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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 5536092" data-attributes="member: 2795">I don't hit as many cons as I used to, so I've not bumped into problem con-goers that much recently. IME, however, those folks are the lesser issue when compared to poorly run cons. Of course, I have rather thick skin combined with a paradoxical ability to put up with a lot of nonsense while at the same time not being unable to tell obnoxious people to knock it off.It also perhaps helps I have <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/loss-of-smell/MY00408" target="_blank">anosmia</a>. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />These things bug me much more than obnoxious con-goers. It was several years ago that these thing happened: con organizers were wrong about the airport hotel validating parking for attendees (which we found out after paying double-digit dollars for parking) and the GMs for two out of three events we signed up for were no-shows. I volunteered at the last minute to run the second event, and we just left when we found out about the third one. We also walked out of a very poorly managed demo game run by Gary Gygax. All in all, a tremendously disappointing con.Around that same time, a smaller con at San Jacinto consistently screwed up slots for scheduled games. Every game I'd signed up for was over-booked. At one event, we had nearly twice as many players as their were pre-gen PCs. A con rep said it would be a good idea to roll d20s to eliminate people until only the proper number remained. No one quite knew what to do about my refusal to accept this compromise."You all roll. I signed up in the top six, and I'm not leaving the table until the game is over.""But, um, that's not fair. Rolling dice is fair.""No, people getting shafted because someone let ten people sign up for a six-player event is the a screw up, and I don't feel like paying for both convention attendance and for someone else's screw up."I got to play, but also got a rather humorous amount of dirty looks from people for the rest of the day.</blockquote>

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