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Upper Deck launched its inaugural Legendary Gamer Giveaway last year, with a grand prize including an all-expense-paid trip to Gen Con 2022. The contest was introduced to recognize gamers from across North America who have made a positive impact on the gaming community. Additionally, the Legendary Gamer Contest also helped bring gamers together to share […]
You asked, and Mike Boozer Answered Mike Boozer, Gen Con’s Customer Service and Event Team Manager, and the revered GM of Series Three of Actoroke on Gen Con TV has all the answers to your most dire Dungeons & Dragons questions. How do you get your players to do their homework? Make things enticing enough […]
Final Plans for Masking and Vaccination Requirements With Gen Con just a few short months away, we want to update everyone and provide more information on how Gen Con is going to work this year with respect to vaccination and masking requirements. As announced previously, Gen Con Indy 2022 will implement mandatory mask-wearing in all […]
Everyday Heroes from Evil Genius Productions Now On Kickstarter Twenty years ago, in November of 2002, Wizards released d20 Modern, and it was a very different sort of RPG. The game system was designed by Bill Slavicsek, Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman, and Charles Ryan, aided by Chris Perkins and Stan! Brown. The game was edited […]
Greetings good friends of Gen Con! Back when we started bringing Gen Con Indy back to life post-lockdown we emphasized two key principles: consistency and communication. Consistency means minimizing changes to plans and policy, and communication means telling you what we’re thinking on a regular basis, even if it means overcommunicating a little (is there […]
As Gen Con turns 55 this year, we’re taking a look back through the archives at program book covers from throughout our storied past. Flip through the slideshow and join us on a trip through Gen Con history as we get ready for Gen Con Indy 2022!
Read Our Q&A To Learn More About Him and His Work, Then Check Out His Booth This Year at the Convention! We are super excited to unveil this year’s Gen Con Indy program book cover art by Alex Dos Diaz! Alex Dos Diaz is an artist based out of North Wales, PA, currently focused on […]
Hello, Gen Con friends! As we all know, tabletop gaming conventions and global pandemics do not play well together, so we’re super-excited to see COVID-19 case rates continue to drop in Indy and around the country and to see more and more venues and events opening up. While Zoom has been a good friend to […]
The Second Season of the Show That Makes RPGs Into Movies Starts March 16, Now on Gen Con TV! In Actoroke we play RPGs, adapt the story created in the RPG into a script, cast actors to play the roles in the script, film them, and add music, narration, art, and sound effects to make […]
We all know that Gen Con is the Best Four Days of Gaming,™ but did you know that you can now experience some of the excitement of those Best Days outside the halls in Indianapolis? We are excited to partner with the travel and event team RPGTravel Gaming to create a new type of Gen […]