GenCon 2016...Best Ever


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I am recovering my thoughts from 5 Pathfinder Society events at GenCon 2016.

Net result? AWESOME!

-5 events with 5 excellent gamemasters.
-Met new friends on Faithless & Forgotten. Carried through to parts 2 and 3 with those folks. Memories were made and enemies were slain.
-The Cosmic Captive. Outstanding! If The Joker were a gamemaster, he was at our table. He did a fantastic job. The atmosphere in the room was incredible.
-Sun Orchid Scheme on Sunday. We finished it in about 2.5 hours..and that was a good thing after the intense week.

What else can I say? The entire Pathfinder Society crew did an amazing job. The gamemasters were on top of their game, knew the rules, knew the scenarios, and knew how to keep us entertained.

Wow. Just wow. Torag shined down upon us over the weekend and all was just and good in the universe.

-Dimwold Axereaver

Silver Crusade 5/5

Awesome! Glad you had a good time. Hope you make it to 2017!

Liberty's Edge 3/5 5/5 **** Venture-Captain, Nebraska—Omaha

Since this was my first, I agree!!!


I only hit two scenarios this year, but they were both wonderful (Serpent and Captive).

The mustering experience was so much faster this year that when I showed up "on-time" and didn't see the massive crowd outside, I thought I was mistaken about the start time. I'll almost miss screaming "Level 3 Bard Looking For Group!" as I waded through the mass of humanity...

5/5 5/55/55/5

All of my tables were fun. Not a single bad experience gaming. (at least on my end. And thats all that matters right? :) )

Shadow Lodge 4/5 5/5 RPG Superstar Season 9 Top 8

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Had a great time! Did the HQ thing again this year and wouldn't have been able to make it possible without everyone that was there. In particular I'd like to thank all the folks that helped with data entry and ticketing: Mildred, Shanna, Mike, Mark, Dianna, Mitch, Shane, and Tersha (and probably a couple others I'm forgetting). We got all the tickets done before the final slot ended and left Todd with only a couple hours of data entry left to do--something you should definitely be proud of.

I'd also like to give a shoutout to Kristen, Amanda, and Ross that crushed it doing the prize table on the last day. There was a solid 30 minute stretch where the three of them were taking tokens and handing out boons without a break.

The 3 games I got to play this year were all excellent with excellent GMs, who also deserve some accolades: Ryan Blomquist, Sean Goodman, and Ryan Wilson.

So yeah--thanks to everyone who helped make it possible, and congrats to Bob for his shiny new wayfinder!!

Dark Archive 5/5 5/5

Walter Sheppard wrote:


The 3 games I got to play this year were all excellent with excellent GMs, who also deserve some accolades: Ryan Blomquist, Sean Goodman, and Ryan Wilson.

So yeah--thanks to everyone who helped make it possible, and congrats to Bob for his shiny new wayfinder!!

I sent you to Ryan because I knew you would have a good time. I'm happier that you validated my thinking.

2/5

This was my first Gen Con, and I have say that the 5 tables that I played at were great fun in general, especially the Friday special, which my table was hilarious to watch in action.

I hope I can make more Gen Cons in the future.

Grand Lodge 3/5

I must agree, an absolutely amazing Gencon this year. Mustering was leagues cleaner and I found it barely took any time to find a table. Mustering staff were all on point and just hammered out table assignments. GMs were all ready to roll (I hear most of them only had to prep a couple scenarios and just ran them numerous times, and there were very few last minute adjustments) and many of them had props or 3D maps of some kind.

Highlights of my PFS con experience:
-Getting to do the big special (8-00) with an amazing group of players (Thank you for having me).
-When a party member used on the first 8-00 hardmode boss and finished off the last hardmode boss with a railgun that was purchased off of some season 6 (or maybe Iron Gods) chronicle sheet.
-Got to start playing my wayang thassalonian specialist (sloth) and had a lot of fun RPing him as a grumpy and slightly morbid old man.

All-in-all, I had a blast with my ~35 hours worth of sessions and hope to dip my toes into GMing next year (50th GenCon anniversary, holy cow that'll be nuts). Everything about it went amazingly well. Great thanks to everyone who organized things this year!

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