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Gen Con Indy - Friday Walkabout - 2007 Page 2 of 2 Previous Page   No, Gen Con is not a costuming event, but there still are enough costumers to keep a camera busy. This is one of the groups of Star Wars costumers who found they couldn't move for a longtime because so many fans wanted to take pictures of them. So if it's a gaming convention, let's get out of the dealers' room, roll through the lobby, head up the escalator and look for gamers. They aren't hard to find.... ...especially in the convention center's big upstairs ballroom, where Wizards of the Coast had countless gatherings of role playng gamers for the weekend. This room was decorated with an exceptional collection of gaming banners... ...and those billboard-size banners were part of the show in almost every part of the convention center. The escalators led to the 500 Ballroom, the original ballroom when the Indiana Convention Center was built 30 years earlier. Every inch of the balllroom was filled with RPG'ers, along with the room next door and the neighboring rooms. This group of RPG'ers happly shouted their slogan, "Anything can happen!" They cheered again when the game master announced that they would be the first people anywhere to play a new Justice League game. Multiply this scene by the number of additional ballrooms in five other downtown Indianapolis hotels, and you get an idea of Gen Con's size. Imagine the problems some gamers had finding the locations of those games when schedules were changed, and you can feel the frustrations felt by some gamers who missed their once-a-year events. Page 2 of 2 Previous Page   Gen Con Indy Main Page