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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 3715401" data-attributes="member: 99">Sounds like your GenCon was a mixed bag at best.  And here I am saying that it was the Best GenCon EVER.  The difference that I can see is that where you mostly signed up for official events and had one "side game", I ONLY had side games that were organized here in the GenCon Pickup Game forum.  Every game I was in ROCKED.To me there is no point in scheduling games that might happen, that might run as long as they are supposed to, might have good players, might have decent GM and might be fun when I can play games with people I see here at ENWorld every day.  The people from ENW are going to know that you are not just some nameless Generic Ticket jumping in their game so they can get a free badge for GMing.  They know they're going to see you back on the boards next week and that you'll talk about how good or not good your experience gaming with them was.  So they're going to work at making it be as good as possible and I've found the quality of those games to be almost universally high.YMMV but that's the way I've done it every year I've gone to GenCon and I've had so much fun that I'm already planning next year's trip.</blockquote>