What I Learned From Gen Con 2008 - Part 1
Well, Gen Con it’s done for another year. I can truly say I already miss it. Only 361 days to go, I suppose.
I want to share some of my Gen Con thoughts over the next few days. I know the D&D blogosphere has been hopping with Gen Con posts, and that makes me slightly late to the dance. I’m OK with that; I leave the cutting edge to folks like The Game and Bartoneous at Critical Hits, leaving me to sort of hang back and give more of a hindsight view.
So, what did I get out of Gen Con this year?
I really miss playing Magic: The Gathering.
I haven’t played regularly in a couple of years, and so I jumped in to a sealed tournament on Friday. It was a blast. I was eliminated in the second round to a kid half my age, as is usually the story, but it was still fun. I won a booster, which had cards in it that I sold for $16 - enough to pay for the draft. All in all, a good deal.
While I was playing, some friends played a round or two of the World of Warcraft TCG. That’s not a bad game either, and I’m hoping that the bug will really hit the guys back home. A TCG is one of the best group games in that you only need 2 of you to play and they’re extremely portable. We’ll see if it sticks.
You can make a killing at the Gen Con auction.
I sat in line on Thursday morning with a bunch of guys waiting to check in their auction goods. While my auctions made me a mere $200, there were folks there making $10,000 or more, all from games they collected at garage sales over the past year. Very cool.
The Chatty DM is, well, Chatty.
I had the privelege to meet several other RPG bloggers at a seminar on Saturday. I was humbled to be there, honestly. I felt a little bit out of place. I was like the dopey little geek that the cool kids let hang around because they feel sorry for him.
At any rate, I want to take a minute to send you all away from here with some great links from my fellow RPG bloggers from the Gen Con panel:
The Gen Con 2008 Rambling (Semi-Live blog) from Phil at the Chatty DM. It was very cool to meet Chatty, mainly because we’ve talked so much online about not just gaming, but writing, as well. Check out his
post for a play-by-play of his Gen Con 2008 experience.
The aforementioned boys at Critical Hits have all sorts of GenCon 2008 Coverage. Checkout Dave and Bart’s exclusive interviews and astute observations.
It’s not live yet, but Stupid Ranger and crew will have a full Gen Con round-up on Tuesday or after.
A special congrats to Yax at DungeonMastering.com, as he won an Ennie this past weekend.
Next time, I’ll offer some thoughts on my gaming experience at Gen Con 2008, and how things look going forward from here.
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It was great to meet you. Technically you’re more of a blogger than all the RPG bloggers because you run a slew of them.
It was an honor to have you there on the panel.
Yaxs last blog post..My golden rule is more golden than yours
“I was like the dopey little geek that the cool kids let hang around because they feel sorry for him.”
Yea right, take your self-deprecation elsewhere! We were very happy to have you there, and you definitely have more on the writing end than most of us, so it was a pleasure!
I definitely have to second the Phil being…chatty. The only time to be concerned is when he stops talking.
Bartoneuss last blog post..Interview: Mike Mearls, Scott Rouse, and Randy Buehler (Part 2)
@ Yax - thanks for stopping in, my good friend! Glad to have you. And the honor was all mine.
Now, next year when I win the Ennie, we’ll talk about who should be honored
Seriously, that accomplishment is something you should be very proud of.
@ Bartoneus - Hey, it’s my blog, I’ll self-deprecate if I wish. So there.