Slug Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 It's that time of the year! We're 3 weeks away from Year 2 of PAX Unplugged in FABULOUS Philadelphia, PA! Who's in?! If you haven't registered yet, 3 day passes are almost sold out. http://unplugged.paxsite.com I'm already rego'd for all 3 days. In it's first year in 2017, this quickly entered into my favorite cons of the year list. If you are on the Right Coast and are a tabletop gamer at all, you owe it to yourself to be there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 I’ll be there all three days. I think a clique of about 10 of us will be around one way or another most of the weekend. Tempted to do the Legion tourney, but it’s about 6 hours and I doubt I’d win a match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted November 7, 2018 Author Share Posted November 7, 2018 I got 2 pals driving up from Virginia for it and another few coming down from New Hampshire. I can't wait. My plan mostly involves Booster Drafting Mtg and playing D&D Adventurer League. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Nice. Other than a Legion and possibly a Destiny or an X-Wing tourney, I’m pretty open. One of my brothers in law will be running RPGs for games on demand, so may be doing that. Other than that, I’m pretty open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 54 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: Nice. Other than a Legion and possibly a Destiny or an X-Wing tourney, I’m pretty open. One of my brothers in law will be running RPGs for games on demand, so may be doing that. Other than that, I’m pretty open. Nice. Hopefully I'll be able to get in on some RPGs. Last year that was my only disappointment; not enough DMs so available RPGs booked full way too fast. Didn't get into a single one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 I had a meeting run 10 minutes after 1:00 pm EST and I missed the cutoff for the Legion tourney. I’m on the waitlist. Sigh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted November 10, 2018 Author Share Posted November 10, 2018 All the tier 2 and above D&D Adventurer League stuff was booked within minutes of registration opening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonEyesJason Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 I find it hilarious that people go to cons to play D&D AL that you can play almost anywhere. Origins usually books up pretty quick too and I usually think "Why?" I usually like the cons to see and try games I can't play any other night of the week. I won't be going since I started a new job a few weeks ago. I'm going to try and shoot for next year maybe especially since it's over in PA and I'm in Ohio so it isn't too far. Just timing wasn't right for this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anzo Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 I wasn't aware of this con's existence until this year but will definitely go to it in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted November 12, 2018 Author Share Posted November 12, 2018 19 hours ago, DemonEyesJason said: I find it hilarious that people go to cons to play D&D AL that you can play almost anywhere. Origins usually books up pretty quick too and I usually think "Why?" I usually like the cons to see and try games I can't play any other night of the week. A bit, yeah. I mean, I wanted to do AL at Con, but like one adventure and be done with it. There are people that go to Con and do nothing but AL for 3 days. I don't get those folks. There's so much going on that I can't imagine spending the entire con in the RPG dungeon alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 Looks like they expanded the Legion player pool, so I’m in. Good to know problems have evolved from not being able to participate to being so disconnected from the meta as to have no hope for victory! I think I’ll do at least one other tourney too... maye X-Wing? KeyForge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 PAX day one so far has been good. New entrance model works better. It's lunch and I've already rocked mini-masters, mtg league and a booster draft. After lunch more drafts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 Holy shit BSG minis space combat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 They split level everything which is super nice. RpGs and tcgs downstairs with the main exhibit hall taking most of the top floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 Yeah it’s a lot better than last year even though it’s a lot larger and took longer to get in. Got shellacked in the Legion tourney but had a great time. No idea who decided to start a tourney at 4:30 when matches are 2 hours long but other than that it was good. A guy with an Imperial Squad had easily the best paint jobs and mods I’ve seen IRL, it was incredible. Picked up some stuff, will do more shopping tomorrow. Probably gonna get Fog of Love and some Arkham Horror TCG expansions. Was hoping they’d have the expansion for Root here, but no luck so I preordered the second printing. Played a lot of KeyForge today and I really dig it. I’ll be interested to see how / if it takes off. Also every custom game table maker is here and I want one SO BAD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Played Inhuman Conditions and liked it a lot. I’m... pretty bad at the role playing part of RPGs. Mainly because most of the systems I play are foreign to me, so I get caught up in mechanics a lot instead of playing my character. Something that only lasts for 5 minutes at a time was fun and easy to commit to when I was the suspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted December 7, 2018 Author Share Posted December 7, 2018 AND my final haul, less some D&D 5e adventure modules I purchased... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPCyric Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 On 12/1/2018 at 9:35 PM, Kal-El814 said: Yeah it’s a lot better than last year even though it’s a lot larger and took longer to get in. Got shellacked in the Legion tourney but had a great time. No idea who decided to start a tourney at 4:30 when matches are 2 hours long but other than that it was good. A guy with an Imperial Squad had easily the best paint jobs and mods I’ve seen IRL, it was incredible. Picked up some stuff, will do more shopping tomorrow. Probably gonna get Fog of Love and some Arkham Horror TCG expansions. Was hoping they’d have the expansion for Root here, but no luck so I preordered the second printing. Played a lot of KeyForge today and I really dig it. I’ll be interested to see how / if it takes off. Also every custom game table maker is here and I want one SO BAD. From what I have heard from local game stores is that KeyForge has already taken off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonEyesJason Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Looks like the GW booth is as meh as it is when it's at Origins. Everything they bring tends to be Horus Heresy or Forge World garbage that they charge a hell of a lot for. That painted Tau looks great though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anzo Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 @Slug How do you feel this compared to Gen-Con? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 I think it compares favorably. I think that the exhibit hall, while smaller in size, competes with gencon in quality and variety, less some creators (Gencon's exhibit hall has more artists and independant craft people). But free gaming space and the library and the tournaments for the size I think PAXU did very well. The big edge GenCon has over PAXU is event registration. Their prereg system is much better and you are far more likely to get events you want. PAXU tried something this year with their app to prereg some events, but it wasn't effective. They just don't have enough scheduled events or people to run them. Maybe as the con grows they will get there. But at GenCon I can go into it *knowing* that I'm getting into event X or Y ahead of time. No lines, no running out of DMs, no bullshit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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