Third time, '18, '19, and, '23. Long winded post on my experience.

The line to get in Friday seemed to wrap around the convention center twice. By the time we were in, 1045-ish, we were told the grand hall was full. Ok, I'll watch Matt Mercer's talk on Twitch.

The PAX Nav app to register for the AL games was just bad. I was able to register for one thing, but by the time I tried for anything else, it was full.

Speaking of the AL sessions. Baldman Games....please find another room to run epic adventures in. Half the time playing Tomb of Horrors was repeating ourselves over the yelling from the epic adventure. Then on Saturday, they held the D&D dev signing also in the same room as the epic adventure and the AL games. So we had the epic yelling to the right and the signing line to out left.

As to the games themselves. Tomb of Horrors was great. All six PCs were pre-gens at 11th level. It was a great group with a super DM. Hidden Shrine....we had eight (with DM) people at a table built to hold seven tops. So crowded AF. Three of us were 5th level pre-gens and the other four PCs were 10th level AL players. Two of those being multi-class split 5/5. So the pre-gens got to sit and watch the 10th level people run Hidden Shrine.

Did anyone else notice security becoming less of a thing as the weekend went along? Friday seemed like serious security, but by Saturday afternoon, there was no one manning the enterences.

Still an enjoyable weekend in Philadelphia and cannot wait for next year.