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THAT WILL DO IT FOR ME THIS YEAR EVERYBODY! If you have any questions about how things are likely to go, obviously ask them here or in the Discord and probably I will leap over myself to answer them as quickly as humanly possible. And thanks as always to Torrent for the thread title collaboration; I think we might already be hot on the trail of 2024's at this point Badges go on sale at this link THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, at NOON EASTERN, 11 A.M. CENTRAL! PRESUMABLY 10 MOUNTAIN AND 9 PACIFIC! I HAVE A FRIEND IN ALASKA NAMED FRANCESCA, I THINK IT WILL BE LIKE 4 A.M. THERE FOR HER, I SHOULD CHECK! ACTUALLY YOU KNOW I HAVE ONLY TALKED TO HER A FEW TIMES THIS YEAR, I REALLY SHOULD TRY HARDER TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT JUST ON THE GEN-CON DISCORD. THE IMPORTANT THING FOR FRIENDSHIP IS TO MAKE A REAL AND HONEST EFFORT, YOU KNOW? WHAT ELSE CAN WE TRULY DO IN LIFE BESIDES BE KIND TO THOSE WHO WE LOVE AND ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO BE THE BEST THEY CAN BE? SERIOUSLY.
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Frozen Peach posted:I'm going to try my damnedest to not miss this year's convention season. GEN-CONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Eastmabl posted:Shotz. Wednesday. (Goons gather at the Rathskeller, a delightful German restaurant, the Wednesday night of the convention at like 5-6. The Rathskeller is the cool place to hang out. You can find most of the cool people there. At Shots Wednesday you can just chill and do whatever and totally relax. "Take it easy" is the Shots Wednesday motto, for example, that's how laid back it is there. Show up if you want to have a good time. Another good reason to show up is if you want to hang out with friends.) Al-Saqr posted:So how good is Gencon for Warhammer 40k and kill team? I might end up going to england for warhammer fest but america is a very rare trip for me so if I end up going I want to make it include one gaming convention for fun.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:How much are tickets to the old people buffet featured in the OP? nesbit37 posted:http://best50yearsingaming.com/ Agreed that I hope Lou makes it one more time, even though I cannot stress enough how shocked I am that he is still alive given how much he had seemingly gone downhill by Gen-Con 2019 when I last saw him. Though I did hear I had just missed him at Gary Con 2022, so clearly he recovered at least a bit from his low point in 2021. As name-dropping-Mudcrab-Merchant again mentioned, it is shocking someone in frail health can survive the hot-as-an-oven vendor setup day given even young people sometimes nearly or actually pass out Back to you enjoying the convention, I anticipate you in a monocle and your Auction bidder card taped to an ornate auction paddle at the crème de la crème session. Oh my god I just realized I absolutely have to buy a bunch of auction paddles to hand out to people at Shots Wednesday this year, thanks for the idea me. You are welcome, me! Ugh, me is really overrated, but do not tell me me said that. CellBlock posted:Scrolling down your OP, when I got to the part about "these are things from old Gen Con that will be back" I was expecting pictures of people passed out on floors.  WerrWaaa posted:I'll be there with Magic cards and a Kill Team. Looking forward to games and drinks and spending too much money. I cannot say for certain how much time I will have to ditch my Hoosier friends for Goon friends but it'll happen more than once. Also 8one6 how old is the Abraham Lincoln picture? I know that is RUSTY BAWLS, and I have not seen him for ages there, but that does not mean too much given how often I am sequestered for most of the day at the Auction. Though I just Goog'd his name and one of the first results was someone on the Gen-Con Forums in 2017 asking why he had not been back for years, so yeah probably just died of stilt-related causes Dr. Quarex fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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Bottom Liner posted:Wow. Friendship ended buddy. (I probably could have checked in a previous thread, too; just shoddy work overall by me) nesbit37 posted:I can’t imagine showing up to an auction dressed like Mr. Monopoly would be a good bidding strategy. I mean, on one hand people might look at you and assume you are going to win whatever you want so why bother bid against you. But on the other hand people might just bid you up because they can. I reminded of that guppy guy I saw at Game Hole Con this year. Zines have been fairly consistent over the years in my recollection, but not necessarily in a terribly exciting way; like, a handful of cool intriguing stuff in the collector's section and a handful of 'zines nobody has ever heard of in the RPG section. But of course every year has weird trends with the less-common items, so you just never know when somebody will show up looking to unload their entire collection. Your having everything Guidon Games put out sounds amazing, so clearly you should yeah as you say work on finding new categories of older rare stuff in the less-absurdly-valuable areas to collect. I wonder if Hasbro trying to tank D&D as a brand will result in any changes to collector prices for the old stuff? Probably not. Cithen posted:2022 was supposed to be my first Gen Con, but I got COVID a couple of days beforehand. Maybe this year...
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nesbit37 posted:I think ... I ... want ... to sit in it from open to close each day, that’s ... much plus .... At least I ... must ... like ... games.... Anyone have any suggestions for a rectangular (horizontal) image that has Gen Con Vibes(tm) without being covered by intellectual property laws? Indianapolis' skyline is not really distinctive enough to work in my opinion (apologies to the thousands of Indianapolis locals reading this)
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nesbit37 posted:I am partial to this pic of the exhibitors floor from 1987: Cithen posted:I was/am, but I don't remember sharing it at the time.
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BlackIronHeart posted:WOO GENCON Bottom Liner posted:Imagine buying your badge before you’re actually traveling to indi Today we discovered just how active the official Gen-Con Forums actually could be when there were like ~75 posts in five minutes from VIGs unable to buy their badges, which is about 50 more posts than there have been in the rest of January. Then they deleted all the overlapping threads  yet they somehow cannot seem to set up even a basic system to catch the constant stream of Spam accounts/postsLET THE RECORD SHOW HOW DUMB IT IS THAT EVEN VIGS HAD A QUEUE FOR HOTELS oh anyway Again make sure to EDIT: UPDATED LINK join the Gen-Con Goons Discord but also post your insane screeds or questions here Like "why do we go on attending in the years since Sugarfire Smokehouse closed in Indianapolis?" Well, there may be one near you, just check the webpage for their store locator and hope for the best Dr. Quarex fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Feb 1, 2023 |
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Eastmabl posted:I wound up missing Gen Con 2017 because my wife wanted me home to mind the baby. She eventually gave permission in early August, long after badges had sold out. Plus missing that convention led to me telling my father about that and him telling me for the first time that I was born the weekend he was going to be the keynote speaker at a conference in Sweden, an opportunity he certainly never had again as far as I know. Truly, missing that was exactly the same level of meaningful as me missing "doing T.O.V.A. one of many years" Ilor posted:I sometimes feel this way about Haveli. CellBlock posted:Primanti's is good, but was only there for one con, I think. ...so looking at their webpage it seems they have dropped coffee from their concept since opening. And I also now see the string of 1-star reviews. Wow, fantastic! Reminds me of the only 1-star review I ever left, of Piratz Tavern (years before it was on Bar Rescue might I add), where we repeatedly walked from the front to the back of the restaurant for 10 minutes and never once saw anyone working there to talk to. Restaurants that do not actually want to be open are really the most amazing kind of business 8one6 posted:I miss the Indian buffet that was in Indy. It was close enough to walk but just far away enough that it wasn't packed during the con. Haveli and Claddagh were absolutely, at different times in my years of attending, the Food Rock around which all relaxation and planning seemed to emanate, as I went to each of them more than once at least one year. And then both turned to trash and closed. O.K. Haveli probably did not turn to trash but it sure did close. Harry & Izzy's is the only nearby restaurant I would go to bat for these days, and it certainly seems like it will stick around. Well Patachou, but I always feel like if you have to pay for breakfast you are doing it wrong WAIT and Fat Rooster if it survives yet another year
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Patachou is certainly good enough that I might intentionally get to Indianapolis in the morning before checking in to my hotel just to eat there and have it make sense Al-Saqr posted:Gen con is probably the only good thing about Indiana tbh That said, Indiana does not do much to inspire politically certainly. And as an Illinoisian I am required to have always thought it was a wannabe Illinois. Apparently Bloomington is the cool hip part of Indiana but until they have a convention there I am never going to know kirtar posted:It should given that it's just a branch of St. Elmo's. nesbit37 posted:I feel like Gen Con is lacking good restaraunts these days. Or at least places I liked. Primanti Bros and the RAM are both gone now, as is Scotty's. I don't think any of them have suitable replacements within walking distance of the con. Good Wood is ok but I liked everything about the Ram better. Honestly until I started going to Origins again I did not realize how dire the situation was in Indianapolis, as in Columbus the existence of North Market alone functionally means there are as many good places to eat at Origins a block from the convention center as there are in Indianapolis within easy walking distance at all, not to mention all the other good restaurants within a few blocks there.
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nesbit37 posted:I just hope either better restaraunts open or the currents one improve by Gen Con this year. I tried the perogi truck last year, and I should have known better because they didn’t list prices, but it was $25 for 3 very overly cooked and kind of cold perogis. Maybe some of the other trucks were better quality but i bet all of them except Island Noodles were just as expensive. Capfalcon posted:Discord link is dead. I will edit the old links to this one I am making RIGHT NOW: Join the Gen-Con Goon Hivemind
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Eastmabl posted:Welcome to the Midwest.  Ilor posted:Last year's vaccine+mask mandate was great. Kept all the chuds and idiots away.
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I just posted this in the Discord but I am so excited about this I want to post it here too An on-site 1974 Gen-Con news story! A couple of statements from Gary Gygax and some people ROLLIN' DICE https://uwmarchives.tumblr.com/post/624829404569288704
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216A posted:It’s an archetypical small hippyish college town. It’s nice but in no way different than any of the other ones in every state. Do you mean the loss of convention/sports largely in the pandemic sense? Certainly that must be a big part of it but I imagine there is more going on there St. Elmo's really is great, and if it and Harry & Izzy's disappeared I would genuinely not know what to even do with myself while there. I guess I would still dutifully go to the Old Spaghetti Factory and Fat Rooster once each but that leaves a pretty big gap, especially when I am there for 7 days. Oh wait Kuma's Corner for pre-convention days!!!
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nashona posted:i was trying to remember what those 2 restaurants were, and then I was, oh right, am vegetarian. I guess vegans would have an even bigger problem, as I have had just pasta and cheese a few times. Though most of those places are gone, too
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216A posted:I think the loss of the conventions and sports started the trend. I know catering numbers shot up when those things did come back in an attempt to limit exposure. Many people were and still are convinced that downtown Indianapolis is now like Beirut 1980 and they have lost a lot of the suburban diners. What you say makes sense about people thinking downtown Indianapolis is a terrifying place; over the last few years I have seen a few threads on either the official forums or Facebook (probably both) where locals are like "I won't ever go down there except for Gen-Con anymore, it's not safe!!!" and other locals are like "literally what in the hell are you talking about" Bluebeard and Milktooth definitely used to be on the list of good Indianapolis restaurants I maintained in the yearly post, but basically as Nesbit37 and BlackIronHeart got at nobody is wandering outside the immediate radius of the convention center by Thursday morning, and Wednesday evening is Rathskeller Time which means for most people in this thread there is really no opportunity to explore elsewhere. This definitely might be my Milktooth year though!!! Though Hinata sounds awfully tempting. I did love Burmese food the one time I ever had some in the D.C. suburbs, as I did not realize I needed "kind of Indian and kind of Chinese" in my life. Unrelated if anyone is ever in Seattle you have to go to Pam's Kitchen because Trinidadian food is like Indian-Mexican and is also magnificent Fellis posted:I’ve never eaten at any place in the ICC nor at any of the food trucks. I went to the food court in the mall once lol They used to have a genuinely delicious Italian restaurant in the basement of the mall (well the pizza was good I do not know if the normal food was), yet another of the many restaurants I was sad to see disappear in the last decade Dammit why am I not in Indianapolis already
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nesbit37 posted:I am not planning to run any events this year, but if I was and wanted people to mask I’d probably just walk away from the table and refuse to run it someone showed up and refused to put a mask on after being asked. I don’t see any other good solutions that don’t involve sitting their awkwardly with a dick for 4 hours. Ego Trip posted:Does buying everything Free League sells count as an event? I do yearn for the days when I had competitions to see if I could find and purchase something at the Auction that was hilarious to me and yet that nobody I knew thought was the least bit funny
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Alas. I wish we had picked up another half-dozen Goon VIGs in 2021, I feel like we could cover everybody with a few more rooms Alternately, we need to make EVEN MORE LASTING FRIENDSHIPS AT SHOTS WEDNESDAY
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That made me think about how part of the VIG issue for hotels having a queue for the first time was that at least some of those 500 people then immediately booked a second room for their Companion, meaning there were more like 750 in line than 500. That said, it is also weird that their system cannot handle 750 people at once Page. 4. Snypa.
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BlackIronHeart posted:Welp, that was brutal.
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Gonna go to Dragon Con dressed as that guy next yearMudcrab Merchant posted:That cleared up, I don't know if I will be able to go this year because I made a whole human and now have to take care of it??
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Anyone who has sort of left the Gen-Con merchandise orbit since Rollacrit took over for OffWorld Designs, you should know they have finally gotten to the point I thought they should have been at for 20 years, where they release several new things every few months and a lot of it is actually worth contemplating or EVEN BUYING (I pretty much exclusively drink out of Gen-Con branded travel mugs/tumblers at this point) And they just revealed their SPRING LINEUP
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I do not know enough about zeitgeisty pop culture to offer an alternative Maybe we should go back instead Beastfucker guy, which "Happy Days" character is most likely to submit to the ritual
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Happy 20th Forums Anniversary to me and my homies CaptainRat and Torrent, at least one of whom has attended Gen-Con with me all 20 times I have gone in-person! Unhappy nearly 20th Forums Anniversary to Hrothgar, who has rudely only attended like 5 times and only actually gone with me specifically in 1997 and 2021/2022. Oh and happy 10th anniversary to me making this goddamn thread! Wow look at all the great success everyone Malört and pizza with pickles on it for all!
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BlackIronHeart posted:Oh poo poo, my 20th Forumsversary will be Thursday at Gen Con 2024. I wish I could be entirely excited about this but somehow it never occurred to me we might be moved out of the convention center entirely. And here I thought being on the 2nd floor was the worst-case scenario. Admittedly the Auction was at the Conrad? early on in the Indianapolis years, so clearly this is not the kiss of death or anything, but I hope we can have a sign at the old location or something.
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Yeah this is definitely gonna be the year to grab all valuable things Thursday morning! And possibly clean up Saturday morning. Definitely makes me sad that I missed like two huge tubs of stuff that I am sure would have gone for more last year, but it will probably be a good year overall for picking up cool stuff in the live auction phase as well
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How is it only 100 days to go It was 140 days to go, like, 40 days ago. This just does not add up I just realized yesterday that my kiddo wanting to go to Indianapolis for the week before his birthday is, in fact, the weekend before Gen-Con, so now I have to decide if I want to amp up my concerning behavior by staying at the same hotel starting the Friday before the convention. I could bring TWO car loads of stuff for the Auction that way! The child can ride on the roof
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theironjef posted:Another round of us trying to host a game where we don't announce the system until you're at the table and another year of GenCon being dead set against it. Also in 2003 I stayed at the Homewood Suites Indianapolis North and it was such a pleasant place that I stayed there again occasionally over the years, like, not for Gen-Con but just when in the area. The commute certainly could have gotten worse but it really is not as huge a deal to drive in to Indianapolis like it is in some other cities
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Mudcrab Merchant posted:I will never understand why one of those locker companies doesn’t set up shop at GenCon like they do at furry cons I know Gen-Con literally said the lockers were removed for security, but that was like 15 years ago and I cannot fathom there is no way they could revisit it
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Sounds like a good test session for that proposed campaign world Frank Mentzer was going to do with mechanics for 7 systems simultaneously listed
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Paranoid Dude posted:Howdy, Gen Con enjoyers, I'm thinking about making the voyage this year. I have a bit of time this August off and some disposable income to spend on little plastic guys and tomes. This'll be my first major con out-of-state. Awesome to hear too; we all (every human) had a first Gen-Con and doing our best to thinking back to how unprepared we were the first time is always zany. I definitely wish I had known that there is so much going on that filling your schedule with ticketed events is likely to be a bad idea unless your attendance is specifically tied to a desire to play something only available at the convention, in which case obviously who am I to interfere with that? But like, sure, maybe make sure you have a few events booked once the events list goes live and pick up some generic tickets, but between the Exhibit Hall, Auction/Consignment Store, and Goon meet-ups for food, drinking, gaming, or donuts, you can easily get to Sunday without touching the formal event apparatus. Granted the Goon part did not apply when I first went in 1997 but even then there was still so much going on that I wish in hindsight I had only played in one of the games I did, but the only guy I went with who had been before insisted you would want at least 2 events a day 🤮
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Just realized my Indianapolis Children's Museum membership does not specify WHAT extra person I bring with me, if anyone wants to spend their time at the Minecraft exhibit instead of Gen-Con it runs until August 6
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Eastmabl posted:How early you getting in on Wednesday? Erainor posted:Welp theres a GenCon dream. Someone tried to use a giant candelabra to burn down the convention center with us inside it. Luckily the goons put out the fire before Gencon had to be closed. 1) A+ Gen-Con dream, very non-standard yet entirely dream-plausible, as we would totally band together against giant candelabra wielders 2) You reminded me I also had my first Gen-Con dream of 2023 last night, a meta-dream where I was goofing off in my hotel room on Sunday and sent a group text/said out loud and it became a text "oh my god I made so many jokes about forgetting to go to the convention center that I forgot to go to the convention center"
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Okkult posted:I've watched the auction for years; I promised myself that this year, I would participate. How do you sign up to bid on things? I couldn't find any instructions on Gen Con's website. *papers flying all over the room as Quarex scrambles to answer the question* It is fortunately a remarkably simple process, as you go up to the long desk (O.K. the long desk setup might be changed since we are in a new location, but it will probably still be on the leftmost side of the room) and tell them you want a bidder card. They have you fill out the back of a card with your name and address, and you give them either $1 for a white bidder card where you pay for items as you win bids, or a $50 deposit for a "tab-style" bidder card, where you can wait until the end of the day to pay for and pick up your hoard. The $50 used to be fully refundable, and might be this year, though for the past few years it has been a credit towards your purchases rather than a pure deposit.
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Yeah I respect not everyone is like me, when I paid the $50 for the tab without even understanding it was a deposit. Still remember my profound delight when they gave me that $50 back. Though I then felt like I needed to spend it in some sort of *rolls on random old reference chart* Brewster's Millions shenanigans
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Bruxism posted:Anyone have any favorite events or pet projects to recommend? Going to go ahead and disappoint you all by saying up front that I have no interest in the auction. I mean there is a reason I am not even looking at the events list this year. There is no point. Between the Exhibit Hall, Auction, and Goon meetups I know every waking moment is already filled
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Frozen Peach posted:Officially going to be at GenCon!!!! Just got my exhibitor badge today Also theironjef posted:Sweet, my Sentinels and Dallas games both sold out immediately. Now I just need to entice people to the live show. But even more intrigued by the RPG Trivia session. Might have to consider....purchasing an event ticket after all???
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NOT AGAIN https://discord.gg/w5M97Fa8 Wow links expire after 7 days now? I could have sworn they were, you know, useful before
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Shadragul posted:https://discord.gg/RRmdxt6
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