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Message: <blockquote data-quote="simmo" data-source="post: 1036885" data-attributes="member: 9744">It was my first GenCon in the US this year and I had a thoroughly good time, despite the fact that my body refused to adjust to its new time-zone. I kept a fairly detailed diary of my time at GenCon, photos may be added later.Thursday: - pick up EN World T-Shirts for Randomling and Tallarn, as well as EN World Player Journals (signed by HellHound)- pick up 7th Sea / Swashbuckling Adventure supplement "Swashbuckling Arcana" for DM in the UK who writes for AEG (signed by Product Manager)- DM a pickup game in room #140, module: "The Love of Art: Drawn to Gehenna" from EnkWell Press (available at DireKobold.com). PCs included: Brannon Hollingsworth, Brannon Hall, Rich Franks (Francisca), Nathan Letsinger, Joshua Knipp and Frederick York. Fun session, hope you all enjoyed it too.Friday:- hang out at Bastion booth for awhile, eventually buy 3 Oathbound book deal and ask Jim Butler and Ashy to sign them- sit through demo of Twin Rose software, wanted to buy it right there but decided sleep on it- WotC seminar "WotC New Campaign Seminar", missed the beginning of the seminar but it was interesting listening to how and why the setting was selected from 11000 entries- another seminar "Art of Tony DiTerlizzi", first came across him in Planescape art and have been in love with his work ever since. Decided not to visit the art gallery until end of the Con as I would probably spend all my money on buying some original artwork- finish the day off with another seminar "Write for Dungeon Magazine", interesting to see what goes in to making a good adventure: 1) villian 2) agenda 3) lair 4) lackeys 5) dungeon logic. Oops, I hope that was not a secret formula <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />- Ennies! I have to agree with everyone that "That Guy" was hilarious, he deserved an award for his acceptance speeches. - that was me! Don't worry though, I forgot your name as well <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Saturday:- DM a registered game (Planescape), gave PCs choice of adventures and characters; either "The Love of Art: Drawn to Gehenna" by EnkWell Press or "Returning to the Planes" by Ken Marable. They chose the former. Had lots of fun at the end of the adventure when the NPC tried kill off the party with the help of one of the PCs.- went to costume competition with Corthian, had lots of fun cheering for the incredible dancing gelflings! I would have cheered louder, but being british - it's just not the done thing <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I'm still trying to figure out why the 'dark fey' won, gelflings were much better- seminar time again: "Planescape" hosted by Ken Marable. Interesting discussion on the state of Planewalker.com and the future of the PS fan community- hang out briefly in Canadia before sleep-walking to room and crashingSunday:- finally buy Twin Rose software- spend remainder of Con money on 2 peices of Planescape art by Tony DiTerlizzi- final seminar of the Con: "Are Fairies Real?" by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. Amusing stories about encounters with fairies.- drop off art at hotel room, get distracted by reading Oathbound for a few hours and forgot where Clay's party was at, sorry <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=":(" />Monday:- fly back to the UK, where it is Tuesday already.- start saving up for next year's GenCon as well as writing Planescape adventure for Dragonmeet (1-day Con on 1st December in London).Enworlders were very friendly and next time I plan to get really drunnk on my first night to get over the jetlag. Until next year,Simson</blockquote>

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