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Message: <blockquote data-quote="derbacher" data-source="post: 2079132" data-attributes="member: 23639">I need some help on planning a trip to Origins this summer. (NO, not travel or hotel stuff!) Here is my story:I’m 43. I’ve been playing this thing known as “The Worlds Most Popular Role Playing Game” since it was created and sold to the public. I am heavily into all the 3.5 edition stuff, and I have been DMing from the beginning (nobody else knew what they were doing, so why not learn?). After all this has been said, I have never been to a gaming convention (hides head in shame and ducks for cover). <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> I have always wanted to go, but time/funds/work never seemed to line up. This year I am going. Period. My real questions (after all that ranting, you see, there really is a question!) is: what should I expect? How do you get in games? What is the process for character creation? And so many more that I don’t know where to start!I have immersed myself in reading everything on the Origins site. I can buy a badge. I understand that they had a problem with the RPG game sign-ups. They are supposed to be up sometime early this month. Is it first come, first serve? Is there some kind of hierarchy?The reason for Origins is that Columbus is three hours away. I live in a very rural area of Ohio (few gamers around within an hour, most of my games have developed from people I have introduced to the activity, and they eventually move away, the vast Religious Right doesn’t approve, etc...) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> I really could use any and all help here. I am taking my daughter to this, as well (she’s only been playing for 2 years). I want this to be a good experience for us both, but I am a complete neophyte when it comes to conventions. Any and all advice is appreciated! <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" /></blockquote>

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