"What do you always forget when you attend conventions?" Topic

Like the title says.
If you are an attendee do you always seem to forget something like medications, a credit card, checkbook, phone charger, hearing aid batteries, room reservation badge info?

1: Medications.
2: Credit card, checkbook, cash.
3: phone charger.
4: hearing aid batteries, cpap supplies, etc.
5: Room reservation/badge info?
6: Where you are parked.
7: Your dinner reservations.
8: Your schedule of events.
9: Your room key/badge.
10: Your promise to call your significant "other" when you get there, and each night, and when you are leaving to come home.
11: Your budget.
12: I never forget anything!
13: All of the above.
14: Other. (Explain)
15: None of these/no opinion.
16: This is ridiculous.
17: Not my cup of tea.
18: I don't go to conventions.

There is always something. Often it has to do with product display or set up.

I have at least a dozen shoppers every show needing more dice. A big seller for me at either a Quarter for d6 or 50 cents for polyhedrals.

My "good dice". 🙄

I was not aware that "hall pig" required dinner reservations.

Getting ready for a convention this weekend and hoping i don't forget any of these! I guess we'll see.

I sometimes forget to buy something I'd planned on buying for weeks. Or I remember it on the last day, and find that vender packed up and left early, or sold out of all the whatever it is that I had hoped buy.

A key element of clothing, you know, like only bringing shirts for the first two days. Then, you get to have gamer smell for day three because you're wearing something already worn several times. I'd say that your outfit doesn't match, but most of us wouldn't notice that.

Grelber

Pith helmets!

Jodhpurs!

Smelling salts!

Years … decades? … ago I forgot rulers for the game I was running two conventions in a row, so it has remained a bit of a running joke whenever we go somewhere to game.

We just numbered some rectangles in a word document, printed them, cut the strips, and taped them together.

The first time I did it it was the "royal We". I was setting up the game before I noticed so SWMBO made the rules and DOM cut and taped them together. DOM is the one who will not let me forget.

My list of high priority items that I want or need to shop for in the vendor hall. I never had a list when walking the flea market. In the flea market I always let my inner squirrel instincts loose

1 & 4 I guess.

I always seem to forget breath right strips, ear plugs and melatonin. I have a hard time sleeping in a hotel.

I traveled a lot for my job and these were staples but for some reason the few conventions I go to I cannot remember to bring them.

1) Snow shovel
2) Rock salt
3) Arctic parka
4) Snow tires or chains
5) Ice scraper for windshield
6) Snow goggles
7) Thick gloves

At least one class of items I need to run my games. It has varied from: Trees, Micro Armor Buildings, 8 x Trolls, Trees, Charts, D20's, Trees, The Gurkhas, Tape measure, Dice Trays, 12 x Dragons, the Game Poster, 6 x M8 Armored Cars, Scale Ladders, Casualty Caps. It will always be something.

I think I've eventually hit the 15 level, but it took a bit.

kcbai, fight the practice game, and then load everything directly from the table into boxes and the van. Nothing else works consistently.

ear plugs.

Tumbleweed, no need for that at the Williamsburg Muster. Temps in the 50s this weekend.

Usually something for a game I'm running. Drop cloth, markers, dice, etc. Nothing catastrophic that I often can resolve either by buying from a vendor, borrowing from a friend or just do without and work around it. However, there was the time the spare pair of jeans I brought turned out to be one of my wifes and they didn't fit me.

Having enough income to buy all the cool stuff at the vendors and flea market tables. I seem to forget this part every year.

19. My cares and woes.

"kcbai, fight the practice game, and then load everything directly from the table into boxes and the van. Nothing else works consistently.?

Oh! Good plan!

Was looking at this and was all set to put down nothing forgotten.

I'm going to one this weekend and it reminded me that I almost always forget my sample figures for size comparison.

Thanks for the reminder!

Dice trays. Forgot them at DunDraCon last weekend. There were dice going all over the board. Yuck. I'm making a note to make sure that doesn't happen again.

Also forgot the extra battery for my phone.

I decided I'm going to make a list I can consult when packing each time.

#11 always seems to be lost along the way

Also on my packing list
1 Army with all figures accounted for
2 Army List/Event paper work
3 Fix it kit – glue, zip kicker, paint brush, clippers, paint – black, dark brown and off white.
4 Dice and Markers
5 Terrain
6 Rule book(s)
7 Measuring tape/sticks

and don't forget your best walking shoes

Really? No one else #10.
What I was going to buy to fill spots in each army.

I calL SWMBO across the table. Sometimes I forget which game she's playing, but I'm pretty good at finding her.

Though, my "want list" might be a good one. Sometimes I foget to figure it out before I go. Squirrel instincts can only be managed with a list.

Tape Measure

How expensive things are!

While it wou'dn't be true to say I never forget anything when going to conventions, I struggle to think of anything I've forgotten repeatedly.

I always forget something different.

One night at Dundracon last weekend, I realized that I had not brought an extra sweater or other insulating layer, and had a cold night* of gaming. I was glad my car has heated seats.

*For certain values of cold. This is the San Francisco Bay Area, not the East Coast, which was having actual bad weather while we were complaining about rain and temperatures below 50F.

12

What was the question again?

Yeah. #2 from the OP.
When "OOOH! Shiny!" rears its head, and I'm short on $$$.