GEN-CON!
I went to GenCon last week! For those of you who don't know, GenCon is the (inter)national board and Roleplaying games convention. There are easilly 5,000 nerds present, I'll have to check on the official numbers. It's like the Hajj. You go to Indianapolis and see the beating heart of the games industry, meet the guys who designed D&D and Shadowrun, you see germans playing Settlers of Catan and Puerto Rico, you circle the enormous merch hall endlessly collecting swag. You pass men the size of boulders, you almost meet Kevin Sorbo and tell him what you really thought about Andromeda.
It was beautiful. I think we got in the top ten in the D&D for Cash competition (We killed the opposing team in 3 rounds at initiative 6, Last years winners were at initiative 15) It was brutal and hillarious, the guys we were fighting were there with their kids and started off smiling and trying to have fun. We murdered them in three brutally efficient hasted barbarian and dire wolverine rounds. The humanity.
Later we went to the Vampire larp. It was sorta funny. We met a neat old jewish guy who runs the KC Larp and mostly hung out with him. He seemed cool, but I think that might have mostly been due to context.
Next year I'd really like to go to more of the industry seminars, there are some great opportunities to meet people in the industry at GenCon, and they're all really open about how they went about starting up their companies and getting their freelance gigs and whatnot. It's a great place to network. Matt wants to have some copies of SPQR to sell at GenCon next year. I'm thinking I'd like to have a rough copy of my little-homies board game to pitch or get feedback on.
What else.. I bought pirate socks
I was very surprised at the number of attractive people at GenCon, Men and Women. Wow
Oh Yeah! Anne was there with Charlie and some other people! Thanks for coming Ann, it was really cool to see you, and I'll just keep spelling your name different ways. I hope you guys found some fun stuff to do on sunday. I'll start looking into GenCali.
It was beautiful. I think we got in the top ten in the D&D for Cash competition (We killed the opposing team in 3 rounds at initiative 6, Last years winners were at initiative 15) It was brutal and hillarious, the guys we were fighting were there with their kids and started off smiling and trying to have fun. We murdered them in three brutally efficient hasted barbarian and dire wolverine rounds. The humanity.
Later we went to the Vampire larp. It was sorta funny. We met a neat old jewish guy who runs the KC Larp and mostly hung out with him. He seemed cool, but I think that might have mostly been due to context.
Next year I'd really like to go to more of the industry seminars, there are some great opportunities to meet people in the industry at GenCon, and they're all really open about how they went about starting up their companies and getting their freelance gigs and whatnot. It's a great place to network. Matt wants to have some copies of SPQR to sell at GenCon next year. I'm thinking I'd like to have a rough copy of my little-homies board game to pitch or get feedback on.
What else.. I bought pirate socks
I was very surprised at the number of attractive people at GenCon, Men and Women. Wow
Oh Yeah! Anne was there with Charlie and some other people! Thanks for coming Ann, it was really cool to see you, and I'll just keep spelling your name different ways. I hope you guys found some fun stuff to do on sunday. I'll start looking into GenCali.