Wow! You got some serious bang for your buck. I’m in awe. Having been in enough Serious Gamer Opinion discussions, I’m probably glad I missed that one Sunday night! Instead I was doing Canadian impressions with Patrick. Which I could do for, oh, I don’t know, about ten hours straight. I’ve seen the Ken and Mark out opinion each other show before. It’s… impressive.

And my open door policy wasn’t just you. One person in the afternoon session had a similar “what the hell is this” look about him. I just need to make sure to a) set expectations and explain what’s going to happen better during mustering and b) give people a “no hard feelings / no questions asked” escape hatch. I sometimes use the X-Card, but I don’t do the open door policy at all – and I’m beginning to think it’s arguably more important.

And if someone wants to stick around after that, I won’t feel as bad if I think they’re not into it! But yeah, in the moment I did feel a “damn, this sucks that Beakley isn’t into this thing I worked on” gut reaction. Had it just been some random module I pulled together – probably wouldn’t have been as invested as much.

And I’m sure you’re right that there are both charitable and not so charitable reasons DCC gets indie love. And I’ll cop to that. The OSR indie presence is always a little tense. Although, it was cool that Sarah ran something in that space as well. I’m allowed to do stuff with the OSR people until one of them reads WotA. Then I’m probably out.

Anyway, cool to see you and Jay and the growing crew of people driving from that direction! Hope to see you all next year!