I am no stranger to cons.  I’ve been going to Origins every year since 2000.  Because of scheduling conflicts, I’ve eschewed Origins this year for GenCon.  I’ve read lots of posts over the years talking about people running or getting into pickup games.  In all of my con experience, I have never been offered nor got involved in a pickup game.  My questions are two-fold:

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I’m weighing in on this whole “what is D&D?” trend.  I think this differs pleasantly from edition/OSR wars in that it is a philosophical exploration of a concept, rather than dirt-slinging.

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I was recently reading articles about megadungeons.  The portion of my brain constantly dedicated to worrying about zombies managed to bring up an interesting proposition:  Could one run a modern day zombie apocalypse game like an old-school megadungeon?  Here are my points of thought:

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