Tentacles was mind blowingly good. The location was spot on for a roleplaying con. The beer was ace and due to the german purity laws didn’t give you a hangover. The company was good. Lots of games were played.

Friday. After getting up at silly o’clock to get the plane arrived mid afternoon after a short train journey and a climb up the hill which nearly killed me (next year I will be much thinner and more fitter!!). Sat around in the sun admiring the view of the Rhine from the castle courtyard and chatting to people. Drank lots of beer, went to the Gloranthan Gathering, where the very bright future of HeroQuest was unveiled by the new publisher Moon Designs, then went to the convention barbeque in the courtyard prepared by Charlie Krank president of Chaosium Inc before ending the night with a game of Zombies !

Saturday played in a 35 player Freeform called Griffin Mountain or Bust, which was my first proper freeform. I had a cracking time playing, seven hours just flew by and have got the bug for more. It was a lovely way to meet a good third of the convention as well as playing a very memorable game 😀 Finished the night off by playing in a rather hyper 11 player game of Feng Shui run by Ginger Matt.

Sunday was the day that I ran 10 hours of HeroQuest using my 3 part mini-campaign, Red Sun Rising. I really enjoyed myself and the two of the players stuck with the whole game. One of the most memorable RPG games I’ve ever run. This finshed at about 11:30, so I grabbed a beer chatted then went to the closing ceremony. Never have I experienced such a feeling of pure love and posistive energy than was in that room. Not only  were we celebrating  this  years con but also the  ten years before it. It was amazing. Then stayed up until 3 drinking an chatting.

Monday got up and slowly got sorted out for the trip home. Never have I seen so many people loitering outside a building not wanting to move on. But they did and so did we gradualaly drifting back to Frankfurt airport to catch our flight back home mid evening.

I’m up for it if I’m not too busy next year.

Here’s the photos me and Ginger Matt took.