Another year, and another chance to go up to Indianapolis and play games with 1.5 million of our friends (ok, maybe it’s more like 70,000 at this point) at Gen Con. It will be a bookended by two longish drives and the middle will likely be filled with a random assortment of games we may or may not have any idea what system they are using prior to sitting down. In between those sessions we’ll travel, slowly, through the Dealer’s Hall (which realistically takes about a day to go through due to the sheer size), and then we’ll have many, many evenings where we try to kill Egg Embry by making him laugh so hard that he loses his breath completely.
Next week, I’ll likely have part one of my review, which I’m so thankful I started doing from that very first year we went (2017) as there are definitely little moments and games that I might have forgotten without my brief histories to jar the memory back to the surface. So in that tradition, here’s the full lists of reviews since I started going (minus 2020 and 2021 for world ending reasons):
Gen Con 2017 Reviews – Part 1 and 2
The Best Game I Played at Gen Con – Tales from the Loop
Gen Con 2018 Reviews – Part 1 and 2
Gen Con 2019 Reviews – Part 1 and 2
Gen Con 2022 Reviews – Part 1 and 2
Gen Con 2023 Reviews – Part 1 and 2
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And for anyone else traveling up, down, or over to Gen Con… safe travels!
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