GenCon

[brad jones]

I know it is a reach, but I'll ask....

Anyone going to GenCon?

If so, let me know. It'd be cool to say "hi" to uber-geeks we might have visiting VBForums!

Brad!

[JuggaloBrotha]

I know it is a reach, but I'll ask....

Anyone going to GenCon?

If so, let me know. It'd be cool to say "hi" to uber-geeks we might have visiting VBForums!

Brad!

I'm not going because I'm in California for work, but I have a few friends back home in Lansing area, Michigan who are going to go.

[Shaggy Hiker]

My sister was the model for some of the art in the new D&D manuals, so she'll be there in spirit.

[homer13j]

My sister was the model for some of the art in the new D&D manuals, so she'll be there in spirit.

Worthless without pictures.

[FunkyDexter]

If she takes after Shaggy she was probably modelling a beardy barbarian type.

[Shaggy Hiker]

My sister jousts, so she's a slender gal who happens to have a full set of plate mail. Not the kind of accessory that is common. Oddly, I feel that the artist kind of made her look like a mash-up of her with a touch of George Washington.

She sent me some of the pictures, but I don't actually know what has been used, or where. I'm not sure that she knows. At first she thought the art would appear in just one, obscure, place, but then she said it sounded like it would be showing up in the new edition of the Players Handbook, and she's in a few pictures. I'll have to go look at one of those books to see if she's there.

[FunkyDexter]

My sister jousts, so she's a slender gal who happens to have a full set of plate mail.

Yeah, that certainly fits an archetype. The question is, is she going to come crashing through GenCon on a charger?

[FunkyDexter]

Also, this does beg the question: is your entire family made up of fantasy archetypes? So far we've got the hulking, bearded barbarian crouched at his wilderness campfire (and probably smelling vaguely of fish); the flaxen haired Valkyrie, crushing her enemies beneath the hooves of her might charger; the noble matriarch, machining the politics of the kingdom and bending the will of the peasantry to her whim...

I've got an image of your Dad as a bespectacled scholar sitting in a dusty library somewhere mumbling about the coming chaos. He probably has pointy ears.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, that certainly fits an archetype. The question is, is she going to come crashing through GenCon on a charger?

No, I think she drives a Ford to those events.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Also, this does beg the question: is your entire family made up of fantasy archetypes? So far we've got the hulking, bearded barbarian crouched at his wilderness campfire (and probably smelling vaguely of fish); the flaxen haired Valkyrie, crushing her enemies beneath the hooves of her might charger; the noble matriarch, machining the politics of the kingdom and bending the will of the peasantry to her whim...

I've got an image of your Dad as a bespectacled scholar sitting in a dusty library somewhere mumbling about the coming chaos. He probably has pointy ears.

Yeah, that's about right, actually. Dad was an engineer, and still tinkers with stuff. Not really an academic type, more hands on, but the information he has stored away still astonishes me.

[FunkyDexter]

Ah, so your typical Gnomish Tinkerer then...

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, that would fit in most ways, other than stature. My father was never as big as I am, but he was above average height.