Are you attending Gen Con 2009?

[Rel]

I think it's worth mentioning that I felt as Wombat and some others do for most of my gaming career. My thinking was, "Why would I want to go and game with people I don't know and I'm not friends with when I could be home gaming with people I DO know and I AM friends with?"

That all changed after a couple years of being an ENWorlder. I had "met" many people online that I really liked, would enjoy meeting in person, and would love the opportunity to game with. GenCon seemed the natural place to do so and I started going. What is stunning to me is how nearly universal the awesomeness of the ENW/CM crowd is. Incredibly fun people who are a delight to hang out with and run some amazing games.

These folks have been such a positive impact on my life and that of my family that we spent eleven days at the beginning of this month driving up the east coast and visiting DC, NY and Boston. ALL of the people we stayed with were ones who I met online through ENWorld and met in person for the first time at GenCon.

I'm not saying that you're wrong not to want to go. Only that I shared that perspective for a long, long time and now I wish I'd started going years earlier than I eventually did.

 

[Rokes]

For what it's worth, my first Gen Con was in 2007 and I managed to convince my wife to go with me. She had never played D&D, and had played (and liked) Carcassonne and Setters of Catan a couple of times. She was skeptical, but after the event, was begging to go again.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I assume you're not just bragging about how you won the costume contest?

No, no. I was thin and I had hair. Time (and cheese) are evil, evil bitches.

 

[Mark]

No, no. I was thin and I had hair. Time (and cheese) are evil, evil bitches.

Time, maybe. But you say anything more about cheese being evil and you and I are going to have words . . . and pizza.

 

[Rokes]

Time, maybe. But you say anything more about cheese being evil and you and I are going to have words . . . and pizza.

Mmmm... cheese...

 

[Jeff Wilder]

Time, maybe. But you say anything more about cheese being evil and you and I are going to have words . . . and pizza.

Look, man, just because cheese is evil, doesn't mean it's not hot, and bubbly, and delicious. So, so delicious. Kinda like Bellatrix Lestrange.

 

[Herschel]

Oooo, Helena Bonham Carter covered with cheese...........

"I'm your Mr. Owl."

 

[Lanefan]

Oooo, Helena Bonham Carter covered with cheese...........

But can we convince her to go to GenCon, is the question...

Lan-"am I DMing a cheese fight on the 12th, then?"-efan

 

[CharlesRyan]

Hell yes. This is going to be my 20th GenCon in a row and only a force of nature could keep me away.

My first reaction was "Wow, Chris, 20 years???" My second reaction was "Now that I think of it, this will be 18 years for me. . . ."

I'll be there!

 

[diaglo]

this is my ... 4th out of the last 7.

i have gaps in my attendance from the 80s thru present. 6th out the last 25