Last Wednesday at Gen Con, I hosted the annual Diana Jones Award party, during which I was proud to announce that BoardGameGeek.com had won this year’s award. I’d tell you all about it, but fortunately Jeff Tidball recorded the whole thing. Watch the video for all the details. Congratulations to Derk Solko, Scott Alden, and all the other people who …
Bless Matt James’s Dice!
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.
Back from Gen Con!
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 …
Off to Gen Con!
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 …
I’m a Cheap/Dream Date
To help raise money for the ENnie Awards given out at Gen Con for the year’s best tabletop roleplaying games, the award committee asked me to serve as one of a slate of “dream dates” for the pre-ceremony VIP cocktail reception. This runs from 6:30 to 7:30 PM in the Westin Hotel Grand Ballroom IV. Because of the Reactor 88 …
Gen Con Party
The fine folks at Reactor 88 Studios have lined up an afterparty following their big event at Gen Con: Reactor 88 Studios: Behind the Scenes. With luck, we should have a rough-cut of the InSpectres proof-of-concept to show there. In that, you’ll see me in all my gory-zombie goodness. Come to the event if you can and then join us …
Guild Wars at Comic-Con, But Not Me
Earlier this month, I decided I was going to skip Comic-Con this year. I love the show, and I’ll miss seeing all of my friends there. However, Gen Con was bumped up a week, so there’s only a week and a half between it and Comic-Con this summer. I’m going to be spending a good part of that time in …
Brave New World & InSpectres at Gen Con
In that last post about my Gen Con schedule, I buried a notation about this year’s Gen Con event from Reactor 88 Studios. According to the official listing: Come see what Reactor 88 Studios is working on. We will be showing updates on the development of Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World, and we will also be be offering a first …
My Gen Con Schedule
Gen Con just posted the schedule for the Industry Insider Guests of Honor. Once again, I’m honored to be such a guest, and a number of fantastic game designers are joining me, namely Steven Charbonneau, Michael Elliott, Steven Ellis, Mike Gray, David Hill, Eric Lang, Brian Lewis, Stan!, Owen K.C. Stephens, Jeff Tidball, and Bryan Tillman. Combine this with the stuff I already have set up, and I have ten events …
Gen Con Writers’ Symposium
My Gen Con schedule is starting to fill up. Besides my duties as an Industry Insider Guest of Honor, I’ll also be helping out with the Writer’s Symposium and hopefully something cool with my friends at Reactor 88 Studios. At the moment, you can find me at: Friday, August 6, 1pm: The Short and Long of Writing Fiction Saturday, August …