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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eridanis" data-source="post: 5135724" data-attributes="member: 275">I think WotC was hammered with much more demand for D&D than they expected - which is a good thing for them! The podcasts with Mike, Jerry, Scott and Wil really primed players to want to check out the game, I think, and Piratecat's example above of jumping in to volunteer to run more games is indicative of that. I would have loved to try a 4E demo, but my understanding was that if you weren't there in the first few minutes to sign up, you weren't getting in. That goes for a lot of events at PAXeast, from what I heard - I heard an anecdote of people waiting an hour and a half for an hour-long talk, and it sounded like there was a lot of that going on.There were quite a few minor glitches at PAXEast, which can be attributed to it being the first time running the convention. The one thing that could have been a big problem for me was when my wife and I walked into the Exhibition Hall with our stroller, we were told no strollers were allowed due to the fire code. It would have been nice to have been told that on the PAX website, or before we bought our badges and paid for hotel room and parking, or by security as we were walking in, but at least the Enforcer was very professional and apologetic. Luckily, we're the kind of people that adapt easily, but taking an 8, 4, and 2-year-old to a gaming convention requires some planning, and having a major part of that disrupted is not a good thing to do to a frazzled parent. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Everything worked out OK in the end, but that's just one example of a detail that I'm sure their team will work out for next year.It's definitely not a show that was friendly to small kids or their parents, so I'm not sure I'll go again next year, but I enjoyed my time on Sunday. It was nice to go to a major convention that was less that three hours away from home, instead of 14 hours. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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