Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
Many thanks for all the positive posts here, and by positive I mean all of them. I was so shocked to learn about Alex bein marked by a pro thief that I wanted to warn everyone to be on guard for such scum.
The kind offers to Alex are appreciated by both of us. Alex, though, says thanks but no thanks. He is giving up on MtG for the foreseeable future. I can't blame him for being bitter, as the $600 he recently put into his collection came from his workiing two jobs.
While the other stories of rip-offs at GenCon and elsewhere are discouraging, the few bright notes are something to take heart about. A gathering of gamers should be not only a place to have fun, but one where each and every one there respects his fellows, watches out for them and their property, not where one has to watch one's back as if he were in a den of thieves. At least most of the attendees are decent, not there to steal from others.
It is plain hard for me to look on fellow gamers with suspicion in reagrds to honesty...if not in regards to what games they like best and how they play them
Joking about the last part, of course,
Gary
The kind offers to Alex are appreciated by both of us. Alex, though, says thanks but no thanks. He is giving up on MtG for the foreseeable future. I can't blame him for being bitter, as the $600 he recently put into his collection came from his workiing two jobs.
While the other stories of rip-offs at GenCon and elsewhere are discouraging, the few bright notes are something to take heart about. A gathering of gamers should be not only a place to have fun, but one where each and every one there respects his fellows, watches out for them and their property, not where one has to watch one's back as if he were in a den of thieves. At least most of the attendees are decent, not there to steal from others.
It is plain hard for me to look on fellow gamers with suspicion in reagrds to honesty...if not in regards to what games they like best and how they play them
Joking about the last part, of course,
Gary
