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

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

I've spent several hours today reading this thread and just smiling. Having the blessing of being able to read over these stories - many of which I was a part of - is simply phenomenal.

GenCon was incredible this year... and it was all because of you guys. From the cool, calm head nod greeting of T-Bill to the horrified Fusangite running from the vomit in the Canadiana Suite - I have made memories this year that will stay with me forever.

Maybe I'm just a little over-tired... or maybe I'm just a little overwhelmed by what a great, great group of people my husband introduced me to.

Now, it's off to bed.

 

[d20Dwarf]

And I'll take Hound and Universe out and we'll do some heavy drinking Crothian style!!

And I'll take Teflon Billy and the Rapscallions to an adjoining suite with a bottle of scotch and a hand-crank drill.

I didn't spend much time with EN Worlders this year, but it sounds like I missed out on a lot of fun. Piratecat's game was fun, T-Bill and I make good thugs it turns out...who would have thought? Together we pummeled the hell out of the BBEG, causing Piratecat to exclaim "wow, that grappling really is better than I thought."

It was a joy having Buttercup in my Midnight game, even if I did stick her with a gimpy Dorn channeler that didn't know anybody.

 

[Quartermoon]

We didn't run into each other but when Kevin mentioned you were there I knew who you were from the Ohio Gameday!!

Wow. You have a memory like a steel trap!

 

[BOZ]

next year, i definitely need to hang out with people whom i only just smiled and waved at or said maybe a few sentences to, such as Crothian, Chthulhu's Librarian, Queen D and Universe, and others, and those i missed meeting in the first place.

not that i don't want to re-hang out with people i've hung out with in the last three years... it's just always good to connect with new people face to face.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I had a super-busy GenCon schedule, so I didn't get to meet as many ENWorlders as I'd have liked, and those I met I only met in passing. Still, everybody was very nice. (I have a snapshot of Buttercup and Suzi Yee on my Treo 650 ... as soon as I get it downloaded, I'll post it. It was taken at Buca de Beppo, prior to their scoring a bagload of free food.)

My GenCon highlights were:

(1) Playing Mutants & Masterminds for the first time, and with a GM who genuinely gets what comic books are supposed to feel like. (Unfortunately, getting into this game caused me to miss the ENnies.)

(2) Meeting Mark of CMG and playing in two of his excellent games. Mark is a seriously talented DM, with a knack for pacing and keeping things fun for everybody. I highly recommend joining one of his games at a future con.

(3) Playing in some Sealed Booster D&D minis. I didn't do so hot (finishing 2-2, 3-2, and 2-2 over three events), but the experience was still great. (In my third event, I lost twice in a row due to Ulmo being critted and failing the subsequent morale save. The odds of the combo crit-and-fail is about 66-to-1. To have it done twice in a row ... well, let's just say I haven't had much luck in D&D minis.)

(4) The Exhibit Hall, as always. I could wander in there for six hours a day.

I gotta say, this was the best GenCon in recent memory. (This year was my 20th GenCon ... I've only missed two since I first started going in 1984.) I only had one really bad experience (in the seven-card stud tournament), and many great ones.

Anyway, those few of y'all I managed to meet, it was a pleasure. Hopefully I'll meet more of y'all and spend more time at ENWorld functions next year.

 

[Rassilon]

Post 1: Pretty bored, may as well read this GenCon thread (ha! crazy Indiannapolos, inviting roleplayers over . . .)

Post 40: Hey, it really is nice reading about some of these people that I've never met, but having read what they've been writing for a couple of years, I feel like I soughta know.

Post 80: This sounds like real fun. GenCon sounds OK, meeting ENWorlders sounds excellent.

Post 220: I WANNA GO TO GENCON. IWANNA IWANNA IWANNA.

Post 250: *maudlin* Oh GenCon, why could we not be together. WHYYYYYYYYY?

Post 315: "Hey Mister, you wanna buy a Kidney ? I got to go GenCon next year . . ."

 

[Staffan]

This reminds me, I love the idea of doing a girls only PJ party one night. It was awesome of you letting us crash in your suite Wednesday night, and I think it'd be a hoot to have a slumber party-theme gathering for the estrogen crowd!

As long as someone brings a camera and posts lots of pictures afterward, I'm all for this.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Arrrgh! This drives me up the wall! Why can't girls just SAY what they WANT? What's with forcing us to read subtle social cues? I am not into playing games like that.



I have attached a handy diagram.

TM

That is T-Shirt worthy and I can see it as a big seller in 06!

 

[Hand of Evil]

It'll be like The Beverly Hillbillies go to GenCon!

Why do I hear the old song "Convoy" in my head.

Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon

Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it's clean clear to Flag-Town, C'mon

Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy

Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
An' I'm about to put the hammer on down

Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck
Uh, you wanna back off them hogs
10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger
Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here

By the time we got into Tulsa-Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they's a road block up on the clover leaf
An' them bears 'as wall to wall
Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear-in-the-air
I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck
We about to go a huntin' bear

Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?
Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close
Yeah, them hogs is startin' close up my sinuses
Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten

Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all a our swindle sheets
An' left 'em settin' on the scales
By the time we hit that Chi-Town
Them bears was a gittin' smart
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard
There 'as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
An' rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops 'as full a bears
An' choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreusse microbus

Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git

Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore
An' prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge 'as lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
We just ain't a gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4

Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20?
Omaha?!
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure
Well mercy sakes alive good buddy
We gonna back on outta here
So keep the bugs off yer glass
An' the bears off yer... tail
We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side
We gone
Bye, Bye...

 

[Buttercup]

It was a joy having Buttercup in my Midnight game, even if I did stick her with a gimpy Dorn channeler that didn't know anybody.

Thanks, the pleasure was mutual. And I may have been gimpy, but I found the McGuffin!