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Third Novacon convention
attracts more game playei
By Deborah L. West
Reporter
Attendance was up for this week
end’s third annual Novacon war-
gamers’ convention and the partici
pants say the real heat of battle
didn’t begin until after the orga
nized gaming was over. In fact,
many warriors didn’t surrender
their fantasies until the wee hours of
the morning.
“Novacon is really a dress re
hearsal for our big spring conven
tion, Warcon,” Daralyn Wallace, ad
viser for the MSC NOVA
committee, said. “The spring con
vention is probably the largest and
longest-running gaming convention
in the country.” The 14th statewide
convention will attract about 400
people, she said.
From Friday afternoon to Sunday
morning about 65 people played war
games, while committee members
overseeing the convention commu
nicated by two-way radio. About 20
more people played this time com
pared to last year, said Tim Gray, a
junior computer science major and
NOVA member.
“After the organized stuff, the
real fun begins,” Gray said. “Most
people make up their own fantasy
role-playing games. Real wargamers
understand.”
Many participants were doing bat
tle with Fictional characters until 2
a.m. on both Saturday and Sunday,
said Robert Sanford, vice chairman
of convention registration.
Wallace said, “We have everything
from medieval to modern warfare
games.” One of the more popular
medieval games, advanced Dun
geons and Dragons, is a fantasy role-
playing game loosely based on J.R.R.
Tolkien’s books. People have been
playing Dungeons and Dragons for
at least 15 years, she said.
Wallace said fantasy-oriented
games can help teach people to
think.
“There is a definite logic to them,
and to win you have to stay on your
toes,” she said.
Starfleet Battle, Harpoon and
Squad Leaders are popular games at
NOVA conventions, Sanford said.
Starfleet Battle is based on Gene
Roddenberry’s “Star Trek” tele-
al
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vision series. Harpoon is a modern
naval warfare game and Squad
Leaders is a World War II game.
Charles Reyes, chairman of the
MSC Cepheid Variable said another
fantasy role-playing game in which
people pretend to be comic-book
heroes is fun. “Champions is a
happy game,” he said.
Screenings of Japanese cartoons
were popular at the convention,
Wallace said. “The Japanese are very
good at animation and there are a
few English subtitles,” Wallace said.
NOVA sells space to vendors that
wish to sell souvenirs in their “deal
er’s room,” Wallace said. Vendors
sell games, classic and current comic
books, character miniatures and art.
Andy Hunter, a junior at A&M
Consolidated High School, drew
Dungeons and Dragons character
portraits for $5. Hunter created
images from the unique qualities and
features of the participants’ game
characters.
Novacon made more money this
year than members thought it
would, Gray said. AH money earned
will pay committee expenses, he
said.
Novacon should be called
caine,” because it’s the quid
painless convention, Walkeaii
is a small convention that ii"’
planned and executed in a
“NOVA is basically a breaks
committee,” Wallace said. “Wt
interested in student develoj
“The students learn a lot
they run a convention
sponsibility.”
NOVA was called Gromets*
it was a part of the MSC R«K Jt
committee.
“It came into its ownatotf 1
years ago,” Wallace said. "Betas
only costs $4 a year, it is a re
cheap commitee to join.”
Every weekend NOVA
games in the MSC for all studei
They also have teaching sessions 1
tournaments, Wallace said
The people in NOVA are
live, Wallace said. Members of
committee often make up their 11
f rames, she said. “Nuclear'lout
y” was made up by one of the®
bers and often is played j®
weekend gaming sessions,
said.
Officials deny claims of unethical condu
CORSICANA (AP) — Three top
city officials said there was nothing
illegal or unethical about their week-
long Wyoming hunting trip hosted
by an engineering firm that oversees
the city’s two largest construction
projects.
City Manager Craig Lonon,
Mayor Jim Gill and City Commis
sioner Patrick Sherman traveled to
the Medicine Bow Lodge near Sara
toga, Wyo., for the trip last month
that was hosted by Knowlton-En-
glish-Flowers Inc., a Bedford firm,
the Corsicana Daily Sun reported on
Sunday.
The firm is the consultant on a $4
million water-intake and pump sta
tion that recently was completed and
on a $1.3 million project at a water-
treatment facility.
Bill Flowers, a partner in the firm,
said his company’s attorneys deter
mined it was not illegal to offer the
trip. The firm has been taking city
officials to the combination hunting
trip-seminar for about 10 years, he
said.
tended in the past, Flowers
Flowers said seminar par#
were treated to hunting, ft
sightseeing when they
viewing videotapes about th cC0C
ting firm. He said the c ()l f
showed about four hours of
tapes when participants were 1
or standing around discussing
Gill, Sherman, Lonon and city en
gineer Gary Anderson have at-
“I have never cast a
would have allowed the coi#
make a nickel,” Gill said.
didn’t cost the city a dime and "'
a lot out of it because of the® l£
tion with other city officials
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