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There is plenty of very good food within easy walking distance, but the passing periods between panels are nightmarishly packed. It's at the Doubletree Hotel that is right across from the airport. Much as the various PAX conventions love having their board game contingent there, it's not an easy con for analog gaming folk, as video games are loud and flashy and showy. There's PAX, PAX East, PAX South, PAX Australia. PAX managed to expand without the same issue. But it did slightly relieve a bit of the pressure on Indy for the first year or two. This meant that GenCon SoCal was treated as a lesser convention by the vendors, which means that gamers also treated it as second-class, and so on. But that wound up not succeeding, because vendors didn't feel like paying for two GenCon events per year, one of which involved a great deal more travel for many of them. They also tried to split things up by adding GenCon SoCal. That appears to have been a good move, but GenCon has outgrown the convention center, too, and is now starting to expand into the stadium. A larger city with more hotels and a reasonably large convention center. Hotels outgrowing regions, on the other hand. Conventions outgrowing hotels is nothing surprising. There were long lines at restaurants and grocery stores and. All of the hotels in town were full, all of the campgrounds and RV parks around town were full. There simply was not enough room to host everyone who wanted to attend. Remember a while back when GenCon left the Lake Geneva area and went to Indianapolis? It's because the convention had outgrown Lake Geneva. Unfortunately, growth is not always a good thing. And the most visible measure of success is their growth. This weekend, I'm at NorWesCon 40, and we had a conversation with the front desk clerk that brought a couple of things into stark focus for me, and I feel the need to share these things with you.Ĭonventions - by their very nature - want to succeed. I keep cycling back to thinking about (and writing about) conventions. And I think that I can confidently state that Noble Knight is one of the Good Guys out there. This was my first time dealing with their customer service team.

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When they learned that backers were still waiting, they stepped up and voluntarily sent product for free to backers. In 2015, they purchased a bunch of product from d20 Entertainment that was intended for Kickstarter backers. I've known for a few years that Noble Knight was one of the good guys. And they did what they said they would do. But Noble Knight was responsive and really on the ball. Again: Necessary for play, so I'll stick with the orange. 'I have a replacement order set up and will personally verify that it's clear before it ships.' (no an exact quote) I also had an order confirmation from them - and that confirmation had a note about it being manually checked before shipping. By end of business today, I had another couple of e-mails from them. I e-mailed them on Monday, and had a response from their Customer Service Manager (Trevor Parr) on Tuesday (which asked for a bit more information, which I provided within an hour). I wonder if they're in distribution in North America. Which is why I went to order the templates online, because my FLGS can't get any Warzone stuff, apparently. Yes, I can 'print actual size,' and cut off the edges of the paper, but my system kept balking. And even rarer are printers that can handle A4. I'm in the US, and A4 is not easy to come by.

In that rulebook is a page that includes the necessary templates - but the book is set up for A4. It's that 'Corporate Warbook' that takes up the top half of this page. Side note: The manufacturer has put their rulebook up online.

I also made it clear that I'd be okay with keeping the orange if they didn't have a clear.

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So I e-mailed Noble Knight, asking if they had a clear one and how to exchange if they did. And this template set is one of my favorite shades. The one I received was the orange set that I linked to above. They shipped very promptly and arrived crazy-fast. So, having the PayPal balance to burn and needing the templates, I placed the order. So I poked around online, and saw that Noble Knight had a set listed on eBay (I couldn't find it in their webstore, however). Sure, I can order them from the manufacturer, but it's $12 for the templates and then $20 for the shipping. Here's the thing about the game: It requires a set of templates. Since I'm getting back into the Mutant Chronicles universe via the RPG, I figured I'd get into the minis game, too.

If you don't have a local game store, then - again - buy online.Ī few weeks ago, because of a weird timing hiccup, I had a small PayPal balance. If you have a bad game store, then, by all means, buy online. I don't point fingers at a lot of online retailers, here, because I really do want you guys to support your local game stores, if you have a good one.