Voice 1. "Can my paladin be weary of all humanity, and believe the gods are cruel assholes perpetuating a lame joke?"
Voice 2. "Man, just get the divorce already."
More hilariousness at owen_stephens: Overheard At Gen Con
Showing posts with label gencon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gencon. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Friday, August 06, 2010
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Gen Con Debriefed!
What a weekend! Well after all these years, I'm delighted to say that my trip to Gen Con still managed to defy my expectations. After flying into Indianapolis on Thursday night it was pretty much all gaming, all the time (with a little bit of dedicating boozing with my best friend the bachelor). No sooner had I arrived at the airport than my cell phone was ringing:
"Tom! Where are you?"
"Uh, the terminal?"
"Want to play D&D in an hour?"
"Sure?"
Less than forty-five minutes later I was in the massive Sagamore Ballroom at the Indiana Convention Center with several hundred of my fellow convention-goers, funny dice in hand and hastily rigged character ready to adventure.
Four grueling hours later, I was whisked away to one of downtown Indy's microbreweries with the extended gaming group, which included myriad people whom I'd never met but was instantly befriended by. This would be a pattern at Gen Con - you make new friends at every table and leave at the end of your time together with the handshakes of battle-tested comrades. It's a fun easygoing ethos, and you wonder we we all can't be more like this all the time.
After beers we head back to our hotel, whose lobbies are overflowing with pickup games of all sorts - roleplaying games, board games, miniatures games, you name it. We stake out an empty table and drink a growler of beer from the bar while playing Last Night on Earth, a zombie board game which is easy to play and fun enough to keep us up until 3am or thereabouts, at which point we retire to our rooms, crash, and start the cycle anew the next morning. Repeat for 1d4 days.
Good times.
(And more later!)
"Tom! Where are you?"
"Uh, the terminal?"
"Want to play D&D in an hour?"
"Sure?"
Less than forty-five minutes later I was in the massive Sagamore Ballroom at the Indiana Convention Center with several hundred of my fellow convention-goers, funny dice in hand and hastily rigged character ready to adventure.
Four grueling hours later, I was whisked away to one of downtown Indy's microbreweries with the extended gaming group, which included myriad people whom I'd never met but was instantly befriended by. This would be a pattern at Gen Con - you make new friends at every table and leave at the end of your time together with the handshakes of battle-tested comrades. It's a fun easygoing ethos, and you wonder we we all can't be more like this all the time.
After beers we head back to our hotel, whose lobbies are overflowing with pickup games of all sorts - roleplaying games, board games, miniatures games, you name it. We stake out an empty table and drink a growler of beer from the bar while playing Last Night on Earth, a zombie board game which is easy to play and fun enough to keep us up until 3am or thereabouts, at which point we retire to our rooms, crash, and start the cycle anew the next morning. Repeat for 1d4 days.
Good times.
(And more later!)
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Son of Mancation
So once again I'm on my way to a guys-only weekend - loyal readers will recall last year's "Mancation" to baseball Spring Training down in Florida with my brother and his closest friends. Well, this time it's my best friend, and the destination is none other than Gen Con, that most hallowed of gaming conventions held annually in Indianapolis. Nominally I've gotten the green light to go on this trip because my best friend is getting married in exactly one month to the day, so this outing will represent a kind of uber-nerdly bachelor party.
That being said, I've always wanted to go to Gen Con, as far back as when it was held on the shores of Lake Geneva and advertised in the back of old Dragon magazines. This year should be a fairly interesting time to go, as Wizards of the Coast have just released the 4th Edition of Dungeons and Dragons, which means that there will be plenty of opportunities to demo the game. To be honest from what I've already seen and played of this new version, I'm less than enamored with it, but I will try to suspend judgment for the weekend at least.
Another cool thing about this year's Gen Con is that one of my dear old friends from Jersey will be there as a game designer! So I'll have friends on both sides of the vendor floor for this trip.
Well, the plane is getting ready to board, but more from Indy! There will be plenty of pictures, to be sure...
That being said, I've always wanted to go to Gen Con, as far back as when it was held on the shores of Lake Geneva and advertised in the back of old Dragon magazines. This year should be a fairly interesting time to go, as Wizards of the Coast have just released the 4th Edition of Dungeons and Dragons, which means that there will be plenty of opportunities to demo the game. To be honest from what I've already seen and played of this new version, I'm less than enamored with it, but I will try to suspend judgment for the weekend at least.
Another cool thing about this year's Gen Con is that one of my dear old friends from Jersey will be there as a game designer! So I'll have friends on both sides of the vendor floor for this trip.
Well, the plane is getting ready to board, but more from Indy! There will be plenty of pictures, to be sure...
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