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Is it General? Is it Generational? Who knows Its GenCon!
Bucketman
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GenCon 2019 is a short few weeks away!
Beautiful(?) Indianapolis Indiana, for 4 full days, becomes awash with wizards, space marines, super heroes, and smells nerds.
When: Thursday August 1st through Sunday August 4th 2019
Where: Indianapolis Indiana. The crossroads of America. Also it smells funny!
What: Card games, board games, LARPing, cosplay, figuring painting, Quiddish, Pilot a Mech. be part of a space ship crew, be in a True Dungeon, Settle various places but maybe Cattan?
So yeah GenCon is cool, I'm going to be there this year, maybe you will be to. Lets talk about what were looking forward to, what were planning on doing, and maybe we could set up a meetup.
Oh yeah a Pathfinder 2.0 is on sale there.
Beautiful(?) Indianapolis Indiana, for 4 full days, becomes awash with wizards, space marines, super heroes, and smells nerds.
When: Thursday August 1st through Sunday August 4th 2019
Where: Indianapolis Indiana. The crossroads of America. Also it smells funny!
What: Card games, board games, LARPing, cosplay, figuring painting, Quiddish, Pilot a Mech. be part of a space ship crew, be in a True Dungeon, Settle various places but maybe Cattan?
So yeah GenCon is cool, I'm going to be there this year, maybe you will be to. Lets talk about what were looking forward to, what were planning on doing, and maybe we could set up a meetup.
Oh yeah a Pathfinder 2.0 is on sale there.
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Thursday: KeyForge Sealed vault tour
Friday: NISEI Netrunner event
Saturday: L5R Proving Grounds.
Any of the above: trying to figure out when I'm going to have time to get into the dealer's hall and get SR6.
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I did get lucky the other night and upgraded from an airport hotel to a downtown hotel that's not exactly close (2.3 miles from the center) but includes free parking and free breakfast. At times where it's not a zillion degrees out I can make that walk and get some extra exercise, otherwise it should be a pretty cheap Lyft/Uber. I also spotted rooms at 2 hotels that were actually right there and connected by the skybridge, but they were at least $40 more per night, plus $35 or more for parking each night so I would have to end up paying $10-15 per night to leave my car in one of the cheap lots to the south for 4 days straight. I feel like the further out downtown hotel makes a nice compromise, and it definitely beats previous years being way out at airport hotels and having to drive back and forth each day.
Yeah, that's the lot I normally use - they're good. It's a reasonable walk if you feel like it to the con, but the shuttles run often enough that I only usually walked at the end of the day - the line for the shuttle can get extremely long when everyone is done for the day, and I usually didn't feel like waiting that long. I wouldn't want to leave my car sitting in one spot unmoved for 4 days though (which I probably would be doing if I booked one of the skybridge hotels). I also didn't want to spend $225+ extra just for the convenience of a close hotel, even it that convenience is mighty appealing. I could be smart and save that money! Or, more likely, buy an extra game or two with the perceived savings and still feel like I came out ahead :P
I waited a while to book this year while trying to decide between Gen Con by myself, or Lollapalooza with my wife. By the time I made up my mind I couldn't find anything I was happy with on Airbnb.
I'll be attending this year as well, my fourth such adventure, the second time I'll be working at a booth (I'll be running demos for Shadows of Brimstone at the Flying Frog Productions booth, look for a tall brown haired guy in glasses who needs to cut back on the Steak n Shake), and my first time helping with setup and tear down, so it's going to be one hell of a week!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed to be able to get in on a True Dungeon run, but that might have to be a last minute kind of thing. Otherwise I'll have a few hours to run around and snap up a few odds and ends for friends, maybe an item or two for myself, but mostly I just enjoy showcasing a game I love to dozens of players (new and veterans alike).
It's Geneva. As in Geneva Convention. The con started in Geneva, Wisconsin due to TSR being there, and so it is a wargaming pun in a few different levels.
Which I find awesome, as it is a cool melting pot of all things gaming.
Most stuff will probably be gone, but hey I get to pop at the Leder Games booth and fall to my knees and tell them Root's my favorite game and embarrass myself, so that's something
I've been super crazed with home buying and moving and unpacking and furniture assembling and haven't really kept up with board game news the past couple of months. I want to get a look at Horrified, because I love the idea of the Universal monsters theme, but I don't know what really has buzz this year.
I'll look to see if they're doing demos at their booth. There are no Cooper Island sessions to sign up for, and it looks like it's supposed to release at Essen.
There's this parking deck underneath the hotels that I've used for the last 2 times I've gone. Granted, I parked and left it there all convention. But it never seemed full!
I was clued into a parking lot thats by the stadium, $64 for 4 days, unlimited In and Out privileges. By the time I got to it the main lot was already sold out and I had to get the secondary but its still a hell of deal
Anyone here been able to get hands on it?
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So very, very, tired.
But I’m having an absolute blast.
Day one down!
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For the record, no sign of Cooper Island at all when I checked their booth out. They had Watergate, Ragusa and Pipeline out to try out, and that was it.
They look good but not $400 good.
I'm still recovering. The con plague hit me sometime mid day Friday unfortunately which made the rest of the convention that much more exhausting, but we survived. Spent too much money, but got in a bunch of fun games.