On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Carl D Cravens wrote: CDC>Workshops more than panels, though there are a few panels I might CDC>want. Nowdays, it's as much wanting to meet people I've known online CDC>for years as anything else. Workshop, panel, whatever. CDC>There _are_ a few indie games I want to try out with the author's CDC>running them. There are a few I want to watch from a safe distance, maybe. There are other authors I want to meet, pat gently, and say "There, there. There *are* good gamemasters out there. I promise. Keep looking, it's bound to get better." CDC>There's the ability to browse through things that you never see on the CDC>shelf. But yeah... where the dealer's room was a big part of my CDC>reason for going to GenCon over ten years ago, it's not nearly as a CDC>big a reason now. Eh, anymore I value word-of-mouth more than browsing through. CDC>I think I go for the atmosphere as much as anything and to talk to CDC>people as much as anything. Part of the atmosphere is touristing, though, and that's just weird in a city I lived for ten years. Which would still be okay, except I went there several times more recently with The Airline. Which, um, okay, that would be eight years ago or so. That's recent, right? -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net
