Greetings from beautiful downtown Indianapolis!

I realize that I haven't been blogging as much as I really should lately, and I suspect that the promised second part of my Empyrean Age review is not going to happen (I think at this point I've dealt with my disappointment and I really don't want to stir that up again -- it's not really useful anyway).  I may have some more general thoughts on worldbuilding at some point though.  I will,however, be blogging quite a bit this week, hopefully, with some updates from GenCon with accompanying photos (assuming I don't screw up with my new camera too much).

Adam and I arrived in Indy last night and after a quick stop at the packed registration hall so he could pick up his GM materials, we went to dinner with Wolfgang and Cierra from CAIN at the Rock Bottom Brewery. That was my first time there to actually have dinner, and it was pretty good; I had some sort of Southwestern pasta that was decent enough, and I didn't hear anyone else complain.  While there wasn't really any line, it was pretty full; you could tell the GenCon crowd was starting to come in to town.

After dinner, we met up with another CAINite, our slumming Amarr Yoshito, and went out for coffee to talk and give him a chance to get a bite to eat, and we ended up doing that for a good two or two and a half hours before heading out.  This is really what I love about GenCon, being able to just hang out and talk games or whatever with people for hours on end; I don't get much of a chance to do that back in Champaign, since most of my friends there, with a few exceptions, are not huge gamers.

Anyway, on tap for today is a fastplay game of NSDM and probably a few of their seminars, a quick swing through the vendor hall, and then the CAIN dinner tonight at the hopefully-as-awesome-as-it-is-in-Chicago Weber Grill, all of which I'll hopefully get some pictures of.