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My First Gen Con

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 […]

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Ask the Gamemaster: Part I

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 […]

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Humans of Gen Con: Saturday

Interesting People Encountered at Gen Con With Gen Con Indy 2021 in full swing as the weekend began, attendees spent time on Saturday browsing and shopping in the Exhibit Hall, trying out new games, and meeting up with friends old and new. Our man on the street met some of the folks attending and asked […]

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Humans of Gen Con: Entrepreneurs’ Avenue

Interesting People Encountered at Gen Con The Exhibit Hall at Gen Con Indy is a bit smaller this year, with some of the usual faces not able to attend, but more than 350 companies have set up booths in the hall, and more than 80 of them are first-time exhibitors. Our man on the street […]

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Humans of Gen Con: Trade Day

Interesting People Encountered at Gen Con Gen Con Indy kicked 2021 off on Wednesday with the opening of Will Call, the release of Sun King’s Official Beer on Georgia Street, and the retailer-focused portion of Trade Day. Our man on the street met some interesting folks attending Trade Day, Gen Con’s program for educators, professors, […]

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Gen Con 1992: Like Dying and Going to Geek Heaven

Gen Con Owner and Chairperson of the Board Peter Adkison on His First Trip to Gen Con My first Gen Con was 1992, and for years I had dreamed of attending. As an avid fan of Dungeons & Dragons since 1978, and as a wargamer before that, Gen Con always seemed to me like a mythical […]