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.

So I ran demos of Agon and Umläut at Gaelcon. They went well and I want to try and consolidate what I learned before I forget.

These were one hour demos. With a game like Agon, I've had difficulty covering all the rules in even a 4 hour con slot, so I knew this was going to be a tough one to demo in one hour. It's fiddly as hell until you understand it, but getting players to that point is non-trivial. I decided to show off the bits I like best: The basic challenge resolution, Combat and the structure of Quests.