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This is Jen Khan, 2026, gauntlet prep, Part 1. What is that? Who am I? What is happening here? My name is Joe O'Brien, and every year at Gen Con, the Glass Cannon Network sets up a booth, and we run something we call gauntlets, where we bring all different, we open it up to all different kinds of people to come in, join us, and play characters in a one-hour, grueling gaming

experience to see if you can survive. We usually use amazing tabletop miniatures and maps and

3D terrain and stuff like that from friends like Dwarvenforge and other

buddies of ours in the business and in general we have a great time seeing if the attendees out

there at Gen Con can stand toe to toe with us and take down the challenge.

Well, this year for the first time, we are going to offer several different

game systems. In the past, we'd only done Pathfinder Second Edition, but this year, in

addition to Pathfinder's second edition, we're going to offer multiple different game systems.

And as such, we need to start the work of preparing. We need to prepare what these gauntlets

are going to look like, how these

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