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Our group managed to score two rooms this year at the Embassy!  So now more of us can enjoy getting drunk and playing games til we pass out! We all live in Noblesville but driving back and forth can be a chore.The past two years I have done well in filling my schedule with games, and after doing a random 4 hour game of some 1970's groggy tank game, I plan on doing it again this year (although hopefully not as the French, having a tank that can move and shoot in the same action would be kind of nice). A few friends are wanting to run some Attack Wing demos and are trying to get me to go along with them but after running a game last year I think I just need to enjoy the con.
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Quarex posted:
I have heard this several times since last year in person as well among a few of my friends. All things considered Indiana does a way better job than Milwaukee ever did.  Also for those who buy way to many generics like myself, don't forget to return them at the end of the con so you can get some form of credit back!
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ritorix posted:Wait, what? You can do this? GenCon Refund Policy posted:Only event tickets can be refunded onsite.Badges purchased onsite are non-refundable and non-transferable. http://www.gencon.com/attend/refundpolicies Gen Con's best kept secret!
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Mar 8, 2014 17:36
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Ego Trip posted:Event registration opens soon. This is only my second GenCon (the first was like 100% WarmaHordes tournaments). Battletech pods are good generic ticket dumps if you have downtime. I usually tell people if they feel patient to join at least one old style Wargame a year (games labeled as WW2/Vietnam battles, usually with tanks). They can be fun and at the very least eye opening about how dedicated some gamers are to their craft. RPGA/PF if that is in your interests are usually cheap. 
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May 9, 2014 06:04
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Backno posted:I 100% agree with this. While we commute in most years one year we got a hotel room at the JW with some friends and found it really enhanced the experience. If the finances allowed it we would get a room every year even though we live less than 20 min away. This is what our group does since most of us are out super late anyways and the drive can be annoying in the morning, even if it is just a quick shot down Meridian (haha). Seriously hotel room makes the con completely different and is highly encouraged.
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Helping set a booth up for a friend and man, this place is nuts during assembly! Tomorrow is the day though, hype is at 100%
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The hardest part about the end of Gencon is the next day when you wake up at home, and look around. Nothing to rush to, no friends immediately to talk to and you have no manager's reception to look forward to.  It was a great year this year, picked up some books to pad my library of tabletop resources, and a few board games. The wife picked up mainly board games and card games. The brown bag in the shot below is a bracelet for my wife I picked up at the metalworking jewelry booth. Not shown is Rampage, two Bravest warriors decks, and Raaarrr!.  
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Aug 18, 2014 16:23
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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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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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