seemed a little freaked out by our presence. There was a baseball team staying at the Coast Bellvue, and I ran into some of the coaches/parents in the elevator one time. One of the guys, eyeing my Warhamster T-Shirt, asked me "So, are you part of...what's going on here?" I can only imagine the stuff that passed through his mind before he settled on "what's going on here". I answered in the affirmative and told him it was a convention for a game company. He then said, "One of our boys likes to play games. I should have him check it out." Then the elevator doors opened and he and his buddies scrambled out.
The next morning, I was taking the elevator down, and ran into some of the guys who played on the team. I'm the only one in the elevator and I'm standing in the back corner of the elevator, and the four of them cram themselves and their equipment into one half of the elevator. Honestly, I took a shower and used deodorant, and I'm pretty sure my John Goodman-esque looks aren't intimidating. It was pretty amusing though.
You should have seen what it was like at GenCon Indy when the Colts fans were there.
LOL! I was there for that one. You've got a line of Colts fans wearing blue-and-white facepaint eyeing all these gamers walking by in their RPG costumes. Both sides had expressions on their faces that virtually screamed "Freak!" at one another.
Also, to add humor to the situation, I was wearing my Carolina Panthers ballcap when I walked by...and our team beat the Colts earlier that season in an overtime game. I had a smile on my face a mile wide. Ah...good times.
--Neil
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Yeah, I actually ran into some of them at the airport when I was waiting for my plane. This kid came up to me and asked if I was at the Coast Hotel over the weekend. When I said yes we had a conversation about what was going on there. He's into his PSP and Nintendo DS games but he said he would go check out the website as he had never played a tabletop rpg before.
He's into his PSP and Nintendo DS games but he said he would go check out the website as he had never played a tabletop rpg before.
Work it fray, work it! :D
Director of Brand Strategy
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I felt bad for Tori Lin. Poor girl had to have been about 9 and to have her birthday party at the hotel with all us smelly gamers lined up to get into the banquet had to have made her and her friends in their fancy party dresses a little uncomfortable. Happy birthday Tori!
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Director of Sales
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I was tickled by the NSA meeting that was going on in another conference room. I still wonder if it was the NSA or just some organization that happens to share the same acronym.
There was no NSA convention at the Coast hotel this weekend, and any rumors to this effect are spurious and highly suspect.
[url=HOLY CRAP! THE FRIGGIN NSA! Ok... not really. It was actually the Northwest chapter of the National Speakers Association. Smurf.][/url]
NSA Northwest = National Speakers Association
Which, as near as I can tell, is an organization of public speakers who randomly call Paizo employees racists before handing over their business cards to reveal they are, in fact, the Fun Specialists.
You had to be there.
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2012
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I felt bad for Tori Lin. Poor girl had to have been about 9 and to have her birthday party at the hotel with all us smelly gamers lined up to get into the banquet had to have made her and her friends in their fancy party dresses a little uncomfortable. Happy birthday Tori!
That was one pleasant thing about PaizoCon. No "con funk". :)
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NSA Northwest = National Speakers Association
Which, as near as I can tell, is an organization of public speakers who randomly call Paizo employees racists before handing over their business cards to reveal they are, in fact, the Fun Specialists.
You had to be there.
Heh. I remember her. Didn't she get all "we gots to stick together" with Sarah, thus casually ignoring the bad blood between the Koreans and the Japanese? I mean, I think knife fights have started over less. Or invasions. One of the two. I forget.
Just sayin', is all. :P
Also, none of them looked like speakers to me. Not a tweeter or a woofer among 'em.
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CEO
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There was a mother that came up to the sales counter looking for her son. She was there for some business meeting (yeah, likely excuse) and didn't realize that she was in the same hotel as her son's Pathfinder convention. I didn't have anything to check, so I sent her down the hall. I kind of had this vision in my mind that goes something like this:
Mother peeks into the room:
"Junior, so this is that little game you play with your friends."
"Mom, please, not in front of the 2009 RPG Superstar!"
"Superstar? Why, isn't that special. And where are you from sonny? Carolina? Is that down near SeaTac?"
"Mom!"
Poor guy is probably traumatized. :)
-Lisa
There was a mother that came up to the sales counter looking for her son....
I can assure you, she didn't stumble upon the RPG Superstar. But if she had, I would have had even more fun with that conversation...