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Good day gamers,

Ginger and I attended DexLite 2023 in Morristown, NJ in July. Here is my After Action Report (AAR) in no particular order of events:

• – It was the first Double Exposure event we went to where we got a hotel room. It wasn’t cheap, but we had a place to relax, dump our games, eat, shower, and get real sleep. It was worth it.
• – I ran four games to get a free badge, but Ginger decided against it, so she would be free to play in games.
• – My four games all fired, I taught lots of people games, even got a chance to play in other games, met new people, chatted it up, had an awesome grilled cheese, had unbelievable spicy tuna nachos, and more!
• – It was great to meet Carl, Simon, Sarah, Yun Li, and many more.
• – It was great to see again Linda, Sarah, Will, Avie, Bruce, and many more.
• – Baldman Games was there, though I didn’t say ‘Hello’. See my post about running games for them at PaxEast.
• – I met some awesome game developers
• – Our friend Will was there advertising www.thegamemap.com

Pros:

• It was great to see the convention coming back out of the pandemic
• I absolutely loved teaching games to so many new people checking out the difficult games I posted
• Having the hotel was awesome

Thing to improve:

• Ginger had some tough players at some RPGs. These players lowered the amount of fun and enjoyment of the game.
• It was hard for most people to get used to using Tabletop.Events. This sill improve over time.
• A paper map or more digital maps of where things were. The hotel had been renovated and some of the event locations had changed.

I give DexLite 2023 ‘8 Spice Blow, 8 Tickets for Placing an Animal, 8 Damage to Left Arm, 8 VPs for Control, and 8 Votes for the Proposal’.

Thank you to the entire DexLite 2023 crew!

Come join Ginger and I when we attend next time!

See you soon!

– Game Master Dave