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Just a small nitpick, but WOTC has never ran the games at Cons. It's always been Baldman. That hasn't changed ever. WOTC donated some decorations to them to make the area look nice and they'd sometimes support them by posting the list of games on their own website to get people hyped about...

I can't speak for them, but I think WOTC feels that Baldman Games already is their "official" presence at GenCon and that people come to GenCon just to play games. They buy all their books and stuff at their local gaming store instead. So, having a place to play adventures all weekend is...

The only D&D games being run at GenCon are Adventurer's League games. In Adventurer's League you need to use AL characters. Which is fine because 1st level AL characters are simply ANY character you create using the PHB. The problem is that the rules are that you can't start above 1st level...

I can tell you from experience that every panel WOTC has ever run at GenCon has been completely sold out. People went to them. But they always schedule them in extremely small rooms. Most of the people who manage to get in are Bloggers/Game Journalists and the contents of the panels are them...

From what I can tell is that the issues that happened this year are 3 fold and compounded on one another: 1. WOTC didn't bring any monetary support this year at all. Last year they didn't have a booth(except for a small one selling T-shirts and novels inside the D&D gaming area) but they...

Oh...I agree. So does the player involved. But my roommate was DMing and whenever the rules are "unclear" then the DM can make a ruling. He felt the rules didn't specify. He agrees that the Darkness spell creates magical darkness because it says so. I don't actually know what spell they...

The only real data I can contribute to this thread is that as a Triad member during Living Greyhawk I estimated the number of LG players in our region (Ket) at about 500. That was for Eastern Canada minus Quebec. We were definitely one of the smaller regions. If I was to guess randomly right...

I figured I'd give people who are interested a little bit of an update. Our Tuesday OP game appears to be going back to normal. I'm still not running any games for the player in question. It's been working out well. On the other hand, we started a new home game campaign on Sunday...we...

I try not to involve myself too much unless the problem gets extremely out of hand. There will always be issues between the players at the table. See my post immediately above this one for some examples. The gf in question also plays a cleric who refuses to heal people who are unconscious...

I agree. The problem is that there's definitely a spectrum of players and some are only mild and some are off the deep end. Take some my current group of OP players that come on Tuesday: 1. My Roommate - He is a rules lawyer to the nth degree. He likes to push rules to the breaking point if...

In the adventure, there is a section that says that any of the 3 faction leaders should be able to provide the PCs with the information and history of the Bhaalspawn so I explained it to the players so they weren't confused as to why the Duke of the city suddenly turned into a monster. I've run...

I can see that. When D&D revolves around an "event" like the upcoming storyline that has tie ins with Legends of the Sword Coast, Neverwinter, Adventurer's League, and Out of the Abyss, it allows you to issue a press release about the "big" upcoming event and how people can participate in...

Indirectly, yes. Most of the adventures tend to give magic items for story rewards. Which means things like "Deal peacefully with the elves". If you succeed in befriending the elves that show up in the adventure, they give you a magic item at the end of the adventure when you defeat the Big...

I'm not entirely sure about this one. I've also met quite a few players over the years in Organized Play. Most D&D players ARE fine, I agree, but there are quite a few bad apples as well. Especially in OP where just being slightly annoying isn't against any rules and therefore the DM has to...

I agree. Though there isn't much I can do about it. And she'll say it's the exact opposite. She'll tell you that she wears the pants in the relationship and her bf will do anything she tells him to. But that isn't true at all. She's wanted to come to GenCon with us for years but he kept...

I understand where you are coming from and I REALLY considered it. But I wasn't just making a decision for me. My roommate looks forward to playing this game every week since he joined a short while ago. He's an interesting case himself, but he doesn't have a job or a car and he doesn't much...

I'm in agreement. I expected that we'd been friends for so many years that she would say "Alright, we're dating now, you have to stop insulting him. I like him and it's annoying." but I didn't expect her to go "Oh, and I told him everything you said because we were talking about it one day."...

I enjoy gaming most for the story and the chatter around the table. To me, it's always been like watching a movie with a bunch of friends and making mocking comments throughout the whole thing. Sometimes we get to make some decisions to steer the direction of the story and sometimes we get to...

I admit that patience is NOT my strong point. It's my major flaw. I have no patience for almost anything. I'm in IT and right now I work on a Service Desk. I spend all day long listening to people tell me "My computer doesn't work! I click on the button and nothing happens!" only to find...

I think he's kinda dumb. I wouldn't shed any tears if things happened and they broke up so that I could still be friends with his girlfriend and our other mutual friends without likely seeing him again. The problem is that they run board game nights on a fairly regular basis which I try to...