An Endorsement
Or rather, a referral. There are a lot of good people out there in the RPG world. Last year I was at KantCon, a gaming convention which quite honestly has some logistical problems, the top of which is that they don't have enough events scheduled to handle walk-in traffic. All the listed games were filled with pre-registrants, and my kids and I found ourselves twiddling our thumbs for a few hours waiting in hope that there would be space in later timeslots. To pass the time I bought an RPG that touted a "three minute PC creation system" called Ingenium by Silver Gryphon Games. It is, by all accounts, a "fantasy heartbreaker," meaning a fantasy RPG with a host of familiar tropes along with a home-grown game system. It is a quirky game that has some editing problems and some curious omissions in terms of rules, but my kids loved the game. They loved having cat- and wolf-people and humans with wings as PC races. They loved the dirt-simple cha...
