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I'm pretty horrible at random blog posts, mostly because my technical posts sit on LinkedIn, and these posts hit about 90% bot traffic - with the bots all posting that my site is dull and I need to pay for advertising and content writers.
In any case, today is a day of "Thanks" here in the US, and honestly everyone who is alive, anywhere in the world, has at least one thing to be thankful for, so take that into consideration as you go about your festivities.
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It is time for GenCon this year. I have a full slate of games to run again this year. Two RPG sessions per day, working at some booths, and general impromptu game demos are the order of the day. Everything looks rosy. A special "shout-out" to whichever group came up with the brilliant idea to make RESERVED parking spots at Lucas Oil Field for GenCon attendees. You can reserve a parking spot, get full "in and out" privileges, and actually book them as "Event Tickets" right off the GenCon website. Pure genius!
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Every once in a while a game comes along that makes you go, "Why didn't they make this a long time ago?" For computer games, this has been "Total War: Warhammer" both 1 and 2. For board games, this is the recently kickstarted Command and Colors Red Alert by Richard Borg. The flexible and wonderful system designed works well for a variety of time periods (providing you are not a historical re-creation snob who gets upset at the completely a-historical results which stem form abstraction and speed) but I've always felt that it would work well for both naval and space based combat. Now we finally get to see it in action, and most importantly, if you can get in on the Kickstarter now, the money spent on a single copy of the game is more than doubled with the bonus goals and kickstarter exclusives included in it.
Enjoy! Fire up those engines!
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YES! After a long time coming, I have worked up the nerve to publish a book.
All right you annoying spam bots, go steal this link and throw it all over the Internet!
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So the annual question of, "Where do we stay" arises again at GenCon. It turns out we can get a hotel connected to the Convention center, for about $600/night. A hotel within easy walking distance of the center for about $400/night, or something about 10 minutes drive away for about $200/night. The "surge pricing" for Uber/Lyft adds about $100 to the driving option, which puts about $100/day in my pocket to buy things, instead of throwing money at hotels that are price gouging GenCon attendees out of staying. The sad thing is, these prices are drastically better than the "50th anniversary pricing" last year.
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