#Gen Con 2024

[daisytrails]

at gen con yesterday i met someone dressed as ankarna while i was dressed as kristen applebees from fantasy high junior year and i can now truthfully say:

i met god and they gave me a sticker of a smiley face sun and a packet of spider-man gummies

[chaoticgremlinmakingart]

Gen Con cosplay pics

It was also DnD’s 50th anniversary so they had displays of the original shit and older versions of the dnd players/dungeon/monster manuals. Which I nabbed a couple of photos of their displays.

Very neat stuff. I am sad however that I didn’t see a lot of cosplayers this year. Mostly a bunch of nerds. It was really nice though that new faces were coming and enjoying their first con. I do regret wearing so many layers too. It was toooo fucking hot. I do this every year. Someone yell at me next year before Gen con. Good golly I was melting. Especially in my zombie Carl cosplay. My improvised Clown fit and Venom SpiderGwen were the least layers but it was still unbearable in the heat and in the crowded halls. I need to bust off all my summer cosplay looks for next year. I have my cosplay sketchbook filled with ideas. Might work on those for next year. It was really fun though. Loved hanging with my cosplay group even though they all chickened out. I’m looking at you @dropoutdaisy. Jk love you but also meany. Jk or am I? Might post more about the experience later idk. It was my third year there and not much has changed so might not. But I do need to show the back of my vest because the back piece was a bitch to sew. Maybe my prop for my Inkyboy cosplay too idk.

[stuckinthewrongworld]

We'rw walking around Gen Con all day so I won't be on here much, but I just had to share some depression with the rest if you.

[nightmaskart]

Come find me at Gen Con!! I'll be at booth AS66

[overgrown-estate]

If this weekend at Gen Con goes by without anymore said about Duskmourn, I will be disappointed.

[simoneer]

Gen Con looks so far! I think I am actually getting better at using liquid eyeliner!

[andsewingishalfthebattle]

So, uh, about our Gen Con workshop capacity...

Gen Con is next week (eek!) and as usual, we're doing a full day of hands-on workshops and a full day of educational seminars.

Not as usual, something went wrong with the form when we submitted our casting workshop, and it made 100 tickets available instead of the 36 we'd intended it to be capped at. (That workshop requires so much in the way of materials, prep work and setup, and 36 is already a lot for me and a single assistant to handle. When I learned a few days ago that we had 92 people registered for it, I maaay have had a minor panic meltdown.)

But we're coping with that; I'm rush-shipping extra materials in, and we've brought on extra help so we can make it work. What it means, though, is that they've put us in a larger room than we otherwise would have been in. While our Featherweight Cosplay (props and armor) and Gamer Jewelry workshops had only 36 tickets available through the registration system, we're going to be in a room that seats 100 people. We might as well use the space.

TL;DR we will take more generics at the door than usual this year for Featherweight and Gamer Jewelry. If you wanted to sign up for one of those workshops but were not able to because it was sold out, bring generics, and we will take as many people as we have materials for. (I always bring extras.)

Gamer Jewelry is Friday at 1PM in Embassy Suites: Consulate

Featherweight Cosplay Mega-Workshop is Friday at 2PM in Embassy Suites: Consulate

This link shows everything we're running this year. Our seminars are always free (though tickets definitely help us out by showing the con that people are attending, so if you are certain you're coming, please reserve one!).

[tgcnews]

Gen Con 2024 - TGC Sponsored Events

The Game Crafter is not exhibiting at Gen Con this year, but we did sponsor 3 game design events there that are hosted by our friends at Ferris State University. We donated a nice assortment of board game pieces, blank prototyping components and promo cards for attendees to use.

The first two events are "Intro To Tabletop Game Design" sessions and Ferris State University was kind enough to share the presentation for anyone who couldn't get tickets into the sold out sessions. The third event is a "Rapid Game Design Prototyping" session.

The 3 events are listed below:

Intro to Tabletop Game Design (Thu, Aug 1)

Intro to Tabletop Game Design (Fri, Aug 2)

Rapid Game Design Prototyping (Sat, Aug 3)

[avishabilis]

It's time...

[laf-outloud]

Link

Sounds like a great panel! I wondered if maybe Gen or one of the kids got sick. I hope whoever it is gets well soon!

[alexis-royce]

I had an absolutely delightful time at Goblin Market’s Fallen London LARP last night at GenCon! We were to be attending a New Year’s party (1899. The first time), and auction. There was an excellent mix of people familiar, unfamiliar, and those who only knew rumors about the setting, which made for a sumptuously cryptic atmosphere.

As you can see above, the hosts gave me a character who fit perfectly into my wheelhouse, and even included the major goal of obtaining an esoteric and completely safe volume of study on the higher secrets of The Correspondence.

The auction items had really fantastic and setting appropriate props chosen. It was fun to mention to the player looking for a soul that “that bottle looks quite interesting, don’t you agree? By the way, have you spoken with that kindly Devil yet?” I was a correspondent after all, so facilitating communication between people was a good extra goal to give myself. I would highly recommend that anyone who plays a LARP considers adopting this as a goal as well; getting the right people connected with each other is where Parlor LARPS shine brightly.

There was also a section of the room set aside to function as Parabola, so that people could share honey-dreams and certain factions could be included. They handwaved a little of the normal function so that players who didn’t want to do fictional drugs could still go to parabola and be included, and I think that was a smart choice.

Everyone was so much lovely fun to play with, cagey and secretive but honestly all so willing to work together, which you love to see. I often play folks with big secrets, so it was really fun to bluntly tell my goals to anyone and everyone I met. I also used my knowledge of the setting to speak cryptically about The Correspondence, giving my poor Nightmares 6 character too much to ever dream of communicating clearly.

Folks seemed to enjoy my character! I promised to share my research openly if I obtained the book, but I didn’t really have to do a lot of wheeling and dealing to get several learned Londoners funding my research. I also had my fude nib inked with my very own violant, and made a few echos jotting off quick (non-canon) correspondence symbols to those curious to learn “new words.”

The auction was still neck and neck, as an alchemist and I continued to outbid each other. Peace terms were offered, and rejected. After a heart-pounding bid in the last ten seconds of the auction, the forbidden volume was all mine. The GM informed me that my character was now aware of the nature of the Judgements and The Great Chain, and that the volume made an exceptionally compelling argument for the breaking of said chain.

My character subsequently (well, with an eye on the clock and an effort to ensure things were timed well enough that I wasn’t interrupting other plot lines) had a complete breakdown, telling all who were interested to bring as much prisoner’s honey for everyone who “wanted to know the truth.”

I cannot relate to you the specifics of what happened to those dozen people who found themselves sharing a honey-dream as I read. The only thing that can be said with certainty was the chanting, first quiet, then terribly loud, fists pounding against the surfaces of the Is-Not…

Break the chain.

Break the chain!

BREAK THE CHAIN!

Long story short, lovely party and charming company, would love to attend the next New Year’s of 1899.

Ta~

[stuckinthewrongworld]

Welp... I think I got the Con Crud. Last night my throat started to hurt. Woke up this morning and it was hurting more. Now my ears are starting to feel stuffy. Just lovely 🙃

[lillysilverus]

[overgrown-estate]

Gen Con Indy 2024 is next weekend. I like all the purdy prize cards.

But mostly I hope more is revealed regarding Duskmourn. I am getting so hyped on the modern horror set. But I know a lot of MTG there is going to be about Bloomburrow. Still, I want to see what kind of Nightmares and Horrors and Cellarspawn that Duskmourn will have.

[spn-ish]

How Jared sits next to his wife:

📸- lightofsam

Versus how he sits with Jensen:

📸- whereismxd

📸- povmemyself

[thenerdsofcolor]

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