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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1060: Gen Con 2023

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk about one of my last trips of the summer to Gen Con 2023.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling out of the driveway.

0:01.7

We all know what that means.

0:03.2

It's time for another drive to work at home edition.

0:06.4

Okay, so this summer I did a lot of traveling.

0:08.9

In fact, the last month I did a lot of traveling.

0:11.1

So today I'm going to talk about my final trip, which was to Indianapolis for GenCon.

0:17.6

So it turns out 30 years ago, I think it was August 5th, 1993, Magic premiered at GenCon.

0:28.3

And so on August 5th, 2003, we were having a 30th anniversary panel, and we decided to do something quite out of the box.

0:38.0

So I'm going to talk about my trip there and talk about the panel.

0:43.4

So just so people have this from my previous podcast.

0:46.2

So I had three weeks in a row.

0:48.6

I was at San Diego Comic-Con where I did a panel.

0:51.0

I then was at MagicCon in Barcelona, right, did three panels.

0:53.8

And then I was finally at JenCon where I had this panel.

0:57.1

And this panel, I'll get into how it came about.

0:59.7

It was quite the panel.

1:02.3

Anyway, so let me real quickly just talk a little bit of Gen Con, and then we'll get

1:06.6

into the making of the panel.

1:09.0

So Gen Con was originally created by TSR, the company that originally put out Dungeon

1:14.7

and Dragons.

1:16.3

I believe it originally was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1:18.9

That's where I actually, when I attended Gen Con, it had been in Milwaukee.

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