., while we played a title not yet listed on BGG from the Spring 2018 Game Market: Evidence, Case#02.

I’m currently on a train getting ready to pass from Illinois into Missouri. It’s 7:00, dark out, and I think there’s snow on the ground. (That’s now now, when I’m writing it, not when you’re reading it, when I finish it, or when I proofread it.) It’s the second dinner break on either the first or second day of the first or the only, “RollingCon”.

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