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The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast

Episode 49: Manhattan Project, Gen Con 2013 Post Show and Getting Started with Role Playing Games

The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast

Jamie Keagy

Hobbies, Leisure, Games

4.7869 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2013

⏱️ 193 minutes

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Summary

In episode 49, the founders spin yards of Gen Con 2013 and all the games they played, then review Manhattan Project and round the show out with a discussion about how to get into Role Playing Games.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, September 4th, and you're listening to The Secret Caball Gaming Podcast.

0:10.0

The founders have returned from Gen Kong 2013 and give you a rundown of everything that happened.

0:18.6

Dead Review Manhattan Project and discuss getting into

0:23.6

role-playing games for the first time and now please welcome the secret cabal founders

0:34.6

hello and welcome to episode 49 of the Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast.

0:39.9

My name is Jamie.

0:40.7

Tony here.

0:41.7

Hey, this is Chris.

0:42.8

And this is Steve.

0:44.5

All right.

0:45.0

So we just got back from GenCon.

0:46.9

Gen Con is the biggest, most bombastic, spectacular of a game convention I've ever been to in my life.

0:53.6

And it was an overwhelming

0:54.6

experience. It really was crazy. I mean, I was overwhelmed. I did not expect as many people as there

1:01.0

were and our listeners kept telling us. You have no idea how many people are going to be there. It's

1:05.7

going to be much more than you think. And I was like, nah, it can't be that bad. It was crazy.

1:10.2

It was just slew of people.

1:12.6

Gen Con 2012, they said they had 41,000 people. And we kept saying 41,000 people, 41,000 people,

1:19.5

50,000 people were there this time. They've broken their own record. And I just heard on the Dice Tower

1:25.8

the other day that Tom Vassel says that Gen Con is actually

1:28.1

bigger than Essen.

1:29.1

And it's just the way the statistics, they work out the statistics of, that it's turnstile

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