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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7707581" data-attributes="member: 7006">Well, D&amp;D *will* be at GenCon, because Baldman Games will be running Adventurer's League games all weekend as usual.&nbsp; The thing they won't have are any D&amp;D-specific panels from D&amp;D employees, because the D&amp;D employees won't be there (at least not on the company's dime.)So the question then becomes... what does having D&amp;D panels at GenCon get you (as a company)?&nbsp; Goodwill?&nbsp; Sure.&nbsp; We can all buy that.&nbsp; The word out on D&amp;D?&nbsp; That I'm not so sure.&nbsp; At least, no more so than having the large Baldman gaming space available for people to play.&nbsp; I mean... if you have 100,000 people attending this convention and you get like what... 200 people attending a panel (IF you were lucky, seeing as how every slot has like what, six to 10 panels happening simultaneously)... are those 200 people really getting any word out?&nbsp; Or are those people already in and just want to hear the people they look up to talk?At this point, I think there probably is a &quot;Big fish in a smaller pond&quot; aspect to it, as to their reasons for going to other conventions.&nbsp; If they're going to be one of thousands of fish in the GenCon pond all fighting for attention all weekend... it probably doesn't make as much financial sense as going to something like GaryCon where they definitely WOULD be the Big Fish in the small pond.Is it disheartening to a certain extent?&nbsp; Sure.&nbsp; But in the long run does it matter?&nbsp; I don't really think so.&nbsp; The number of people who would be missing some panels at GenCon is infinitesimally small compared to the number of people across the globe who are playing the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7707581, member: 7006"] Well, D&D *will* be at GenCon, because Baldman Games will be running Adventurer's League games all weekend as usual. The thing they won't have are any D&D-specific panels from D&D employees, because the D&D employees won't be there (at least not on the company's dime.) So the question then becomes... what does having D&D panels at GenCon get you (as a company)? Goodwill? Sure. We can all buy that. The word out on D&D? That I'm not so sure. At least, no more so than having the large Baldman gaming space available for people to play. I mean... if you have 100,000 people attending this convention and you get like what... 200 people attending a panel (IF you were lucky, seeing as how every slot has like what, six to 10 panels happening simultaneously)... are those 200 people really getting any word out? Or are those people already in and just want to hear the people they look up to talk? At this point, I think there probably is a "Big fish in a smaller pond" aspect to it, as to their reasons for going to other conventions. If they're going to be one of thousands of fish in the GenCon pond all fighting for attention all weekend... it probably doesn't make as much financial sense as going to something like GaryCon where they definitely WOULD be the Big Fish in the small pond. Is it disheartening to a certain extent? Sure. But in the long run [I]does it matter[/I]? I don't really think so. The number of people who would be missing some panels at GenCon is infinitesimally small compared to the number of people across the globe who are playing the game. [/QUOTE]

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