(Photo by Wolfgang Baur) Most gamers get a remarkable amount of exercise at Gen Con Indy, walking along the halls, stairs, True Dungeon, and over the skyways to the various hotels. Imagine, then, the typical Kobold Purveyor of fine adventures, design projects, and magazines who stands and chats and meets old friends and makes new […]
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(Photos by Ben McFarland) Indianapolis, IN: The first thing you learn about booth setup is to pace yourself. The kobolds arrived in Indianapolis on Tuesday night, got the badges organized, and found some of the booth materials already in place at #2439. Kobold-in-Chief Wolfgang Baur (your humble narrator) and Chief Cryptoanalyst and Booth Monkey #1
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In our “My First Gen Con” guest blog series, we’ve heard a lot from the game designer perspective. But what’s Gen Con like for the “Mad Men” of the magazine publishing industry? Industry veteran Johnny Wilson takes us behind the scenes to a glamorous world of expensive meals with powerful men, steamy encounters in hotel
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The tunnels are complete! The kobolds are now loose inside the Gen Con Exhibit Hall, feverishly building their booth. Hopefully their journey to Indianapolis was easier than the one Jess Hartley describes in her contribution to our “My First Gen Con” guest blog series. ___ Getting to my first GenCon was an adventure. Terrorist threat
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It’s Tuesday, which means the kobolds’ tunnels to Gen Con are near completion. Soon they will emerge from the depths and overrun the fair city of Indianapolis! In the meantime, Jeff Tidball has a memory to share in the latest of our “My First Gen Con” series of guest posts. ___ I learned about Gen
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It’s the big week! Gen Con! Gamers from all over the world are flying, driving, busing, tunneling and teleporting to Indianapolis! With all these exclamation points, it’s fitting that Stan! should share his memory of his first Gen Con… (Photo taken by Ed Healy.) ___ Weird as it may seem, I don’t remember my first
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And now, we are pleased to announce the Grand Prize Winner of the “My First Gen Con” Essay Contest. The competition was intense, but one essay stood out because… well, just read it. When Zachary Houghton arrives at booth #2439, he will be hailed as a conqueror and given lavish gifts: $100 in store credit
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Thanks to all of you who submitted stories for the “My First Gen Con” Essay Contest. We’ve hugely enjoyed reading them, and hope you will come by booth #2439 and say hello. Gen Con Indy 2010 will be runner-up Janet Brock’s first Gen Con! When Janet comes to the Kobold Quarterly booth, she will receive
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Jeff Grubb sets the Wayback Machine to the golden age of RPGs with his contribution to our “My First Gen Con” series of guest posts. My first Gen Con was in 1978, at the University of Parkside campus, Kenosha. I regret that I missed the Playboy club the year before, but the idea of capturing
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Thanks to all of you who shared your Gen Con stories—we’re reviewing the entries now and will announce the contest winner on July 30th! Now, Erik Mona shares his memories of meeting the Gods of Gen Con… ___ In May of 1995, a year from graduating college and back home in Minnesota for summer, I
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In this latest in our series of “My First Gen Con” guest posts, indie game designer Luke Crane shares his Gen Con memories. Thanks to all of you who shared your Gen Con stories—we’re reviewing the entries now and will announce the contest winner on June 30th! ___ In March of 2003, I found a
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The first time I went to Gen Con was in 1987 when Mark Rein•Hagen and I had just launched our new game-publishing company, Lion Rampant. Our plan had been to sell copies of our new RPG, but the game was behind schedule, and the only thing we had to sell were $3 packs of “Whimsy
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My first Gen Con was particularly exciting because I “had” to go. Fresh out of college, I’d been an intern at the offices of Iron Crown Enterprises in the summer of 1990. In early August I was offered a full-time position as an editor starting in October, but my manager, Coleman Charlton, said that I
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In his My First Gen Con post, Colin McComb cryptically hinted at a secret assignment to spy on Gary Gygax. At last, the truth can be told… In early August of 1992, I was summoned to the executive area of TSR. I was constantly concerned about my job (a quirk that would lead to a
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Colin McComb shares his Gen Con memories in the “My First Gen Con” series of guest posts. You’ll find Colin’s essay on designing combat systems in the Kobold Guide to Game Design Vol. III: Tools & Techniques. Tell the story of your own first Gen Con (even if this upcoming one is your first), and
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Chris Pramas of Green Ronin shares his Gen Con memories with us in the second in our “My First Gen Con” series of guest posts. Tell us the story of your own first Gen Con (even if this upcoming one is your first) in our My First Gen Con contest! It was 1989, and I
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