Starting with the VIG Free Stuff, to give a sense of the scale of the thing;

OK, I say ‘free’.
In reality, I paid a lot more for my badge, so that I can guarantee a close-by hotel. The swag above & below is a part of that, so in one sense it’s free, because I didn’t buy or select it, but in another sense, I’ve paid for it.
Free Peanuts, not Free Beer.

Combined with the coffee urn in the VIG Lounge, that Mayfair Travel Mug thing was a lifesaver.

The gold Gen Con 50 die was part of the swag, the red Scotty’s die was a giveaway for eating there & ordering off the Gen Con menu.
I know folks who’ll eat there every day, just so that they get every day’s dice, as they are different colours. Me, I just can’t eat that many pickle chips.

Not sure what’s happening with the image rotations, but I can’t fix it on the phone, or at least on this  phone.

If this thing makes it back, in a soft-sided tramping pack, I’ll be amazed.

Probably the single most useful item I’ve ever had in a swag bag; 10,000 mAh power pack, solar and USB chargable, with two USB outputs and a lamp.

No idea.
Don’t know the game, but there wasn’t any kind of donation bucket, and I wondered what the die was like.

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OK, on to the stuff I bought.

There’s a set of dice for each Gen Con, which makes a fun & useful souvenir.

Why yes, those are solid steel Fate dice.
And a solid steel D20 the size of a golf ball.

They were out of the Masks RPG when I found the booth, but I got the cards anyway; I can buy the book online.