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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cybertalus" data-source="post: 1809573" data-attributes="member: 4400">None of the stores in Asheville were participating in the official event, so Steve and Jason from my regular D&D group and I rode up I-26 to Mountain Empire Comics in Johnson City, Tennnessee.  It was a beautiful drive, although we were about a week early for peak leaf season.We arrived a tad late, mostly because Yahoo maps had underestimated the time it would take us to drive, but luckily we weren't so late that the game had started without us.   A few minutes before we arrived Steve, who was driving and had reserved our slots, received a phone call from the store to check on us.  I thought that was a very classy touch, especially since they knew we were coming from out of town and might've easily gotten lost.All told there were eleven players, and I unfortunately didn't manage to catch the names of any of them except for Rich, our DM, and the guys I rode up with.  They were all great guys though, and very welcoming of us out-of-towners.  Our DM in particular seemed to really know what he was doing and managed to keep the game flowing along quite well despite the high number of players.Rich also worked to get across the flavor of Eberron, so that those of us who knew nothing about Eberron aside from thing we'd read on the Internet would really feel grounded in the world.  The adventure itself added to this, as it included some warforged enemies, as well as a sort of tour through the city of Sharn.  Although I am not fond of the notion of air ships and trains in D&D, I enjoyed this adventure and really appreciate the work Rich put into grounding it in the setting and creating characters ahead of time for all of us.We also each received a gift bag of goodies, including an awesome red d20 with large numbers on it, a very nice looking mountain orc minature (complete with stat card), a mechanical pencil with the D&D 30th anniversary logo on it, a Magic card, a pack of Marvel Genio cards, a D&D 30th Anniversary bookmark, a window cling with the D&D logo on it, and the Star Wars Miniatures Rebel Storm poster.All in all, a lot of fun.  I really appreciate the effort put in by everyone involved.(If anyone who was there is reading this, I was the guy with the long beard and the EN World t-shirt.)</blockquote>

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