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Message: <blockquote data-quote="marimacc" data-source="post: 3341592" data-attributes="member: 21771">Woo hoo!  Well, welcome, you're going to have a great time!I'm one of the moderators over on the Gen Con forums, and I do recommend you consider swinging by there for information on Gen Con.  That's community.gencon.com. <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=":)" />I'm going to recommed you consider looking at this page; it sort of explains how event tickets and generic tickets work, which it something you may not be familiar with, having not attended Gen Con before:<a href="http://www.gencon.com/about.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.gencon.com/about.aspx</a>Event reg goes live May 7th; we should receive an online catalog about a week before that; though I'm sure people here, as they do on the Gen Con forums, will talk about and promote their events even earlier than that.  And check the Gen Con website as well, events will be announced there before the catalog comes out.There's going to be a wicked good Party in the Plaza this year, to celebrate Gen Con's 40th anniversary.  Historically that's been a large party open to all Gen Con attendees on Thursday night, though that hasn't been confirmed yet.There will be RPGA events; but there will also be many many RPG sessions for which you do not have to have an RPGA membership; I go so far as to say the majority of RPG events at Gen Con do not require RPGA membership.For your wife, I want to point out the SPA program, a program started last year, which is specifically directed to gamer spouses, but open to everyone, where we have events like cooking classes, knitting classes, last year we had karate and yoga classes, and I'm really hoping for a Kendo class this year  (and FYI, I'm helping coordinate those SPA events, if anyone has an idea for some event like that, please email me at <a href="mailto:marimacc@gmail.com">marimacc@gmail.com</a>.)I STRONGLY recommend you look at the website for True Dungeon, it's like no other event at any other con you've ever been to, and it would be pointless for me to even try to describe it, just watch their videos:<a href="http://www.truedungeon.com" target="_blank">www.truedungeon.com</a>All of the events you talked about doing will be at Gen Con, and in abundance.  Getting into a particular event depends on the event, and how popular it is.  True Dungeon will likely sell out.  Many painting seminars sell out very very quickly, some don't.  But for board games like Settlers, there will be plenty of games of that running at many times.  (I'd also like to personally recommend a variant run by Rogue Judges called "Vicelords of Catizzle").  Being flexible on times is the key to getting events that you want.  However, know that you'll have a great time even if you don't prereg for ANY events, I've done that too.Hope that helps; again, hope to see you on the Gen Con forums, and please feel free to email me (anyone!) who has Gen Con questions, at <a href="mailto:marimacc@gmail.com">marimacc@gmail.com</a>.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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