During all my running around at Gen Con, I wound up being recorded for three different podcasts. In the first, Cam Banks and I chatted with Ryan Macklin and Kevin Weiser for This Just In … From Gen Con! We ranged over a lot of topics, including the Smallville RPG and the Diana Jones Award. It was 11 AM on Gen Con Thursday, so we were all still relatively fresh.

Next, Jason Pintre recorded “The Intersection of Games and Stories,” a seminar that Jeff Tidball, Stan!, and I ran at 11 AM on Gen Con Saturday. Jason posted it on his Genesis of Legend Publishing site, along with a handful of others he enjoyed.

Finally, while Marty and I wandered around the exhibit hall on Gen Con Sunday, Don Dehm of Pulp Gamer dragged us into an all-star podcast he was recording with Mike Selinker, James Ernest, and Marcelo Figueroa. Guido Teuber, Lisa Stevens, Pete Fenlon, and Jean Vanaise popped through too, and Marty even commented on how much fun he was having.

For extra points, listen to all three in a row and hear how my voice deteriorates as the convention rolls along.

Freelancer extraordinaire Matt James went around Gen Con and asked people to bless his dice. Wil Wheaton does the hammiest best job of it, but there are lots of great bits here. I was happy to be included too (at about 1:55), if only so I could make some use of all those years of Catholic School.

I had a wonderful time at Gen Con this year, packing in as much fun, friends, and games as I could into the five days I spent at “the four best days in gaming.” It started out with the Diana Jones Award party on Wednesday night and wrapped up with a race through the exhibit hall with my son Marty as we tried to jam in as many demos as we could. The many, wonderful, and varied moments between those two posts are still pinging about in my brain.

I hope to have time to do a proper con report in the near future, but while I was gone the toilet in the bathroom over my den overflowed. We have workers in assessing the damage and drying everything out, a process that’s already involved removing about half the ceiling and carpet in the room and raising the blood pressure of our insurance adjuster. Nothing irreplaceable was damaged, and I had my laptop with me on the road, so all my work and data is safe (and I have both automatic onsite and offsite backups set anyhow). Now it’s just a matter of cleanup and repair and figuring out where I can set up shop until it’s all done.

Anyhow, thanks to everyone I met and hung out with at the show, either in seminars or games, meals or bars. You were all wonderful and made my year. I can’t wait to get back to Gen Con again.

I leave for Gen Con – a.k.a. Gamer Christmas in August – tomorrow morning, ready to take Indy by storm. If you’re going to be there too, be sure to hunt me down and say hi and share some dice or drinks.

I’ve added a couple new details to my schedule. I’m joining Cam Banks for Ryan Macklin’s podcast “This Just In… from Gen Con!” in the Caucus Room at the Westin at 11 on Thursday morning.

I should also be at the Catalyst Games booth from 4—5 on Saturday. I’m told they’ll have actual hard copies of Spells & Chrome for the rest of the authors and me to sign.

Plus I hope to be at the mass signing for Gameplaywright’s The Bones at the Indie Press Revolution booth. That’s from 1-2 on Sunday.

My full schedule is after the break. Hope you can join me there!

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