{"id":42,"date":"2005-08-19T17:23:52","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T22:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animagnum.net\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2005-08-19T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T22:23:52","slug":"gencon-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"GenCon, Day #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started off the day with a grueling 5-hour Dungeons &#038; 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.<\/p>\n<p>That is correct, there are official D&#038;D organizations that hold official D&#038;D tournaments.  The guys in my party told me that they were championship-level players, and I&#8217;m pretty sure they weren&#8217;t bluffing.  They took the game seriously but they were still some funny dudes.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after D&#038;D I had to run to life-sized Devil Bunny needs a ham.<\/p>\n<p>After losing horribly in DBNaH I went to the exhibitor hall and met Rich Burlew, the creator of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantitp.com\/index.html\">Order of the Stick<\/a>.&#8221;  OOTS is a webcomic about Dungeons &#038; Dragons.  It&#8217;s really funny, even to ignorant D&#038;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 &#8220;hi&#8221; 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&#8217;s strategy pays off again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started off the day with a grueling 5-hour Dungeons &#038; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}