We’re back from Gen Con and we had a blast! In this episode we go over the highlights and low points of our con experiences and more importantly, the games we played! Board games, card games, and of course, role playing games. What did we try out and what did we grab for future episodes?
If you want to hear how Caleb and Spencer did, listen to the Mixed Six Hot Takes Gen Con special, available to everyone, not just backers of their Patreon.
Shout Outs
- Hanamikoji: a new card game about winning the favor of geishas.
- Catch the Moon: a dexterity game about balancing ladders.
- Petrichor: a beautiful board game about clouds raining on crops.
- Grackles:A fun abstract strategy game.
- Goodcritters:a game about bribery and manipulation. And furries.
- Buy the Rights:a fun party game about coming up with movie ideas.
- Kory Bing: a web comic artist and creator of Skin Deep.
- Tortuga 1667:a pirate board game about hidden identities and looting.
- Cosmic Horror Panel by the Drunk and Ugly
- Epyllion:A RPG about dragons and friendships
- Elderwood Academy: Custom dice towers and other crafted goods.
- X-Wings Minis: all the spaceship fighting you could want!
- Kill Team: Warhammer 40k but with fewer figures.
- Autumn Frederickson: a fantasy artist who paints tiny dragons.
- Extra Credits: a Youtube channel that explains nerdy topics.
If I left something out, post about it in the comments.
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My dice tray came from Crimson Chain Leatherworks. https://www.etsy.com/listing/587667441/black-dragon-scales-collapsible-dice?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=crimson%20chain%20leatherworks&ref=sr_gallery-4-4&organic_search_click=1
Question for Maddy: was the game by the Australian designer ‘As Blossoms Fall’, by Luke Jordan? (@wildwoodsgames)
https://gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/blossoms <– this game?
Also; The Witch (and I, her partner) say hi and hope you're having a great time.
FYI, FFG’s two-foot long super star destroyer mini is for Armada, which is a separate game from X-Wing for a different scale of battle.
@Liam, it most certainly was that game & thank you for linking it. the Actual Play post will also include Luke’s itch.io link in the body of the post.
Didn’t Ross play in the Battletech simulator pods at a previous GenCon? I seem to recall him complaining bitterly about the joysticks working like… joysticks.
And on the Battletech wargame: though it’s not my cup of tea, I’m glad for actual Battletech fans that the current deveopers haven’t completely redone the game. Having had the producers of a game I played for years decide to alienate their existing fanbase while chasing after fans of other games, I really don’t wish that experience on other gamers, whatever they might be playing.
You may be thinking of the Steel Battalion games I played at PAX South. Similar controls and I was also quite bad at it.
That red markets game that Jason ran was one of the highlights of my first gen-con experience. Next time I will have to leave my friday night open, to make it to the meet up.
The red markets game that Jason ran was definitely one of the highlights of my first gen-con experience. Next time I will have to leave my friday night open to make it to the meet up.
Ah, guess that’s what I was remembering.
Tortuga is made by Façade Games by the way.