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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trevalon Moonleirion" data-source="post: 303796" data-attributes="member: 492">Wow.  That's quite simply the only word that I can ever use to describe GenCon and this year was no different.  I'll just post me entire GenCon story just because I can... <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=":)" />My mother took myself, Fayredeth (Ed), Nathan, and Sticks (really his name is darren...but we'll just call him sticks) up there this year.  We loaded up the car, wielding our 64 oz. Mountain Dew mugs and set off on our adventure at about 3:30. Game Ho!So we got up to Milwaukee, settled into our rooms--rooms at the Hilton somehow got just last week--I think my mom offed someone to get those rooms--ate, and then headed off on our merry way over to the convention center.  Nathan and Sticks went off on their own to watch some anime while Fayredeth and I stayed on to watch the ENnies and meet everyone afterwards.  The gathering afterward, like the one last year, was great since I was able to put faces to names and just in general chat about D&D.  And of course, it was very cool to meet Morrus, even though I basically just shook his hand before the gathering just dispersed.  I did feel sorry for poor Mrs. Noah though--she got trapped in a conversation with Fayredeth and I for quite a while <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  And of course, any chance to say "hey" to Piratecat, Mr. 18 Charisma himself, or Eric, is an honor! I had wanted to wear the costumes to the ENnies, but no one else wanted to...Saturday morning at 8 a.m. was our only event--the D&D Open.  A late start and a forgotten badge later, the 3 of the group that actually made it to the event and played in it--Nathan, Sticks, and I--finished it in roughly two hours. Our judge used candy for the monsters, so I got a light breakfast of cherry twizzlers and M&Ms, too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> For the first time ever, a table I was at advanced to the next round.  Now THAT was just crazy! We didn't realize we advanced until after about 6 straight hours in the exhibit hall.  I was really excited to see us advance, but the offer of a very nice dinner made by my mom sounded a bit better than playing again, so we didn't make it.  If any of my tablemates from 712 reads this, i'm sorry for ditchign the second round!The exhibit hall was fun, the first purchase were some nifty foam weapons to complete our costumes, and then just went on from there.  Here was my completed shopping list:E-ToolsAnother Midnight Syndicate CDA sturdy case for my minisI also just had to pick up City of the Spider Queen because it looks so good.  Sure my oldest party is 12th or 13th level, but there's only two of them...oh hell...they have followers now.  Ye gods I hate the leadership feat...lol. But I digress....After the nice dinner, we suited back up into costume and ran amok in the convention hall.  We started a veritable Fight Club down near the main enterance with our foam weapons.  People gathered to watch, then joined in, left, came back for more...Och! Twas glorious!  Things got a little bit too wild for our taste after quite awhile of battling, so we collected up our weapons and got the hell out of Dodge, then roamed the hall more.  The night ended with a battle with just the four of us outside in the open--we had quite an audience there.  I have a feeling that my friends and I are really going to get into this foam fighting thing now.In summary, GenCon was as always a wonderful weekend--though it was far too short.  I'm quite excited about next year--my friends and I will be going down for the full four days, and I DEFINATELY want to try my hand at judging.  Hell maybe I could go to Winter Fantasy and do some judging...I hope everyone had as much fun if not more fun that we all did!</blockquote>

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