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

[shaylon]

The winning team made it in three rounds.

Are you kidding me? I still say it was rigged! 3 rounds, yeah right! We couldn't have done it in less than 5.

-Shay

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Yeah, that was not so much fun (I was in Crothian's group and I was *not* the smelly gamer or ten year old). I agree with Crothian, the best way to do this is to have someone buy a block of seven and get a group of EN Worlders. I volunteer to pick up seven tickets next year and have people pay me when we get to the con. I think it would be much more fun that way.

Why was the 10 year old kid "stupid"? My son is 11, and while he may not be the most experienced gamer on the planet, he's far from stupid. Hell, I've seen him come up solutions to problems veteran gamers were practically digging out slide rules and micrometers for.

 

[Rel]

Outside my comfort zone? You betcha. Embarassing "foot-in-mouth" syndrome acting up? Yup.

Worth it? Heck yes.

I'd have never known you were "outside your comfort zone" if you hadn't told me. You seemed very at home and comfortable in the Mace Hunter game. You and the rest of the guys at that table were among the most free-flowing, immersive group of roleplayers I've ever had the pleasure of gaming with.

And as far as the "foot in mouth" bit, at least you didn't sit down amid a cluster of total strangers and start spouting platitudes like, "Them lesbians is EVERYWHERE these days!"

 

[Xath]

Are you kidding me? I still say it was rigged! 3 rounds, yeah right! We couldn't have done it in less than 5.

-Shay

We would have had it in 3 if our fighter had hit in the 3rd round. Instead we had it at Round 4, Init 10.

 

[Majoru Oakheart]

Well, I finally read to the end of the thread.

I didn't get to meet nearly the number of ENWorlders I would have liked to. Here's saying hi to everyone I did meet, especially to RangerWickett (you owe me stuff *grin*) and John Crighton for having dinner with me at the RAM that one night.

I wish that I had gotten to meet everyone else, but:

1) I had trouble finding the Canadiana suite
2) I'm a night person. I didn't get to the con until 11 am or so each day, found a game at 1 pm until 6 pm, then another one from 6 pm until 11 pm. Then, I'd go looking for everyone. They weren't anywhere to be found and I was told not to go to the suite after 10 pm, due to the kids.

So, really, I got to meet whoever was at the booth the couple of times I came by and Wickett and Crighton who I ran into at the RAM at midnight.

I would have scheduled less games, but I really like Living Greyhawk and my friends at home are kind of counting on me to have played these adventures so that I can run them for everyone here.

Plus on Saturday night, I had to go see the Making of the Gamers 2, so I couldn't drop by either.

Either way, unlike everyone else, I love to play with strangers and have much more faith in gamers to not be as horrible as everyone seems to make them out to be. Either that, or more tolerance, not sure which.

I played with a bunch of different people in Living Greyhawk mods, got to play the LG Special, the Eberron Special, and got to play the True Dungeon. Had lots of fun (even got my tickets to the True Dungeon through ENWorld). We actually survived the True Dungeon without a single death and we completed it with 20 seconds to spare.

I liked almost everyone I met at the con. Met a couple people I had played with in Australia and North Dakota before, along with a couple people I knew from Toronto. Still, I hope to travel next year with people who don't have to plan everything down to the second so much. Hopefully, this will give me more time to meet more people next year.

 

[IronWolf]

We would have had it in 3 if our fighter had hit in the 3rd round. Instead we had it at Round 4, Init 10.

Nice! What was your party made up of? Pretty balanced or heavy one class over another? Did your wizard cast haste right away?

 

[IronWolf]

Why was the 10 year old kid "stupid"? My son is 11, and while he may not be the most experienced gamer on the planet, he's far from stupid. Hell, I've seen him come up solutions to problems veteran gamers were practically digging out slide rules and micrometers for.

We didn't mean to classify all ten year olds that way! The kid actually started out pretty well and did help solve one of the early puzzles. The case in point though came in the chessboard room. We weren't getting the puzzle at all so we finally decided to brute force it. The kid was playing a ranger with a fair amount of hp and volunteered to cross the chessboard taking damage for each square. When he got to the end of the board he flat out refused to step off the board and get something we needed to help get the rest of us across. No matter how much we tried to get him (his father included) could coax him across. So we had to send a second person across the board - taking damage the whole way just to get what we needed. Quite frustrating and causing us to take way more damage in that room than we needed to.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Oop-ack! yeah...I can see where that'd be frustrating. I have a 30 something in my group who plays like that, too... lol

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Nice! What was your party made up of? Pretty balanced or heavy one class over another? Did your wizard cast haste right away?

Had we all held our actions in the first round until after the wizard so that he could cast haste, it would have been a much better fight. Our group was pretty balanced so far as classes go... If I ever do it again - I'd definately want to go for a group of all damage-doers (I played one of the clerics thinking that healing might be important... but after we got all the characters passed out and things were rolling... I realized everyone had healing. Should have gone with a wizard).

 

[Crothian]

Why was the 10 year old kid "stupid"?

My guess is genetics but I didn't get tom know him enough to know the cause. He didn't listen to anyone, he did only what he wanted, he didn't even listen to his father. He was loud mouthed and cowardly. And if a 30 year old acted that way, I'd be saying stupid thirty year old.