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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9567769" data-attributes="member: 8461">Getting tickets to play a D&D game shouldn't be too hard; there are a lot of games run at the convention, so if you're not concerned with playing something official but with simply signing up for a game that someone's running, you should have plenty of opportunities.As for where to stay, I'll first note that you'll want to try for a room via the Gen Con housing portal. Virtually all of the hotels within several miles of the convention center pre-book pretty much all of their rooms for the dates when Gen Con takes place, in anticipation of them being registered only via Gen Con's housing portal. Trying to find a nearby hotel that can be booked directly for the dates of the convention is typically an exercise in futility.In order to use Gen Con's housing portal, you'll need to have a badge for the convention first; without one, you can't reserve a hotel room in the first place. Note that even with a badge, the hotel rooms go fast once they open. Moreover, the initial opening (i.e. when the housing portal goes live), in order to avoid being overwhelmed by people who've already bought badges, randomly distributes access times via a lottery. So even if you registered for a badge in advance, you might find yourself (on the day the housing portal opens) having to wait several hours before you can even try to reserve a hotel room, at which point all of the good ones are gone."The good ones" in this case refers to the hotels closest to the convention center (some are even connected to it via skywalk). Once you log into the housing portal, make sure to search for hotels via their distance from the convention center (you can set this in one of the drop-downs on the search page). Those are the ones my friends and I try for every year; you'll want to take a page out of our book and make sure that everyone who's going with you has registered for a badge ahead of time, so that you can each receive an access time for the housing portal lottery. In my experience, the closest hotel rooms tend to be gone within an hour of the housing portal opening.</blockquote>

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