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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghostwind" data-source="post: 2508407" data-attributes="member: 3060">Gen Con was a blast for me, but for many reasons other than gaming. I really enjoyed seeing familiar faces and friends (Crothian, Cthulu's Librarian, Psion, Joe Kushner, Buttercup, Der Kluge, Hellhound, Dextra, Mark) and meeting new EN Worlders (Queen D, Rel, Justin Jacobsen, and a host of others whose names I have already forgotten because there were so many). Regretably, I had to drop out of both of my planned pick-up games (they were the only two I was going to get to play in) because of business meetings. But those business meetings were all very informative and productive and may have just filled my plate with work up to Gen Con '07 and maybe even beyond with opportunities to be a part of two different dream projects. For the first time, I got to meet two of my staff reviewers for my website, John Grigsby and Ian Hewitt (both were experiencing their first Gen Con).There were so many new releases there that caught my eye, but I could not help buying the two Order of the Stick books. Serenity sold out on Thursday and again when the softcover print-on-demand versions showed up. I managed to snag copies of the two new Dragonlance books from Sovereign. The folks at Black Industries were quite enjoyable to spend the ENnies with and I was genuinely pleased at their success there (the Warhammer Fantasy RPG books are really quite good).However, Gen Con was disappointing in that a malfunction at the printers prevented Wildwood from showing up. Top that off with a very sore wrist and I was popping Ibuprofen like it was candy (gotta love headaches brought on by stress). It was also disappointing that I didn't get the time I wish I had to spend with those friends in the industry (publishers and gamers alike) whom I only see once or twice a year. Between work and meetings, the Con flew by and I just didn't get a lot of free time. Next year, I hope to be able to have more free time and make a point of spending it with friends.  <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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