Halloween Giveaway! (AKA Buying Your Affection)
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Halloween Giveaway! (AKA Buying Your Affection)

Hey, it’s Halloween! The Dread Gazebo’s favorite holiday! In the spirit of celebrating the thinnest veil between the living and the dead, I bring to you a chance for yet another way to waste your life pretending to be a dwarf. As you know I’m elated to be through another dry spell in gaming and having emerged a wiser, better DM.

I’m also pretty damn thankful that I have such awesome friends all around me. I’ve also hit (and surpassed) 1k twitter followers recently so I’d like to keep to my promise of giving some cool stuff away. See, Halloween is like my Thanksgiving, and Christmas…and Birthday. You get the idea.

10 things to know before going to Gencon, a newbie’s guide
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10 things to know before going to Gencon, a newbie’s guide

I’ve learned quite a few things during my first adventure to GenCon, so I came up with what I think to be the 10 most important things for your average con-newbie to know before embarking into the epic sea of awesomeness that is GenCon. I hope it does someone some good, I hope my experiences can help others avoid some of the pitfalls I ran into along the way

  • Bring Cash: – most booths do take credit but some of them do it manually. Security concerns are an issue along with possibly waiting days for it to show up on your statement. Also some booths have a minimum purchase amount for credit.
  • Bargain Hunters: The final day is the best day for deals, most vendors want to haul/ship back the least a mount of product possible so prices get slashed and bargains surface.
  • Parking: Avoid parking at the Hyatt or other hotel garages, the Circle City Mall parking is much cheaper, also parking prices increase on certain days. Also obviously – arrive as early as possible if you want any chance at a decent parking space.