My origins experience. 3.5 news
Drove from philadelphia to Columbus wednesday, got there by 2pm do play in Veluna Day of Courage, where I got to play 2 Veluna region Living Greyhawk games before the show.
Thursday I didn't have anything prereged, so I went to the line for adding events at 8am. I got trhough it by 9:10, and ran to a MTG sealed deck Onslaught block tournament, my first MTG tourney in about 2 years. I won my first game, lost my second, and dropped to go check the dealer room briefly.
2pm I was supposed to judge Living Arcanis, which I knew zip about (but had read the mod) so was happy there were enough Arcanis GMs so I could judge LG Face Value, which I was also slotted for on friday. My table seemed to enjoy themselves.
Then I played my only other non RPG for the weekend, a table of GIANT-SIZED Settlers of Catan. Standard game (my favorite) but on a big miniatures seized board. Somewhat awkward to trade with the player accross from you, but had fun. Tied for second.
I checked the dealers room for Citizen Games, to get a copy of the masterscreen (4 panel). They didn't have a booth, but the book showed them sharing one with 2 other small companies. They weren't really there, because of their recent issues with company control. Some copies of dungeonner, but no masterscreen. I finally found a local dealer who said he could get one from his store the next day, so I picked it up then. Very nice. Heavy board, and not warped (the 3 panel one I almost boght one was warped)
Friday began with my second Face Value table, a low APL one this time. Again fun was had. We finished in 3.5 hours (an omen!) so I left for the dealer room. now I saw that wotc had the 3.5 books availble for perusal.
Oh, and I was looking up the Boccob's Blessed Book (my wizards
obsession). Since scribing was going down to 100gp per page, and spells at 1 page per level, I was tring to guess the new BBB price.
It went up.
Price about 12000 gp I think.
Because it holds 1000 pages, that can be copied into for free.
But the desciption said "without paying the 25 pg per page cost"
huh? I thought 3.5 said the cost was 100gp.
Check PHB to confirm. Yep 100gp.
I asked a designer standing there.
His face fell.
I caught the first erratta
I got a promo minature by asking about the minis. They look much more like true 25mm then the Reaper/Chainmail/Warhammer 28-30mm. maybe it's mold shrinkage. The promo was the dwarven axefighter. The paintjob isn't as bad as the WOTC site makes it look, but its not stellar by any means.
I picked up alot of other minis too. Some Armorcast barrels, a Warmachine Cryx box set, and 2 khador guys. Iron Wind/Partha had some dinosaurs and a $2/ounce bitz box where I got a giraffe a wolf and a snake. They also have a nice "skinny" chimera.
Wizkids definitely seemed like the more active booth. Maybe because their demos take more space, or it was the mageknight nationals (I miss having the MTG nationals at origins) I don't know if this was a new idea in booth design, but I noted a prevalence of chest-high small tables (like the gulp-and-go tables you see in mall food courts) being used alot for tiny little demos you could play. Nice idea since you don't have to stoop down/sit to get grapped walking by and play a demo.
More later. I have lots of pics on my firends digicam, but I need to see him to upload them.
