Mayhem Convention - April 2023 - Preparations

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 Mayhem Convention: April 21 to 23, 2023

 

The game I am running for Mayhem is called The One Who Possesses The Cosmic Cube.  Nothing like a short title for a game.  It is based on the Tales of Suspense story, He Who Holds The Cosmic Cube, from way back in 1966.  


Things have been busy getting ready for the game.  My original intent was to run a game based on the MCU move Avengers: Infinity War.  I was going to use the ending battle in Wakanda as the basis for the game.  Until I realized that would have probably been extremely boring.  I figured fighting on the side of Thanos, really would not be too exciting, so the thought was that everyone would be playing on the same side, and fighting against the hordes of enemies.  Anyway, I eliminated that idea, and went with this.  

Since my idea changed, I ended up having to get a lot of figures and had to work getting them ready.  Basically they are Heroclix figures reworked.  Some have more repainting work than others.  Hopefully people like them.   

I created a trailer for the game.  Technically I created two versions.  One that is about sixteen minutes long, and one about five minutes. 

 


The basic idea is to set up what is taking place in the game so the players have an idea of the "bigger story". 


 



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