Gary Con X (2018)

[rredmond]

Welcome Rusty!
You met a nice selection of folks from the Alehouse!!
Sounds like you had a lot of fun.
—Ron—

[Chainsaw]

Welcome aboard, Rusty!

[EOTB]

Welcome aboard!

[Juju EyeBall]

Howdy!

[francisca]

It was great to finally meet Mythmere, game too little with thedungeondelver, and sadly only shook hands briefly with falconer, but I had a great time hanging with the usual crew this year.

As long as there are great old-schoolers attending, running old-school games, and waving the old-school/Gygax banner in the face of the (in some cases, literally) unwashed masses of 5e and PF players, I'll keep going.

I've been to all of the Gary Cons except 0, and I'm hoping for at least one more decade with you knuckleheads.

[Cloak n' Dagger]

I had a great time hanging with the usual crew this year.

As long as there are great old-schoolers attending, running old-school games, I'll keep going.

I've been to all of the Gary Cons except 0, and I'm hoping for at least one more decade with you knuckleheads.

It was awesome to catch up again and even more so to play in your AS&SH game, glad I had the opportunity. I'm of the same mindset, as long as great folks are attending, playing and running, I'll keep going.

waving the old-school/Gygax banner in the face of the (in some cases, literally) unwashed masses of 5e and PF players

I think one of the few things that rubbed me the wrong way this year was seeing all of the 5e and PF games being run in the upstairs rooms while events like tacojohn's AD&D were stuck down in the basement, the same room as the board games library. WTF? Not to mention AS&SH and other OSR games being stuck in the ass end of the lodge. That was flat out, not cool.

Otherwise, I'll echo the sentiments of others by saying it was a fantastic week/end of gaming and hanging out. My only regret was not getting the opportunity to meet thedungeondelver since I believe he's only a couple hours southwest of me, in the Orlando area.

[thedungeondelver]

meet thedungeondelver since I believe he's only a couple hours southwest of me, in the Orlando area.

what

[Cloak n' Dagger]

meet thedungeondelver since I believe he's only a couple hours southwest of me, in the Orlando area.

what

Haha. Yeah I recall from the hurricane thread, you're down in the Orlando area, I'm up here in JAX. I've been down there a time or two for work earlier this year but kept forgetting to give you a heads up. When you mentioned coming up to GC I was trying to make time to at least put a face with the name but my schedule wasn't allowing it.

[Falconer]

Yeah, that was lame. There was the main area with all the vendors and comfortable gaming areas, and if you wanted to get where all the OS gaming was you had to go on an actual dungeon crawl to a cement warehouse underneath Butt Fuck, Egypt.

[Zenopus Archives]

Yeah, last year all of the 5E Adventurer's Guild stuff was in the basement where it should be at GARYCON. I played in one of the Keep on the Borderlands sessions. Borrrrring.

[thedungeondelver]

Yeah, that was lame. There was the main area with all the vendors and comfortable gaming areas, and if you wanted to get where all the OS gaming was you had to go on an actual dungeon crawl to a cement warehouse underneath Butt Fuck, Egypt.

Yeah. Running a pickup/"open" game, you'd be more accessible than a planned game.

With that said the noise level upstairs was much more than downstairs.

[francisca]

With that said the noise level upstairs was much more than downstairs.

Yes, that was one benefit of being out in outer elbownia. The upstairs rooms are real loud. The higher ceiling and curtains led to a much quieter experience in the Forums. It's actually probably worth it, from that perspective.

Which of course, means they will put AL out the next year.

[ligedog]

With that said the noise level upstairs was much more than downstairs.

Yes, that was one benefit of being out in outer elbownia. The upstairs rooms are real loud. The higher ceiling and curtains led to a much quieter experience in the Forums. It's actually probably worth it, from that perspective.

Which of course, means they will put AL out the next year.

I agree on the better acoustics in the forum and it really emptied in the evening sessions so it was even easier to hear. I also had the good fortune to be given a room in building 2 - I was a little bummed about this when I first got there until I realized all my games were going to be next door.

[thedungeondelver]

With that said the noise level upstairs was much more than downstairs.

Yes, that was one benefit of being out in outer elbownia. The upstairs rooms are real loud. The higher ceiling and curtains led to a much quieter experience in the Forums. It's actually probably worth it, from that perspective.

Which of course, means they will put AL out the next year.

I agree on the better acoustics in the forum and it really emptied in the evening sessions so it was even easier to hear. I also had the good fortune to be given a room in building 2 - I was a little bummed about this when I first got there until I realized all my games were going to be next door.

We were up the street in the Timber Ridge, so it was a bit of a slog...hopefully one year I can actually grab a room at the hotel proper.

[Axiom]

I got to meet a few peeps in a hallway this year.

Next year I might work my way up yo playing in a game or having a meal with some of you!

Seriously! what a fun group!