Direct from PAX
Well, my hopes of blogging real-time from the convention haven't quite played out like I wanted it to. One, we have been super busy, finding far more to do than last year, which has been awesome. Two, the wifi at the show has been terrible, and I've already lost two posts to connection drops when uploading. (My blogging app probably deserves some of the blame for that.)
Anyway, what a great show this year! I'll post more detail on this stuff later, but at a high-level, here is what's happened (along with random sights from the show floor):We played in a couple of Living Forgotten Realms RPGA games. One was a "convention special," which means it was a more difficult dungeon-crawl type game. The other was set in Cormyr, and involved dealing with a ton of NPC and a bunch of skill challenges with only a single, short combat. It was a blast and totally made me rethink the way I run my games. (I'll probably throw up a more complete post on that one sometime in the future.)
The expo hall is even bigger than last year! Privateer Press has a booth right as you walk in, and they were stocking all the October Retribution releases. I picked up their army book and the new No Quarter. I need to swing by today and see if they have the Extreme Juggernaut on hand...On the video game front, all the big stuff is here and playable - StarCraft 2, Diablo 3, the new WoW expansion, Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age, Left for Dead 2, Guild Wars 2 and tons more. The most surprising to me was an MMO called Aion, which looks really amazing.
For Panels, we caught the keynote with Ron Gilbert (who wasn't as funny as I thought he should be), and a Q&A with Gabe and Tycho (who are far more funny than they have any right to be).
Right now the "Beyond D&D panel is about to start, so more later.... Loving PAX!!!
-- Posted From My iPhone
Labels: Dungeons and Dragons, miniatures, PAX, PAX09, video games
