Episode #220: GenCon 2011

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2011

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we take a look at GenCon, the largest gaming convention in America, for 2011. Tom mentions 30 games that listeners should check out, Geoff and Ryan weigh in, and Eric talks about his top ten experiences of the convention.

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0:00.0	Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by Fun Again games, the world's best game source, online at fun again.com.
0:08.0	Thanks for your support.
0:09.0	So it's about 830 or so on Thursday morning, and we all thought we would be smart.
0:16.0	Right.
0:17.0	For the record I was smart.
0:19.0	I just want to point that out.
0:20.0	By getting our badges and saying we're going to pick them up with will call so we don't
0:24.9	have to wait in the gargantuan line to register at the event.
0:30.0	What are we doing right now? We are currently waiting in line, a gargantuan line,
0:35.7	I might add, to pick up our stuff
0:38.4	that we've already registered and paid for.
0:40.2	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:41.7	How far have you guys come to be a Genchon today?
0:44.0	Minneapolis. Yep, the Minneapolis area.
0:47.0	So it was about a 10 hour drive yesterday.
0:49.0	Yeah, it'll probably be about a 10 hour drive to the will call line.
0:53.1	Yeah, what's more exciting?
0:55.6	Your drive here or waiting in line?
0:57.2	It was actually the drive here, just simply because of all the typical humor
1:01.8	that we can't get away with at home normally.
1:04.0	I don't know, it's kind of a toss-up for me right now.
1:07.0	I already made a couple of mistakes, thinking that the line would be somewhat manageable.
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