No pledge. Too knackered this week.

Never had con crud.

I look for new stuff at conventions and treat it is a holiday with a budget of a few hundred quid.

Pro: Chance to see new games from small publishers.

Con: Queues are long and crowds are dense.

I’ve been ill before now after returning from Dragonmeet. But that was also mid-December, so could have picked it up from anywhere on the train/tube or just anywhere generally in big old germ-y London.
Though when I went last, they were giving out leaflets advising adolescent men about personal hygiene and telling them not to sniff girls hair or something. So I probably did pick it up from the convention.

My pockets are pretty deep for hobby just at the minute. It won’t last. But I lost my mum recently and until Xmas, I was sending her 500 quid a month – so I’ve got quite a bit of spare cash at the minute that I haven’t yet re-assigned to something more useful, so my hobby-fund has been getting a bit of a boost of late! Atm, if I fancy getting something, I get it (hence pulling the trigger on the Army Painter Fanatic Mega Set recently).

The biggest pro of any gaming convention is getting to see the people behind the games/stores. There was a small affair in Worthing recently (called Paradice) that was great fun to go to. But only to breeze around in about an hour and snap up some interesting looking games – I probably could be interested enough to join a play-test group and just sit and play at a table all day – but I’d have to leave my wife at home and just have a day out to myself! So the biggest pro is getting to meet lots of people with a shared love of the hobby.

The downside is, of course, that there are lots of people with a similar love of the hobby there.
And some of them are – quite frankly – weird.

No pledge this week – I’m away on a business trip half the week. I realised that meant I had to finish my Dungeonalia today so here it is: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1860155/

• Con Crud: how fast can you catch it? – Presumably quite fast depending on venue size, crowd density and ventilation.
• Convention Treasures: how deep are your pockets? – I’d usually set a generous budget that I’d be willing to splash – otherwise I’d be too reserved and buy nothing.
• Pro and Con of conventions – Just a geeky shopping trip for me. I don’t get involved in playing and I don’t really talk to people.

Pledge: get back to work on my gorilla

Con Crud: already was sick prior to the one two weeks ago and I’m all better now.

Convention Treasures: this was the beginning of stocking up for Giftmas. It’s like having Cheerios with a dog “Some for you, some for me”.

Pros for conventions: going to panels, having interpersonal time with people in the industry, getting in random games, seeing new stuff, having friendly competition in the mini painting world

Cons for conventions: Gamer funk, the presence of That Guy/Girl in your session, the bleeding of your wallet if you hadn’t saved up prior to going into the vendor’s hall

I really should have bothered you @sundancer prior to Tactica. Werner Klocke apparently was there for Freebooter’s Fate.

Also, belatedly due to postal snafu, to our friend Brother @lloyd

Think I’m suffering with Weekend-Crud.

Last few weeks on a Monday morning I feel like crap and this week was no different.

Been wide awake since 3am and really don’t feel like walking around in cold and wet all day with sack of mail.