For over two months I've been planning to run my OPD, Ruffthroats Rathskeller, at a local Ohio convention. Fortunately, there was an event not too far away that takes place after the "epic-ness" of ORIGINS. I signed up for a day at Con on the Cob, last Friday to be exact, where it would be easy to referee a game during a decent time slot. Regrettably, two persons whom I shall not name that had signed up to play via the Con website never materialized. I sat across from an empty table till an interested old-skooler, all the way from Arizona no less, took note of my Labyrinth Lord sign and called his friends to help fill the seats. Astonishingly, two of the gentlemen were artists in the genre, with portfolio art in print by Goblinoid Games! Robert also happened to be on the OD&D Forum that is used for folks involved in FIGHT ON magazine, the project I had named as a resource for some of the parts in the revised Rathskeller. I distributed the pre-gens on my handcrafted LL character sheets, and dice were soon rolled.

Materials for the session included my one page map and monster key, GM notes from LL pdfs, and the Hexographer map of Minaria that was posted here. Some of these you can see in this photo of the game table: