All Year I Dream About Gaming Conventions

Dreamers, Ben and Quarex are both going to Origins this year! With this in mind, and knowing that this is Ben's first time thinking about going to Origins since the halcyon days of 2004, your hosts talk about the hotels, the driving, the food, the food, the gaming, and the food at Origins Games Fair.

Perhaps one of the least understood and easiest to screw up parts of attending Gen Con is the Wish List process. List to this super short episode, where we'll highlight everything you need to know about the wish listing process and processing.

The Gen Con event catalog can be accessed here: https://www.gencon.com/events?c=indy2024. This is the EventDB website that collects everything: https://gencon.eventdb.us/These are the event listing we discuss in this episode: You can find everything Return to Dark Tower, whether board game or RPG, here: https://www.gencon.com/event_finder?search=return+to+dark+tower Dungeons and Damsels and Chiptunes, Oh My!, the hydra headed nerd vaudeville event: http://www.gencon.com/events/259202Cold War 1960, a megagame in the nuclear holocaust that almost was: https://www.gencon.com/events/255216 The Elfsong Tavern: A Baldur’s Gate Theme Party: a Baldur’s Gate theme party featuring a D.J., drag, burlesque, and possibly aerialists! http://www.gencon.com/events/254117DREAMS FROM GARY’S BASEMENT, a documentary about the early days of D&D: https://www.gencon.com/events/255221# Don't Give Up the Ship, the game played at every Gen Con ever! https://www.gencon.com/events/255592 The British Are Coming: Using TTRPGs to Teach History, an industry day seminar: http://www.gencon.com/events/246923MARC GUNN: SCI FI IRISH DRINKING SONGS IN A KILT: https://www.gencon.com/events/246349 Age of the Dragon: a 50th Anniversary D&D  epic adventure for characters of any level and any campaign, complete with special NPC guests: https://www.gencon.com/events/267112 Orc Stomp 5K Fun Run: https://www.gencon.com/events/246692 The Kessel Run : https://www.gencon.com/events/255201

At Gen Con 2024, we will be recording a live podcast, including live games and a killer fourth meal! and other live games! Get your ticket at the following link!https://www.gencon.com/events/251393You can also find your hosts at the following events:Ben's RPG EventsThursday, 10 am. Haunting of the Ironwood Thorp, a Gen Con exclusive adventure for Tales of the Valiant (https://www.gencon.com/events/248861)Thursday, 2 pm Swallowed Whole, a VIP game for Tales of the Valiant. One room, one table, one swag bag makes for an unforgettable experience (https://www.gencon.com/events/251866)Thursday, 7 pm. Operation Tango at Twistwarden Abbey, an interactive adventure for Tales of the Valiant (https://www.gencon.com/events/250865)Friday, 10 am. Shards of the Spellforge, an intro adventure for Tales of the Valiant (https://www.gencon.com/events/249406) Friday, 2 pm. Lost Tomb of Nargoth, a higher level Tales of the Valiant adventure (https://www.gencon.com/events/249400) Sunday, 10 am. Haunting of the Ironwood Thorp, a Gen Con exclusive adventure for Tales of the Valiant (https://www.gencon.com/events/248861)Quarex's ScheduleFriday Auction: Sci-Fi RPGs (https://www.gencon.com/events/250774)Friday Auction: TSR Roleplaying Games (https://www.gencon.com/events/250822)Friday Auction: Collector Section (https://www.gencon.com/events/250823) Saturday Auction: TOVA (https://www.gencon.com/events/250857)Saturday Auction: Charity (https://www.gencon.com/events/250858)Also, we will have an assistant at Gen Con! Go find Aimee and get a ribbon for your badge!

It's our regular roundup of the convention you ought to check out, dreamers!ALSO, Ben is a stretch goal for Campaign Builder: Dungeons and Ruins! Check out the project here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepmagic/campaign-builder-dungeons-and-ruinsMay ConventionsCoreCon: https://www.fargocorecon.org/DemiCon: https://demicon.org/35/Kobold Con: https://koboldpress.com/first-ever-kobold-con-online-convention/Kubla Con:https://kublacon.com/Paizo Con: https://paizo.com/paizoconDie Con: https://www.diecon.com/Main/June ConventionsQuad Con: https://quadcitycon.com/Origins Game Fair: https://www.originsgamefair.com/Planet Funk Con: https://www.planetfunkcon.com/July ConventionsDex Lite: https://dexposure.com/home.htmlConvergence Con: https://www.convergence-con.org/

On this very special episode of All Your Gaming Conventions Are Belong To Us or whatever, Ben asks the hard-hitting questions about Quarex's extensive recent conventioning, covering the latter's trips to EverCon, DuPage Mighty Con, Founders & Legends Convention, Gary Con, and Collectorabilia! Are all of those conventions really gaming-related? ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!Plus, after 33 Quarexes in a row, I think we can all tell a special guest voice is narrating the show opening. Who is it?! ALSO ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!!!EverCon: https://www.evercon.org/DuPage Mighty Con: https://mightyconshows.com/show/dupageFounders & Legends Convention: https://foundersandlegends.com/Gary Con: https://garycon.com/Collectorabilia: https://collectorabiliacon.com/

This week, we're joined by Mattie Schraeder (@frozenpeach on all the socials), designer of games like Heckin' Hounds and Oops All Bangers, as she's telling us all about the upcoming Geekway to the West convention in St. Louis MO from May 16-19. Play games! Playtest games! Win games! Cosplaytest as a pirate! Quarex, go trademark cosplaytest!Geekway to the West: https://geekwaytothewest.com/Mattie's website: https://afrozenpeach.net/ Buy Heckin' Hounds here: https://sapphirecitygames.com/merch/heckin-hounds

This week, we interview Kendo (@kendomakesfilms), the media production manager for Kobold Press. We chat about Kobold Chats, attending gaming conventions, KP's new game Tales of the Valiant, and the upcoming online convention Kobold Con! Kobold Press website (link)Info about Kobold Con (link)Kobold Chats (link)Kobold Press Discord (link)Check out Start Playing dot Games to sign up to even or even run games at Kobold Con!!!Please note: neither Ben nor Quarex received remuneration of any kind from Kobold Press for this episode.