RPC took place in Cologne last Weekend. So, since Cologne-Trade-Fair is not
far from my homke (or Hace’s or Diegos), we decided to jump over and to see
if the cons so clichee as expected.
So, what did we expect?
LARPlers drinking Met out of horns and battling
eacht other with their weapons? Check.
Pen&Paper Gurus which can construct a new adventure in about half a minute?
check.
VideoGamers playing the latest mmos? check.
Basically, one of the major magnets for visitors was another introduction of
a new real time strategy game – battleforge. Wait, what? A rts game as the
main catcher in a role play trade-fair? What the buck?
Battleforge is a rts game heavily based on Trading-Card-Games – such as
Magic the Gathering (r), Yu-Gi-Oh (r), Pokemon (r) , the list continues
endless.
Every second in this game, you gain Energie, which is used to cast magic.
Every spell is a Card, and is treaded like every card in a game. It waits in
your hand, and you can use it as often as you want – paying the price, of
course.
You can increase your mana ( im calling it mana because its more familiar to
me ) by controlling some sort of objects spreaded around the map. Easy
principe : the more knots you control, the more mana you get, the faster you
can cast your devastating spells, and then the victory comes closer. But
dont expect your enemie to be a sitting duck.
As you can summon your spells everywhere on the map, Battleforge is a very
fast game. There are, however, regulations for summoning. Summoning a
creature in one of your bases will give them a full 100% hp when summoned.
Creatures summoned on “free field” or even the enemies base will only have
50% hp, which increases slowly to 100%. If they arent under attack, of
course.
Battleforge really bases on much strategy – if youre not the great
strategist ( no, im not looking in my mirror now… aw, i did it <-< ),
youre toast. A Battleforge match usally takes about 10-30 minutes, and it
can be played completly with a mouse without having disadvantages. Cool, eh?
Furthermore, we had more mmorpgs like runes of magic, which will not run
with my little netbook. Why doesnt the xbox support those games…
whyyyyyyyyy Q_Q . Another precious titles for xbox, ps3 and pc. Nothing
special here. In the middle of hall 1, there was a video game shop, nothing
related to roleplaying. And the Roccats-Stage didnt actually filled the
rpg-mood , it destroyed it.
Haces dream became true : he spoke to one of his favorite artists, Marvin
Clifford. If youre not in Germany and reading “Shakes and Fidget”, youll not
know him. But let me say : he and his pal do a great job on their
WoW-Parody.
We had many places with larp-equipment, even a shop who rented full-plated
armor! To bad I lack body-power, I bet it would feel great =D . Many Horns
were sold, even more larp equipment, and there were many cosplayers. Even a
Ragnarok-Online High Priest. Me and Hace inmediatly went to her, yelling
“Heal please! Zeny please! Item please! Tank please!” . She laughed shy and
left. What a pity ._.
Overall, it was a trade-fair. But it was to much of a games convention in th
rpc to be a roleplay-convention. At least I can look forward on looting even
more roccats shirts at the games com . Me, Hace and Diego got 14 TShirts.
Now they’ve become a new wall-accesoire. Sorry, but me wearing xl-shirts? No
fucking way!
