Leisurely Geeks

I recently attended Gen Con Indy with my wife Sarah Parkhurst and my two friends Philip Young and Nathan Laird. This was my first time attending a Gen Con; I would highly recommend anyone interested in gaming to attend a Gen Con at least once. Being my first time, nothing could have prepared me for one of the nerdiest events on Earth. Everyone knows that it is a great place to tap cards, move miniatures around a board, try new board games, and loot some swag.  Also it is an event that shows off what is so great about gaming in general, the passion of the developers and the gamers themselves. Just seeing pictures of the event doesn’t do it justice. I know for myself, I ‘am very happy I attended this year and I look forward to going again.

The event itself had a really great setup. The location for Gen Con Indy was at the Indianapolis Convention Center. This convention center is rather large and has a great location being in downtown Indianapolis. There are many restaurants and great locations if you somehow get bored of Gen Con. It is also connected to Circle Center Mall which was advantages for parking and food gathering. Inside Gen Con, things get a little crazier (not too much though). First impression walking inside is there are a lot of people, who knew people like games and stuff. The approximate attendance was a mix of 41,000 orcs, elves, Jawas, Bleach characters, sweaty knights and Jedi families.

The main attraction for me at least was the Exhibitors hall. The Exhibitors hall had everything gaming and Nerd related. One of my favorite stops was where my Friend Phil Young was working at which was the MythicMTG booth. This is run by the owner of Fantasy Games Mark Cracco. This is a great card and board game store that Phil Young, Nathan Laird, Sarah Parkhurst and I used to play Magic at when we lived in Northern Indiana. Another great stop was the Dungeons and Dragons booth. They had quite the nice setup, with a dungeon theme, Drizzt Do’Urden statue and a huge statue of Lolth the Spider Queen. I got a chance to try the next Neverwinter game out, which seemed promising.

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Another batch of Cards Against Humanity is fresh off the press and back in stock over at Amazon. If you are the type who regularly attends game night with your friends this is the game to get. Grab it and see just how awful those friends are. If you haven’t heard about this game here is a full review from Kill Screen.

I like long walks on the beach, the smell of fresh cut grass, and puppies…

Here we go. I’ve been meaning to create a blog for a while so that I could share the things I enjoy. But, I kept putting it off. Until it occurred to me that I would rather hear about all the geeky things that my friends have been doing. This is due to the fact that we all have busy lives, some of us have kids, hopefully jobs, and keeping in touch is hard. All of the people on this blog are intelligent, funny, and passionate about something pretty cool. We hope to cover anything from books, comic books, music, ccg’s and stand alone card games, tabeltop rpg’s, video games, music, apps and other tech. The goal is to spread information about cool stuff.

So I made this blog for all of us. And hey,if anyone else out there enjoys a post, Awesome!

Michael P.