One of my ambitions in gaming this year is to facilitate a 3 - 4 session game of Covenant. All the games I've been involved in have been one shots and, while enjoyable, I really want to see what the game is like over a longer period of play. My thoughts are that it will really, really shine.

Luckily enough, our Thursday night gaming group plumped for Covenant when it came to chosing a game to be played over a few sessions. The game will be played once every two weeks, with one shots of other games in between.

So Covenant by Matt Machell is one of those games I have a real bee in my bonnet about. Not in the sense that I think it's bad. Quite the opposite. It's a wonderful game. The bee is buzzing because I want to see more people play an enjoy it, yet it remains a little known treasure. Bad mixing of metaphors notwithstanding, it was with great delight that I took the opportunity to give Covenant a whirl when is was demanded at Games on Demand at KapCon 2009.

2009 saw the second year of the Games on Demand room (or, rooms, this time round) at KapCon. Our facilitating team from last year was boosted by the addition of Simon Carryer and Gregor Hutton. This meant that, overall, we had seven people able to facilitate and talk about games. It gave a lot more latitude if people wanted to take a session or two off, play in games, run to get coffee etc.

I was reading Andrew's figures and realised I hadn't posted anything since 2006. So here's all of 2007 for Covenant.

IPR 32
Cons 20
Direct to retail 8
Lulu 2

So a total of 62 for a 2nd year product. No surprises, IPR and Cons are the heavy hitters.

-Matt