Tag: Gen Con
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Sunday: Day 4 :: Urban Shadows & The Hall Of Spending
Urban Shadows again. This time I went for something about as far from ‘normal person’ as possible, and played a ghost. I feel like I got the game more this time, the idea of using the influence of your group, the trading of debts to get things done, that sort of thing
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Saturday: Day 3 :: Urban Shadows & Rapscallion
Urban Shadows is a game I’d heard of, but never played, and was down in the unfashionable “these will never come up” tail end of my event wishlist. Well, it did, and after some misgivings during the game, I’m glad it did. Urban Shadows is political urban fantasy, so there’s a lot going on with…
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Thursday: Day 1 :: Rapscallion, Avatar Legends, & the VIG Mixer
First up was Rapscallion; I’d never heard of this game prior to the event wishlist process, and I’m so very glad that I spotted it, because it was my standout game of the Con. Looking at the various documentation I have for events, I must have spotted it while looking for things to fill it…
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Tuesday: Day -1 :: Newfields Art Museum, & The Con Slowly Appears
Went to the Newfields Art Museum with Tom, where there was a multimedia Van Gogh exhibition; https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/the-lume-van-gogh-indianapolis-museum-of-art
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Holiday 2023 Officially Begins
Going against almost every packing habit of the last 5 years, most of my stuff is loosely/badly packed in the suitcase so that it’s not mostly empty & so that the British Snacks will have something to keep them from being bashed to fragments on the trip. The only things in the carry on are…
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Gen Con Event Registration
This didn’t go well. I have stuff to do, and games I’m looking forward to, but … it didn’t go well. Starting at the start, over the previous week or so, but mostly in the hours before wishlist submission, trying to come up with a suitable balance of events arranged to take advantage of the…
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The Gen Con Schedule
Here’s how it looks; Not 100 on how I’ll fill that gap on Saturday, but I’m sure something will come up. All of the games are either in the JW Marriott ( it’s a convenient coincidence – I almost always stay there ) or in the Indiana Convention Centre ( over in the NE corner…