How do I love GenCon? Let me count the ways!

[GlassJaw]

Still, its humbling to my ego that no one has mentioned me!

I totally remembered you man! I had a great time at St. Elmo's (even though my steak was still mooing when it came out). I didn't make a long list of people I met for fear of leaving someone out. I took the easy way out and put all my gratitude to my fellow EN Worlders into one big lump.

So here's to all the EN Worlders I met - a big LUMP of gratitude!

 

[jester47]

CRAP! I completely forgot!

This year I was going to walk up to someone at the end of the Con that I thought ran a good game and say

"YOU! ...Can be my GM anytime!"

And hope they were cool enough to get the reference!

Aaron.

 

[reveal]

It's just funny when you say "wang." Or read it. Or type it. As a matter of fact, I was quite pleased to meet you.

Heh. wang.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

It doesn't have to be quite so sinister. Right here Cthulhu's Librarian and Rel talked about holding each other's buttocks in the hotel room. If that went better than expected, they might be in one piece still, IYKWIMAITYD.

ROFLMAO

They should adopt the motto: "What goes on at Gencon, should STAY at Gencon"....

 

[DonTadow]

I had a blast at gencon this year despite no free internet and a bad shadowrun game. I had been questioning my own dm'n the last month after dealing with a problem player and went into the Iron Dungeon DM competition doubting my abilities. But competing and making a comple party of strangers happy sealed the deal and restored my confidence.

I"m definately going to run a game next year and go for the title again.

I didn't get a chance to meet too many enworlders because i was oblivious and i ost my enworld badge halfway throuhg hte con running around in that darn true dungeon.

 

[Crothian]

This is the first year I didn't loose my EN World badge.....

 

[WhimsyTheFae]

ROFLMAO

They should adopt the motto: "What goes on at Gencon, should STAY at Gencon"....

Actually, I heard - "What happens at GenCon, stays at GenCon" multiple times (and I used the line once, as well). So, apparently you are not alone in your line of thought.

 

[John Crichton]

Ah, GenCon Indy 05. I have to say that many of the Enworlders (you know who you are) basically saved my GenCon. Hanging out with various folks, playing a little cards and talking about anything, then changing topics every 5 minutes and such was just a blast. Capped off by a very fun Saturday night.

For those who want to take some of the burden off the Candanian Suite that seemed to have about 50 people in the room at one time, I am all there for next year. Hellhound and Dextra did such a wonderful job at hosting even though I could tell there was some tiredness there. Hats off to all the folks I met, friends I ran into again and new folks that will forever change the way I look at their posts.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Yeah, he was pretty goobery. However, I don't think that reflects on the entire RPGA at all. Heck, last Gencon I ran three sessions of an RPGA game myself, so I HOPE it doesn't reflect on all of them.

Of course, when I ran it I summarized the flavor text, and just chose a monster to be the default Random Encounter monster, and made spot rulings to keep things balanced between different characters, and I know that at least two of the players I had were extremely unhappy with my lack of reverence for running the adventure exactly as written (note that I didn't do any major changes). So it may just come down to personal style; and in this case, his personal style, i.e., running the game like a total goob, was different from my preferred playstyle.

At any rate, that was my only bad experience there; all my other games were fantastic.

Daniel

We're all just used to real DMs who can tell a story and make up things as the game goes on. Rather than just nothing but "flavor text". I wasn't too thrilled with the guy who ran a living force game and made me make a character without help. Nor really giving a damn if I got into the game to start with... The game wasn't too bad. But I'd seen better from my regular DMs... I was just wanting to see what the Star Wars setup was like since a friend had been pestering me to play SW. I was so peeved, he got an earful after the game about how crappy the reception was to me being a n00b and having to make a character on the spot after suddenly being told that "no pregen characters allowed!" after the guy in charge of the RPGA table said to have a character ready, so I got a few from my friend to use... :\ Then couldn't use them. ::grumble::

As for the topic: I'd love to get to Gencon. But it's a 10 hour plus drive for me and it's so close to Dragoncon which I get to every year (it's 6 hours away!) and also a money grabbing "hog" on my cash resources.

 

[der_kluge]

Ok, a little more time now. I don't have internet access at work, so I may become a rare commodity on here for a while.

Highlights:

Gaming, gaming gaming. I canceled my Sunday HARP game (that no one signed up for) to go to the dealer's room. I can't believe how much I gamed. I even managed to wrangle some people into gaming after the Ennies. That was cool.

I've decided Round-Robin is just the funnest game ever, and requires absolutely zero preparation, and I always have a blast. It's way more fun, though, when you've got quality people like ENworlders pulling out the nastiest stuff (and I do mean nasty!) from their imaginations. A Good RR game is truly greater than the sum of its parts.

My only regret is that I'm not 400 different people. I'd like to try new games, paint miniatures, take more pictures, stack up a card castle at 4 in the morning, watch the costume contest, or do one of any one of 500 things that I could be doing at any given moment. It's simply an awe-inspiring thing.

I loved meeting ENWorlders I hadn't met before - Glassjaw, CarlZog, SteveJung, Pielerinho, Spider, and others. I also enjoyed getting to talk to some others that I didn't talk to much - TB, PirateCat, Crothian, and all the others. You know who you are.

I even have another packet of about 20 of those Dark Dungeons. I'll hand them out at the NC and MD game days. I just need to remember to keep one for myself!

Playing Capes with the author. Capes is a totally cool game, I just think it's major downfall is that it requires some fairly sharp players who can sort of help co-GM it. It's sort of like Fluxx, Round-Robin GM'ing, Paranoia, and M&M all rolled into one. Figure that out! It's a great game though, once I got the hang of it.

Playing in CMG Mark's 8 am Saturday game on 3.5 hours of sleep. I still don't know how I managed to pick spells for an 11th level cleric!

Eating lunch with Buttercup on Sunday at the Ram. The food there was amazing, or was it the company? Buttercup is just an awesome person, and I enjoy spending time with her.

Being totally freaked out by Piratecat at 3 in the morning after he showed up and took over the GM'ing our late night round-robin game. It was eerie, and cool at the same time.

Hanging out with Rel, CL, and Ethernaut in the hot tub at 2 am on Saturday night. The soak was much needed.

Going to the Ennies. Buttercup, have you asked Dextra about my crazy idea yet? The Ennies were superb, and I was totally blown away by the professionalism. We took the Origin Awards, ground them up, beat them with a stick, burned them, and then spit on their desecrated bodies. It was really quite sad.

Flying demonic fetuses with scaly umbilical cords with eyeballs on the end. Spider, you scare me, dude. I'm gonna have to keep my eye on you.