Which I am! I’m more into role playing than board games right now, but I like board game. More waiting than playing all around, unless you’re board gamer. I sort of gave up at this point, but from my observation, the system eventually changed to “wait in line for two hours to play a two hour game.” D&D, I gather, was just as bad: wait in a line that started hours before the con to sign up for a slot later in the day. The lady running it said to come back half an hour before the next slot, but since I arrived with friends at literally 12:31, there were only three remaining slots in three separate games. This was the first place I headed, and they operated on a first come, first served basis, so even though I arrived at the very beginning of the con, I couldn’t get into anything interesting. Games on Demand tried its best, but they definitely focused more on demand than supply. First come, first served and interminable lines as an apparent convention philosophy. Part of this is on me forgetting to bring a water bottle, but the solution to hydration needs is not charging $3.75 for vending machine water (also gone by Saturday night). PAXU didn’t even have reliably working water fountains. Where was all the water? I’ve never been to a con without a million water coolers. Some of the problems were (I hope) growing pains from moving into a new gaming space, but some of them were downright negligent. Letting people rest is a great idea, although this is not how it worked in practice, as I’ll explain below.ĭespite these highlights, from a logistics and game-playing perspective, Unplugged was the most disappointing con I’ve ever been to. If I were there exclusively to play board games, I might have been happier. It seemed like a good space to play board games, and the breadth of the library (when it wasn’t decimated by check-outs) seemed OK. The dealers seemed to generally be doing well.The con itself provided what seemed like great resources, like the diversity room and the AFK room, but I just needed a place where ANYONE knew my name, and I’m thankful I found one.
Bully Pulpit Games provided a small refuge from the chaos and the lines with their tiny room stocked with quality people and quality games. It warmed my heart every time I saw one of them. It was close, but not too close, to my home,so along with the usual cast of con favorites, I got to spend time with an almost daunting number of excellent friends who I interact with in a non-gaming capacity and meet new ones. I’m going to do it anyway, but I’ll focus on the things I loved at PAX Unplugged first: I don’t really want to talk shit about a convention that seems to have brought joy to a lot of people. This was my first PAX event, and I was not impressed. Click on this and it will give you the option to choose your link flair. At the bottom of your post you will notice a gray link that says "flair". When submitting a new post please make sure to assign the correct link flair. Do not post individual threads when a consolidated link is available.
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