this year will be my 35th gencon. i'd feel old, except, i already feel old.
my wife's 9th
baby stratochamp's 6th
daughter's 2nd.

I will be there running the OSR booth again. Learned a great deal last year and it should be much improved. I have doubled the space to create a better space and easier browsing. I will also take off Monday after GC so I can get the housekeeping done. This year I floundered pretty bad after the show!

Excited already for a great convention. This will be 21 for me even though I only attended six in the last 13 years.

I'll be there . . . I've been registered for over a week!

And at the Downtown Marriott too.

My son is planning on going with some of his friends again too.  It would be a family thing, if I actually ever saw him there.  

to answer your last question first, Tom Wham I believe has been to every Gen Con (and was the lead auctioneer for many years), whereas my first GenCon was GC11 in 1978. I believe Frank Mentzer started at GC12.

while i could make a good top 10 list of ebay items i wish i had bid more on, i don't have any big regrets from the GC auctions. it probably has something to do with the nature of the auctions: on ebay one has to guess, but at GC if your arm is up you're still bidding. mind you, there have been some cool things sold that i wish i owned (blume's dragon won by the burntwire brothers and  tim kask's staff won by bracton come to mind), but they were outside my sphere of collecting and were being won by acaeumites, so i was glad to see them go to good homes.

since i've recently knocked off my two biggest want list items (a Jade Hare with cover and a 1st print Tunnels & Trolls) i guess i'd be hoping to pick up some domesday issues i'm missing (3,4 or 9).

NMilty wrote:I'm in for another!!

How does one early register.  Everything on the Gencon site says registration starts at the end of this month??

If you were a VIG last year you can register early for your VIG this year (at a discount as well ), also allows early access to hotel registration.

Hi,

we're in the Westin this year, for a change.

Haven't got flights booked yet tho.

We're thinking of flying to Chicago, and driving down from there.

Cheers,
KAL

Devon and I will be there. No VIG this year for us, not really worth it as we don't need a hotel room.

Glad to see Malc and Karen are making the trip again.

-Shawn

throwi wrote:Well, planning on making the drive from CT in a new little camper my wife and I bought.  Not sure where to stay yet, likely outside the city proper...  

This will be my first GenCon ever!  At 44, I'm finally making the trip.  I'm focused on buying for the collections as well as hoping that my FRPG submission wins!

Also looking to go to NTRPGCon and Origins a few months before.

Can't wait!

-Throwi

That's the age I went to my first every gencon, so good luck!  Doesn't Contrarian always camp out when he goes to Gencon?  I think there is a campground not that far from downtown.

Mike B.

Badmike wrote:
That's the age I went to my first every gencon, so good luck!  Doesn't Contrarian always camp out when he goes to Gencon?  I think there is a campground not that far from downtown.

Mike B.

Thanks Mike.  I'll message him to see.  Hope you to meet you in North Texas first, trying to pull all the trips together...

-Throwi