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Gen Con 2012 Hotel Update 2–Downtown Rooms Still Available
Shock! After years of logging in and attacking the housing portal at the moment it goes live to get a decent hotel room, this year was totally different. There are still rooms available at downtown hotels 8 hours after hotel registration began! This is unprecedented in my experience attending Gen Con. So, if you still [...]
A Gencon 2012 Hotel Near-Miss
Oops. I forgot today was the Gencon 2012 hotel registration day and logged in an hour late. Expecting to get a hotel somewhere in Outer Mongolia, I was pleasantly surprised to get the downtown hotel I desired. I hope this is because the new hotels in Indy finally added enough capacity to meet demand rather [...]
Gen Con 2011–The Rant
Gen Con 2011 is now one week past and it is time for my last thoughts. Forgive me as I wander through my disjointed thoughts of Gen Con 2011 because in addition to some great games, I picked up a “Con Crud” infection. What fun. Let me start with my initial thoughts about the shows’ [...]
Gen Con 2011 Play Report Part 2–With Bonus Swag!
This is a quick wrap-up of the games I played with a brief section on game purchases made at Gen Con 2011. After the terrible Terrorwerks experience we engaged in World War 1 aerial combat in the Fantasy Flight area. The “Wings of War” furball pitted 28 players against each other in a last-man-standing format. [...]
Gen Con 2011 Report Part 1
Gen Con 2011 is over and I survived! Normally it takes nearly a week for me to pull my life back together and get this post up, but I am strangely energized. Perhaps it was my decision to limit my backpack’s weight to an absolute bare minimum. Nothing like strained shoulders to sap the strength. [...]
Gen Con 2011 Vendors and Exhibitors List
The Gen Con 2011 exhibitor and vendor link list is completed! Read on and let your gaming budget know fear! If you find errors in the list, please drop me a comment and I will get it corrected. Vendors and exhibitors can submit a small banner and I will update your text link with a [...]
Terrorwerks at Gen Con 2011 Advice Requested
Myself and two others bought tickets to the Terrorwerks live-action RPG event at Gen Con 2011 and would like some advice. I read the event description and website and get the general idea about the event, but brief descriptions are no substitute for first-hand intelligence. So, if anyone out there played in a Terrorwerks event [...]
Livingdice’s Definitive Guide to Gen Con 2011 Event Scheduling
Gen Con is an amazing convention, but I see far too many people overlooking critical preparation work that detracts from the experience. Specifically, scheduling events in advance. Yes, you can just show up and find gaming but there are some events that are not just in demand, they are like chunks of raw meat in [...]
The Ultimate Geek Showcase Showdown
I was alerted to a very interesting happening on Daytime Television yesterday (2/16/11). And by my father, of all people (of course he is retired and can watch daytime TV). On the venerable game show, The Price is Right, they had a rather interesting prize package for their Showcase Showdown. In addition to a new [...]