Figment of Your Imagination

RandomCon 2009 Shadowfist Demos and Tournament

2009-06-03T04:17:45Z

RandomCon 2009, the first annual regional gaming convention held in the Phoenix metropolitan area over Mothers' Day Weekend, included several Shadowfist events.

Friday the 08th May 2009 @ 10:00 hours
Shadowfist Demonstration
In our first slot I ran one two player demo for new player Bryan C. and I. He seemed to enjoy the game quite a bit.

Friday the 08th May 2009 @ 11:00 hours
Shadowfist Demonstration
Bryan C. stuck around and played a two player demo with new player Greg M. Both seemed to enjoy the game.

Friday the 08th May 2009 @ 12:00 hours
Shadowfist Demonstration
Bryan C. and Greg M. stuck around and played a three player demo with me. The two definitely enjoy this game and will probably play again.

Friday the 08th May 2009 @ 1300 hours
Shadowfist Demonstration
Bryan C. had to leave for another game he had scheduled, but Greg M stuck around. New players Jssra, Del B., and Jake showed up, as did returning player Mike M. We had several demos going on at once, and everyone had so much fun that I skipped my two hour lunch break and let this demo hour run three hours instead. Greg, Jssra, Jake, and Mike expressed interest in attending the night's Whirlpool of Blood so they could get their own cards. (Mike M. apparently lost part of his collection to water damage.)

Friday the 08th May 2009 @ 16:00 hours
Shadowfist Demonstration
Jake and Mike M. stuck around and played a three player demo new player Jason Y. All of the players were having a great time.

Friday the 08th May 2009 @ 17:00 hours
Shadowfist Demonstration
Jake, Jason, and Mike M. stuck around and played a couple of two player demos with new player David S. Great fun was had by all.

Friday the 08th May 2009 @ 19:00 hours
Whirlpool of Blood Swiss Draft Dueling Tournament
Despite the various new player's claims of interest in the night's draft tournament, only returning players James S., Ken S., Mike M., and Emilio R. showed up. Needing something to eat and being tired, Ken and James left the tournament early. This left Mike and Emilio to vie for the championship. Mike won, and claimed a topless Sting of the Scorpion as his prize!

Saturday the 09th May 2009 @ 10:00 hours
Shadowfist Demonstration
No one showed up for Shadowfist, but the Vampire the Eternal Struggle TCG demos were going strong. I chatted with the VtES coordinators, as I had once played back in the Jyhad days.

Saturday the 09th May 2009 @ 11:00 hours
Shadowfist Demonstration
New player Roy P. and returning player Mike M. played in a two-player demo. Roy likes trying various games, but admitted that he has no intentions of picking up any collectible games.

Saturday the 09th May 2009 @ 12:00 hours
Whirlpool of Blood Swiss Draft Multiplayer Tournament
Like the previous night, only returning players James S., Ken S., and Mike M. showed up. Mike won again, and claimed a topless Katie Kincaid as his prize!

Over all the convention went well. We reached 8 new players and 4 old players, with 5 of the 8 new players interested in picking up the game. The whole convention seemed lightly populated, possibly due to a combination of its newness (several people told me beforehand that they won't attend a first year con as they want all of the bugs worked out first), people choosing to boycott it (due to the politics of its sponsor organization WesternSFA), and the economy. Our over all numbers were higher than VtES, the only other ccg in the CCG and Game Library shared room. Greg M., who demoed both ccgs over the course of the weekend, said that while he liked VtES, he felt that it just wasn't nearly as good as Shadowfist.

The Legion of Centicles

2007-11-23T07:23:57Z

Well folks, I have created yet another crazy holiday themed Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 Adventure. This time I was inspired by Christmas to create Centicles' Legion. I was thinking about our gaming group (the one that let me run a crazy Halloween adventure back in D&D 2.0) and how I was not likely to ever get the chance to play the centaur ninja I've desperately wanted to play. So, as always happens when I think about something not happening that I would like to see happen, I figured I ought to do something about that. If I couldn't play my centaur ninja, perhaps I could run an all ninja game. So it was as I was brainstorming ninja team ideas that I passed by a home decorated for Christmas (Before Thanksgiving! It's not even Advent yet!) and had an idea. Santa Claus shares a lot of traits with ninjas. From there the idea of the campaign was born. Only time will tell if people will play it and enjoy.

Shadowfist Demonstrations at Hexacon XVI

2006-11-10T10:03:58Z

The weekend of the 12th-15th of October 2006 was HexaCon XVI in Phoenix, AZ, USA. As Arizona's longest running gaming convention, I ran a series of Shadowfist demonstrations, as recorded earlier.

One of the players, Frank, took a few pictures Sunday morning which he was willing to share:

This portrait image from Sunday includes table one in the foreground and table three in the background (with table two obviously enough in the middle). Clockwise from bottom left to bottom right we have Ken St. Andre, Frank D. Willaim III's empty chair, Wayne Allen Myers, Amanda Pardo, Sean Martin, Paul Donald Peter Tanton, three underaged players, Daniel Candia Hernandez, and one other underaged player.

A close-up of Table 2, where three underaged players take on Wayne Allen Myers. An unknown individual is seen holding a pen at that table, assumably assisting the one new player at the table (who is using a playmat from Stefan). In the background Paul Donald Peter Tanton is assisting Table 3.

Thanks, Frank, for taking and sharing the pictures. We should have taken a picture of you in the action as well!

OGL Pack Rat

2006-02-19T07:17:09Z

For the last few months I had been running Chaos Out of Order, a Dark Sun 3.5 campaign. Kitty wanted the ability to skip spending her starting funds and just be able to have her character have things as needed on hand. She pointed out that in fiction the characters always seem to have what's needed on hand, and that Rusty had permitted her same request in several of his mini-campaigns. I offered to come up with a feat or series of feats, but she turned that option down. So, as Mike was wanted to have a character concept, I offered to build a character concept which did what she needed.

After looking through Ultimate Character Concepts, including the section on building your own, I came up with several options and let her chose from among them. The final product is the Pack Rat. The ironic thing is that, despite the fact that Kitty's character is a merchant wilder, the write up appeared more appropriate for rogues! Of course, any class could conceivably be a merchant, so don't let that stop you from using it. We're both quite pleased with it, and I hope other people can find it of use in their own campaigns.

Published!

2005-08-24T14:12:33Z

I came back from GenCon Indy 2005 with one of the 250 colour copies of Tunnels and Trolls 7.0. In my guise as Tmuwo, I am a member of Trollgod's Trollhalla. We have assisted the Trollgod in putting together his 30th anniversary edition of the game. Besides being buried in the list of names on page two (the dedication), this game sees the publication of the spell I created: Creme de la Kremm (on page ninety-one).

CdK was inspired by classic pulp fiction such as K-9 & Company's "A Girl's Best Friend" or Shadowfist's Two-Fisted Tales of the Secret War. In the pulps a master spell-caster would be surrounded by lackey spell-casters hoping to be associated with the powerful any way they can. The master spell-caster would pool the magical energies of his lackeys and himself and conjure up evil or directly fight the heroes. However, I wrote the spell in such a way that it could also be used by a master spell-caster to beef up a lackey to fight the heroes so that the master could get away or so heroes could beef each other up to take on bigger than normal threats. It's fairly versatile, and it's a homonym pun. What more could you want?

Welcome

2005-07-26T03:39:04Z

Hello. You have found the headquarters of Figment of Your Imagination, Paul Donald Peter Tanton's game designer and game storyteller identity. Here I will post things of relevance to campaigns I create, co-create, design, and/or co-design, especially as co-founder of Tricuspa Figment Live Action Systems.

Let the games begin!