GenCon

Indianapolis Convention Center
Indianapolis, Indiana
http://www.gencon.com/

August 14-17, 2008

No reason not to start planning now, right?!

What'd everyone (who went) do at GenCon? Anyone go anywhere else in Indy?

I mainly played boardgames & walked around the dealer hall. Ate at the Ram, but was rather disappointed with their food versus last year. Found out about this site from a Gamer Concepts t-shirt, so that was a good thing.

I've gotta run, but if I can I'll edit this later to list what I actually played & bought.

After kicking around multiple ideas on the intro to D&D for women adventure, I finally settled on sticking to something a bit more traditional. In other words, I didn't want to take a lot of time on things that may not be a likely D&D adventure they would play with someone else. Here is the best pdf converter solution.

It was the fastest four days I've experienced in a while, but it was a really good time. This was probably the hardest GenCon to have to leave, and I think that says a lot about the direction of the industry and the potential impact that groups like GamerChicksRule.com can have.

We leave for Indianapolis on Wednesday, and we've got everything set. Be sure to look for us around the convention in our Gamer Chicks Rule gear. We'll also be at the Forum Stink party on Wednesday, probably the zombie mob thing on Thursday, the Privateer Press party on Friday, and the Gamer Chicks Rule get together on Saturday night.

This is REALLY cool! Horray for the Girl Scouts of Central Indiana for introducing girls to gaming! From the Girl Scouts of Central Indiana website:

I received a letter in my inbox this morning from Sons of Kryos, the Gaming podcast emailed me.
They let me know about their nomination for Best Gaming Podcast and asked me to vote for them. I voted for them and All Games Considered. Good luck guys! I also voted for Firefly Games: A Fairy's Tale. I really hope they win.

Here is the link so you can go and vote too!

After talking to Steve Jackson Games, they are going to provide us with a couple prizes for our gathering on Saturday night. So now there's even more incentive to come join the gathering: a chance to win free Steve Jackson Games! We're going to see if we can line up some other prizes including the Gamer Chicks Rule things we have planned.

After looking over our own schedules, Saturday evening is when we'd like to get together with the members of Gamer Chicks Rule so we can meet some of you and some of you can meet us. We are still working on the exact details, but we have a few of the plans figured out.

GenCon 2007 is almost here.

Rogue Games will be there in full force.