Gencon costs quite a bit of cash to attend and the costs of the tickets are quite minor compared to that. If you manage to show up on time for one of my games, I’ll let you in unless I am totally overwhelmed with players who pre-bought their tickets for that specific game.

Gencon is about having fun playing games and I think it’s wrong to deny someone that fun for something outside of their control, ESPECIALLY since I did NOT deny ANY gamer who DID have a legit ticket.

“In music, it has been applied to artist’s works that go outside the boundaries of normal standards, e.g. the “boy-girl” dynamic in pop music. Examples of this would be “Kings of the Wild Frontier” and “Prince Charming” by the band Adam and the Ants, which include themes from 19th Century history and Native American history. The works of bands such as T.Rex, Pink Floyd, and Blur have also been described as high-concept. Again, pop music that goes past the standard topics of love or romance seems to qualify for this description.”

If you replace music with RPGs, then it works fine.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/high-concept
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=10&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DT5TT3a8LO1sC%26dq%3D%2522high%2Bconcept%2522%26printsec%3Dfrontcover%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3DI4GlvXM8QB%26sig%3D6x_XXvA3k-ZrPYKnvd2BpC5iTSY%26hl%3Den%26ei%3DMZieSrKvG4S4swPdmMUl%26sa%3DX%26oi%3Dbook_result%26ct%3Dresult%26resnum%3D10&ei=MZieSrKvG4S4swPdmMUl&usg=AFQjCNE1arE_uSqNuAv49T8bz21LP0C7Mg&sig2=ij9LtlkgBRA1ChnGVZ5NtA

I think it was last year I heard a tip from Trey Riley in a GAMA Trade Show episode hosted by the Pulp Gamer guys about con hosting. What she said was that those hotel blocks of discounted rooms can be retroactively discounted for people who don’t get into them. If you didn’t get a discounted room check with the con organizers and/or the hotel staff and see what you can have done to get your bill changed.

The benefit the con organizers get out of this is they have leverage to get larger quantities of blocked rooms the next year when they find out there are more people than they had planned.

Anyway, great con wrap-up.

And how did the Breakfast Club All Flesh game go? I remember you mentioning you were scheduled for a session of it in a past episode. I was in that one on Sunday morning. It was okay. Nothing to write home about.

Listening to you guys talk about the game you played gave me some ideas of things I’d like to try running, so thanks for that too.