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<blockquote data-quote="Derfel" data-source="post: 2509894" data-attributes="member: 1047"><p><u>Good</u> </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">True Dungeon - While I was a bit lost at first, beating death and getting to the final room with only one other party member during the Hardcore challenge was a blast. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Brickquest - The joys of lego miniature combat</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Meeting Mike Mearls, Monte Cook and Steve Kenson all of whom were great people to finally meet.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Serenity and Angel GM. My GM for an amazing game of the Serenity RPG friday afternoon also ended up running me and a friend through a really great Angel RPG session late Friday night when I had no other games scheduled. Good times were had by all.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Getting to play Iron Heroes and Mutants and Masterminds 2nd edition. </li> </ul><p></p><p><u>Bad</u></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Customer Service lines on Wednesday were way too long. They really need a seperate line for event refunds as opposed to problems with missing badges or events. A friend and I had a bunch of extra tickets to refund since a couple other friends weren't able to attend with us and it took way too many hours.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bad Buffy GM - The GM for my Saturday morning Buffy RPG event was way too young and inexperienced and had no grasp of the rules. Her dad wasn't much better (not that she let him help much). That coupled with insane railroading (me - "I go into the cave" her - "No you don't") was a big let down. My Angel game later in the night (see above) more than made up for it though. At least it wasn't as bad as one player who got to do nothing for 3.5 hours of the 4 hour event. One of the organizers explanation? "Did Xander get to do something in every episode of Buffy?"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cancelled GenCon Play - Not only did I miss the play that my friends always tell me is a blast, but we only found out when we showed up and TCG games were still being run, which means we ended up having to scramble for an event that night. Nothing was posted anywhere about the cancellation and almost no one had useful info. </li> </ul><p></p><p><u>Ugly</u> </p><p>This was more funny than ugly. </p><p>* The guy who stopped me on the street as I was heading back to my hotel from the convention centre. </p><p>I quote </p><p></p><p>whew, pretty strange for a Saturday afternoon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Derfel, post: 2509894, member: 1047"] [U]Good[/U] [list] [*]True Dungeon - While I was a bit lost at first, beating death and getting to the final room with only one other party member during the Hardcore challenge was a blast. [*]Brickquest - The joys of lego miniature combat [*]Meeting Mike Mearls, Monte Cook and Steve Kenson all of whom were great people to finally meet. [*]Serenity and Angel GM. My GM for an amazing game of the Serenity RPG friday afternoon also ended up running me and a friend through a really great Angel RPG session late Friday night when I had no other games scheduled. Good times were had by all. [*]Getting to play Iron Heroes and Mutants and Masterminds 2nd edition. [/list] [U]Bad[/U] [list] [*]Customer Service lines on Wednesday were way too long. They really need a seperate line for event refunds as opposed to problems with missing badges or events. A friend and I had a bunch of extra tickets to refund since a couple other friends weren't able to attend with us and it took way too many hours. [*]Bad Buffy GM - The GM for my Saturday morning Buffy RPG event was way too young and inexperienced and had no grasp of the rules. Her dad wasn't much better (not that she let him help much). That coupled with insane railroading (me - "I go into the cave" her - "No you don't") was a big let down. My Angel game later in the night (see above) more than made up for it though. At least it wasn't as bad as one player who got to do nothing for 3.5 hours of the 4 hour event. One of the organizers explanation? "Did Xander get to do something in every episode of Buffy?" [*]Cancelled GenCon Play - Not only did I miss the play that my friends always tell me is a blast, but we only found out when we showed up and TCG games were still being run, which means we ended up having to scramble for an event that night. Nothing was posted anywhere about the cancellation and almost no one had useful info. [/list] [U]Ugly[/U] This was more funny than ugly. * The guy who stopped me on the street as I was heading back to my hotel from the convention centre. I quote whew, pretty strange for a Saturday afternoon. [/QUOTE]
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