Join Head Gnome John for a series of short interviews with attendees at Gen Con 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Settle in for a bonus-sized episode!
https://gnomestew.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Gnomecast-046.mp3 [1]Download:Â Gen Con 2018 [1]
The interviews in this episode include:
- A quick chat with long-time Gen Con attendee Lorraine and also local bartender Jameson, both at the nearby Loughmiller’s Pub [2].
- Another quick chat with game industry veteran Tony Law.
- Caleb Stokes of Hebanon Games [3] talks about his ENnie-nominated game, Red Markets [4].
- Dave Chalker of Critical Hits [5] discusses the upcoming Sentinel Comics: the Roleplaying Game [6]. As of the publication of this episode, the full game is not yet released, but the starter kit is available now [7]!
- Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games [8] talks about his game Bulldogs! [9], the recently released supplement for it, People of the Zone, and his upcoming historical samurai game Thousand Arrows.
- Rich Howard speaks with John about the upcoming Descent Into Midnight [10], the underwater adventure RPG that Rich is helping develop.
- Brian Engard [11] and Anna Meade [12] of Blue Gables Publishing & Consulting [13] chat with John about the new edition of the game Becoming (coming soon!) as well as the recently released (to Kickstarter backers) dark future Uprising [14] RPG from Evil Hat Productions [15]. Uprising is set to be available to the public next month.
- Eloy Lasanta of Third Eye Games [16] catches up with John about what it’s like to be a convention GM for Third Eye and also about his upcoming release of Part-Time Gods Second Edition. Check out the preview available now [17]!
- Craig Campbell of Nerdburger Games [18] discusses his Prohibition-era superhero RPG CAPERS [19], available soon.
- James Introcaso of World Builder Blog [20] and the Don’t Split the Podcast Network [21] talks about the new announcement about Burn Bryte [22], a game he’s helping develop exclusively for Roll20 [23].
- Chris Spivey of Darker Hue Studios [24] talks about his multiple ENnie Awards wins for Harlem Unbound [25] as well as the new sci-fi line he’s developing for Chaosium [26].
- Derek Knutsen-Frey and Daniel Knutsen-Frey discuss Palegain Press [27]‘ Universal Storytelling System [28] and its upcoming module, Flower of Heaven: Shrine of the Fallen Heroes. There’s still time to back the Flower of Heaven Kickstarter [29]!
- Jacob McEntire of Flying NightBear Games [30] talks about his upcoming game Beyonder [31]. Kickstarter coming soon; keep an eye on the Beyonder website [31] for news!
- Nicole Liberty catches John up on the happenings at the Indie Game Developer Network [32] booth at Gen Con.
- Wayne Johnson shows off his new product GRIDSCAPE fresh off Kickstarter and available to the public soon from Battleboard Games [33]!
- Tristan Zimmerman talks about Molten Sulfer Blog [34], a source of gameable inspiration from real history!
- Jacqueline Bryk [35] talks about the importance of safety tools and mechanics and her work on them in Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition [36].
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Want some bonus bonus content?
Gnome Stew frequent guest author Keith Garrett was at Gencon with his camera and took a bunch of pictures! Here’s a photo album of some of the sites of Gencon 2018!
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