EN World at Gen Con
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Tewligan
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Oof...just got back from GenCon a little while ago, and I am freakin' wiped out. It's gonna be good to sleep in my own bed again. Anyway, GenCon was great. I'm VERY glad I pre-registered, thus avoiding the hours-long line. I got to put faces to a few ENWorld names. Piratecat's GMing skills live up to the hype. I bought a lot of stuff. I played some games. I continually failed to win speed painting competitions. I ate more $2.50 hot dogs than I care to remember. I delighted my roommates with my apparently cataclysmic snoring. Alcohol is really damn expensive when purchased through hotel room service. PS O'Rourke's is a lovely bar. A small room packed with anime watchers can build up quite a funk pretty quickly. I'm looking forward to GenCon '04. I seriously need some sleep.
Creamsteak
Explorer
Where are the ennies results?
Psion
Adventurer
Crothian said:
Saturday Psion and I are hanging out at EN Publishing booth and a few people asked us that same question. We could only mention a few specifics other then Green Ronin and Monsternomicon did really well.
Yes, I was quite wracking my brain. I pretty much flushed all knowledge of the ennies after the awards. I finally gave up and went to play spycraft...
BOZ
Creature Cataloguer
Best GenCon evar! 
I first got to meet Scott Greene (aka Keeper of the Dark Realms) on Friday, and got him to sign my copy of the Tome of Horrors.
I wandered around the dealer hall for a bit, but didn’t run into anyone I knew. The ENnies were pretty interesting to watch, even though I hadn’t even heard of most of the books up for nomination (hey, you learn something new every day!) After the awards, there was a gathering of ENWorld members, and I met a number of ENWorld members, including Barendd Nobeard, kkoie, Henry, Ashy, Eridanis, Dinkeldog (Yes, Yes fellas... I will do my level best to make the next Chicago gameday!), Psion/Sangrolu, jgbrowning and his wife, Piratecat, Buttercup, Morrus, and even Eric Noah himself (please forgive me if I forgot to mention you!). A lot of us went out to a local bar for drinks, and I saw Scott there again with most of the Necromancer Games crew. Erica (DnDChick) was wedged into the back of their booth, so all I could do was wave to her. 
Saturday was fun again, as I tried out Silver Age Sentinels, and a board game called Zombies. Wandering the dealer floor again, I found Hellhound by the ENWorld booth, and met Leopold and Limper just outside of it, and RangerWickett while signing up for the events I played in. After all of that, I met up with some fellas from Nutkinland to play Call of Cthulhu (yet another game I was trying for the first time!), GMed by Keeper of Secrets, and fellow players including Leopold, Limper, Coik, sotmh, and Carrot.
Sunday, unfortunately, was uneventful. The CoC game ran until about 4AM, so I didn’t wake up until after noon. We left the house I was staying at very late, went looking for Clay’s (aka alsih2o or Muddauber) party, and couldn’t find the bar so we just went on home to Chicago.
And I dragged my poor fiancée with me through all of that. But bless her heart, she had a good time!
Next year we really need to coordinate some more gatherings of people, as well as some game sessions, because that was really fun!
I first got to meet Scott Greene (aka Keeper of the Dark Realms) on Friday, and got him to sign my copy of the Tome of Horrors.
I wandered around the dealer hall for a bit, but didn’t run into anyone I knew. The ENnies were pretty interesting to watch, even though I hadn’t even heard of most of the books up for nomination (hey, you learn something new every day!) After the awards, there was a gathering of ENWorld members, and I met a number of ENWorld members, including Barendd Nobeard, kkoie, Henry, Ashy, Eridanis, Dinkeldog (Yes, Yes fellas... I will do my level best to make the next Chicago gameday!), Psion/Sangrolu, jgbrowning and his wife, Piratecat, Buttercup, Morrus, and even Eric Noah himself (please forgive me if I forgot to mention you!). A lot of us went out to a local bar for drinks, and I saw Scott there again with most of the Necromancer Games crew. Erica (DnDChick) was wedged into the back of their booth, so all I could do was wave to her. Saturday was fun again, as I tried out Silver Age Sentinels, and a board game called Zombies. Wandering the dealer floor again, I found Hellhound by the ENWorld booth, and met Leopold and Limper just outside of it, and RangerWickett while signing up for the events I played in. After all of that, I met up with some fellas from Nutkinland to play Call of Cthulhu (yet another game I was trying for the first time!), GMed by Keeper of Secrets, and fellow players including Leopold, Limper, Coik, sotmh, and Carrot.
Sunday, unfortunately, was uneventful. The CoC game ran until about 4AM, so I didn’t wake up until after noon. We left the house I was staying at very late, went looking for Clay’s (aka alsih2o or Muddauber) party, and couldn’t find the bar so we just went on home to Chicago.
And I dragged my poor fiancée with me through all of that. But bless her heart, she had a good time!
Next year we really need to coordinate some more gatherings of people, as well as some game sessions, because that was really fun!
