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Livingdice’s Aces & Eights: Last Man Standing Shootout at Gen Con 2010–We Have a Winner!
Actually we have two winners. Yes, I said two. 16 brave souls entered the ruined church in the peaceful town of Harmony. Only one could emerge victorious. After much carnage, two gunfighters stood toe to toe with murder in their eyes and hot steel in their hands. On one side, a lowly cowpoke with poor [...]
Gen Con 2010 Events Schedule is Up
You can either go to Gencon.com and download the .csv file and slowly go blind looking at it in Excel or you can just go to the always useful High Programmer site and save yourself a lot of pain. Trask, The Last Tyromancer
Gen Con in Indianapolis Through 2015
Gen Con just announced they are staying in Indianapolis, Indiana until at least 2015. The links below are more about the convention center than Gen Con, but the extensive upgrades and renovations apparently encouraged Gen Con to stay a few more years. Gen Con convention center visit Gen Con staying until 2015 I did find [...]
Gen Con 2010 Hotel Rates
Gen Con 2010 hotel reservations open tomorrow so I am posting the available hotel room rates for Gen Con through the RUBI system. The rates below are for double occupancy, but I also checked for quad occupancy and some of the rates went up $10.00 to $20.00 while others did not change at all. In [...]
Gen Con Badge Registration is Open
Gen Con 2010 badge registration is open for business! Normally I do not post convention badge registration open notices, but the unique badge/hotel relationship at Gen Con makes it noteworthy. Remember that only badge holders receive the codes to purchase lower-cost ( and nearby) hotel rooms from the convention’s reserved room list on January 26th. [...]
Gen Con 2010 Registration, Badge and Hotel Information Released
The Gen Con 2010 Badge and Hotel information went out today and here is the quick summary. Badge Pre-Registration – Opens January 24th Housing – Opens January 26th Event Submission – Opens January 13th As usual, badges are easy to get, but good hotel rooms are more valuable than your first-born child. After you buy [...]
Free Advice to Game Publishers: How to Demo a Role-Playing Game at a Convention
I specifically went to Gen Con 2009 seeking new games. Almost every slot I played was a “no experience required” event and everyone at the table was totally new to the game world and system. After four days of demos and intro games run by game publishers I noticed some serious deficiencies with how the [...]
The Most Disturbing Events at Gen Con 2009 Award
I am a gamer and generally tolerant of whatever game you choose to play or do at a convention. That said, the two events below were so deeply disturbing, so breathtakingly bizarre that I could not let them pass into memory. I created a new yearly award for “Most Disturbing Event at Gen Con” to [...]
Review: True Dungeon at Gen Con 2009
True Dungeon is one of those events that I see every year at large conventions and just never made the time to see what it is about. Not really for any particular reason other than I had other games to play. This year one of my gaming buddies expressed an interest in giving it a [...]
