It Isn't Christmas Until Hans Gruber Falls from the Nakatomi Tower

 

After several weeks of real life interfering with gaming, including a couple of theatrical shows and some house work that deprived me of my game room, I’m finally getting back into things just in time for the run up to Historicon.  I plan on running two games at the convention. The first and smaller of the two is based on everyone's favorite Christmas movie and is called, “It Isn't Christmas Until Hans Gruber Falls from the Nakatomi Tower.” I'll be using a modified version of the Stargrave rules.

This was one of the cheapest convention games I’ve put together. Nakatomi Tower is made from a couple of old milk crates. The vehicles are all toys I picked up a various flee markets, most of the police and hostages are plastic HeroClicks that I picked up on discount. The convenience store was from a overstock sale by Miniature Building Authority and the diner is a plastic railroad model.  The most expensive thing were the specific character figures, old Rogue Miniatures now sold by Minifigs. The mat is from Cigar Box mats.

Nakatomi Tower, Century City, LA, circa 1988

The rooftop helipad with hostages arriving.

"Figure we take out the terrorists. Lose twenty, twenty-five percent of the hostages, tops."

"Looks Like we're going to need a couple more FBI guys."

"'Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs.'"

"I am an exceptional thief, Ms. Gennaro."

Since the convention now requires masks, I even picked up a themed face mask.