Paizo's booth is even bigger, and holy crap does their presence at Gen Con continue to grow. The Sagamore Ballroom was full of hundreds and hundreds of Pathfinder Society gamers. Also, the Advanced Class Guide is here, and looks good:






The Sagamore Ballroom, or about 60% of it:



Lots of great costumes this year:

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Wizards of the Coast has its own hall, and had a pretty sizable number of folks playing 5e. However, there wasn't too much of a line to pick up the PHB--maybe because it's only $30 on Amazon? Check out those cool faction banners:



The line for D&D's "Bazaar", where you can buy their stuff, at about 10:45 this morning:



And with that, the convention hall is PACKED, with everyone attempting to get Day 1 Exclusives. It's worth your life to try to cut in line at Paizo, Fantasy Flights, Privateer, or AEG right now.



More later!

Quote from: Zachary The First;779562Devious Weasel's booth has dancers doing rhythmic stuff in sync. One of the nearby booths was talking about how that was Sending The Wrong Message:

Well, unless he's selling dancing girls, I think it's the wrong message.  I would want to get through the hall to pick up games, not get trapped behind someone who's dawdling to check out girls who aren't even on sale.

It is sad at how bland the WoTC 5e room is compared to the balls to the wall Paizo room. That disparity is kind of jarring. Did you notice that too, or was it just me? It is hard to tell from your pictures. Did you get a different sense in person?

Last year the D&D Hall had Lolth front and center; I guess they need to get a huge Tiamat statue now....

Seconded the opinion on Armada.  Makes me want to shout "IT'S A TRAP!!!"

How close are the Trolls to Mayfair this year? On Sunday, the Mayfair crowd gets so huge and so loud that it drowns out everything nearby, and it was starting to grate on the people at the Troll booth last year.

Quote from: Goober;779449nice shirt

Oooh I'd like one of those T-Shirts!

Thanks for starting this thread, I have to live vicariously as I can't easily make the pilgrimage to Mecca myself.

Also finally got off my ass and signed up for the forums here and given up on rpg.net and it's SJW trolls.

Welcome Gwarh!

So I've heard that a few 5e Monster Manuals are available to people who bought special passes.

Any sightings of those?

Quote from: Saplatt;779612So I've heard that a few 5e Monster Manuals are available to people who bought special passes.

Any sightings of those?

The official word being given to customers at the 5e Bazaar is that MM books are not available, not coming in on time or somesuch. At least for the plebes--I can't speak to anything else, but will ask around.

Re: decorating, yeah, D&D's area is a bit more barebones. But it's not that they're doing anything wrong, I think, it's just Paizo is clearly absolutely rocking it.

Quote from: flyerfan1991;779582Last year the D&D Hall had Lolth front and center; I guess they need to get a huge Tiamat statue now....

Seconded the opinion on Armada.  Makes me want to shout "IT'S A TRAP!!!"

How close are the Trolls to Mayfair this year? On Sunday, the Mayfair crowd gets so huge and so loud that it drowns out everything nearby, and it was starting to grate on the people at the Troll booth last year.

Trolls are 1719 this year, Mayfair is on the other side, down in the 100s-300s this year.

I really like those dungeon morph dice.

Quote from: Zachary The First;779562Devious Weasel's booth has dancers doing rhythmic stuff in sync. One of the nearby booths was talking about how that was Sending The Wrong Message:

So what they want to tell us is, they can hire girls, not that they know game design. Boring.

Quote from: Zachary The First;779615The official word being given to customers at the 5e Bazaar is that MM books are not available, not coming in on time or somesuch. At least for the plebes--I can't speak to anything else, but will ask around.

Here's my source.

Also a Mearls tweet, a few hours ago, stating that the MM was part of the D&D all-access pass swag.

So, let's talk dice. I always show Q-Workshop, Gamescience, etc. There's a couple of new players this year.

Artisan Dice makes some absolutely incredible wooden dice, but also make some out of other materials, including alligator bone! They aren't cheap, but they're beautiful.





Gator bone and resin, I believe:

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If you're looking for metal dice, Inkwell Ideas is selling bronze, brass, copper, silver, and gold-colored metal dice, treated to last, for $40 per set:



Of course, for those who want to pick out a mug of more traditional dice, Chessex still has their massive dice reservoirs at four different locations in the Exhibit Hall:




Talked some more to the Paizo folks. Apparently, they have some really big plans on their deal with Obsidian Entertainment--beyond their tablet trading card game that will be coming out. I guess we'll see just what that is.

There's a side display that shows some of the figures coming up for D&D Attack Wing:





Back to dice and dice accessories for a moment: Wyrmwood Gaming has some incredible dice trays and dice tray holders, made from woods ranging from Cherry and Maple to Zebrawood and Bolivian Rosewood (I didn't ask about Uruguayan Rosewood). This is top-end stuff:





Time to grab a quick lunch. More soon! This year's convention is absolutely busting with stuff!

Quote from: Saplatt;779619Here's my source.

Also a Mearls tweet, a few hours ago, stating that the MM was part of the D&D all-access pass swag.

Kinda sucks they were telling customers they just didn't have it. But, I guess they didn't, for non All-Access customers.

Quote from: Saplatt;779619Here's my source.

Also a Mearls tweet, a few hours ago, stating that the MM was part of the D&D all-access pass swag.

  And people on that thread and on TBP are reporting that they have the book in hand.

Quote from: Armchair Gamer;779625And people on that thread and on TBP are reporting that they have the book in hand.

Bastards!