I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive-to-work,

coronavirus edition. Well, I've been doing some fun interviews while I've been stuck at home. So today

is no exception. No exception. So Sheldon Menry is here to join us. Hey, Sheldon. Hey, Mark. Thanks for

having me. Okay, so I've been, I'll start with the question I've been asking everybody, which is, how did you learn to play magic? How did you start playing magic?

I was at Gen Con in 1993, and I knew Wizards of the Coast as a small, very good role-playing game company.

I was heavily involved in the RPG back then, and I was at that Gen Con to run D&D games.

Explain what the RPGA is.

You and I know, but...

It's the role-playing game association,

and it was basically the sanctioning body

for playing D&D at conventions.

And you could level up.

It wasn't like Living City yet. That didn't come for a couple years, I think. But yeah, I mean, it was, it was, they wrote the adventures and gave you the

characters to play in four hour blocks when you would go to, when you'd go to conventions, whether it was Gen Con or your small

convention or whatever. And the RPGA would, you know, it was a network, so they would send you

the adventures if you wanted to run them. Okay, so you're at Gen Con 93. So, okay, so what is that

like? Well, Gen Con back then, it was still in Milwaukee, and it was,

Gen Con was divided into four hour time slots back then.

So block one, block two, block three, so forth and so on.

And I think there were 13 blocks, and I was scheduled to GM 10 games.

So I had, I only had one block open to go to the dealer's room when I was, when the

dealer's room was open.

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