This & That on the Weekend

[shannon_a]

Auction! Saturday was the Endgame auction, and I stopped in there for about an hour. As someone said while I was there, there's something fun about watching people bid for games (and occasionally exchanging comments with friends while doing so). I did myself bid on a Liberte (which I didn't get) and a To Court the King (which I did). The latter went for all of $6, pointing out how much of a buyer's market the Endgame auction is ... but many of us sellers also find it sufficiently convenient that it's worth lower prices. I saw about $100 of my own games sell in that hour. I do have some concerns if all of my stuff sold because there was a huge glut of games, as Robert brought in 300-450 from his collection(!). Nonetheless, Aaron cleared somewhere between 60 and 90 games in the hour I was there, which looked like a good start. (Just glanced at the Twitter feed, and it said 5 hours, 500+ games, so he apparently maintained or improved upon that rate. Wow!)

(I'll find out when I go in on Wednesday, but I'll bring my panniers just in case I have stuff to go back home ... and if I do have unsold games, it won't be a big deal like it would have been in previous years, because we'll soon be using our garage for storage, pending the floor being smoothed out and Bob building us some shelves.)

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Gaming! I only stayed at the auction for an hour because I had my normal KingMaker game later on Saturday, which was run from my home. Munchkin tormented the cat-allergic people for a while, but other than that the game was pretty normative. We stopped just short of the final battle for book one of the adventure path. Overall, I'm pleased that I decided to run this campaign at a slower speed, else I think it would have just blinked past us (given that we're looking at 60-75 session based on the current speed things are going).

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A Bit of Biking. We had some late rain on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. When I went out to lunch on Sunday I was hoping that it'd clear up enough that I could bike a bit before returning home. And, 'lo and behold, it did. I'd been considering riding the Ohlone Greenway, which I'd been wanted to do for weeks. Ultimately, I decided that I didn't want to spend that much of my Sunday biking, as my freetime still feels very valuable. I did bike through the hills of north Berkeley up to Solano Avenue and back, though, which was a very nice ride on a surprisingly nice day.

Last rain of the (water) year??

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About that Free Time ... I've been relaxing pretty well since I finished work on the RPG history book. In fact, I've be astounded by the amount of free time I have in evenings and weekends (especially with RPGing biweekly or so at the moment).

I've had so much free time that as of last week I was ... starting to get a little bored. Only so many books you can read, eh? So I think I'm going to be starting on my next freetime project in a week or two, which will be an iPhone adaptation of my friend Eric's Armorica game (and something which I'd actually started last year before the RPG history book ate my mind).

Comments

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Shannon, how often does Endgame do such an auction? This seems to me like a great idea.

[shannon_a]

Once a year. It's always a big hit too.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Yes -- there's a store in a nearby city that has such an annual event, but none local to me. I've considered giving the bulk of my collection to the auction near me several times, but it always seems less effort to just leave it in the basement in boxes. 8/