Deck of Many Things

• The power went out the first afternoon, when we were in the middle of a game of Battlestar Galactica. Everyone grabbed their iPhones, fired up their Flashlight app, and continued playing like nothing happened. The lights came on over an hour later.
• The first D&D game I played in almost went horribly, horribly wrong when one player “in character” set the entire town against us. Fortunately I negotiated with the NPCs a truce while the player in question was out of the room.
• I got to throw the dagger that killed the Mind Flayer boss in that game literally AS we were being kicked out of the room by the next game.
• The first burger I had from the hotel’s “gamer buffet” was beet red in the middle (as in raw). I avoided the burgers after that.
• I bought dice in the dealer’s room to put into the BSG board game, so there would be plenty of d8’s with it, after realizing I had taken all the dice out of it before Friday’s game.
• I had a great time hanging out at the bar with Randy from Cryptic, catching up on what’s going on at the studio I used to work at.
• I got to play Descent, playing someone else’s character in a Road to Legend campaign.
• I bought a T-Shirt at the gamer geek shirt table in the dealer’s room. I was told I wasn’t going to be yelled at for “messing up the shirt pile” because I was wearing an AC/DC shirt.
• I (hopefully) convinced several people there that getting the .pdf versions of the D&D rulebooks at www.rpgnow.com was a great idea, espiecally when I could search-find rules faster than people who had the physical books.
• I played in a GREAT game of 4e D&D, which was loosely based on the Amber “Throne War” scenario. If anyone ever tells me that 4th edition D&D is just a miniatures game and they took all the role-playing out if it, I now have proof that they are idiots. I didn’t get the throne, but got set up with a very nice duchy by helping the late King’s vizer get who HE wanted onto the throne.
• My wife was AWESOME for letting me go, and I have no idea how to thank her enough for not getting completely pissed at me for coming home super late on Monday.

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