kertdawg wrote:
father bloodlust wrote:...I had to browse the entire Exhibit Hall (admittedly an easier task that year) and look for random stuff that caught my eye.
This has been exactly my plan every year since my first GenCon. The sheer spectacle of the exhibit hall is what brings me back. I've found vendors of off-topic things, such as a pen vendor (a pendor?) a few years back. It seems like it's a strange thing to do, but I tend to use these things at the game table. My insatiable appetite for dice is only satisfied at GenCon. Though, the sheer number of dice vendors was almost too much in 2021. Almost.Anyway, it's good to hear of somebody that enjoyed the little vendors, too!Well, I would often walk up and down the aisles in previous years, but with so many booths and limited time, I would usually just browse as I walked by. If something maybe kinda looked interesting, I might have spent a minute there, but if it didn't catch my interest by then I was off browsing again.
In 2021, with so many fewer booths and more time to kill, I had time to really take a closer look at things I was kinda sorta interested in. It led me to take a few risks, some of which admittedly didn't pan out (got a few game books that were interesting reads and cool-sounding settings, but whose rules I didn't care for to one degree or another). But I found enough games that were cool in both settings and rules to make up for those.
