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#.
Origins Premiere Track
- Event ID: 0500
- 25 Word Description: Closed door, blind beta test sessions of unreleased/new games. Players are split into groups and participate in an actual beta test session.
- Date Time: Wednesday 10am-2pm
- Category: Special Events
- Sponsor: N/A
- Game Master: N/A
- System: N/A
- Edition: N/A
- Game Manufacturer: N/A
- Long Description:
Closed door, blind beta test sessions of unreleased/new games. Players are split into groups and participate in an actual beta test session.
Lionel's Review
Eric's Review
Andy's Review
Will's Review
Jules's Review
Emily's Review
Paiting Minis Fast
- Event ID: 0702
- 25 Word Description:
Learn how to Paint a Mini Fast. Hands on. You get a mini to paint & keep
- Date Time: Wednesday 2pm-4pm
- Category: Other
- Sponsor: Origins Art College
- Game Master: Ron Gecina
- System: N/A
- Edition: N/A
- Game Manufacturer: N/A
- Long Description:
Pretty much everybody's been there: you have a new mini for your skirmish army or a new or improved RPG character, and you need it right away. You're in luck, because there are techniques that can help you get a mini looking good on the tabletop in a very short amount of time, and this class will show you how to do it. The class will be hands-on, with brushes and paint you can use. A mini will be provided to take with you from the class, or bring your own primed mini.
Will's Review
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.
Lionel's Review
Eric's Review
Will's Review
Battle Cattle
- Event ID: 1040
- 25 Word Description:
Moo-ve Over people "cause the cows are comin Home and they're packin.
- Date Time: Wednesday 7pm-10pm
- Category: Miniature
- Sponsor: Olde World Warriors
- Game Master: Rick Clever/Dave Nelms/Marc Moralez
- System: Battle Cattle
- Edition: 3
- Game Manufacturer: Wingnut Games
- Long Description:
Yes it is a game of cows with guns and armor pitted in udder combat. Players control a cow and battle the other players in the farm yard. The last cow standing is the winner. There's cow tipping, Vulcan machine guns, rocket launchers, flame throwers and more.
Stargate: Silent Scream Part 1
- Event ID: 1046
- 25 Word Description:
Horus has escaped taking his new Queen with him. Three Simultaneous stories build on last year's games. New players welcome.
- Date Time: Wednesday 7pm-9pm
- Category: Miniature
- Sponsor: HMGS-GL
- Game Master: Glen Cooley
- System: Stargate D20 Modified
- Edition: N/A
- Game Manufacturer: N/A
- Long Description:
Building on the result's of last years Origins game, the battle with Horus continues.
Horus and his new Queen have escaped. They are traveling to the ancient home of Ra in search of hidden technology.
From the guardians of the temple of Ra the SGC learn of powerful weapons locked away from the rest of the Goa'uld.
The SGC must locate Horus, and attempt to free the human host who has become his new Queen before they can unleash
any new horrors on the galaxy. Teal'c went missing at the end of the last battle with Horus. Rebel Jaffa must find and free Teal'c.
During the convention there will be four 2 hour games for new and experienced players to both learn the rules and have fun with the
Stargate universe. Also there will be 2 four hour games where the climatic battle comes to a conclusion.
New and experienced players are welcome in any session.
The Hunt for Heretics Continues
- Event ID: 6105
- 25 Word Description:
Come join the Acolytes of the Calaxis Sector as they fight desperately against the darkness for dominion over the Empire of Mankind. The Emperor Protects!
- Date Time: Wednesday 7pm-Midnight
- Category: Roleplaying
- Sponsor: Amorphous Blob Games
- Game Master: Michael Whiteman/Rich Downey
- System: Dark Heresy
- Edition: Current
- Game Manufacturer: Fantasy Flight Games
- Long Description:
Acolytes are the hand of the Inquisition in a desperate battle against the heretic, the xeno, and the mutant. They must stand in the way of these dark forces from destroying all the Emperor of Mankind has worked to create. Can they do it, or will they wither in the face of evil of the Warp?
The Buried Past
- Event ID: 6036
- 25 Word Description: A Call of Cthulhu adventure set in the 1920's!
- Date Time: Wednesday 1pm-5pm
- Category: Roleplaying
- Sponsor: RGG, Ltd
- Game Master: James R. Rummel
- System: Call of Cthulhu
- Edition: 3rd
- Game Manufacturer: Chaosium
- Long Description:
Some hot-shot archeologist goes missing, swallowed up by a dry desert and old ruins. Not that it is anything new, as everyone knows that something prowls the dead places, the damned places, looking for hot blood and screaming meat. But the Governor is breathing down your neck, and it looks like you will have to investigate even if you feel like a rabbit under the jaws of a coyote when the Sun goes down.
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: Michael Whiteman/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: Michael Whiteman/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…
