Worldwide Dungeons & Dragons Game Day

Today, my younger brother and I decided to attend the Worldwide Dungeons & Dragons Game Day event at our local gaming/hobby shop. So, we awoke at the crack of dawn (7:45 AM) to get ready, hopped on a bus at 8:45 and got into town by 9:00. I, in my infinite wisdom, had phoned up the day before to confirm times and details, the person who answered the phone had no clue what we were talking about, but we decided to go anyway (Life serves the risk taker, and all that.) After walking through town, we entered the small, small, small hobby shop, and asked the man behind the counter (who was wearing elf ears and everything) about the event, he was aware of it, fortunately, but told us, to our dismay, that the event would not be taking place due to lack of space, (it was a VERY small shop, with a LOT of products.) He then said that instead he would be giving freebies to everyone who came enquiring about the day. We received five painted miniatures (three heroes, two monsters), three character sheets, three statistics cards, a map, and a published adventure.

After thanking the owner, we left and walked back across town, to my favourite haunt, the Town Library, where I wasn’t particularly looking for anything, I just enjoyed being their. We went in, sat at a table, to browse my newly received swag, which I would look at in more detail later, then onto the graphic novels section, which reminded me, I wanted a copy of the V for Vendetta graphic novel. I looked around, but to no avail. They didn’t have it. We then sauntered over to the computing section (where I first started learning C++.) Nothing that caught my interest, but my brother wanted to look for books about Woodwork, so I took him to the manufacturing section.

After leaving, we wandered aimlessly around, until we finally sat down on a bench, afterfifteen minutes of waitng, and shuffling the deck of cards I had with me, an old woman came and sat beside us. She asked if I could do magic tricks. She had no idea, I performed my signature piece, where a card jumps from one location to another. She gave the classic reaction, looking superior, as if she knew what I was up to, or did something wrong, slight smile as I correctly showed her the chosen card, shock as she realised that she thought she saw the card elsewhere.

We then got on the bus to go home, bag getting heavy, and decided to stop before riding all the way, and take a short walk to a friend’s house, and try to rope him into playing our new published adventure. Success. I ran the adventure, which was good, although I had to modify some of it, as it was written for five characters and we only had two.

This goes to show that nothing ever goes to plan.