Into the Nexus

GenCon registration day!

Good Morning my Misdirecteds and welcome to another GenCon registration day. We hope to see you all this year. We’ve been moved to a secluded room in the main conference center and that should be a fun time. I’m excited to see everyone this year and it will be a nice and easy 20 hours of Nexus madness. There has been almost no posts here due to our starting up a nonprofit tech company and that has sucked up a majority of our time. BUT we will see everyone in August for all the 1’s and Corrections you can shake a highly caffeinated stick at.

Ta Ta

May 19, 2024 0

The Driest of Spells. The lackest of content.

Good Morning Nexus fans, stans, and clans,

It has been a total hot minute since I did a Nexus update. Well I spent most of the Covid crisis in a perpetual malaise that required therapy, both professional and herbal. I didn’t get any progress on the game completed.

I am finally in the proper headspace to begin working on it again and have some what I hope are some really good ideas on the world building and lore to help roundup some of the weaker character archetypes. The world of Hybris and its chaos/madness wielding magickas will start having some updates very soon.

But first a Gen Con update

We will be running two games with a max of 30 players! Darkmore Besiged and Darkmore Strikes Back

Same format as previous years. Pathfinder 1.0 variant with several mini missions leading up to a final castle siege on night one and repelling a siege on night 2. There will be random encounters. Damned if you do Damned if you don’t choices to be made, and new twists and turns for each nights events. Last year we had over 25 people each night and it was a crazy event that lasted until the early morning hours.

Below are the links to the events and Registration starts May 21st!

Night One

Night Two

Hope to see you all there and I promise more Nexus is to come.

Ta Ta

May 12, 2023 0

Decade of Deviations

It’s a week until Gen Con! We are doing the madness that is final prep and it dawned on me that I’ve been running this game for large cons for 10 years now. Ten years since my first run at Dragon*Con. Slave ship and what would become Darkmore Besieged. It wasn’t until 2010 I added the Siege at the end component. UPYztlznRHmIMH+IrlH6Yg

So the Above are some of the firsts. Some of the first people to ever take a chance on playing this crazy person’s 10 hour opus. You’ll see some of the original 3.5 character sheets that we just scratched out my changes on to the first sheets I made myself.

The players who I still talk to or see to this day, David ,Who stood on the table and yelled at his mother that he was in charge. Lex, Megan and Frank who came again and again to play, Eric, Rob and Gabe who came to my house weekly to help me playtest and sat with me in a shoddy hotel cafe and did a full 10 hour test run. And Justin. My Friend. My artist. Who gave me Gug’el. A wacky character that is seen in almost every game and in the game book itself.

These are the people who helped shape the beginning, mold the wave, Rolled the first 1s

Their awesome is anything is but misdirected.

So if you are playing next week and love what you experience they are a big part of the reason.

Ta for now

July 24, 2019 0

Three Weeks Until Indy!

2019 has flew by and Gencon is almost here. We have been getting the gaming missions and the final battles all ready for you and I think you are really going to love the new additions.

Some updates

We will be taking e-tickets at GenCon this year and that means you will NOT get a paper ticket either in the mail or will call. My team and I will be scanning the tickets at the game itself. This also means that if you didn’t get a ticket because it was sold out I can sell you one right at the game and we can get you a seat.

Second we will have some custom Shirts for sale at the game in case you are interested.

For returning players the shirt image should be very very familiar.

Third I think you are all really really going to like night two. We’ve done a lot of prep and made it a great continuation to Darkmore Besieged. New baddies. New location. new mini missions. and this time Time is not an ally.

I’m looking forward to seeing you all in three weeks and can’t wait to show you what we’ve got!

July 11, 2019 0

Baby it’s cold outside. Let’s roll dice

So I’m getting ready for a new gaming con. I will be running Into the Nexus at the Midwinter Gaming Convention in Milwaukee in January.

If you are in the midwest and want a fun diversion from the cold I suggest looking at the Midwinter Gaming Convention. It’s at the downtown Hilton and whole place is being used for games. Larp, Tabletop and boardgames. This is a smaller con than I usually do but I like it because we can get into some more storytelling aspects of Nexus that usually gets overlooked at bigger shows.

Anyway, if you want to get tickets or rooms or whatever. Click on the links and register.

That being said I will be making some changes to the Darkmore missions and games for this years Gen Con and any future cons that will see their first light at the Midwinter. It will now be all Darkmore adventures. We will start with Darkmore Besieged the game of choices and consequences. Do you figure out who is the spy but not stop the reinforcement of troops? Do you ignore a powerful Magical artifact in lieu of getting better siege equipment? The choice is always yours, especially the really bad ones.

In 2018 Gencon we ran Crash Landing. a prototype of a style I wanted to try. Where in Darkmore Besieged you have time to figure out what you want to do and execute it. In Crash you were on a clock and the clock was unforgiving. By the end “More are Coming” were the words that made my players scream in frustration and terror. It had some good moments and some tedious ones. So I decided to make a change.

This year we will continue Darkmore the next night with Darkmore Strikes Back. If you played the night before (and didn’t die) you will keep your character and keep going. New players will jump in and you will have to deal with the consequences of the night before. Did you kill the baroness? Well her captain of the guard is pissed and coming after you. Did she escape? Yeah she ain’t happy. Did she have unknown allies who are unhappy with your little coup? You’ll just have to find out.

More will definitely be coming.

Ta Ta

November 15, 2018 0

Opening the Flood Gates!

Gencon Registration opened for the games and we sold tickets like crazy. It wasn’t Infinity War numbers but it was pretty great all the same.

Darkmore is sold out.

Crash Landing still has 9 seats left so if you are interested go get you some.

We WILL be taking generics at the table so if you can’t get a regular ticket you can use those instead. (FYI you will need ten hours worth for each session)

Crash Landing will be a very different experience this year as we will be adding some multimedia environment variables to the action. It should be a lot of fun and hopefully a thrill ride for all involved.

I want to send thanks to my regular players who keep coming back year after year. (looking at you Kincaids). You all are the best and I’m happy you enjoy it enough to keep playing.

I’ve got some cool stuff for this year and some great surprises.

I am really excited and can’t wait to show you.

See you all in August.

May 8, 2018 0

Polishing things up and undoing Disney Programming.

I have made some adjustments to characters and classes. I added the Anarchist and the Aristocrat (Not Aristocat like I kept typing over and over again)

Anarchist

Aristocrat (Not Cat)

I’ve polished up some descriptions and made the menus a little easier to navigate through. Take a look and checkout the fantastic artwork and basic descriptions of the classes.