The road to GenCon

This summer I had planned on going to Origins and skipping GenCon and then life happened and I was in Vermont in June and busy. This August I find myself in a position to get to Indy for the best four days in gaming, so why not. Getting into the GenCon mindset this late in the game has introduces some challenges. I haven’t been following the normal YouTubers or really paying attention to the BGG GenCon preview forums. I am far too late for any of the exclusive content from Fantasy Flight (Thanks FF for artificial scarcity, Not!) so that’s …

Gencon 2018

This year I had the great luck to be near Indianapolis during the best four days in gaming and I attended my 5th GenCon.  Lot’s of exciting things happened while I was there.  The short version is I met much of the development team from White Wolf and picked up Vampire 5th edition and got swept away in the energy at Goodman Games and discovered Dungeon Crawl Classics.

The final GenCon shopping results

The exhibit hall at GenCon was a chaotic whirlwind of retail bliss.  We found several new and exciting board games.  The “scores” aka those games that sold out) that we managed to grab up are:  Halo Fleet Wars from Spartan Games, Star Trek 5 Year Mission from Mayfair, Legendary Encounters Predator from Upper Deck.  The one that got away was Mysterium. The final list here is: Halo Fleet Battles Star Trek 5 Year Mission Sheriff of Nottingham Super Dungeon Explore (1st edition and expansions) Munchkin Steampunk Mage Wars Dark Seas Nautilus Medieval Academy Dominion Adventures Takanoko (w/ expansion) 7 Wonders …

What is GenCon

GenCon is a convention in Indianapolis that calls itself “the best four days in gaming”.  The convention center and several of the downtown hotels host hundreds of thousands of people and thousands of events round the clock from Thursday morning to Sunday afternoon.  There are scheduled game sessions for an huge selection of games.  There are tournaments for card games (al la Magic the Gathering)  There are board game events and miniatures games.  An entirely different area is set aside for role play game sessions.  Many of these sessions are pay-to-play.  You purchase tickets for $2 per ticket (these are …

Getting ready for GenCon 2015

This summer we are headed out to Indianapolis for “the best four days in gaming”  In past years we have been there for the weekend.  There’s too much to see and do to fit into just two days.  For Gen Con 2015 we are going all four days.  It should be a wonderful experience and any new games will get posted here.