Things were a lot more crowded today, which makes sense because it’s the weekend. That said, it still wasn’t Gen Con levels of crowded; It was never difficult to move around the halls.
I tried out the hotel buffet for breakfast, just because I woke up earlier than I’d really intended to and I figured I should try it at least once during the con. It was pretty good, and I even had some oatmeal in an attempt to convince myself that I was having a healthy diet. Or something.
I did have what claimed to be a s’more from a kiosk in a hotel in Las Vegas, but it seemed very large & extremely unweildy. Further conversations with Tom backed this up; Much like “biscuits & gravy” from a hotel buffet doesn’t count, neither does a s’more that’s not made on a campfire.
Wandering through the vendor bits of the gaming halls in the evening (not entirely sure why there is a vendor hall and vendor areas of the gaming hall, but that’s how it worked), it was very easy to accidentally trigger a sales pitch from slightly punch-drunk people. Sometimes it was an interesting pitch, sometimes an interesting game; And sometimes it was a nonstop recitation of the rules & gameplay of a wargame from someone who clearly wasn’t going to stop talking.
Yesterday, at the raffle in the Arcane Wonders booth, I was one ticket number off winning an absolutely enormous board game, Foundations of Rome: Maximus Sundrop Edition – Basically a boxed set of a bunch of stuff for the base game, as I understand it.
Today I went back for the next day’s raffle, and ended up winning that same game bundle. It’s nearly $300 of game, and weighs 20lb. Couldn’t look at the box without laughing at how ridiculous it looks.
