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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Walking Paradox" data-source="post: 5363825" data-attributes="member: 96011">I am making a general point here, but if you really want to know which con' it was most recently, it was <a href="http://www.fanexpocanada.com/genre/attraction/browse/5#attraction74" target="_blank">Fan Expo 2010 in Toronto</a>. I am writing about this to find out if anybody has a similar experience to mine. All of the things that I talked about in my OP happened that weekend. It's good to know that the player-to-DM ratio is so high in Northern California but surely you know that it isn't like that all over the place.FWIW, I was not an organizer of that event (more than 60K people showed up that weekend), just an attendee. There were a lot of RPG events scheduled for all kinds of RPGs that had to be cancelled because the players were being hijacked into participating in LFR events (or turned away utterly) because things that somebody at the sign-in table was telling them. I heard this person say "well, nobody's going to play in any of these games. Why don't you play in a game with a lot of players?" It's true, they did have a lot of players, sometimes 10-15 at a table; they easily could have done with 5-10 players and the other players could have played in one of the other events that instead got cancelled. A lot of non-LFR DMs and GMs were walking away with their tails between their legs because they had no players; and they probably spent a lot of time getting their games ready for this con. Do you think they will want to come and run a game next year after this?</blockquote>

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