After leaving Dresden early, I went to grab food (I was starving) and then the exhibit hall...only to discover that it was about to close. So double-fail on that one. Not only had I just spent several hours not having fun in a game, but I'd missed the exhibit hall almost entirely ( Read more... )

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After TD, which was awesome, there was the 7th Sea LARP. I've been in this game a few times before and generally find it wonderful. It's run by a group called Plaid Chameleon. The beauty of this game is that game wrap doesn't take forever, you aren't left with dozens of plot threads or burning questions hanging, and not only can you play if you ( Read more... )

We got up early on Thursday to hit the dealer's room with John's fancy, early-entry tickets. I went straight to the Utilikilt booth, tried on a kilt, didn't buy it b/c they only had the uber expensive deluxe model, but did buy one from the Got Kilt? people nearby. I knew I wanted one, and I knew sizing would be difficult, (and it was, each vendor ( Read more... )

The Cast: Dan and Lia, their friends Jen and Allen, Dan O'H, John and Niki, Mike Todd, Alix, and myself. Mark didn't make it, but Dustin randomly did (as did his friend Bob ( Read more... )

So after last year's GenCon worldnamer got really excited about the idea of making and marketing some sort of GenCon guide. I recently found a cool fold-out pocket map. So I went about trying to make a GenCon version. I made a PDF with restaurant locations on it and a key to that map. I also made a small map to go on the outside. When I got to the con, ( Read more... )

All my other ticketed events were on Friday. I failed to get up early, but managed to back to my room by around 11. Everyone else was gone by then. I wore the pirate blue pirate costume. I figured I'd go try to play some board games, so I got a bunch of generics only to discover that Rio Grande had reserved two big rooms to demo all their new ( Read more... )

It was awesome, of course.

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Pre-con: spent Wednesday night packing and not sleeping and finishing up content my awesome-cool fold-out map (more on this later). It was at about 7 that I realized I'd left my iPod at work. There was no sleep. jadasc's friend W. gave us a ride in exchange for future furniture moving so we could catch our 6am ( Read more... )