Yeah, I last met him when he came as this hot blonde named Anita.

I'm sorry I didn't bump into you, then.

Part of why I was short on time was a ...strange... scheduling of a wargame I wanted in on. I basically spent 16 hours of Gencon-time stuck waiting for an opening at an event. While I had a good time Thursday and Saturday regardless (the two days I was signed up for that event, from 10am to 6pm), and played quite a few "just for fun" games on open tables... it was still time I could've spent doing other stuff.

If I'd known it was going to be two afternoons/evenings of mostly wasted time, I wouldn't have signed up for that and might've snuck in some SR4 intro game or something, instead. As it was, the one time I stumbled across "the Shadowrun room," it looked like most folks were busy, so I didn't wanna screw up games by leaping onto a table and shouting "I am Critias! Who here wishes to challenge me in single debate?! Rrrrwaar!!!" or something. I wouldn't have minded running into a few of you guys, though. I don't, y'know, hate the SR developers, and it's always fun/surprising/strange to meet face-to-face with people that were previously nothing but forum names and whatever faces you'd made up for them based on their words.

Regardless, I did have a decent conversation with those few guys at the booth. I aired my still-standing greivances, and they actually nodded and understood where I was coming from. By the end of it, we'd all agreed the universe probably wouldn't implode if I re-instituted a target number based system (largely simply replacing die pool modifiers for TN modifiers), and hand-waved away skill caps (my two biggest beefs with it, as written).

Grendel probably would have shot you if you did that.

thanks - i did actually! i didn't get sick till sunday

I think there is some SR art of you. If I come across it, I will post it, but today I have a nose like a faucet.

John PMed me about Dashifen. He was going by a cancelled badge name and sat right next to me at boot camp.

Adam, I do not think I came right out and introduced myself, but after standing at the booth like a fanboy, we talked. I asked if many DSers showed as the guy that hooked me on SR strolled by. I did point him out as responsible for hundreds of dollars worth of subsequent sales. (I had not seen him in a decade.)

And who was Nimbex?

Hehe, you enjoyed a funny Iron Kingdoms-game with Natebot, didn't you?

Yup, that was Sunday, though. I also had a nice convo with him and Doug, and might (just might) be able to do a little writing for them sometime soon (that conversation, to be honest, was probably the highlight of the con for me).

No, I didn't collect any juicy gossip about upcoming stuff (Monsternomicon 2 was the only one I heard of), but they did have Five Fingers there, and it looked pretty sweet.

And it sounds like I might be able to squeak something into a NQ. Not sure, we're still hammering stuff out. It was awesome when Doug was like, "Oh, yeah. Nate, you should read some of this guy's stuff. Blisters and Bayonets is really cool."

Yar, I just put "Lin" on it because no one ever gets Linmayu right. Nimbex was Kipling the cat shaman, and he also GMed a few of the Missions events (and critically glitched at least one of them xD).

Who wouldn`t?

Always nice to get such cool reactions by the big chiefs, besides your stories are really good, I enjoy reading them.

Privateer sadly has a bad information policy when it comes to new sourcebooks and they update their website only rarely, that's why I asked about infos about new books.