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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 2884156" data-attributes="member: 32740">Technically my first con was Spo-Con in Spokane, WA though I don't remember the year.  Probably @1979.  It wasn't memorable as such.  I had illustrations done of my two favorite characters at the time which I still have.  We entered a tournament; the first that any of us had ever done.  We spent hours the night before prepping our character sheets and such.  I remember one of the first things out of our Tournament DM's mouth was, "I use my own critical hit charts."  It did not bode well.  The trouble really turned out to be that he spent WAY too much of our time just drawing out the locations on the battlemat rather than trying to move us through the module in our limited time.  Not the best experience either for the tournament or the Con as a whole.I really consider my first Con to be Gen-Con in 2000.  3E was being released, I'd always wanted to go, and even though I was short of money I HAD to be there.  Mostly I just attended the 3E-explanatory events.  Got my shiny, new PH, met some nice friends, entirely lost track of the nice friends, and generally enjoyed myself a HELL of a lot more than that thing that I'd gone to many years before.</blockquote>