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[MadMaxim]

Looking at the pictures... is seems like WotC is making desperate attempts at raising the number of female gamers!

Hooray for that!

EDIT: Oh, I thought you said they were trying to raise the number of desperate female gamers... Well, hooray for that too!

 

[Turjan]

What is the card game with the gold tokens they are playing?

Three Dragon Ante.

Actually, I thought this thread contained something about Wales .

 

[CharlesRyan]

Looking at the pictures... is seems like WotC is making desperate attempts at raising the number of female gamers!

Have a look at the second picture... a table with 3 quite attractive women [. . .]

This made me laugh out loud!

This particular photo is of mostly WotC-affiliated people. Two of the quite-attractive women work for our PR agency. The third is my boss. I forwarded this thread on to them; I'm sure they'll appreciate the commentary!

(And as an aside: No, the photographs were not staged to play up the presence of women at the event. Around, oh, I'd say 30% of the attendees were women--you can see many of them in the other photos. That shouldn't be too surprising to anyone who's been to Gen Con in recent years--it seems pretty consistent with the number of women major gaming events tend to draw these days.)

 

[Jdvn1]

This made me laugh out loud!

This particular photo is of mostly WotC-affiliated people. Two of the quite-attractive women work for our PR agency. The third is my boss. I forwarded this thread on to them; I'm sure they'll appreciate the commentary!

Hey, you guys hiring?

(And as an aside: No, the photographs were not staged to play up the presence of women at the event. Around, oh, I'd say 30% of the attendees were women--you can see many of them in the other photos. That shouldn't be too surprising to anyone who's been to Gen Con in recent years--it seems pretty consistent with the number of women major gaming events tend to draw these days.)

Thanks for the info! Is it nothing but a bunch of gaming going on? I saw a booth with shirts and stuff that looked neat--and what's the deal with all the dice? A contest to guess how many in the container?

Maybe I'm just too excited about this.

 

[diaglo]

This made me laugh out loud!

This particular photo is of mostly WotC-affiliated people. Two of the quite-attractive women work for our PR agency. The third is my boss. I forwarded this thread on to them; I'm sure they'll appreciate the commentary!

(And as an aside: No, the photographs were not staged to play up the presence of women at the event. Around, oh, I'd say 30% of the attendees were women--you can see many of them in the other photos. That shouldn't be too surprising to anyone who's been to Gen Con in recent years--it seems pretty consistent with the number of women major gaming events tend to draw these days.)

did you get Jamie Gertz to play a cameo?

Spoiler

for those who don't know... she was in the original TV ads for D&D back in the early 80's before she had success in film and a revitalized career on TV recently.

 

[CharlesRyan]

Thanks for the info! Is it nothing but a bunch of gaming going on? I saw a booth with shirts and stuff that looked neat--and what's the deal with all the dice? A contest to guess how many in the container?

Yes, mostly it was a day-long gaming event. RPG adventures, miniatures skirmishes, and Three-Dragon Ante tables; players could move among them as they saw fit. (The event ran for about 10 hours, so there was time to hit all of them if you wanted.)

The table with the stuff was the sign-in table. The stuff was free things we gave away to attendees. We had another table (not shown in any of those photos, I think) staffed by Genesis Games & Gizmos, a fantastic local retailer we partnered with for this event; they had stuff for sale.

The dice were purely decorative, but we did have some prizes. One was for a drawing among people who correctly answered a trivia question. (I think it was "What monster appears immediately after the Vampire in the first printing of the AD&D Monster Manual?") The other was for the person who came out furthest ahead in Three-Dragon Ante. (We gave everyone 35 gold pieces (well, actually, gold-plated plastic pieces) when they came in the door; the player with the most gold at the end of the day won a prize.)

There was food and a few odds and ends, and a lot of media (TV and news reporters taking pictures, doing interviews, trying the games, and shooting video), but it was, first and foremost, a big gaming event. Which is, of course, exactly what a Worldwide D&D Game Day event should be!