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My haul Badge Reppin'  Used that to get Space Cadets: Dice Duel half off 
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Did you win the Machi Koro tournament? How'd you get a copy?
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Aug 19, 2014 20:26
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Did you win the Machi Koro tournament? How'd you get a copy? I took my friend to the booth on Saturday to show him the game and after explaining it he offered me a copy if I run his booth for 3 hours on Sunday. I got the game and even after 3 hours of explaining how to play it I still think it is the best game played. I also got an offer to work the Critsuccess die ring booth for $50 bux but I didn't have the whole day to give them. I've had offers like that before too in previous years. You sound socialble and they'll pay you in some way to make their dealers room time easier.
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Aug 19, 2014 21:05
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Peas and Rice posted:Oh, that was you guys recording? I was sitting across the aisle from you. Yeah I was sitting in front of him. You can PM me if you want his contact info.
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ThaShaneTrain posted:I took my friend to the booth on Saturday to show him the game and after explaining it he offered me a copy if I run his booth for 3 hours on Sunday. I got the game and even after 3 hours of explaining how to play it I still think it is the best game played. That's pretty awesome. I'm definitely picking that up and the expansions when they come out.
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I'll post pictures of my haul once the stuff I had to ship arrives, but for now I'll just say I had an awesome time, and it was cool to meet the few goons I did meet (hi Mudcrab Merchant, hope you and yours survive DragonCon  ). I will definitely try to fit in more actual gaming in 2015, but I would call this year a success.Edit: Literally 10 minutes later my stuff got here; apparently the UPS guy was working late. 
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I only bought one game this year and it was an old school Mayfair game called Grand Prix Detroit Cleveland. It was made in 1995 and the manual smells like an old library book. Once I got it home and opened it I also noticed it was missing one of the race cars  . Still a pretty fun game to be honest. I really wanted some new Attack Wing ships but when I got there Saturday they were all gone.
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So I'm doing the same thing I was at GenCon for the same reason: limited internet access. I will stab internet providers. I will.Gutter Owl posted:So you're saying we should have a mini...Battle Con? Yes. Yes. So yes. gamingCaffeinator posted:I bought both artbooks because I was embarrassed that I was getting a little babble-y about meeting Brad and Nokomento. So ashamed of myself, but they were really nice. I wonder if Brad has put up the pictures of the tournament yet? I got Brad to sketch Malandrax for me! Nokomento proceeded to make fun of him for it. She then drew the most glorious Tanis in my artbook. 
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CaptainRat posted:I'll post pictures of my haul once the stuff I had to ship arrives, but for now I'll just say I had an awesome time, and it was cool to meet the few goons I did meet (hi Mudcrab Merchant, hope you and yours survive DragonCon Hey, nice miniatures; are those skulls? Totally bodacious skulls!!! Also I forgot about your sweet Planescape grab and, of course, the Pillars of Eternity flask I probably should have gotten.
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My haul isn't worth talking a picture: Pathfinder - Advanced Class Guide, Inner Sea Bestiary, & Undead Slayer's Handbook Atomic Robo RPG & a set of Fate dice Gencon dice set Trains (won at the Colts Grille trivia night) Dice for future Fiasco games I will say that without goons, this would have only been a fair to middling Gencon. However, because of the trivia night, the beer tour, a few games of Avalon, a great game of Fiasco, and a game of Dungeon World it was amazing. Also, I think I managed to coin a phrase that was easily the worst thing said during the beer tour, and arguably the worst thing said the entire con: waifu pillow swap. Let that one roll around your head for a bit and then shudder visibly. 
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Double Agent posted:My haul isn't worth talking a picture: Yeah you can go to hell and die for that phrase. I was trying to eat my meat curtain and that phrase made it difficult.
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I go with my two buds every year and a few con catchphrases get repeated. This year it was "Touched the poop." to refer to someone trying to do something and loving it all up. The other was "Some people just can't handle the Con." which was coined when on Wednesday at Embassy some drunk fat dude passed out on the escalator and caused a 5 fatty pile-up including a security guard. After they all got off the dog-pile the dude threw up on himself and kept moan-yelling while his frinds and guard tried to prop him up. Eventually he got thrown on a stretcher and carted out. Okay, best and worst game event you did at the con? My favorite was Trains with the Train Gamers Association, game was awesome and the train dudes are always so nice and easy going. Also a guy had a shirt with trains all over it and that was baller as gently caress. It was a relief compared the worst event I had right before it. When we showed up to play Epic Resort 1 guy somewhat gave an explanation to the 12 people there. Then when we got into 4s to play the game he had to go to each table because we still didn't fully know how to play. Two more people that were running the event came up each taught us how to play the game differently. By the last 10min of the event time we were pretty sure we understood the game but were about 1/3rd done. The game itself is okay but that experience is enough to make me not want to bother with it again. Thursday can be rough like that sometimes, the volunteers don't fully know how to play or explain how the game works. I usually go for older games and try to do the new releases later in the Con. ThaShaneTrain fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Backno posted:Yeah you can go to hell and die for that phrase. I was trying to eat my meat curtain and that phrase made it difficult. I aim to please. 
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Next year we should make a Gencon bingo. It could contain squares like "booth selling anime porn", "guys arguing about how Japanese Bushido was what kept them in WW2", the free space would be "furry". I bet by the end of thursday we could have the entire card filled out.
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Len posted:Next year we should make a Gencon bingo. It could contain squares like "booth selling anime porn", "guys arguing about how Japanese Bushido was what kept them in WW2", the free space would be "furry". I bet by the end of thursday we could have the entire card filled out. You could probably fill out a good portion of it Wednesday, leaving the exhibit hall stuff for a fun filled Thursday morning! I would say the best event I was in was for Castles and Crusades. 16 people at a table and the entire game ran super smooth. The creator of the game was DMing and it was a solid 4 hours of fun. Every person had their moment if they wanted, and the tension was kept full. He did a great job at making us feel like heroes in a world of poo poo. The worst was the 5E game we did where we broke an hour long module in 18 minutes on accident through actual role-playing (Defiance in Phan, the one where you need to plant the pin on the elf during the egg exchange). I blame this on the DM who did a good job rolling with it, but I felt like he just kind of gave up after we wiped the guards and guys in the hay area out by the second round. It was still fun, but when we finished 18 minutes in and he went 'that's all I have' I realized I paid 2 bucks for 18 minutes of play  EDIT: Spoiler'd the main part because unsure if it would be ruining anything even though it happens 1 minute into the module. Also for clarification they were going to leave but we managed to talk them into staying thanks to some quick jabs about elves and they attacked us. Dr. Doji Suave fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Aug 20, 2014 |
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`Dr. Doji Suave posted:The worst was the 5E game we did where we broke an hour long module in 18 minutes on accident through actual role-playing (Defiance in Phan, the one where you need to plant the pin on the elf during the egg exchange). I blame this on the DM who did a good job rolling with it, but I felt like he just kind of gave up after we wiped the guards and guys in the hay area out by the second round. It was still fun, but when we finished 18 minutes in and he went 'that's all I have' I realized I paid 2 bucks for 18 minutes of play Edit: My phone just freaked out. Let me edit this into a real post. I signed up for a few stinkers of events. The biggest let down was "Enter the Sixth World" for Shadowrun where we were supposed to be walked through character creation and an intro event. What happened was seven people who had never played the game sat down at the table and were given a couple handouts and told to "build a character." The GM sat there at the table fiddling with his phone while the seven of us struggled with generation and asked him questions as we came across them. There were only two books for the entire table so what was supposed to be two hours of character generation took almost 3. Then the actual adventure started and we each got one action turn and he went "Alright adventure over. You guys finshed the run successfully" My action? Finding a node to hack. A friend and I each got tickets to some drink mixing class which sounded pretty cool but I decided to not go to because of some family stuff that popped up. But when they got back they informed me the guy running it had almost enough alcohol for everyone to get one free drink. He said that normally at conventions he has a bar backing him and can do more but Gencon wouldn't let him be officially sponsored by a bar and had to provide alcohol which meant he did the most half assed job imaginable. He didn't even have print outs for the people who paid $8 so that they could mix the drinks at home. We also went to "Hikari no Gencon" which was supposed to be an intro to beginner Japanese games like Go, Shogi, and Hanafuda. We wanted to try Shogi so we were like "hey, it's free why not." Well the guy who was running it walked into the room and went "This doesn't look like a panel discussion room. I didn't bring any game with me but it looks like they thought we were going to be playing games. Well I can run to the Circle Center Mall and buy a Go board if anyone would like to try it." And then he informed us that the guy for Shogi didn't actually come to Gencon and he was just going to be covering Go. My friend and I who went to when he left to go to the mall. Len fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Aug 20, 2014 |
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Len posted:We also went to "Hikari no Gencon" which was supposed to be an intro to beginner Japanese games like Go, Shogi, and Hanafuda. We wanted to try Shogi so we were like "hey, it's free why not." Well the guy who was running it walked into the room and went "This doesn't look like a panel discussion room. I didn't bring any game with me but it looks like they thought we were going to be playing games. Well I can run to the Circle Center Mall and buy a Go board if anyone would like to try it." And then he informed us that the guy for Shogi didn't actually come to Gencon and he was just going to be covering Go. My friend and I who went to when he left to go to the mall. Did you get a refund on the ticket at least? That is pretty lovely... I forgot about the Open Library L5R game we signed up for only to arrive and get tossed into 'mustering' and left for an hour until we left and got ticket refunds.
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Dr. Doji Suave posted:Did you get a refund on the ticket at least? That is pretty lovely... Thankfully that one was free. The other two events not to much. But hey anything beats Gencon 2012 where a DM for Atomic Robo decided to have my character almost raped by a Nazi.
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This is almost exactly happened to several of my friends at last year's GenCon, when Shadowrun 5e had just come out. Their story kept me from trying any Shadowrun events this time around. I wonder if it was the same GM.
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CaptainRat posted:I'll post pictures of my haul once the stuff I had to ship arrives, but for now I'll just say I had an awesome time, and it was cool to meet the few goons I did meet (hi Mudcrab Merchant, hope you and yours survive DragonCon DragonCon is not nearly as much work for me as GenCon, because there is the spoken rule to all my staff that if I get one loving phone call and have to show up at the booth, whoever's fault it is gets fired. Plus, only one event (a party) instead of the resource heavy two at GenCon. We are taking our vitamins and eating really healthy to avoid getting sick form the exhaustion though. I actually got one game at GenCon for myself, Boss Monster. I got to play it at my bar last night, and really loved it. One day, maybe, I will get to play a game AT GenCon. I hope the many goons who ended up with 40k Conquest because of me are thoroughly enjoying it. I ended up getting 6 of them in all for you guys! 
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ThaShaneTrain posted:Okay, best and worst game event you did at the con? This is really a tough one. Though I had events that were not as good as others this year I didn't have a single bad event this year and a couple great ones. Best single event was playing Metamorphosis Alpha (1st ed.) with Michael Curtis as GM. He did a great job as always and most of the players really got into it. The mutant gorilla and weasel interactions in our group were the best. The weasel player talked as sort of an ignorant star struck mickey mouse that played well with the gorilla. Favorite part was when the two of them were swinging around the edges of a large open sewer trying to tie off a rope so the rest of us could safely climb down. A flat worm rises from the filth and grabbed onto the weasel and the gorilla starts to slowly heat it with pyrokinesis. All of our characters sitting in the duct started to wonder what the gorilla could possibly be doing to the weasel when all we could hear were the screams of a weasel, the Gorilla shouting "Kong burn worm!" and the slowly rising smell of poo poo cooking. Scat humor is the best humor. D&D All Access pass was a great experience as well. Doubly so since our GM was blind which is something I had not played through before. The first day was a little rough because his laptop ran out of power and the ICC was taking their sweet time to open an outlet for us so he couldn't read through the adventure on his braille keyboard. After that it went quite well, though one of our group was mildly annoyed that it meant there was no chance of us using miniatures for any of the sessions. If there was any bad it would have to be drinking too much Wednesday night. Though fun I had too much too early and is pretty much why I missed the goon get together at trivia and a couple of other minor group things I had planned for the night.
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Sionak posted:This is almost exactly happened to several of my friends at last year's GenCon, when Shadowrun 5e had just come out. Their story kept me from trying any Shadowrun events this time around. I wonder if it was the same GM. I mean on the one hand we did learn how to make a character. But on the other we still don't actually know anything at all about how the game is actually played.
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Len posted:I mean on the one hand we did learn how to make a character. But on the other we still don't actually know anything at all about how the game is actually played. Roll 30 d6's, study them, then pretend you do stuff.
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Len posted:I mean on the one hand we did learn how to make a character. But on the other we still don't actually know anything at all about how the game is actually played. Well, sure. But my school of thought for congames is generally that I want to understand the rules and get going within 15 minutes of the game starting - so I very much prefer pregens and/or simpler systems like CoC or * world. One of my friends last year eventually became so frustrated at the Shadowrun chargen game that he offered the GM $5 for a pregen instead - which the GM then provided.
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Best moment: Learning Five Tribes from Bruno Cathala. It's an amazing game, and Bruno is one of my favorite designers. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a Kennerspiel nominee next year. Apparently I was also playing with some internet celebrities from Dice Tower (Zee and some other guy?), but I had no idea who they were. Honorable mentions: Playing Dungeon World with some goons, hanging out at Colts Grille with goons, and seeing the Professor Shyguy and D20 Burlesque shows (not with goons!). Worst moment: True Dungeon Adventures. It was a blast last year, and one of the main reasons I decided to return to Gen Con. This year suffered from poor puzzle design, severe technical problems, and on one occasion, a complete dickhead of a GM who basically forced us to fail a puzzle that we had figured out. They also seemed to scale way back on the production -- while the airship rooms were really neat, there weren't any animatronics, and some of the rooms just felt like a big square of black cloth with some cheap foam rocks thrown into it. Into the Viper's Pit was especially lovely. Considering this thing is almost $50 a pop for two hours, my entire group felt pretty ripped off (there were eight of us, and we did both adventures -- that's nearly $800!). I definitely won't bother again in the future.
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Wierdly one highlight for me was that the hotel I stayed at (Sheraton on the city centre) had opened it's ballrooms downstairs and stuck a ton of tables there so you could game whenever you wanted in a good space. They also had free wifi they'd normally charge 12.95 to use. I will probably pick that hotel again next year since both of those perks were pretty nice, and it was pretty easy to see if anyone gaming downstairs had room to jump in. I got Robinson Crusoe there and while figuring it out with a friend of mine a couple of guys wandered over and asked if they could jump in - both having a little experience with the game. The low point was honestly my own fault about having an overpacked room and with people that snored like chainsaws. Never again - got incredibly drained by a lack of sleep and also sleeping under the desk in the room. Going to require answers about if I need additional room before they open up the block for rent this time, and anyone left out is going to have to figure something out on their own. Sounds like I might have to book two rooms next year, which should hopefully not be too troubling. I only picked up one game since the only one I really wanted right there and then were sold out well before the doors to the exhibit hall opened (King of New York). Not upset about that at all though - I can wait for it, and I was pretty sure this would happen. I'm also pretty cheap and know that just because something's at gen con doesn't mean it'll be cheap. Too bad I missed the goony convention going on though, maybe next year i'll keep more up to date on it.
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Sionak posted:Well, sure. But my school of thought for congames is generally that I want to understand the rules and get going within 15 minutes of the game starting - so I very much prefer pregens and/or simpler systems like CoC or * world. I was hoping for something more like that really. They could have simplified the entire event a lot to help us learn how things actually work. But at least between that, the basic runner toolkit my friend bought, and the core book we should be able to get rolling some d6's in no time when we finally sit down and play. I might try and find a pbp for Shadowrun to maybe get some idea of how things are supposed to work before then though.
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nesbit37 posted:D&D All Access pass was a great experience as well. Doubly so since our GM was blind which is something I had not played through before. The first day was a little rough because his laptop ran out of power and the ICC was taking their sweet time to open an outlet for us so he couldn't read through the adventure on his braille keyboard. After that it went quite well, though one of our group was mildly annoyed that it meant there was no chance of us using miniatures for any of the sessions. Ah, you had that guy! He DM'd across from my all-access table last year, and I was pretty impressed that he could do it all. DMing is hard enough without having that to deal with. All-access was fun this year. I did it last year and it was more of a marathon game (8 hours per day). There wasn't any time left for other con things. This year was 4 hours a day, much better. And this year my all-access group met up on saturday night for more D&D (and booze. mostly booze) and some of us played sunday night too.
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Mudcrab Merchant posted:DragonCon is not nearly as much work for me as GenCon, because there is the spoken rule to all my staff that if I get one loving phone call and have to show up at the booth, whoever's fault it is gets fired. "YOU ARE FIRED!" Also I hear basically only bad things about True Dungeon. Though that is the case for the last like 4 years. I am sure it was amazing back before it became an efficient nerd-extorting machine though. GARY loving GYGAX loved it after all
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Quarex posted:"Hey boss, I need to take a break and everyone else is out sick, can you come help?" When they were charging like $25 per person that seemed like a good cost. I never really had enough people that were available and interested in doing it so I never did it. Now that they keep tacking $5 onto the price every year it's just far too much money for only 2 hours of something that would be mildly interesting.
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The guy who runs True Dungeon quit his other job a couple weeks ago of being president of Dwarven Forge so he could concentrate on True Dungeon more. That could either mean fixing things and making them better for what it costs now or blowing things up and making them insane so no one who isn't addicted will never do it. Artemis at Gen Con seems to be going through similar growing pains. Last year it was like $18 which is pricey but bearable. This year they blew it up to an insane $42 and other than offering GM run games for the first time I have no idea why they inflated it so much unless they just thought people would pay it no matter what. I am really curious as to how well they did or did not do this year because of that.
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Did anyone post about how the video game room was loving 6 bucks an hour (8 during prime time!) this year, instead of free? It used to be a fun way to kill time between events, but this year it just seemed dead. I got a few games of Smash in before I got kicked out (in my defense I didn't even realize there was a fee, I just walked in like I used to) and their set-ups were awful too; lovely controllers, really laggy monitors. How the hell did it get so much worse?
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The Arcade was really disappointing this year too. I'd pretty much swear there were like a half dozen weird Japanese rhythm games last year and like 20ish standups. I wandered in this year, saw one DDR machine, an out of service Pop'n Music, and maybe a dozen other "classic" machines in various states of repair. It just seemed sad.
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I glanced at the arcade, saw maybe 3 machines, and walked on. My local Kon (misspelling intentional) has a fan-friggin-tastic room, so I might possibly be spoiled.
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ritorix posted:Ah, you had that guy! He DM'd across from my all-access table last year, and I was pretty impressed that he could do it all. DMing is hard enough without having that to deal with. You were next to my bros, then -- they were that table. He was amazing. He got lost once, they said, and was late to the table. Other than that they were very impressed. I ran True Dungeon twice and yeah, it was a bit flaccid. I loved the end room of the airship, and the one animatronic finishing piece to the other dungeon was excellent. We also had some bad DMing. I'll still do it next year, but that's mostly because that's what the group does and I don't want to miss out on the fun. We always get one or two great stories out of the evening.
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I liked a lot of the puzzles in Flight of the Zephyr (we did the puzzle version for both), except for the final room. The engine puzzle was dumb and the GM explained the helm puzzle wrong. The fuel pellet was a cool puzzle and the engine room was malfunctioning. Also, I loved that ball. I really liked the first puzzle of Into the Viper Pit, and the capstone puzzle worked well. Everything else in that game was pretty poo poo though.
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So, I got some games stolen at GenCon this year: two copies of Tragedy Looper, Dead of Winter, and Panamax. Now there's some guy selling on the BGG Marketplace a copy of Tragedy Looper and Dead of Winter. He owns Panamax and Tragedy Looper (which is not being indicated as for trade). And apparently he was a GenCon attendee this year. I'm really curious if I should approach this person, and how I can if so. On one hand, there's no proof that this person is the one who took my games; on the other...I wanted to play those games
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You could try telling him that you are the guy whose bag he accidentally picked up and you would be happy to reward him for returning the games. If he responded, it could get interesting.
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Starting to post things we recorded at Gencon such as this panel on diversity in gaming: http://slangdesign.com/rppr/2014/08/panel-discussion/diversity-in-gaming-panel-at-gen-con-2014/ and of course, an Adam Scott Glancy WW1 Call of Cthulhu game: http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2014/08/systems/call-of-cthulhu/call-of-cthulhu-lord-of-the-peaks/
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I had a good time at GenCon, and can vouch for both AlienRopeBurn (aka Snackmasta' J) and GimpInBlack. I hosted both of them in my house and neither of them murdered me or pooped in my bed! Everyone else I met was cool, too. I'm sorta glad to hear that I wasn't the only who had a loving TERRIBLE time at the Welcome to the Sixth World event. 3 hours of a disinterested GM watching us make characters, and then 20 minutes of a mission. Ugh. I did get myself addicted to Magic: The Gathering again which is both a good and bad thing. Everyone GET EXCITED for the second annual Goon Beer Tour next year!
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