GenCon, Day #2

August 19th, 2005 by Rory

Started off the day with a grueling 5-hour Dungeons & Dragons open tournament. We barely finished the campaign. We ended up making it to round two, so tomorrow I have to play again at 1pm. At least now I can get some rest.

That is correct, there are official D&D organizations that hold official D&D tournaments. The guys in my party told me that they were championship-level players, and I’m pretty sure they weren’t bluffing. They took the game seriously but they were still some funny dudes.

Immediately after D&D I had to run to life-sized Devil Bunny needs a ham.

After losing horribly in DBNaH I went to the exhibitor hall and met Rich Burlew, the creator of “Order of the Stick.” OOTS is a webcomic about Dungeons & Dragons. It’s really funny, even to ignorant D&D fans like myself. I then went to the Mariott hotel to sit down for a while and saw Mary McDonnell again. I would have said “hi” had it not been for her 300 lbs. bodyguard who vaguely resembled Bam Bam Bigelow. Tonight I go back to play life-sized Kill Dr. Lucky. I can only hope yesterday’s strategy pays off again.

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