Craig went to Gen Con, and is forcing you to hear about it,
Ben tries to moderate this audio equivalent of a “What I Did On My Holidays” slideshow,
And we ask the audient how they like to do conventions.

Tāmaki Makaurau

Gen Con

New York – New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas

Episode One Hundred And Ten – Good news; I have solved the Fermi Paradox. Bad news: I have solved the Fermi Paradox
This is the previous Ben & Craig In The Same Room episode, an event of such momentousness to I’m sure you’ll want to re-listen ~ T. Jones

VBA

Orc Stomp 5k

Gen Con Map
Lucas Oil Stadium
JW Marriott, Indianapolis
Victory Field

Artsgarden

Coyote & Crow
Shattered Dreams

Tales From The Loop
Kids On Bikes

Shadow Scar

R. Talsorian Games
Studio Ghibli
Wanderhome

Evil Hat Productions
Modiphius Entertainment

Indie Press Revolution

Psychic Trash Detectives
Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast
Psi*Run

Rapscallion
Powered By The Apocalypse
Forged In The Dark

Brindlewood Bay
The Golden Girls
Angela Lansbury
Murder, She Wrote
Craig wanted to conceal the fact that he confused the actor name with the character name AND forgot to mention the name of the show. I wouldn’t let him. ~ T. Jones
The Brokenwood Mysteries
Midsomer Murders
Kalamazoo, Michigan
The Almighty Johnsons

Old Gods Of Appalachia
Pennsylvania
Monte Cook Games
Old Gods Of Appalachia Podcast

Cypher System
Numenera
The Strange
Predation

Coprolite

Under Hollow Hills
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Labyrinth
Crossroads Carnival

The Quiet Year

The Jank Cast website seems to be gone, which is a shame.
Their publishing arm, Wheel Tree Press, is still up though.

Mycelia

River Valley Glassworks

Root
Root RPG
Magpie Games

Oh My Pigeons!

Tentacle Town

Hamster Roll

Gen Con VIG
Craig cannot find the name of that ‘B Movies’ game, because he didn’t take a picture of the box ~ T. Jones

Pickled Onion Monster Munch
Twiglets
Umami

Pineapple Lumps
Whittaker’s Peanut Slab

The Great Gen Con Heist

The Wildsea

Pillowfort ( It’s a social networking site with an emphasis on not being awful ~ T. Jones )

Kiwi RPG Week

The Sprawl
Monster Of The Week
D12GO!
Arcane Crimes Division
Deathmatch Island
Flight or Fright

The fifth day out of “the four best days of gaming”? Is this worst day of gaming? Or the day of worst gaming?

Reminiscence, nostalgia, and unhinged grumbling trail in the wake of our hero’s journey, the pains of old wounds and faded glories herald the end of yet another lost era.

Professional Game Master Matt Balogh

Rapscallion Quickstart by Magpie Games

A tale ripped from the headlines, rude villainy abounds.
When is checkout time again?

Film – Lorenzo’s_Oil (1992)

Gizmodo.com article on GenCon 2023 Card Theft

Urban Shadows: Second Edition by Magpie Games – Kickstarter page in fulfillment phase.

Rapscallion Quickstart also by Magpie Games

Family Tettigoniidae – Kaydids from all over. (T. Jones – Pretty bog-standard looking grasshoppers, a lot lot of them.)

Caedicia simplex or What Katydids look like around these parts (T. Jones – Described as “Makes a feeble chirp in the evening”. Savage. )

Despite the Southern chill these flames still burn brightly and while the Devil dances in the hearth, he may have bitten off more than he can chew.

Orc Stomp XIII 5k Fun Run – (T. Jones ~ Enjoying the note “Tournament: No, this is not a tournament.”)

Chew from Imagining Games

KiwiRPG – Kēmu Whakatau O Aotearoa – KiwiRPG Week for 2023 was June 10 to 18

Wait, Roll That Again by Podcasts Hosted by Alex Marinkovich-Josey (T. Jones ~ It should be noted that Ben’s guess that Alex is “a new gamer” is baseless slander. Newer than these jaded old farts, but that’s hardly grounds for judgement.)

Reserved Recommendations by Hugh Dingwall on MPR (Manawatu People’s Radio) – “Everyone has a thing they love, but wouldn’t feel comfortable recommending to the general public. This is a series of fascinating chats about problematic faves, great trash, and our complicated relationships with art and culture.”
Recent Episodes on the MPR site above, which get cycled to YouTube as time passes.

Episode 61 – Jay Brandstetter and Winslow Dumaine (90’s and 00’s “Edge”)( book about somethings awful )
Episode 60 – Sean Murphy on Violence (1999)
Episode 59 – Tim Denee (Deadlands)
Episode 58 – Mike Sands (Unique TTRPGs)

https://www.youtube.com/@HughDingwall/videos

Psychology ‘gaming lab’ explores benefits of Dungeons & Dragons, board games on Radio New Zealand – GRAIL “Gaming Research and Investigation Laboratory” will be based at Massey University’s Manawatū campus.

Urban Shadows: Second Edition Kickstarter page in fulfillment phase.

Questlandia Second Edition

Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game

The Demon Core

The promise of glorious perspiration hangs in the morning air.
From waterborne villainy to a terrible hunger, a course is plotted.
Hope, and sturdy footwear, may yet carry the day.

Avatar Legends by Magpie Games

Chew from Imagining Games

An iron steed shies at the thunder of the Old Gods.
The dawn of a new age, as life stirs on a blasted plane.
At some point… breakfast.

Well There’s Your Problem Podcast – A podcast (with slides) about engineering disasters and systemic fail.

Precision_Railroading AKA precision scheduled railroading (PSR)

The Old Gods of Appalachia Podcast and RPG

Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game by Magpie Games

One More Multiverse Virtual Table Top

Blades in the Dark RPG from John Harper and One Seven

The Magpie Games Coming Soon page with Rapscallion and more

What’s this? A new episode? The land quakes and the seas roar, for they have returned like the heroes of old! Well, like old heroes anyway. People. Old people.

Never meet your heroes, kids.

Biding his time in the foetid swamp of Wah-Shing-Tun, the fearless traveler Craig set his sights on the “four and a bit” best days gaming in Indianapolis.

Rapscallion – Magpie Games

Urban Shadows – Magpie Games

CHEW – Imagining Games

Avatar Legends – Magpie Games

Stealing Stories For The Devil – Monte Cook Games

Now GenCon is over for another year, it is a time for quiet reflection, sensations of creeping dread, and a commitment to doing more gaming. Better even! Yes, this is late. We are so, so tired.

Tentacle Town

Le Chat Noir

Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

The Underarm bowling incident of 1981

Dr Nick Holm: how New Zealand comedy embraces being a bit s**t

The British Museum

Assholes Impersonate Gen Con Staff, Send Harassing Messages To Attendees

As the day dawns on the morning of the last day of GenCon for another year, Craig reminisces about this convention’s atmosphere and a strange sense of gamer melancholy.

Wayfaring Strangers by Games from the Wild Wood

Talismonger – Shadowrun slang

Simple Simon (nursery rhyme)

TV – Supernatural

Alice Isn’t Dead

TV – The Sandman

Dark Matter by Mage Hand Press

TV – Dark Matter the SYFY show from 2015

Avatar Legends RPG by Magpie Games

Tentacle Town

With reality fraying around him, Craig relates the strange events of Friday and muses on what improbable futures Saturday might bring.

Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast by Possum Creek Games

Bulldogs – Galileo Games

Midnight Nation by J. Michael Straczynski

TV – The Lost Room

Avatar Legends RPG by Magpie Games