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<blockquote data-quote="broghammerj" data-source="post: 7692186" data-attributes="member: 1869"><p>I have only been to Gen Con twice in 2014 and 2015 so my perspective is somewhat limited.</p><p></p><p>In 2014, WOTC had they had their own play area and small display of books with the debut of 5.0. I have to say I was underwhelmed. I saw some drow actors, a few cool statues, and access to some of the authors. For the unveiling of their new product I thought it would be much bigger. I thought they would have direct book sales, twice the play space, some cool sales area. I don't know why but I thought WOTC and DnD would be 1/3 of Gen Con in terms of floor space. To me it would be like going to the Vatican only to find a single, small church and nothing else. There was just a sense of grandiose vision in my mind and I was somewhat disappointed.</p><p></p><p>In 2015, there was even less presence. I will put in a great word for Baldman Games. I don't do organized DnD normally. I have two old groups that live out of state and don't have a group in my current location. We get together at GenCon to play together.....Think the Blues Brothers getting the band back together. I did three play sessions with Baldman and the worst session had an above average DM. The other two were fantastic. One of our DMs (blanking on his name) was blind and ran a very smooth game without miniatures. It was a fantastic experience. I was totally shocked because I am normally a miniatures and tactical movement kind of guy. Gave me a new perspective on the game.</p><p></p><p>My only criticism of Baldman is limited number of sessions. We got to start from 1st level and got to nearly 3rd level playing three sessions. We couldn't adventure any further. They had some higher level campaigns starting at about 6th with much lower number of sessions. There is no way to get pregens or up your character levels through some metric to play those higher level sessions. This is more an RPGA problem rather than Baldman's problem. My inference was there were far more pathfinder games available to play. This too is an issue with expectation. I assumed I could go to gencon and just continuously play DnD every day from start to finish, but there just aren't enough sessions and demand is too high.</p><p></p><p>Not to thread jack. Can someone explain the difference between Origins, Winter Fantasy, and Gen Con?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="broghammerj, post: 7692186, member: 1869"] I have only been to Gen Con twice in 2014 and 2015 so my perspective is somewhat limited. In 2014, WOTC had they had their own play area and small display of books with the debut of 5.0. I have to say I was underwhelmed. I saw some drow actors, a few cool statues, and access to some of the authors. For the unveiling of their new product I thought it would be much bigger. I thought they would have direct book sales, twice the play space, some cool sales area. I don't know why but I thought WOTC and DnD would be 1/3 of Gen Con in terms of floor space. To me it would be like going to the Vatican only to find a single, small church and nothing else. There was just a sense of grandiose vision in my mind and I was somewhat disappointed. In 2015, there was even less presence. I will put in a great word for Baldman Games. I don't do organized DnD normally. I have two old groups that live out of state and don't have a group in my current location. We get together at GenCon to play together.....Think the Blues Brothers getting the band back together. I did three play sessions with Baldman and the worst session had an above average DM. The other two were fantastic. One of our DMs (blanking on his name) was blind and ran a very smooth game without miniatures. It was a fantastic experience. I was totally shocked because I am normally a miniatures and tactical movement kind of guy. Gave me a new perspective on the game. My only criticism of Baldman is limited number of sessions. We got to start from 1st level and got to nearly 3rd level playing three sessions. We couldn't adventure any further. They had some higher level campaigns starting at about 6th with much lower number of sessions. There is no way to get pregens or up your character levels through some metric to play those higher level sessions. This is more an RPGA problem rather than Baldman's problem. My inference was there were far more pathfinder games available to play. This too is an issue with expectation. I assumed I could go to gencon and just continuously play DnD every day from start to finish, but there just aren't enough sessions and demand is too high. Not to thread jack. Can someone explain the difference between Origins, Winter Fantasy, and Gen Con? [/QUOTE]
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