Our good friend Simon is the lead narrative designer for this new Tabletop RPG in a box, designed to work without a Game master, it tells a grim story of a werewolf sept who loses their home to The Defiler. What follows is a challenging adventure where the players, a sept of Garou, decide how to take back what was taken as Garou.

This sports a unique approach to spirits, allies, and even lone wolf mechanics that ensure this game will have plenty of replay ability.

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High Shelf Gaming has another convention survival guide for you! The unique gaming experience at PAX is a joy and Philadelphia has a lot to offer. We cover housing, gaming, the dealer hall, food and Philly specific entertainment options and even a bit of the history you can take in while visiting. We also have a few warnings in here to help with safety.

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Dave and Rich emerge from an ancient podcast slumber - we talk about the last couple years, what happened to us as people and as a podcast show. It feels good to be back if you'll have us!

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This week Rich and I follow a great suggestion from the GenCon Facebook Group to dedicate an episode to food and drinks at the convention and surrounding Indianapolis area.

We take a DnD approach to this starting with 1st level GenCon attendees and the truly authentic first-timer experiences. Later, we talk about mid-level attendee fun like food trucks, and lastly some epic-level advice to really maximize game time and enjoyment of the convention.

If you're interested in joining us for our GenCon meetup (August 2018) join the HSG Facebook Group where we'll coordinate everything or take careful notes at the end of this episode for details.

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We welcome Heather back to talk about how our GenCon event registration went (spoilers, it went crazy well!) and to answer all of the questions she had about the convention as this will be her first time attending GenCon. Heather is a seasoned convention attendee and helped me run events at some very large conventions in the past. Her questions are mostly centered around GenCon itself, and less about conventions in general.

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Q - packet Will Call or mail it to you? A - Really depends on your logistics. If you're arriving off normal hours or on Wednesday, will call is great. Since tickets get sold out now the volunteers that used to manage ticket sales are now helping with Will Call. Thursday during the day will be a longer line, Saturday even worse. Will Call is open 24 hours so try to pick up your packet during off hours the night before you start your con events.

Q - What's it like getting around downtown? lots of walking? A - City bus from the airport to Downtown, then walking a ton. going from one end to the other may take 20 minutes so pad in some travel time between events. Lyft and Gen-Con promotional pricing this year to help get around town. If you're driving in and need to park, GenCon's event registration will sell you parking passes.

Q - How early do should someone arrive to an event? A - True Dungeon just a bit before the time prior to the event. rules are if you're a few minutes late they'll drop

Q - Dealer's room when to buy and logistics A - post office nearby to ship by Saturday. Kinkos inside the convention center for Sunday shipping. Sunday is a good day to try for a couple deals, but popular stuff is going to be sold out long before that so think about which items you want to make sure to purchase on Thursday

We kept talking after the DM Tips recording and ended up in a cool conversation about some of the current examples of play out in the role-playing gaming scene. Not quite enough to be its own weekly episode but still a fun little conversation. Let us know if you'd like more of this behind the scenes chatter!

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This week Mike joins us to talk about some Dungeon Master tips in DnD and other RPGs. This episode focuses on building the story and what to do when players throw you a curveball. It's a fun discussion as all three of us have different approaches and expectations of our players and we get into the differences between running games for local friend group vs. running games at gaming conventions.

Mike turned us onto a great DM toolkit available on the google play store!

http://www.xalops.com/

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This week Kelly joins Rich and I to go back to talking about board games, specifically games that are great to bust out at a party or particularly packed gaming night!

We gave ourselves some rules:

1. Small playing space
2. Portable
3. Quick to explain (less than 10 minutes)
4. Quick to setup (few pieces)
5. Accommodate more than 4 people

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This week Rich and I talk about Origins Game Fair, a simple guide to attend this lovely con!

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This week Vlad joins Rich and I to talk about where this lovely role playing game came from. How it came to be known as DnD 3.75 and chat a tiny bit about what we hope to see with the recently announced Pathfinder 2e.

Pathfinder is made by Paizo http://paizo.com/pathfinder/rpg

The new playtest for 2nd Edition is available here: http://paizo.com/pathfinderplaytest

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This week Rich and I are joined by Mark and his son Matthew to talk about a smaller local convention in Houston, OwlCon. We chat about Scythe, Dr. Who Roleplaying game, Risk and the local flare around Houston.

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Part 3 of our Survival guide series on GenCon! Event Registration. Rich and I share all the tricks we've learned over the years to secure spots to the games we care about.

Also, we're planning an HSG dinner/drinks thing at GenCon this year, we'll spill more details in future episodes.

Event listing should come out near the end of April, Registration is May 6th.

https://www.gencon.com/attend/policies#registration

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The mental break for Dungeon Masters.

In this episode, Larry and Al join Rich and me in talking about the board games that Dungeons and Dragons have been putting out. Great games, tons of hours of play, interchangeable heroes from box to box, and excellent miniatures you can use in your Roleplaying games!

http://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/board-card-games

Dave and Rich along with the rest of the HSG community had a lot of fun at the first-ever Gen Con online. We go through some of the obvious differences with Gen Con being fully virtual and talk about some of the surprising aspects. Well, surprising to us. For instance, most of the players in our games were 1st time Gen Con attendees, they expected to be in contact with the GMs weeks in advance and seemed to want to keep playing games with us after the convention. Which... is so bazaar when you think about how normal conventions go. Virtual conventions seem to be an excellent place to find new people for your discord as HSG and several of our community members ran games in HSG's discord and pulled players to their own discords.

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This week Rich and I talk about the joy of running events at GenCon and other conventions. GenCon 2018's Event Organizer sign up ends March 10th but these tips will help you for any con.

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Rich and I talk about the game we've loved for the longest and certainly put the most time into.

This kicks off a series of episodes we're going to do about D&D.

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Robert and Ben join Rich and me again to discuss Legend of Five Rings, the new card game. This episode focuses on the game itself, some basic strategy considerations and how layered the experience can be.

We get into the role that tournament winners play on impacting the game for every player in the future, uniquely this game changes after major tournaments in a way that no other game has attempted with player decisions impacting the story, and even the game rules for individual clans.

Fantasy Flight game page: https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/legend-of-the-five-rings-the-card-game/

L5R Discord: https://discord.gg/jnVXhv

Card Database: https://fiveringsdb.com/#/

Play online for free: https://jigoku.online/

For more stories from Rokugan check out http://www.kazenoshiro.com/

Robert and Ben come to us from an excellent L5R podcast 'The Table is Yours' https://the-table-is-yours.pinecast.co/

Robert and Ben join Rich and me to tell us all about this very tactical card game. We're breaking this conversation up into two episodes. This one focuses on the world of Rokugan, the game setting for Legend of the Five Rings, the new Living Card Game from Fantasy Flight.

L5R Discord: https://discord.gg/jnVXhv

Card Database: https://fiveringsdb.com/#/

Play online for free: https://jigoku.online/

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Robert and Ben come to us from an excellent L5R podcast The Table is Yours https://the-table-is-yours.pinecast.co/

This week Ryan joins Rich and me to talk about the Board Game Geek convention in Dallas they put on four times a year. Twice in Dallas and twice on cruise ships! An excellent convention style to load up on tons of unique games with more 3,000 titles to chose from.

https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/BGGCON

Rich and I talk with several of our friends about their experience as women in the gaming scene. They share a lot of great experiences, both positive and negative, about the games and events they're apart of.

This episode is more serious than our normal affair, but we wanted to talk about this subject. We need to thank all of the people who asked to be apart of this episode, the timing didn't work out for everyone but the guests we had on were fantastic.

• Kelly
• Cassidy
• Jessi
• Heather
• Elyse

---- Heather also has a blog at https://kratrina.com/ and is available on twitter @kratrina

• buy a badge sooner than later
• have a credit card with an expiration date AFTER the show
• be ready for housing portal JAN 26th!
• travel to and from the convention
• parking at hotels even downtown and it can add up
• travel from airport - shuttle and bus
• Uber and Lyft

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Downtown map - http://www.downtownindy.org/explore-downtown/maps/

This Week Daniel joins Rich and David in talking about this cooperative deckbuilding game. A sleeper challenge that really ups the pain late into the game with tons of replay ability

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/135382/shadowrun-crossfire

Reprint!?

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1716719/will-there-be-reprint

http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/category/crossfire/

Kelly comes back to talk about her favorite game, Pandemic! It gets her epidemiologist heart all a twitter, naturally we have a deep bench of strategies and teasing to spell at Rich who's never won a game apparently.

We cover several expansions along with the main game here are links to the versions of Pandemic we covered:

Base Game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic

Expansion 1 - On the brink: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/40849/pandemic-brink

Expansion 2 - State of Emergency: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/168703/pandemic-state-emergency

Iberia stand alone (has rails!): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/198928/pandemic-iberia

Pandemic Legacy (evolving game, limited plays!): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161936/pandemic-legacy-season-1

Contagion (you are the disease) : https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/157789/pandemic-contagion

Cthulhu version: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/192153/pandemic-reign-cthulhu

Broken Token organizer for base game + Expansions: http://www.thebrokentoken.com/biohazard-containment-unit/

Other sites talking about survival strategies:

https://www.thespruce.com/pandemic-how-to-avoid-outbreaks-410922

https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/2372/what-are-good-general-strategies-for-pandemic

A bit different today, this episode Rich and I revisit some games we talked about earlier in the year. We know it's a little... dumb? to do a looking back episode after only 6 episodes but hey, Game of Thrones Season 8 is what? 6 episodes? We're just following the greats!

Seriously though we're pumped to talk about our future here at HSG. We spend most of this episode talking about things to come and how much fun we're going to have in 2018!

Rich and David are joined by Kratrina to talk all about player character death in tabletop RPGs. It can be fun, it can be devastating, and there are a few tips we've learned along the way to navigate those deep waters. Kratrina has been on the show in the past covering several topics and she plays in many of our streamed Actual Plays

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A small but fun game where the players are galactic architects, competing to create the largest collection of stars, planets, and blackholes possible before the end of the universe. This competitive game shuffles turn orders and provides many paths to victory making for some creative plays to lock in a win. Board Game Geek

Game rules hosted by Gamer Nation

Gamer Nation product page - Alternative rules for cooperative play, Secret agenda cards are also available for print and play

It looks like they had intended to produce expansion packs to the game with more cards with each expansion but sadly never came to pass.

In this episode Rich and I are joined by my wife, Kelly in talking about this brand new Doctor Who game, that's actually really fun to play even for non-Who fans like myself.

Doctor Who: Time of the Daleks by Gale Force Nine games is a great take on the series, plays well as a semi-cooperative game with rules that really fit in well with the theme. We had a lot of fun with this game and making this episode!

Game's web page: http://doctorwho.gf9games.com/

BGG page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/186995/doctor-who-time-daleks

Shara joins us to talk about her favorite boardgame Ticket to Ride! We have a lot of fun talking around the game and how Shara's cousins and her conspire against her Uncle and how Rich's family never lets him win. Some links to help people get their Ticket to Ride fix on the go:

Days of Wonder's online games: https://www.daysofwonder.com/online/en/play/

Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/108200/Ticket_to_Ride/

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daysofwonder.tt.android&hl=en

In this episode David is joined by Rob, talking about their love for True Dungeon. A type of in room dungeons and dragons with paid actors, difficult puzzles, and animatronic monsters! Truely a unique experience only available at Gen Con and similar venues.

http://truedungeon.com/

Rich and I talk about the first game we really played together Doom 2004 edition. We played at a convention of all places. We discuss the game itself and how we'd tweak it to make it more fun and some new ideas on how to really do something special for players in a big game.

Some more great resources about Doom old and new: http://geekandsundry.com/doom-the-board-game-is-back-in-style/

This episode Rich and David talk about all the great games they saw and played at GenCon and some strategies for how to get access to all the games you want to get when attending this sold out show!

Show notes for episode Gencon Official Website www.gencon.com

Gencon Record Attendance https://www.ibj.com/articles/65099-gen-con-brings-in-record-attendance-at-its-50th-convention

Captain Sonar https://www.asmodee.us/en/games/captain-sonar/

Masters of Orion http://masteroforion.com/intro

Firefly Brigands and Browncoats http://fireflythegame.com/

Heroes of Rokugan http://heroes-of-rokugan.net/

Eclipse Phase http://eclipsephase.com/

Super Robo Rally https://www.facebook.com/superlegoroborally/

http://www.teamhassenplug.org/superroborally/

True Dungeon http://truedungeon.com/

WE ARE BACK! Gen Con Online is fast approaching at the end of July 2020 and there's a lot of learning we all have to do. Effectively this is a First-Year online convention. To help us navigate these waters we brought on two folks from Gen Con. Derek is the Sr. Event and Program Manager at Gen Con and Dominic is the Event Coordinator for Gen Con. They join us during the run-up to Gen Con Online to help us all understand what the convention will be like this year and talk about what we can all do to get the most out of it. A few more helpful links when considering Gen Con Online: Links for hosts: https://www.gencon.com/host/bestpractices https://www.gencon.com/host/thirdpartyplatforms https://www.gencon.com/host/new https://www.gencon.com/host/eo-gmYouTube and Twitch https://www.youtube.com/user/GenConVideo https://www.twitch.tv/gencontv

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High Shelf Gaming has always been a remote gaming community. We have sprinkled information over the years about the tools we use for board games and roleplaying games but this episode puts it all into one place for your convenience during Covid-19 or novel coronavirus. This is unpresidented time. If you are sheltering in place or practicing social distancing - Thank you! you are a part of a global movement to help everyone in your community. Never has all of humanity done something like this on such a scale. Bravo.

Organization tools: DiscordCalandyWhenisgood.net

Video Chat DiscordFacebook MessengerWhatsappGoogle HangoutsWebEx (free for up to 100 participants) Zoom

Boardgames over the web TabletopiaTabletop Simulator

Roleplaying game Virtual Tables Tabletop SimulatorAstralRoll20Fantasy GroundsD&D BeyondDriveThurRPG Extras Play by Post guide BASILISK STATION - A Traveller Blog (Example Play by Post game)

Cyberpunk 2020/Red fans (Discord Server) DMs Guild.com for solo adventures Tunnels and Trolls Legend Keeper

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High Shelf Gaming brings on Zac and David to talk about their new Kickstarter 'Knights of the Shadow Realm' which is a gigantic D&D module bringing characters from 1st to 20th level with a big story all along the way. David ran this game for his friend group and is turning the adventure into this module for you and your friends to play. It comes with the main quest and a living world of interwoven plot-hooks that change as the world progresses around the player characters. We also take a moment to talk about Zac's D&D supplement which includes a TON of material for oceanic games, monsters, subraces, and lore all available for the GM wanting to take on the high seas.

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We are so fortunate Randall Porter reached out asking to come on and dive deep into Gen Con's history. The stories he shares are mind-boggling. From remote-controlled robots poaching customers from other booths to folks sleeping in parking lots in early Gen Con days. We get a strong sense of how Gen Con worked under TSR, WOTC, and now as an independent entity. We even get a bit of a glimpse into the rift between Gen Con, Origins, and how they mended fences. Randy is an excellent guest and brought a wealth of information to the show.

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Scott has been a fixture in the high shelf gaming community for over a year now, and he runs the RPG Zone at Pax South! This year we had the opportunity to partner with him to get some signage up, boost the RPG turnout at Pax South and provide a ton of giveaways from R. Talsorian Games, and Hot Springs Island! RPGs at Pax South grew a ton this year and are poised to go even bigger in 2021. We are so excited to be invited on this ride and hear some great insights on how PAX South differs from other PAX conventions. Also, there was a San Antonio Spurs (basketball) game going on...

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Getting all the way back to our roots in RPG gaming with games that launch as zines (small magazines from people self-publishing) Rich and I welcome Patch on to the show who is making Terranary RPG and releasing it on Kickstarter as part of Zine Quest 2! This RPG sounds so interesting to us. It uses a dice system I don’t think either of us has heard about, or even anything similar.

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Riley from Pactless Patrons is a seasoned PAX conventions attendee and volunteer. They have attended 15 PAXi over the years but have never been to any other conventions. Rich and Dave field questions and dish out advice to let Riley know what they're in for. We cover a lot of topics comparing the two styles of conventions: the scope of Gen Con, the Enforcers at Pax vs Gen Con Staff, and how subtle differences create very different experiences. We also get into Gen Con's event pricing and how the assumptions Gen Con makes are very different than the assumptions PAX makes.

Riley is an excellent guest and a real pleasure to engage with and they share so much knowledge about PAX. I think we all learned a lot from each other. We hope to have them back on after Gen Con to get their thoughts and impressions. Riley [they/them] is on twitter: @RileyGryc

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Van Helsing inspired TTRPG where players make seasoned monster hunters with signature weapons that grow with the character throughout the campaign. The career progression influences the themes each player character brings to the game. One of the things we love hearing about is how games come together and how collaboration between writers and artist completely shapes the direction and themes of the game.

Links for the game and company: The Kickstarter Storeywood Games

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We had the pleasure to bring on Bruce Voge from North Star Games to talk about their latest board game, Oceans which is expected to hit stores March 23rd, 2020! Oceans is a thematic update to their popular game, Evolution, and Evolution: Climate which we reviewed not too long ago. It's important to understand that Oceans is not an expansion but a standalone game which uses some of the same concepts, in a new context and has some very important changes to the rules which make for a game with more 'come from behind' possibilities than were readily available in Evolution. This episode is a different format than we normally use. Rich and I start things off then hand it over to the interview which plays uninterrupted. We always love your feedback, let us know if this format is pleasant to listen to. To catch up with Bruce and his podcast find him at these places Personal Twitter: @brucecothinks Podcast: @partygamecast

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PAX Unplugged is a unique player in the tabletop convention scene, the way it works and assumptions it makes about attendees are different than the other conventions out there we break down those differences and what makes PAX special. David was able to attend with some friends of the show, get interviews with game designers and play lots of board games. Games reviewed: Oceans by North Star Games Cities and Skylines by Kosmos Periodic, Cytosis by Genius Games

We attended an excellent panel: Guiding Queer Narratives in TTRPGs

And provide insights into some D&D Facebook groups: All Things D&D turns out to be an excellent group to join.

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Rich and David review the new location for Board Game Geek Con, in Downtown Dallas and 8 boardgames rich got to play at the show. Having left the DFW airport, BGG Con has followed in the footsteps of some incredible DFW based cons such as A-Kon and Anime-Fest which now see much larger attendance numbers. But with that growth came some growing pains. Rich sites a few of them along with the benefit of being closer to better food options and the rest of what Dallas has to offer. We cover several games! Masmorra Dungeons of ArcadiaFirst MartiansHomeworld by Looney LabsSpynet by Z-man Games & Richard GarfieldShobu Cretaceous Rails (proto-alley) LucidityToo Many Bones

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Luke the Goon from the Dark Future podcast joins us to talk about his second gaming passion, OSR RPGs! or Old School Revival Role-Playing Games. Luke brings a ton of experience with these games and some great input on what games to will get you started. Come on and dive into the nostalgic reboots of D&D. Mentioned in this episode: basicfantasy.org

Black Hack RPG

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HSG returns to Gen Con Food and Drink in and around the convention center. We add more tips and advice from our first attempt in 2017, and make sure to talk about places that are still open! 2017's guide was great but it mentions a few places that have since closed down. Rich and David walk you through the most likely places to find food, and some tips on what you can do to get better food options with a tiny bit of effort. One point we don't say enough in the episode is stay hydrated. Gen Con's wonderful air conditioning and all the walking is going to dry you out. We recommend getting a little flat-pack water bladder just to keep your head cleared while you play in the world's best games and tournaments.

As always we love feedback and more food suggestions. be sure to leave comments on Facebook or twitter, wherever the discussion is. Lastly - we are running a giveaway! contest winners will get a bundle of goods! We will be accepting submissions from December 23rd, 2019 through January 10th, 2020.

Contest details: To enter simply go to Facebook or Twitter and tell your friends and followers about your favorite HSG episode! Maybe tell them a bit about why you like that episode. Tag us so we see it. 1 entry per human. After January 10th we will gather all the submissions and roll a die to figure out who our two winners will be!

#1 - You will get a copy of the Cyberpunk Red Jump Start Kit! (US winners get a physical copy, international sorry but we hope the .PDFs will suffice) + Beta access to Legend Keeper a tool that helps you track your imaginary world, RPG campaign, or write your next fantasy or sci-fi novel. It effectively combines Google Maps with Wikipedia just for your projects. + something special from Rich (details in the episode).

#2 - You will also get beta access to Legend Keeper + something special from Rich (details in the episode)

Huge thank you goes to R. Talsorian Games for their continuous boosting of our show on social media and sponsoring this episode. We are all pumped for what 2020 will mean for RTG.

Also, we want to thank Legend Keeper for kicking off an ongoing sponsorship of HSG staring now with 2 give away licenses! We'll be giving away more of these in the future, we're so excited for this relationship and the success of LK.

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We can hardly believe we've made 100 MP3 files in just over 2 years. High Shelf Gaming has been a fantastic passion project during this time so we wanted to celebrate for a bit during the holidays. There are giveaways inside this episode! Two lucky winners will get a bundle of awesome! We will be accepting submissions from December 23rd, 2019 (today) through January 10th, 2020.

Contest details: To enter simply go to Facebook or Twitter and tell your friends and followers about your favorite HSG episode! Maybe tell them a bit about why you like that episode. Tag us so we see it. 1 entry per human. After January 10th we will gather all the submissions and roll a die to figure out who our two winners will be!

#1 - You will get a copy of the Cyberpunk Red Jump Start Kit! (US winners get a physical copy, international sorry but we hope the .PDFs will suffice) + Beta access to Legend Keeper a tool that helps you track your imaginary world, RPG campaign, or write your next fantasy or sci-fi novel. It effectively combines Google Maps with Wikipedia just for your projects. + something special from Rich (details in the episode). #2 - You will also get beta access to Legend Keeper + something special from Rich (details in the episode) Huge thank you goes to R. Talsorian Games for their continuous boosting of our show on social media and sponsoring this episode. We are all pumped for what 2020 will mean for RTG. Also, we want to thank Legend Keeper for kicking off an ongoing sponsorship of HSG staring now with 2 give away licenses! We'll be giving away more of these in the future, we're so excited for this relationship and the success of LK.

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HSG takes on Gen Con Event Registration to add more tips and advice from our first attempt in 2017. Rich and David break down strategies for groups of gamers who can pool their effort and are comfortable paying each other back for events registered. We cover solo attendees and some good suggestions there and give some insights into how Event Organizers are measured by Gen Con. Also, we talk about the things you can do without registering, there are tons of ways to enjoy Gen Con without booking every second of your time. Not mentioned in this episode, which we should have, try not to over-book your Gen Con. Leave time in there for food, socializing, walking the dealer hall. If you have back to back events all convention long you will be exhausted by the end of it.

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Running events at Gen Con is one of the most rewarding things we do every year. Last year, we went bigger than ever and plan to grow again in 2020. This episode shares the lessons High Shelf Gaming has learned over the years to help individuals and groups of event organizers have a successful con!

Rich and David have been running events at Gen Con and other conventions for years, so this is a blending of not only Gen Con-specific knowledge but also general convention gaming prep. We also sneak in some pro tips for players too, so if you attend Gen Con or one of the larger conventions there are some kernels of wisdom here for you.

High Shelf Gaming will run events at Gen Con. If you want to join us as a GM or play in our games, be sure to join the HSG Facebook group and Discord where we organize all those efforts. We have many independent contributors and folks from other podcasts and channels who team up to make for an awesome group of games. This all helps us pool our efforts to earn badges and hotel reimbursement from Gen Con, which is a big deal!

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The Gen Con Survival Guide series that launched HSG has aged a bit and changes have hit Gen Con and Indy. Meaning, we need to remake this series and update it with current tips and suggestions.

In this episode, David and Rich talk all about housing for Gen Con. We cover the housing portal and how it behaves leading up to the con when rooms will suddenly become available. HSG discusses how to stack the odds in your favor as well as contingency plans with places like Airbnb, VRBO, and some…err creative solutions for when the portal doesn’t go well. Episode Correction: We talk about changing and canceling rooms in the housing portal. Changing rooms is free, canceling entirely is where you get hit with a $50 fee. Helpful links: Gen Con housing and travelFans of Gen Con Facebook group (EXCELLENT RESOURCE) Gen Con Housing Portal auto-checker (Github link, programmer-friendly resource)

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It's that time of year again, when we think of others and imagine the best gift for them to receive during the holidays. Rich and David go all over books, games, and gaming accessories for those in your life you'd like to bring some gamer joy to. Got a friend with a new kid? got just the thing! another friend that seems to have everything they need for their RPGs? bet they don't have what we suggest in here. This was fun to record and timely to release.

Game Rundown: Exploding Kittens Ticket To ride Evolution Unlock - escape room in a box Pandemic Power Grid Trains Roll for the Galaxy King of Tokyo Settlers of Catan Pirates Cove (Catan) X-Com Board Game Rising Sun Agricola Scythe Pandemic Legacy Gloomhaven

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