Gencon 2025 Recap: Scheduled Games

George de Forest Brush

 

Rapid fire play reports from my Gencon 2025 games. The scheduled games were reruns of old mellonbread adventures, so I'll just post what happened without digging deep into the context. Click through the links to get the full story about the scenarios.

(I'll do a little editorializing after each one).

 

Unknown Armies: A Bed of Roses Playtest 3

The year was 1521. The place was Tenochtitlan, head of the Triple Alliance of the Aztec Empire. The island-city had just been conquered following a ninety day siege by a coalition of Spanish Conquistadors and their Nahua-speaking allies from neighboring city-states. Weakened by starvation and smallpox, the surviving Mexica were at the mercy of their conquerors’ insatiable lust for gold. 

Emmanuel Leutze

In a Pochteca Guild Hall, three merchants were confined to a storeroom amid sacks of cocoa beans and bolts of cotton cloth - the majority of the Guild’s liquid wealth, which the Spaniards had no interest in.

• Jumping Spider, Merchant and luxury goods trader 
• Two Legs, Merchant and spy
• Yellow Thorn, Merchant and far-traveler

Their hands were tied and they only had a moment to contemplate what they would do next, before a group of hairy men from the other side of the world hustled them out into the banquet hall.

A Bed of Roses Masterpost

Roberto Cueva Del Río

 
The year is 1521. The place is Tenochtitlan, heart of the Aztec Empire. The island-city has just been conquered following a ninety day siege by a coalition of Spanish Conquistadores and their Nahua allies from neighboring city-states. Weakened by starvation and smallpox, the surviving Mexica are at the mercy of their conquerors’ insatiable lust for gold.

 

An Unknown Armies 3e scenario for up to four players.

 

A Bed of Roses: Music Post

Si Sheppard

City of the Inhumi is what convinced me to finish A Bed of Roses. It looked like a lot of hard work to write up tons of locations for the City of Tenochtitlan, but then I imagined the song playing as the players came out of the Guild Hall and saw the ruins, and decided to do it anyway.

Unknown Armies: A Bed of Roses Playtest Two

The year was 1521. The place was Tenochtitlan, head of the Triple Alliance of the Aztec Empire. The island-city had just been conquered following a ninety day siege by a coalition of Spanish Conquistadors and their Nahua-speaking allies from neighboring city-states. Weakened by starvation and smallpox, the surviving Mexica were at the mercy of their conquerors’ insatiable lust for gold.

 

Jason Field

 

In a Pochteca Guild Hall, four merchants were confined to a storeroom amid sacks of cocoa beans and bolts of cotton cloth - the majority of the Guild’s liquid wealth, which the Spaniards had no interest in.

• Bleeding Scorpion, Merchant and veteran knight
  
• Jumping Spider, Merchant and luxury goods trader
  
• Yellow Thorn, Merchant and far-traveler
  

Their hands were tied and they only had a moment to contemplate what they would do next, before a group of hairy men from the other side of the world hustled them out into the banquet hall.

A Bed of Roses - Favorite Foods

POCHTECA

Bleeding Scorpion - Roast bicep w chilies

Jumping Spider - Turkey tamale

Stone Hammer - Tlaxcalli (tortilla) w guacamole

Two Legs - Snow w honey

Yellow Thorn - Quail egg

 

ADVANCED PREGENS

Consecrated to He Who Lowers His Head - Pozole w manflesh

Pepper Knight - Spicy chocolate

Pierced By Thorns - Roasted pumpkin seeds

Smoking Lilly - Fresh pineapple

Toppled Cactus - Stewed tomato

Unknown Armies: A Bed of Roses Playtest One

The year was 1521. The place was Tenochtitlan, head of the Triple Alliance of the Aztec Empire. The island-city had just been conquered following a ninety day siege by a coalition of Spanish Conquistadors and their Nahua-speaking allies from neighboring city-states. Weakened by starvation and smallpox, the surviving Mexica were at the mercy of their conquerors’ insatiable lust for gold. 

 

William de Leftwich Dodge

 

In a Pochteca Guild Hall, four Aztecs were confined to a storeroom amid sacks of cocoa beans and bolts of cotton cloth - the majority of the Guild’s liquid wealth, which the Spaniards had no interest in.

• Consecrated to Father Death, Warrior and elderly Eagle Knight
  
• Jumping Spider, Merchant and luxury goods trader
  
• Pepper Knight, Capsaicinurge and mighty warrior prone to ignominious pratfalls
• Toppled Cactus, Fool and sideshow dwarf from the city's menagerie
  

Their hands were tied and they only had a moment to contemplate what they would do next, before a group of hairy men from the other side of the world hustled them out into the banquet hall.