GenCon 2018

[Necronomitron]

Who's going? I plan on being down Friday after I get out of work and staying until Sunday. I've noticed a serious trend of diminishing returns in GenCon enjoyment without being involved in some kind of community while there. The years that the Booters were active were some of the best. I also worked with Games on Demand one year, which was also a great time.

I hope to do more than just "attend" this year. But I'm very much looking forward.

[JediSoth]

I'll be there, but I'll be at my table on Author's Avenue almost the entire weekend. I'll be working at the ENnies Friday night, but other than that, it's the Dealer Hall from open to close, then food & sleep (and hopefully some networking).

[keithcurtis]

Dealers Hall for me, too. But I'll be there every day. It'll be a little tough for me to do after hours stuff this year, since for the first time, we don't have a hotel room in walking distance.

[Necronomitron]

...we don't have a hotel room in walking distance.

For the last couple of years we've been staying in my cousin's in-laws basement. Appreciative of the free room and board, absolutely. But having to drive in every day and drive out again at night (as a passenger no less) definitely alters the con experience.

[Greybird]

Looks like I will be there for the whole shebang. It'll be my second year.

This time, I'm scheduling a lot fewer activities. Last year I had so many that I ended up not being able to things that popped up. There were games I wanted to demo, friends that I'd found out came who wanted to go eat, and I always had somewhere to be in 30 minutes. This time I'm setting up a couple of activities per day, and some of those are free '500 ticket' events that I can bow out of if something else crops up (I won't bow out of games.)

[keithcurtis]

I'm usually in the booth all day. After hours, I might look for friends for a pickup game of some time. It's nice if it happens, but if not, it's an excuse to actually get a decent amount of sleep.

In the past, there was a Booter call circle. If someone wanted to resurrect that, that would be cool.

[Necronomitron]

I'm usually in the booth all day. After hours, I might look for friends for a pickup game of some time. It's nice if it happens, but if not, it's an excuse to actually get a decent amount of sleep.

In the past, there was a Booter call circle. If someone wanted to resurrect that, that would be cool.

I still have a lot of those TOFtBCH contacts in my phone. I'm sure many of them are out of date, but there are so many of them, and I don't have the inclination to spend that time on them.

If it's not done by then, the next time I know I'll be there for the entire convention, I'll gladly take that back up. In the 10 GenCons that I've attended, the year that the TOFtBCH network was active was one of my favorites.

[Chad]

Discord might be a better place to have the network.

[Necronomitron]

Discord might be a better place to have the network.

I only know in passing the gist of Discord. But I'm certain technology is far more helpful in the area of mobile group communication than it was in the TOFtBCH heyday.

[Mikel]

My first year there, thanks to Mikey.

I'll be at the following and will be up for other stuff: