{"id":5104,"date":"2019-05-02T13:15:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T20:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2019-05-02T13:15:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T20:15:41","slug":"only-good-bug-take-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/only-good-bug-take-two\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Good Bug&#8230; Take Two!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post for anyone making it to <strong>Gamex 2019<\/strong> (Los Angeles, May 24-27) in a few weeks, I&#8217;ll be GMing the &#8220;Starship Troopers&#8221; game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/the-only-good-bug\/\">I was going to run<\/a> at Orccon 2019 on Friday 2pm-6pm, Saturday 2pm-6pm, and Sunday 9am-1pm. Hope you can make it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategicon.net\/?event-reg\/\">Pre-register here<\/a> (starting this Saturday, May 4th, at noon PST). As of writing I don&#8217;t see them on the site yet, but I submitted them last Sunday so they should be popping up any time!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Only Good Bug&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>As Mobile Infantry, your power armor bristles with high-tech ordnance, composite armor, strength enhancement, and more. It is the pinnacle of the Terran Federation&#8217;s military might, transforming you and your fellow troopers into humanity&#8217;s greatest defense against the Bugs.<\/p>\n<p>Will it be enough?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* Absolutely no GURPS experience required! Come and enjoy. *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/starship-troopers-cover-cropped.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4963\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/starship-troopers-cover-cropped-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/starship-troopers-cover-cropped-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/starship-troopers-cover-cropped-146x150.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/starship-troopers-cover-cropped.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Previous Convention\/One-Shot Games<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Unable to attend<\/em> (Gateway 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Gamex 2018)<\/li>\n<li><em>Unable to attend<\/em> (Orccon 2018)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/hell-to-pay-actual-play\/\">Hell to Pay<\/a> (Online via Fantasy Grounds, 10\/21\/2017)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/house-stark-post-con-wrap-up\/\">In Defense of House Stark<\/a> (Gateway 2017)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/rescue-or-bug-hunt-part-1\/\">Rescue or Bug Hunt<\/a>? (Gamex 2017)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/hare-today-post-con-wrap-up\/\">Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow<\/a> (Orccon 2017)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/hell-on-wheels-post-con\/\">Hell on Wheels<\/a> (Gateway 2016)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/boogeyman-post-con-wrap-up\/\">Beware the Boogeyman<\/a> (Gamex 2016)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/locus-a-needle-in-infinite-haystacks\/\">Locus: A Needle in Infinite Haystacks<\/a> (Orccon 2016)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/creating-the-warriors-01\/\">The Warriors: Come Out to Pla-Ay<\/a> (Gateway 2015)<\/li>\n<li>Gatchaman: The Fall of Galactor? (Gamex 2015)<\/li>\n<li>The Treasure of Mordecai (OrcCon 2015)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?ddownload=2573\">Some Bunny Needs You<\/a> (Gateway 2014)<\/li>\n<li>The Vargon Trials (Gamex 2014)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/rpg\/specops\/\">Spec Ops: Operation Needle (OrcCon 2014)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/requiem-the-cartoon-finale\/\">GURPS Dungeon Fantasy: Requiem<\/a> (Gateway 2013)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/rpg\/cynosure\/\">Cynosure Romp: The Rescue of Grimjack (OrcCon 2013)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/rpg\/jem\/\">Jem: License to Kill (Gateway 2011)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"list\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/gurps\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1347 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gurplogo.jpg\" width=\"461\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gurplogo.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gurplogo-300x51.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post and others like it, might you consider the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/TheMookNet?ty=h\">Game Geekery Patreon<\/a><em>?<\/em><br \/>\n<!--Precis - Hope to see you at Gamex 2019 in Los Angeles! I'll be GMing a Starship Troopers game (using GURPS, of course) --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Just a quick post for anyone making it to Gamex 2019 (Los Angeles, May 24-27) in a few weeks, I&#8217;ll be GMing the &#8220;Starship Troopers&#8221; game I was going to run at Orccon 2019 on Friday 2pm-6pm, Saturday 2pm-6pm, and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/only-good-bug-take-two\/\" title=\"The Only Good Bug&#8230; Take Two!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,3,6],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-5104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions","category-gming","category-gurps","category-rpgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5108,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions\/5108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}