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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charwoman Gene" data-source="post: 4150187" data-attributes="member: 5044">I-Con Report:Hey guys!I just got home from I-Con and I want to give an overview of my experience.  My crunchier notes are here.  <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=223239" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=223239</a>Okay, I showed up to the Saturday WotC Presentation late, but it seemed to be just a moderate update to the GenCon 4e Presentation.  I was working as convention staff, and got assigned to make sure the stuff Bill Slavicsek and Mike Mearls actually happened.I ran the Q&A for them, Walked with them towards lunch, but since I wasn't officially escorting them I left.  I had to ask them a question later and saw them at lunch and their staff person was READING THE PHB.  A B&W printed copy, but the PHB nonetheless.  I never got to read it but I had a great time nonetheless.  I totally should have gone to lunch.  *sulk*Anyway, about 40 people got put onto the list for a demo that could only handle 24, and "PHB Girl" as I now call her was afraid she was going to get killed, so I became demo boy.  I pared down the list, and negotiated a few people to comeback then next day and fixed the signup for the next day.  I also gave up my spot of FIRST ON THE LIST!  (I was one of the negotiated ones.)Anyway, next morning we had a cool panel, aside from the Q&A that we did and I've posted in my other thread, they talked about preparing encounters.  it was generally stuff Mike has blogged about so I didn't take notes.  Some pics:Mike and Bill<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2393615887/in/set-72157604419284363/" target="_blank">http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2393615887/in/set-72157604419284363/</a><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2393616257/in/set-72157604419284363/" target="_blank">http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2393616257/in/set-72157604419284363/</a>Your OP<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2393616361/in/set-72157604419284363/" target="_blank">http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2393616361/in/set-72157604419284363/</a>I had a bunch of people who really wanted to get into the demo, but were really full.  I luckily had brought some kobolds, a large dragon and some Hobgoblin minis, Raiders of Oakhurst, the pregens, and the "PHB Lite" from EN World.  I ran an unofficial demo. It took longer, but I hadn't even playtested at all yet.  Everyone was cool, and ultimately I scrapped the adventure and just popped the black dragon in the pool in the first encounter area.  I had to go play in the Official demo at that point, so they pulled someone over to run the Dragon.  Yeah, it actually was that easy to run.Demo One<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2393616667/in/set-72157604419284363/" target="_blank">http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2393616667/in/set-72157604419284363/</a>I played the wizard in the demo, had a lot of fun, and while I had to make tactical decisions, I didn't feel gimped by holding back my dailies or the like,  The combat was very dynamic, moving around and such.  I played with Mike, and I can just say I really see how he thought about setting up the battle scene.  Really great DM and I learned the neatest trick for marking initiatives in games with strangers. Mark them down by table position graphically.Official Demo (I'm the big guy in the Green Shirt.  Apparently Kheris is the guy in the green shirt NEXT to me. *edit*)<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2394447994/in/set-72157604419284363/" target="_blank">http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2394447994/in/set-72157604419284363/</a><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2394448046/in/set-72157604419284363/" target="_blank">http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2394448046/in/set-72157604419284363/</a><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2393616911/in/set-72157604419284363/" target="_blank">http://flickr.com/photos/ciarrai/2393616911/in/set-72157604419284363/</a>I ran a second demo after that.  I mercilessly stole Mearls' awesome trap, messed uo the challenge of the encounter, but overall it came out OK.  I was really starting to "get it" by the end though.Overall, had a blast and I can't wait to run another demo.</blockquote>

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