Origins 2009
June 24-28, Greater Columbus Convention Center
From June 24th to June 28th a group of Wittenberg Role-Playing Guild members traveled to Columbus to take part
in the Origins gaming convention. This convention is the second largest gaming event in the United States.
Here are the listings for the events we signed up for.
The initial listing is posted, followed by reviews by the Guilders who took part in the sessions.
They are presented in order of their Event ID#.
Sci-Fi Mapmaking, From Slums to Cityscapes
- Event ID: 0747
- 25 Word Description:
Space stations, nightclubs, alien hives are in your head as ideas. Learn to draw your ideas and leave with a mapmakers kit!
- Date Time: Thursday 10am-Noon
- Category: Other
- Sponsor: Origins Art College
- Game Master: Chris Boll
- System: N/A
- Edition: N/A
- Game Manufacturer: N/A
- Long Description:
In the grim future, the mega corporations rule the solar system. Humanity is manipulated by secret alien body snatchers and
your heroes are just about to break into the maximum security facility to expose these alien conspirators when a player asks,
"Where is the air vent?" If you don't know where the air vent is how can they save the world? Come learn the elements that make
up Sci-Fi maps. Learn how to layout that long dark alley for the daring escape scene, plan your own city and have that alien
mothership ready for those heroes to sneak onto. Information packet and CD of resources are provided to take home and refer to later.
Come have some fun and we might make a Sci-Fi Cartographer out of you yet.
Border Incursion
- Event ID: 1192
- 25 Word Description:
Klingon vs Federation
- Date Time: Thursday 1pm-4pm
- Category: Miniature
- Sponsor: N/A
- Game Master: Chris Norton
- System: Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator
- Edition: N/A
- Game Manufacturer: FASA
- Long Description:
A Klingon squadron ventures into Federation space and a battle ensues.
Age of Conan
- Event ID: 3494
- 25 Word Description:
Four player game set in the world of Conan. Each player tries to build up his/her kingdom and rule the best.
- Date Time: Thursday 6pm-8pm
- Category: Tabletop
- Sponsor: Fantasy Flight Games
- Game Master: Game Base 7 - Gamers of the Apocalypse
- System: Age of Conan Boardgame
- Edition: N/A
- Game Manufacturer: FASA
- Long Description:
The Age of Conan strategy board game allows players to each control one of the four major kingdoms of Hyboria.
Command armies, wield dark sorcery, or weave cunning intrigue - all are needed in order to conquer your enemies
and make your kingdom the most powerful in the world. Yet, even the most powerful of rulers ignores one man at
his great peril. Only one kingdom will harness the volatile alliance of the mightiest hero of all -
Conan the Cimmerian!
4e Return to Old School - Ravenloft (Paragon)
- Event ID: 6252
- 25 Word Description:
Experience dread facing this powerful vampire and his minions, reimagined to flex the muscles of the new 4th Edition of the Dungeons and Dragons game.
- Date Time: Thursday 9am-1pm
- Category: Roleplaying
- Sponsor: Amorphous Blob Games
- Game Master: Andy Shockney
- System: Dungeons and Dragons
- Edition: 4th
- Game Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
- Long Description:
The module I6: Ravenloft holds a special place in the hearts and memories of a whole generation of gamers.
The premise of this adventure was to take a classic monster, the vampire, which had been so overused as to become trite and mundane,
and make it frightening again. Come experience Count Strahd Von Zarovich, in his castle lair reimagined for the
new 4th Edition Rules of Dungeons and Dragons. Previous experience with 4th Edition is preferred and all are welcome!
A Dead Man's Party
- Event ID: 6253
- 25 Word Description:
Lord Corbin, the lord of Fell's Falls, has died and you have been invited to his wake. Few will leave as they came...
- Date Time: Thursday 9am-1pm
- Category: Roleplaying
- Sponsor: Amorphous Blob Games
- Game Master: Blair and Becky Reamy
- System: Dungeons and Dragons
- Edition: 4th
- Game Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
- Long Description:
Lord Corbin, the lord of Fell's Falls, has died and you have been invited to his wake.
A raucous celebration of his life where few will leave as they came...
Shadowrun One Shot #7
- Event ID: 6280
- 25 Word Description:
Shadowrun One Shot #7
- Date Time: Thursday 10pm-1am
- Category: Roleplaying
- Sponsor: Catalyst Game Labs
- Game Master: Paul Sjardijn
- System: Shadowrun
- Edition: 4th
- Game Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
- Long Description:
Shadowrun One Shot #7
Abduction
- Event ID: 6315
- 25 Word Description:
Players take the role of horrible mythos entities and find out their plans for nefarious deeds won't
happen as smoothly as they assumed. For experienced players.
- Date Time: Thursday 1pm-4pm
- Category: Roleplaying
- Sponsor: Shoggoth.Net Group
- Game Master: Matt Wiseman
- System: Call of Cthulhu BRP
- Edition: Current
- Game Manufacturer: Chaosium
- Long Description:
Players take the role of horrible mythos entities and find out their plans for
nefarious deeds won't happen as smoothly as they assumed. For experienced players.
Star Wars: Aftermath
- Event ID: 6423
- 25 Word Description:
Jedi vs. Sith in a battle for escape off the doomed world of Melkor 5. Fight alongside your friends or against them. Characters Provided
- Date Time: Thursday 5pm-9pm
- Category: Roleplaying
- Sponsor: Legion IVXX
- Game Master: Schrein/Yount
- System: Star Wars Saga Edition
- Edition: Current
- Game Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
- Long Description:
Jedi vs. Sith, a Fight to the Death! Play pregen characters in a battle against other
convention go'ers in an escape off the doomed planet of Melkor 5.
Stargate SG-1: White Plume Mountain
- Event ID: 6506
- 25 Word Description:
Sci-Fi's Hit TV Series goes head to head with a D&D Classic. Join SG-1 on a mission to recover valuable artifacts from an ancient ruin.
- Date Time: Thursday 7pm-11pm
- Category: Roleplaying
- Sponsor: Amorphous Blob Games
- Game Master: George Anderson
- System: Stargate SG-1 RPG/D20
- Edition: Current
- Game Manufacturer: AEG
- Long Description:
Sci-Fi's Hit TV Series goes head to head with a D&D Classic.
Join SG-1 on a mission to recover valuable artifacts from an ancient ruin.
This event runs three times, each time SG-1 is looking for a different artifact.
Players may sign up for all three sessions if they desire. Prizes awarded.
SVU: Space Vampire Unit
- Event ID: 6507
- 25 Word Description:
Save the galaxy from the Vampire Menace! The SVU wants you! A humorous Sci-fi RPG based on B-movie space operas.
- Date Time: Thursday 7pm-10pm
- Category: Roleplaying
- Sponsor: None
- Game Master: Evan Dicken
- System: Space Vampire Unit
- Edition: Current
- Game Manufacturer: I do
- Long Description:
In this humorous Sci-fi roleplaying game players take on the roles of actors playing officers in the Intergalactic Space Vampire Unit.
Inspired by syndicated space operas such as Star Trek, Babylon 5, Space Rangers, Space: Above and Beyond, and Battlestar
Galactica the rules and gameplay mimic the campy and overdone tropes of the genre. Strange subspace entities, hostile alien
governments, tense first-contact situations, over-the-top dialogue, and of course lots and lots of vampires are par for the course.
Players are rewarded for overacting, death-defying stunts, creativity, product placement, and incomprehensible technobabble among
other things. Using "hero-points" they can effect not only the fundamental mechanics of the game but the plot itself.
Liberty and Justice For All
- Event ID: 6525
- 25 Word Description:
With Great Power...the role-playing game of superheroic melodrama. You can save the world but are you willing to pay the price?
- Date Time: Thursday 8pm-Midnight
- Category: Roleplaying
- Sponsor: Indie games Explosion
- Game Master: Kat Miller
- System: With Great Power...
- Edition: Current
- Game Manufacturer: Incarnadine Press
- Long Description:
Justice has left the Liberty League. Liberty Bell has taken charge. When Justice starts a New league of heroes,
is there room enough in the city of 2 Leagues of Heroes?
Star Trek: The Lost Colony
- Event ID: 6528
- 25 Word Description:
Explore the Final Frontier in the era of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Characters provided. Rules taught.
- Date Time: Thursday 8pm-Midnight
- Category: Roleplaying
- Sponsor: None
- Game Master: Kris Chester
- System: Star Trek (CODA)
- Edition: Current
- Game Manufacturer: Decipher
- Long Description:
These are the voyages of the Starship Avalon.
Its continuing mission: to explore the unclaimed space on the border between the United Federation of Planets and the Tholian Assembly.
When Starfleet receives a distress call from a group of Federation colonists, they dispatch the Avalon to investigate;
the only problem is, the colonists vanished over a century ago. Set during the fifth year of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
