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Wrath of PAX

The most fun I had at PAX East 2011 was playing Wrath of Ashardalon (WoA).  That’s a huge statement to make considering PAX was a giant geek-playground stocked with more board games and table top games than I imagined existed.  I was lucky enough to get in on a Wizards of the Coast (WotC) sponsored WoA game.  Wrath of Ashardalon is for 1-5 players, and with a lengthy queue forming, Wizards of the Coast was getting five in for every game.  As first in line I was picked first along with three guys who knew each other and one more person in line who was also by themselves. (Helpful Hint: At PAX you can sometimes skip part of the queue if you’re by yourself and they just need one more to fill out a group.)

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For the uninitiated PAX is the Penny Arcade eXpo.  Last year they spread out from their original PAX Prime in Seattle to have a PAX East in Boston.  It was a massive success.  So massive that they brought it back to Boston again this year, only in a much larger building.  At 69,500 people, it became the largest gaming convention open to the public in America.  It should be noted that this post is not heavy with PAX pictures as I did not bring a camera (beyond my iPhone).  I’m not sure I would have taken the time for pictures even if I had.  I feel like I was on the go my entire time and to fit anything else in would have been impossible.

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Countless D&D adventures begin with these six words, so why not a blog?  No, not a blog, a campaign, with each post an encounter, building into grandiose adventures set it in a world of geeking out, games, dice and table top miniatures.  Build a character, assemble your scale army and join in the tale that I create as we go.

Since I started DMing a 4e campaign last July, I have continually had thoughts and observations both from my own games and from what I read in the community online that I wanted to shared, but forum posting has it’s limits and is often just more noise in a sea of opinions, nearly unsearchable.  Those were the first stones, rolling down down a hillside.

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