Category: Cons and other business travel
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Gen Con 2024 day 004 — Banana Dragon, Poetry, and Legacy at Sea
Day 003 of Gen Con I FINALLY slept in a bit. And by a bit I think I was up at 6:30am or something. I showered and ate my morning sausage and eggs that I’d been frying up. What shocked me the most about staying with those four guys is that NONE of them eat…
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Gunfights & Gamblin’ game review — Gen Con 2024
Larry got a copy of Gunfights & Gamblin’ after trying it out at the Mid Level Meeple table. They were super sweet and I ended up taking over for a guy who left early. It was late on Sunday, so I was done but we still got it down to a 9-to-10 loss. Literally ended…
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GenCon 2024 — day 003
Day 003 of GenCon was a very different kind of busy. I felt fried by the end. 4:50am — Well I woke up really early. After waking, I felt fried. I blame the glorious late night puppet thing. Wrote several hundred words and read a bit. 7am — I headed to a downtown meeting with a cinematographer…
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Pirates of Maracaibo board game review — Gen Con 2024
The fellas I’m staying with for Gen Con 2024 got a copy of Pirates of Maracaibo from their launch here in Indy (in addition to some con-specific promo bowsprits). It’s a nautical exploration game with a pirate theme. The mechanisms are dice rolling, increase value of unchosen resources, multi-use cards, pieces as map, and a…
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First time trying a puppet at Gen Con 2024 puppet workshop
This was the first time I’ve ever touched a puppet as an adult so thanks to everyone who encouraged me to try it and helped me get up the courage to get on stage. Thanks to the encouragement from the Sesame Street puppeteers (I don’t remember all of your names) and to the encouragement from…
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Legacy at Sea board game review — Gen Con 2024
Legacy at Sea is billed as “The Ultimate Sandbox Pirate Adventure” by DPH Games Inc. I had the privilege of playing it with one of the fellow staff members here at GenCon 2024. Since I’ve never reviewed boardgames here before, I wanted to go ahead and post my first board game review with my experience…
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Gen Con 2024 Day 002
Day Two of Gen Con 2024 — Woke at 4:50 am again. Looks like this is a trend. Got a letter written to my son and bride again. Tried to creep in to fry some eggs and sausage but turns out my housemates are sleeping at that time of evening. Morning. Whatever they call it.…
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Gen Con 2024 Day 001
Just landed in Indy for Gen Con 2024 and can I say that Indianapolis’s airport always feels very Exit Through the Giftshop to me? I love having a post/pre security section to chill if there’s some wait time involved. But this time did remind me of the Banksy piece. And a slew of other things.…
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Matthew Kressel Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — Hey there, Matthew Kressel! So when did you first dip your toe into the genre? Or into make believe? Matthew Kressel — The first time I wrote anything with the hope of it being published was in college after I had one of the most incredibly vivid dreams of my life, and…
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AT Sayre Interview
Thanks to AT SAYRE for joining us for this wide-ranging interview and to his publisher for making it possible for you, the reader, to download the book directly from this site: links for that will be nested throughout the piece. The piece will be broken up into early years, philosophy, and then will go into…
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Gordon Linzner Interview
Lancelot Schaubert — Thanks for joining us, Gordon Linzner. When you were growing up, what was the speculative fiction that dominated your imagination? Gordon Linzner — Hard to narrow down, after so many decades. I’d say initially authors like Isaac Asimov, Fred Pohl, and far too many others to name, I learned to read early on, to…
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T.J. Glenn Interview — Teel James Glenn
Lancelot Schaubert — Thanks for joining us, T.J. Glenn. When was the first time you imagined yourself in a fantasy or pretended you were someone else? T.J. Glenn — Oh, easily when I was 8 or 9 years old, creating stories with my GI Joe action figures etc. LS — Who was your favorite? T.J.…