Gamewang! is over. But it was good. Fun for all concerned, I hope. We played lots of games, drank lots of drinks, ate lots of barbecue and threw lots of frisbees.

We played roleplaying games like...

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Umlaut
Hot War
Contenders
D&D 4e
Labyrinths & Lycanthropes
My Life With Master

All of which provided great fun and enjoyment. D&D 4e was so popular, it ran for two of the four game sessions!

And there were card and boardgames like...

Revenge of the B-Movie
Bang!
Agricola
For Sale
Bohnanza
Infernal Machines
Apples To Apples

Vincent came over with some art for Umlaut earlier this evening. I'm very, very happy with it. Some of the artwork is rough, unfinished versions of things. I actually think that work really well, given the unfinished nature of the ashcan.

I can't wait to see what it looks like in situ.

This one is for the Classic Metal section:

This is for Cash:

This is one of the less finished ones. It's for the description of Power:

Holy crap! I'm going to be selling a game in a week and a half!

I'm just putting some final alterations into the text: Cleaning things up, fixing spelling errors, clarifying some stuff and adding a section back in which I somehow managed to leave out. Actually, two sections.

We broke out Umlaut for a quick session to test out some of the new rule tweaks and to further test some of the older tweaks.

In brief, we created 4 stunningly unoriginal bands and played from the start. I noticed a few things with the new mechanics and a few things which had been bothering me slightly came into the light a bit more and I can see the solution to some problems.

Main observations:

Short gigs:

This report has also been cross-posted to a thread on The Forge

It was a Friday night in Wellington when we sat down with a quantity of beers and a burning desire to play test Umlaut to the fullest. A lo, did we did such a thing. In the manner of Iron Maiden at Donnington Monsters of Rock back in '87, we bestrode the musical world as colossi.