Just a quick note to say that I’ve once again arrived in Indy a-safely. We had a very pleasant drive, actually, one I spent reading Emergence, the newest Shadowrun sourcebook. It was great; a throwback to the fiction-heavy titles of yesteryear, and the start of a major upheaval in the campaign setting.

Bright and early tomorrow will see me hitting up the EA Mythic booth to get my first taste of Warhammer Online … now that I have a broader perspective. Looking at the map for the convention this year is very strange. A whole swath of the exhibit hall has been marked off for ‘electronic gaming’, making the large open areas for the rest of the attendees seem somehow off balance. Wizards of the Coast’s booth is all the way in the back, a first for a company that likes to place itself front and center in the world of tabletop gaming.

I’ve been getting ready for PAX too, lately, and I realized something while looking over Gen Con’s map; SOE is making a splash here … but not next week. As far as I could tell from the PAX exhibit hall map, Sony Online has almost no presence there.

Heh.