@@johntodd7495 Thanks! Making cons re-liveable since 2023! lol We missed each other! I was only there Friday and Saturday. How was Sunday? Any of my tips help?
@ oh yes definitely, we locked down the parking and room ahead of time. I was on the fence about thunder road complete version, which of course did sell out by Friday, but great game. I still play the first version as it is such a great entry level game for kiddos. Cons no pun intended- they have to work out the game reservations system. Too clunky, needing to third party some stuff, reserve here and there was tedious, and I never felt locked in fully. Need more games, and again more about the reservations system by 8:01 everything I was trying to get into was locked up. 4 friends and myself were at the Reading market for breakfast as per your excellent advice, hovering over our phones at precisely 8:00:0001 to be getting locked out of games. That was disappointing. Pax actually told the gang at baldman games they couldn’t fire the 10:00 game of DnD that I registered for because they didn’t want us there late, and there were a number of us registered folks turned away, sadness ensued Pros Its a giant con in our backyard lol The walking space in the vendor hall is fantastic as opposed to gencon that is tight. Plenty of room to walk freely and stop and look and even sit in on demos They got the vendor hall right, if I go back, I might not register for games but instead just plan to walk the vendors hall and demo stuff. The lending library, wow if you can find something to play here you are far to selective. Plenty of play space and plenty of games to choose from Anyhow Sherpa my 2 cents 🙂 Jt
@johntodd7495 Great list... I pre-booked the Wanamaker (Macy's) parking lot on Friday, and there was a spot waiting for me, but damn that garage is really tight to maneuver.. I dont have a big car, but its an SUV and making those turns into the spots required a few maneuvers to get in... We parked over on Simson on Saturday and it was a much better experience (albeit about $10 more expensive) I picked up the Carnival of Chaos expansion for Thunder Road and can't wait to play it...It is such a great series that I've bought piecemeal instead of Maximum Chrome - which I shouldve at the beginning. That sucks that they killed your scheduled D&D game... When did they tell you? I hope they didnt make you wait around until 10 to spring that on you.. I agree, the aisles were nice and wide and comfortable to walk thru for the most part - that 4300 aisle was GenCon tight tho LOL I couldn't believe all the people in the freeplay area...There were at least double(?) the amount of people in the vendor section there... I walked thru the game library section and it was quite impressive of a selection - i saw some new and popular games on the library's tables (Must have just got returned LOL) Damn, now I want to do a best of/worst of PaxU video - oh well so much for my hiatus LOL I'm moving next week, so i might not be able to find the time tho...
Great Walkthru! Feel like I was there!
Thanks!
Thanks, Sherpa. Great job. Feel like I was there only yesterday.
@@johntodd7495 Thanks! Making cons re-liveable since 2023! lol
We missed each other! I was only there Friday and Saturday. How was Sunday? Any of my tips help?
@ oh yes definitely, we locked down the parking and room ahead of time. I was on the fence about thunder road complete version, which of course did sell out by Friday, but great game. I still play the first version as it is such a great entry level game for kiddos.
Cons no pun intended- they have to work out the game reservations system. Too clunky, needing to third party some stuff, reserve here and there was tedious, and I never felt locked in fully.
Need more games, and again more about the reservations system
by 8:01 everything I was trying to get into was locked up. 4 friends and myself were at the Reading market for breakfast as per your excellent advice, hovering over our phones at precisely 8:00:0001 to be getting locked out of games. That was disappointing.
Pax actually told the gang at baldman games they couldn’t fire the 10:00 game of DnD that I registered for because they didn’t want us there late, and there were a number of us registered folks turned away, sadness ensued
Pros
Its a giant con in our backyard lol
The walking space in the vendor hall is fantastic as opposed to gencon that is tight. Plenty of room to walk freely and stop and look and even sit in on demos
They got the vendor hall right, if I go back, I might not register for games but instead just plan to walk the vendors hall and demo stuff.
The lending library, wow if you can find something to play here you are far to selective. Plenty of play space and plenty of games to choose from
Anyhow Sherpa my 2 cents 🙂
Jt
@johntodd7495 Great list... I pre-booked the Wanamaker (Macy's) parking lot on Friday, and there was a spot waiting for me, but damn that garage is really tight to maneuver.. I dont have a big car, but its an SUV and making those turns into the spots required a few maneuvers to get in... We parked over on Simson on Saturday and it was a much better experience (albeit about $10 more expensive)
I picked up the Carnival of Chaos expansion for Thunder Road and can't wait to play it...It is such a great series that I've bought piecemeal instead of Maximum Chrome - which I shouldve at the beginning.
That sucks that they killed your scheduled D&D game... When did they tell you? I hope they didnt make you wait around until 10 to spring that on you..
I agree, the aisles were nice and wide and comfortable to walk thru for the most part - that 4300 aisle was GenCon tight tho LOL I couldn't believe all the people in the freeplay area...There were at least double(?) the amount of people in the vendor section there... I walked thru the game library section and it was quite impressive of a selection - i saw some new and popular games on the library's tables (Must have just got returned LOL)
Damn, now I want to do a best of/worst of PaxU video - oh well so much for my hiatus LOL I'm moving next week, so i might not be able to find the time tho...