GenCon 2004 Memories

[The_Universe]

Cool.
I had a great time also.
My wife (Penguin Wizard (brand new to ENWorld)) & I started off Thursday with a two-hour stint at the EN Booth. It was cool and started off with meeting RangerWickett (whom I ran into several times over 3 days).
Jaldeen (Joseph Miller) is very nice and gave us some cool swag for working (including Hammer & Helm). Thanks to the publishers whom donated to the volunteers.
We met several members there including Spoonybard, Teflon Billy, Hellhound, Crothian (whose knuckles are NOT huge from overuse) among others whom I am blanking on.
We went to the dealers hall for a bit just to look around and buy some dice and visit Paladin and Paladinwife at The Gamer's Bag Booth. Then off to Epic Party where the swag was cool and so were the people. Thank WOTC for all the cool stuff.
Friday we set out to do all the WOTC demos so we could roll the big die for prizes. Just for the record Heroscape ROCKS !!!!. The dungeondelve was fun and the d&d minis game was cool. RangerWickett was our demonstrator for the Starwars minis demo (must resist already addicted to the d&d ones).
The card games demos were ok but I did not like the baseball game one. The starwars tcg demo was cool cause you got a starter set for doing it.
We did lunch at the RAM (anyone else get that giant Strahd burger?) then did more demos.
The ENnies were good. I sat with War Golem during the show.
Saturday we wrapped up our demos and rolled the die. We both won GOL minis and walked around some more before wrapping up and coming home Saturday evening.
For the record one of my highlights was WINNING a World's Largest Dungeon (It is cool) from Piazo in a drawing. I also bought some Tact-Tiles based on fellow ENWorlder's recommedations and they rock. Can't wait for next year

Where did you find Tac-Tiles? I was looking for them for the whole time! YArgh!

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

That's no booth-babe! (not in the traditional "we hired someone cute" sense.) She's a member just like anyone else around here, which is kind of cool.

Hehehehehe... Yes, she is very pretty... also, Archon's girlfriend! *cue Saved By the Bell OoooOOooo!*



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Favorite things:

1. I've never done any cosplay... but, on Thursday, I spent what seemed like millions gathering everything I needed to be a fabulous medieval babe... and had a WONDERFUL time doing it!
It was a bit out of my particular comfort zone for a bit... the first couple of guys that asked to take pictures kind of freaked me out... but, after the first hour or so, I just started having SO much fun.

2. True Dungeon rocked my head off... AND I survived!! WHOOOO!

3. David X. Cohen at the Celebrity Sem-- he's SO cute!

4. Meeting fellow ENworlders!

Leave Favorite Things:

1. Lack of sleep

2. Not have a hotel connected to the Convention Center... wouldn't have been so bad had I remembered my umbrella!

 

[Teflon Billy]

I know who you must mean, and yes, she would. I told her she was the EN Booth Babe. (You know who you are.) She's a sweetie too.

I know who you mean.

She is startlingly pretty.

Having seen the "pander-storm" created by an average looking woman like Dragongirl, I think this girl would own the boards inside of a month if she tarted it up.

 

[Teflon Billy]

...it's sometimes eerie to me to be treated as a semi-celebrity. The didn't get our printed badges so we had handwritten badges in huge black ink letters, announcing my presence to all. While walking past the Steve Jackson booth, I heard a cry of "It's Alan Kohler!" I go over there, and it was Ken Hite!

Apparently I am to the rank-and-file what you are to the publishers.

On three seperate occasions I was asked for an autograph (once in an autograph book--I noticed I came right after Gil Gerard--and twice on programs).

Baffling.

 

[KB9JMQ]

Where did you find Tac-Tiles? I was looking for them for the whole time! YArgh!

Booth 843. They weren't there until late Friday and they had no signs. I just stopped to look at something else and saw them just sitting there.

 

[The_Universe]

Booth 843. They weren't there until late Friday and they had no signs. I just stopped to look at something else and saw them just sitting there.

Dangit all to crap!

 

[Teflon Billy]

Highlights

• Hanging out with friends I see entirely too infrequently. I was stunned when someone pointed out that I had to go to Indianapolis (6 billion miles away from Vancouver) to see my friends from Seattle (350 yards from Vancouver)
  
  
• All the Review copies! Thanks Publishers for your confidence. Reviews of the astonishgly good Authority and the "Right-up-my-alley" X-Crawl will be up shortly (got some reading done on the plane)
  
  
• Psion's Traveller game. We played my favorite kind of Traveller; "Bums-in-space-"anything for a buck". We spaced our own captain. We bribed pirates to kidnap someone for us. the whole thing was so Firefly it hurt.
  
  
• Meeting new friends. Stone Angel, Cthulu's Librarian and Jester 47 top this particular list.
  
  
• Little Canadia. I love the Parent/Robinson clan a little more every year. I shudder to think how much ass Jake and I are going to have to kick once Genevieve starts attracting boys at the Con.
  
  
• Two words: Strip. Bar. Ran into some of the same folks from last year there. We agreed to make it a yearly thing
  
  Alas. No Troll Lords

and the lowlights...

• Migraine: I was nursing pretty much from the time I hit Indianapolis til the time landed in Seattle. My meds kept it under control, but I felt like I was operating at 80-90% efficiency (at best).
  
  
• Making a total ass of myself in front of Steve Kenson, one of the few designers I was actually interested in meeting and talking to. Seems I was missing a pretty crucial piece of information. Aw well, not a Con-wrecker. I've done dumber things for more oblique reasons.
  
  
• True Hero the superhero version of True Dungeon. Stupid and aggravating almost beyond belief. Due to a combination of poor design on their part, bad luck on my part, and total non-enthusiasm on the part of our "Watcher" (GM) I spent 20 bucks to take leisurly walk through some tents.
  
  
  Worst experience of the con. Why couldn't I have insulted these guys instead of Kenson? :\

I can safely say that this was not just my best Gen Con experience, but my best Con experience of any kind. I'm not sure what was clicking so well this year, but everything rocked

 

[Psion]

Aw, c'mon, TB. It was just an accident of fate that I knew. I can't imagine he was offended.

I did think it was funny, though.

 

[Archon]

I know who you mean.

She is startlingly pretty.

Having seen the "pander-storm" created by an average looking woman like Dragongirl, I think this girl would own the boards inside of a month if she tarted it up.

hehe, i hope she reads this. I've tried to tell her how beautiful she is but she thinks i'm exaggerating.

 

[JediSoth]

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• True Hero the superhero version of True Dungeon. Stupid and aggravating almost beyond belief. Due to a combination of poor design on their part, bad luck on my part, and total non-enthusiasm on the part of our "Watcher" (GM) I spent 20 bucks to take leisurly walk through some tents.
  
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who found True Heroes disappointing. I wasn't as disappointed as Teflon Billy, but enough so that I don't think it was worth $20, nor will I sign up for it next year. I was with a friend who got totally hosed in the last 10 rooms (he was playing rogue and got always got stunned in the first round of combat, thus leaving him to stand around the whole time doing nothing). At least as Nightcrawler, I got to practice my German accent.


JediSoth