#RPGaDay2020: Day 29 - Ride With Me

Day 29 of #RPGaDay2020

The one-word prompt: "Ride"

So let's take a 90s road trip.

God might be your co-pilot, but Elmo is our entertainment.

A good oversized Muppet on clearance at your local toy store makes a great conversation starter, or driver-startler hanging out the window as you pass them on the highway.  

We won't talk about what happened to Big 'Mo at GenCon in '97.  It was traumatic for all around.  

As we were in our twenties for the 90's, that was a time of bad fashion choices, bad hairstyles, and ruthless shenanigans.

Our first gaming roadtrip was a pilgrimage to Crazy Egor's up in Rochester.  (We know he sold the storefront to another store years ago, but still sets up a smaller store in Hilton, NY.  His eBay store is going strong.

Thanks to being on the mailing list for then Buffalo-based Battelords of the 23rd Century, we were added to UBCon, the University of Buffalo's gaming convention.

The UBCons took a rotating cast of characters and may or may not have involved dog collars, ice showers, belts to the groin, campus off-roading, photography of sleeping New York State Police who were sleeping in their car where previous off-roading was taking place, numerous trips to Canada, and a host of items where the statute of limitations may or may not apply. 

Wooly and I going to Toronto

We did Origins in Philly and the first permanent one in Columbus (We don't speak of the drive home from Columbus anymore).  Most of that was wargaming-related, but we did get to meet some cool people including "Uncle Duke" Seifried.   Didn't get to play in one of his games until a decade later, but it was worth it.

Nowadays, the road trips look a bit more like this...

Muppets are optional.