All Year I Dream About Gaming Conventions

On this episode, Quarex and Ben return to a very special topic that should be near and dear to the heart of every dreamer: proper sleep practices at gaming conventions. In the past we've spoken with Kevin Kulp, sleep specialist and RPG designer extraordinaire. This time, we're going through how you feel, hour by hour, as you go without sleep.

On this episode, we discuss two great topics to get prepared for events at Gen Con 2026!This year, Gen Con has pushed for more electronic ticketing, which means your event ticket envelope is understandably lighter! Given the different types of tickets, you'll want to be sure to have different types of tickets to play the events you couldn't get into before the convention!Listen in, listen up, because you don't want to get caught with the wrong kind of ticket around your lanyard! And don't wait... buy some generic tickets right now!

This prepisode is our kinda early and not entirely complete because where is the food truck list, Mr. Hoppe! However, it is the first of our episodes that approach the topic of food and drink at Gen Con, cus you'll need repeated and rapid infusions of liquid and calories to ensure that the best four days in gaming is number one to the max! Listen in for our sneaky good recommendations about fast food, healthy food, and even booze as a food in and around the convention center. You won't want to miss it!!!

On this episode, Quarex and Ben talk about all the ways that you get into Indy, around the city, through the conventions spaces, out to dinner, and back home with all your games. You won't want to miss it!

Everything that you wanted to know, and probably a few things you hadn't considered when it comes to packing for the best four, five, or even eight days in gaming: GEN CON 2026Happy Gen Con advent to all who celebrate! (For dreamers dying to know: this is the list of things that you can bring onto an airplane.)

On the event of our third anniversary, Ben and Quarex Cosmo Joe of Studio 6d6, RPEX, and Phoenix Con fameTim Kask, the curmudgeonly TSR editor and public school teacherLou Zocchi, the entrepreneur who pioneered distribution of adventure game and the manufacture of dice Jodi Black, an editor, author, and pioneer of gaming tablesAll are gone too soon, and each will be missed.

On this episode, Quarex and Ben give our unvarnished—but still pretty positive—opinion about our time at Origins 2026. Whether we're yammering about our travel and lodging, the badges and event tickets, the Your Origins 2026 app, the apparent volunteer staffing shortage, the ticketed events we did, the layout of the exhibit hall, the new games we tried out, or the people we got to play with... we're letting you know what we think. Stick around for the end of the episode, where Ben and Quarex discuss the heart and spirit of Origins, and what 2027 is already looking like it's shaping up to be. We also used Origins to release our new sistercast: All Year I Dream About Game Reviews, coming to a podcatcher near you!

On this interview episode, Ben, Quarex, and Ben interviewed designers at conventions earlier this year! Stuart from Warcradle Studios, who was showing off Armoured Clash at Adepticon!Yochai from Cairn Press, who designed Cairn 2e, records the Between Two Cairns podcast, and is hosting Between Two Cons the weekend this episode releases! Sean from Relic Blade Studio, the engine behind the Relicblade miniatures game! Matt Fantastic from Forever Stoked Creative, former GAMA director, and current director of Unpub! Check out Matt's latest game, GOAT from Dolphin Hat Games!You won't want to miss it!