Gencon 2025 - An Unexpected Encounter

 

This year was interesting. About a month before the con, I get a call from my wife's cousin, who has become one of my favorite people in the world. He asks me if I was going to Gencon, and if I was, would I mind him crashing with me. I'd only rented just a single bedroom in an Airbnb, and it was a twin bed, so I told him if he didn't mind sleeping on the floor, I didn't mind him crashing in my room. He was in. We're both military vets - we've slept on things far worse than a floor.

This was my second time staying South of the ICC, and some of the neighborhoods are a little wild. For example, the mattress in the middle of the street I encountered on my scooter ride back in 2024. But the place was close enough, and while it was kind of run down, I hardly spent any time there, so nothing to complain about really, especially given the very low price I paid for the room.

Anyway, on to the main event(s)

Gencon 2025 Events

 

Gencon 2025 Events:

Seminars

GM101: Introduction to Gamemastering

SEM25ND272371     Thursday, 8am
SEM25ND272372    Friday, 8am
SEM25ND272373    Saturday, 8am

GM201: Conversational GMing

SEM25ND272374    Thursday, 10am
SEM25ND272375    Friday, 10am. * This session will not have a projector. If you'd like to follow along with the slide materials, bring your phone/tablet and I'll send a link to the presentation before the Con.

SEM25ND272376    Saturday, 10am

RPG Sessions

Leverage                                        
RPG25ND286700    Friday 2-4pm

Based on the television show of the same name, Leverage is an RPG about heists. Heists, cons, scams, you name it. Players take on the roles of the most talented criminals in the world - but have turned their powers to good. Sometimes bad guys make the best good guys.

In this session, the crew is hired to help Olivia Bellamy, the grandaughter of a Casino legend in Las Vegas. Her grandfather Howard had become famous by running what had eventually become the closest thing to a wholesome casino the world had ever seen. Always fair, always tasteful, always friendly. After his passing, not so much. Its being run by someone else now, and she knows deep down that he never wanted that. 

Zoetrope                                       
RPG25ND286694    Thursday 1-3pm

RPG25ND286695    Thursday 9-11pm

Zoetrope is a dynamic card based RPG that explores the adventures of time agents bouncing around through time fixing problems, correcting things gone wrong, and otherwise making special adjustments to the way things were. Or might be. Or aren't. Or something like that. It definitely doesn't take itself too seriously. 

Demonhunters                               
RPG25ND286703 Friday 6-8pm

If you're a fan of Cortex of FATE, you're going to love Demonhunters. A dark comedy RPG telling the stories of the Brotherhood of the Celestial Torch. The organization the stands in between humanity and the things that go bump in the night. All the darkness of legend is real. Vampires, Zombies, Ghosts, Demons, The Stay Pufft Marhsmallow Man, you name it. A personal favorite of mine and one of my favorite convention games to run.

This session of Demonhunters will involve a missing team, a vital resupply mission, and some very important cliches!