[HoE] GenCon

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

I live.....

Just a note to let you all know I'm back and alive.  A fully con briefing
later... but I just want to sum up with one thing I experienced.

By Friday night, I felt like I had been at that convention for a full
month.  By Saturday night I was thinking that Sunday was the last day and
it was all over too soon....

Well... two things...
Thursday morning I arrived at the Pinnacle booth to help out and expressed
dismay <cough*griped*cough> about how I was hung-over, exhausted and mostly
broke before the convention even started.  What I heard back was something
along the lines of "Welcome to being staff".  If that's the case, I think
it's time for a career change and for me to go into the industry.  :-)

I left the con with a happy fuzzy glow about the whole trip.  But a six
pack of Dr. Pepper took care of that.  :-)

During my flight home I skimmed some of the books I had bought - the first
50 pages of the BNW sourcebook - the first half of the setting section -
really caught my attention.  Haven't  gotten farther then that.  Cyborgs is
awesome, filling in a lot more of the history of the pre-War times,
answering the question of what society would do with all of these folks
that just can't keep in the grave, and providing the character class book
for harrowed and cyborgs (while similiar, they are not the same thing).
The short story anthologies came out, and the second one has some awesome
stuff in it.  (And one story that I found... eh...).  I've only read the
second one as the first one was sold out and the third one was packed in my
checked baggage.

I ran an emergency BNW game, an emergency DL game, and two more DL games
and by God they were fun.  I'm pretty certain that the main villain in the
BNW scenario didn't have a crotch gatling, but what the heck, the players
seemed to have a good time.  :-)

I have got to get back to running a game around here.

And - I met a whole boatload of you all face to face.  That had to be the
best damn thing about the whole convention.

That and the fact that I raffled off my last ERTL cowtown set for my entire
bar tab at John Hawk's pub....  
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Allan Seyberth
darious@darious.com

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Molly Yard:
It was a hen!