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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Napftor" data-source="post: 1035872" data-attributes="member: 617">Well, I can say that my first GenCon was a great, and eye-opening, experience.  The ENnies were good fun but could we not clap after every friggin word?  My palms were starting to hurt.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Let's see...who did I meet...Wednesday: Arrived in the evening and met Hal and Doug at the MEG booth.  We eventually headed over to Champions at the Marriott to have dinner.  I ate with Hal, Jim Butler, Steve Creech, Kevin Ruesch, and even Denise and her gelflings joined us later on.Thursday: I think the first celebrity I met was Ed Greenwood.  While manning the MEG booth he came over and I got a picture of him for a friend that couldn't make it to the Con.  Ed's one great guy.  During the day I ran into (in no particular order): D. Chenault (Troll Lord), Joe Goodman (Goodman Games), Brannon "Ashy" Hollingsworth (Bastion/Enkwell), Brannon Hall (cool Bastion art dude), Larry Elmore (grabbed a bookmark and his "Twenty Years.." book), Margaret Weis & Jamie Chambers (Sov Stone--picked up the DL campaign setting and had it auto'd), Patrick Lawinger (a cool Necromancer Games writer), Monte Cook (picked up AU and got it signed), Eric L. Boyd (shook hands and told him he had a good last name), Ed Bourelle (cartography man extraordinaire), and I saw but didn't get to speak with Sam Witt at the booth.  Also the great MEG crew: Doug, Hal, Stefon & fiance, Charles, Curtis, Ken, Wade, Tammy, Becky, and Susannah!Friday: While touring I spoke with Rob Vaughn (FFG booth), James Bell (Fiery Dragon), saw Troy Denning but had nothing for him to autograph!, and Joe Carriker (SSS).  And I believe I bumped into Buttercup (nice young lady!) and Clay (enthusiastic Con-goer if ever there was one) today as well.  Saw Morrus and Eric Noah at the MEG booth but was not able to speak with them.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />ENNie: Sat with Brannon Hall, Ashy, and a bloody nice lurker from England whose name escapes me at the moment (sorry!).Saturday: Spoke with Greg Banage (FFG), Richard Knaaak (autographed his new DL minotaur novel), Chris Perkins (sold him a "Siege of Ebonring Keep" at the MEG booth--nice guy!), Matt Forbeck (a pleasure to encounter this great writer), Nicole Lindroos (a nicer woman you simply cannot find in publishing...aside from Sue Cook of course), James Lowder (saw at the booth but did not speak to), Chris Trossen (FFE editor/writer), and ENWorlders creamsteak, Teflon Billy, Quickbeam, and Henry!Sunday: Enjoyed a seminar with the Game Mechanics (Stan!, JD Wiker and a Matt XX (cannot remember last name--good men all), Joseph Miller (the now-very-famous Privateer/Mongoose freelancer from the ENnies), Chris Pramas (Green Ronin guru), Ken Marable (Bastion), Steve Kenson (autogrpahed my M&M, which can you believe I didn't own yet?!), Frank Parkinson, Frank Melka (Bastion), Thomas Reid (signed my "Forged" novel), smaugdragon (co-host of Mortality radio), Skip "Sage" Williams (spoke to him about his Annotated PH from FFE), Tim Brown (FFE editor), Jim Ward (FFE top-dog), Dave Arneson (D&D co-founder who signed my Goodman Games Dungeon Crawl Classics #3.5), and last but not least Mike Mearls (the seemingly omnipresent d20 scribe-extraordinaire).Whew!  I think that's everyone.  These great folks along with the massive amounts of swag/purchases I brought home made the Con a memory that will always be cherished.EDIT: Knew I'd forget someone...Robert Williams (a great guy, master of Gaming Frontiers), Jeff and Dawn Ibach (classy ENNie winners), Wil Upchurch, and Sue Cook (first-class in all respects)!</blockquote>

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