Looking Forward To Gen Con 2022 – And Remembering Gen Con 2019
Nov30

Looking Forward To Gen Con 2022 – And Remembering Gen Con 2019

We are very excited to announce that Goodman Games will return to Gen Con in 2022! After missing two years due to the Covid crisis, Goodman Games is currently planning a return to the biggest gaming convention in the U.S. next year! We’ll be back in full force, with our crew, our booth, and the Team Tournament happening in full force! August is still several months out, though, so let’s take a moment to look back at what...

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Looking Back At The Last Great Gen Con
Oct07

Looking Back At The Last Great Gen Con

Gen Con 2021 has come and gone. It was fun for those who attended, but also half the size of Gen Con 2019 in the pre-pandemic era. We are so fortunate that Eric Daum put together a short documentary about our Gen Con 2019 experience. Below is the YouTube video of his documentary. We hope you watch this to remember what Gen Con used to be like—and what it will hopefully be like again soon! Come walk down memory lane on the Official...

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2019 Gen Con In Review: The Gathering of the Tribes
Dec22

2019 Gen Con In Review: The Gathering of the Tribes

2019 Gen Con In Review: The Gathering of the Tribes By Harley Stroh Like most gamers of a certain age, I began daydreaming about Gen Con as a child. Back then the logo was usually some sort of compass rose, printed in black and white, close to the end of a rule book. Growing up in rural Colorado, where the nearest gaming store was a sewing shop, I didn’t know what a gaming convention was, but I knew I had to get to this thing called...

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Speaking of Labor Day…meet the Teardown Squad!
Sep02

Speaking of Labor Day…meet the Teardown Squad!

Let’s break it down for you. It’s a little known secret: when the last customer leaves Gen Con, they turn off the air conditioning. And then they open the big outside doors. In August. But the few, the proud, the sweaty stay behind to help disassemble the greatest days in gaming, because somebody has to pack up everything before we go home. And thus today we give you another behind-the-scenes look at life in the gaming industry....

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The Names On The Doom Gong
Aug30

The Names On The Doom Gong

The Gong of Doom has quickly become an icon for the Goodman Games crowd. It’s echoing sound ringing through the hallways as a harbinger of another fallen comrade during the Team Tournament. It’s both wonderful and ominous at the same time. It has another purpose, too. On the columns of the Gong, we’ve added plaques to commemorate the winners of the Team Tournament, both at Gen Con and, as of this year, Origins as...

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Gen Con Videos, Part 3: The DCC College
Aug24

Gen Con Videos, Part 3: The DCC College

And here is the third and final video from Gen Con 2019: The DCC College! Brendan LaSalle, Haley Skatch, Jen Brinkman, and Harley Stroh got together to discuss what makes Dungeon Crawl Classics a unique experience and how to run the game to its fullest potential. But why listen to me talk when you can watch the whole thing yourself? Just click the link below and...

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Gen Con Videos, Part 2: What’s New With Goodman Games
Aug24

Gen Con Videos, Part 2: What’s New With Goodman Games

It’s part two of our Saturday Gen Con video series! This time out, we’ve got the grand-daddy of videos: The What’s New With Goodman Games Seminar! You might have already seen this video on Facebook, but this is the version with a lot of bonus images and artwork that weren’t shown in the original video. Here’s where we talk about OAR #3: The Lost City, the 5E version of Fred Saberhagen’s Empire of...

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Gen Con Videos, Part 1: Gaming in the Spirit of Robert E. Howard
Aug24

Gen Con Videos, Part 1: Gaming in the Spirit of Robert E. Howard

Oh yeah, we’re still talking about Gen Con. And in fact, we’ve got not one, not two, but THREE videos that we’ll be posting today that were taken at Gen Con 2019. We start off with a seminar entitled Gaming Appendix N: Robert E. Howard and Sword and Sorcery. It’s a great chance to see how our adventure authors integrate the works of a great writer into their game designs, and the impact he had on their creative...

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Gen Con 2019: The Judges Awards, a.k.a. “The Goodies”
Aug18

Gen Con 2019: The Judges Awards, a.k.a. “The Goodies”

At Gen Con last year we started a new tradition, recognizing great judges with our special gold, silver, and bronze medals—aka, The Goodies. This year we continued the tradition, and also included a few folks from outside the judging pool. We’re happy to share the official results here and honor the winners! The Iron Judge Award Awarded to judges who have run an exceptional number of events at Gen Con 2019. Bronze – Michael...

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Statistics From The Gen Con 2019 DCC Team Tournament
Aug13

Statistics From The Gen Con 2019 DCC Team Tournament

At Gen Con 2019, Goodman Games ran the third annual DCC Team Tournament, The Greatest Thieves in Lankhmar. This year 96 players competing on a record 20 different teams took on the deadly challenges of the fabled city of Lankhmar, City of Sevenscore Thousand Smokes. Over the course of four fantastic days and three hard-fought rounds, many PCs fell to the deadly traps and cunning puzzles that made up this year’s adventure, and a number...

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Gen Con 2019: A Recap of The Gen Con DCC Team Tournament
Aug12

Gen Con 2019: A Recap of The Gen Con DCC Team Tournament

The Greatest Thieves in Lankhmar brought the Gen Con Team Tournament to the infamous City of the Black Toga. The tournament ranged from the hot cellars beneath Thieves’ House, to the sooty rooftops, and concluded with a mad dash through the palace of the Overlord.  Characters died alone, lost beneath Thieves’ House, as their torches burnt out, one by one. Slayers stalked the city in search of the PCs, even as washer-mongers took...

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Announcing Empire of the East for 5E
Aug11

Announcing Empire of the East for 5E

The news from Gen Con continues! Back at Gary Con, we announced our license to produce DCC: Empire of the East. And last weekend at Gen Con we announced that Empire of the East will ALSO be available in a 5E version. Produced in partnership with the estate of Fred Saberhagen, Empire of the East adapts the three-part series of novels into a gaming expanse that provides a post-apocalyptic world where magic and science are...

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