ohshitnowhesmaaadd!!

5100 is a lot of people. That is a lot of gamers to be in one place. Understandably we are somewhat jaded in our views of what a GenCon should be since we have sexperienced Milwaukee. Of course it sounds like Indy eclipsed even the amounts of people in Milwaukee, but still, I think it was impressive when we were there. That being said, I think that GenConSoCal should be classified as a success. 5100 is still a nice number, and my thinking is that Peter Atkinson is a competent businesman and probably would not have sunk his new GenCon, LLC venture into the ground by funding a crappy, unsuccessful convention. I'm sure the numbers will grow over the years as word gets out, the only major hurdle is that attendees are still in school at the time of the con and thursday and friday attendance will be weak.

Thoughts and fave memories:

- I think the con was very CCG oriented. The main room was for the CCG tournaments, and there were a lot of card dealers throughout the hall. I don't know if this was representative of the current gaming climate or what, but not having GW there to represent the miniatures for the kids, and almost NO historical wargames, the CCG took over.

- Strange to be missing WizKids and Games Workshop from the dealer room.

- WTF were the guys selling computer parts doing there? Do you think ANYONE bought a MOBO while there were at GenCon?

- True Dungeon ruled. So many great things about it to mention. It was definately a top 3 highlight of the weekend, and my idea of what could be done with it in the future is exciting. I'm glad we did it, kudos to Mike for getting the tickets! It's one of those, "man, why didn't we do this before?" type things, you know?

- Eric's Best Purchase of the Con: Either the True Dungeon Tokens or the ClawGame stuffed Christmas ornament (though I didn't actually even use my own quarters for the clawgame!)

- Eric's Worst Purchase of the Con: Nothing! I love the few things I bought! Maybe the 7-11 coffee the first night.

- Eric's Greastest Missed Opportunity of the Con: Either not going to the Masks of Nyarlathotep seminar on saturday, or NOT buying the amazing Master Maze opportunity (their entire display consisting of roughly 700-900 dollars worth of goods) for 500, though with some bargain skill and my high charisma, maybe een 450.

- Strangest Con Moment: Twighlight Imperium @ 3am in and empty convention hall.

Anyone up for some Call of Cthulhu this weekend? I am home alone!