What keeps you from going to GenCon?

[BiggusGeekus]

But I always wonder what I'd really do there -- it seems the main reason to go is to play games (and I've got gamedays for that, plus my regular group) or buy product, but I don't really do much of that anymore, and I've got plenty I want to buy that's still in regular stores.

Meet & Greet.

One of the seminars I want to attend at Origins is Monte Cook talking about RttToEE. I'm going to have to try to keep from drooling on him.

So there's the thrill of meeting people in the flesh. Plus there's the ENNies.

But you're family is large enough, that if you each had your own robot, you could form Voltron. That's a much better thing to spend your money on.

 

[Templeton580]

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[Zappo]

Far too many kilometers.

 

[Henry]

I think I'd rather be beaten half to death than go to GenCon. What's the big draw?

Meeting people, geeking out (by talking about gaming 12 hours a day) in an atmosphere that promotes geeking out, and playing games of all shapes and sizes that I've never played before.

Outside of a convention, I will NEVER see attractive women dressed in chainmail bikinis, or an 8-foot tall Battlemech prop pulverizing a 4-foot tall mangled Mech. Well, I could see the former, but I gotta spring a couple hundred bucks for a bikini for my wife, first.

 

[Desdichado]

But you're family is large enough, that if you each had your own robot, you could form Voltron. That's a much better thing to spend your money on.

Indeed! d00d, u r a genius!!!!11

 

[Desdichado]

Outside of a convention, I will NEVER see attractive women dressed in chainmail bikinis, or an 8-foot tall Battlemech prop pulverizing a 4-foot tall mangled Mech. Well, I could see the former, but I gotta spring a couple hundred bucks for a bikini for my wife, first.

Dude, don't they have RenFaires in NC? Or do they not have hawt women? I've seen plenty of attractive gals in chainmail bikinis (both pieces) at the Plantersville RenFaire when we lived in Texas. My wife and I used to laugh at them all the time. I never could convince her to buy one, sadly.

Of course, RenFaires don't have mech props, I'll admit.

 

[reveal]

Of course, RenFaires don't have mech props, I'll admit.

What would be awesome is a RenFaire that was going along as normal and, suddenly, these Mechs come up and start fighting the guards/knights. Could be a whole "sci-fi/medieval time travel" scenario.

 

[Razuur]

It moved out of Wisconsin.

Plain and Simple.

P.

 

[hexgrid]

I think I'd rather be beaten half to death than go to GenCon. What's the big draw?

For me, besides the game playing and buying stuff, the big draw is the opportunity to fully immerse myself in geeky interests for four full straight days.

It's the same attraction there is for browsing RPG web sites and message boards, but taken to the billionth degree- for a short period of time it becomes your whole world.

 

[billd91]

Too many big day care bills this year. If it were still in Milwaukee, about an hour's drive from here, I'd go for a day trip and have a lot of fun. But being a 5 hour drive now, we can't really do that any more. It's got to be multiple days or not and the multiple days won't fit the budget until the youngest turns 2 or so and the day care bills drop dramatically.