The Official Gen Con Blog
We sat down with Joaquin Lippincott, CEO of RPGMatch, to learn more about his new, free tabletop matching service. What is RPGMatch? RPGMatch started as a matching service for tabletop gamers— a way to find people who want to play like you do. Like a dating site, but not romantic. With the addition of our […]
We were lucky to work with a fantastic content creator, Prof Walt, during Gen Con Indy 2023. It was his first Gen Con! Here are some of his thoughts. “My first Gen Con was this past August! How I would sum up my first experience… Overdelivered and Overspent. It really does live up to the […]
With Gen Con 2023 behind us, we have asked a few of our favorite content creators and staff members what they are playing, spooky edition. Elder Sign – Dani Kennedy “Halloween is my favorite holiday, and absorbing anything spooky makes me so happy. I was introduced to Elder Sign back in 2014 and have loved […]
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 […]
A guest post from Raffael Boccamazzo, PsyD, of Take This, one of our official Gen Con 2021 charity partners. Despite various iterations of moral panic over the decades lamenting the dangers of gaming, during the COVID-19 pandemic we’ve seen more people gaming than maybe ever. Parents are playing more video games with their kids. Dungeons […]
In our advice column, your questions are answered by the infamous necromancer Lazaro the Wicked, drawing upon his knowledge of the dark arts, the thin line separating the dead and the living, and the special sense of perspective gained from plunging into the void and returning with great power at a great cost. “Dear Lazaro, […]
In our brand-new advice column, your questions are answered by the infamous necromancer Lazaro the Wicked, drawing upon his knowledge of the dark arts, the thin line separating the dead and the living, and the special sense of perspective gained from plunging into the void and returning with great power at a great cost. “Dear […]
RPG-Class Horoscopes — Advice for the Season Ahead These are uncertain times in an uncertain world. As the sun sets red in the distance, it casts a strange light over the valley below. From your campsite in the foothills, you gaze abroad, tracing your intended path across the landscape, wondering what the future will hold. […]