Once and Future Infinity Events

By Dozer

In just over a week I'll be running my third Infinity event on 27 May. The last two were small intimate events with my mates, some of whom are contributors to Canadian Tabletop Gamer.

The first was called F**k the Plan. A friend of mine was posted to a ship on the west coast and he known for making up plans in the middle of a board game or RPG session that had a tendency to fail. The departing friend would pipe up in the middle of the chaos "What about the plan?" and the reply from one of us at the table would always be "F**k the plan!"

In order to send him off well, I picked up a ITS 2016 pack from Fandom 2. We had six of us play 3 rounds in my basement which was setup with three 4'x4' tables loaded with terrain. Doc won the event with a flurry of combat and shouting. We had drinks and snacks and it was for some their first Infinity event.

My second organized event was called the Svalarheima Infinity Challenge and it was run outside in the middle of the coldest month in Ottawa, February. We lost a few players to sickness due to the worst flu season in years so it only ended up being myself and three other players. Fogotten showing up between rounds of acting as a nurse for Molotov and a mate of mine ran the BBQ while the rest of us played. Due to the challenge of the cold we decided on the shorter game rounds provided by the RECON format.

It was so much fun. We loaded up the BBQ with meat, the snowbanks with beer and other drinks. There were a few delays, the weather was 25 degrees Celsius warmer than normal, and an irritable raccoon TO'ed our event. He seriously dropped snow down the host's shirt and threw tree berries from above the tables when players starter to argue. It ended early with a tie between myself and the host.

The event I'm planning for next week is going to be more than a few mates in a basement or backyard. It will be with folks from multiple metas across the city of Ottawa. It will be hosted at a LGS (Local Game Store). I'm going to be collecting money from players to re-coup the cost of the prizes and swag. We're looking at a whole nine plus players and I won't be one of them.

I may still be using last years ITS prize pack but each player will walk away with plenty of stuff they will need as they play Infinity and each player will have a prize for coming out. It should be a good event allowing folks to come out and play the game, meet new faces, and introduce the event experience that Infinity is know for.

I do have a few events planned in the future; a 300 pts ITS event in mid-September, a narrative escalation event around the holiday season, and another Svalarheima challenge.

Keep coming back for more information as we here at CTG start to host more events, Infinity and otherwise.

- Cheers

Dozer