# Gen\*Con Indy, or Five Days of Gaming Paradise
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-con-indy-or-five-days-of-gaming-paradise/258333
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 4, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-con-indy-or-five-days-of-gaming-paradise/258333 "2004-08-04T19:38:49Z")
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### Author:  [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-con-indy-or-five-days-of-gaming-paradise/258333/1 "2004-08-04T19:38:49Z")
As I discused in my [Epic San Diego Comic Con Report](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=268795), I will be headed to Indianapolis, Indiana for Gen_Con! This will be my first Gen_Con, and I am REALLY looking forward to it. San Diego was nice, and very geeky, but I am a gamer at heart.
So I will be at the WotC Booth #417. Come by and look for a guy with a green fishing cap with pins on it. I am sure there will be lots of free SWAG. Plus if anyone wants to get together for dinner near the convention center, I would love to!
[The Coolest Thing Ever sub[/sub]]([http://www.gencon.com/displayindy.aspx?file=indy-true-dungeon](http://www.gencon.com/displayindy.aspx?file=indy-true-dungeon)).
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-con-indy-or-five-days-of-gaming-paradise/258333/2 "2004-08-04T19:45:57Z")
I’d love to got his year, but won’t be able to; if you’re there next year, I’ll see you then!
Last year was an absolute blast, by the way. I got to play ina game with the redoubtable Kevin Kulp (author of _Of Sound Mind_ and an Internet friend) and in a game with the Fiery Dragons Productions guys, all of whom were hilarious and wonderful.
Gen\*Con is a great, great con, best I’ve ever been to.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-con-indy-or-five-days-of-gaming-paradise/258333/3 "2004-08-04T19:47:23Z")
Hey, I live somewhat close to Indy. I didn’t know there were any gaming conventions there. I wonder if **IndyGrrl** knew about it, because it seems like a good chance for her to try and arrange an IndyDope.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-con-indy-or-five-days-of-gaming-paradise/258333/4 "2004-08-04T20:27:55Z")
I work downtown, so if anyone wants to catch lunch at any point during the week, lemme know. There used to be a fantastic all-you-can-eat Thai place 3 blocks from the convention center, but that’s gone out of business (it’s all my fault - sorry!). We can probably hammer out the where’s, when’s and what’s later, but there’s good variety downtown.
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### Author:  [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-con-indy-or-five-days-of-gaming-paradise/258333/5 "2004-08-07T06:11:14Z")
> [@Munch](#):
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> I work downtown, so if anyone wants to catch lunch at any point during the week, lemme know. There used to be a fantastic all-you-can-eat Thai place 3 blocks from the convention center, but that’s gone out of business (it’s all my fault - sorry!). We can probably hammer out the where’s, when’s and what’s later, but there’s good variety downtown.
I would enjoy this greatly. I enjoy meeting dopers. 🙂
So if someone wants to make a Gen\*Con Dopefest I would be happy to attend.
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### Author:  [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-con-indy-or-five-days-of-gaming-paradise/258333/6 "2004-08-08T01:53:13Z")
I just realized that the weekend this covers is the same weekend that I go back to school. ☹
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### Author:  [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-con-indy-or-five-days-of-gaming-paradise/258333/7 "2004-08-08T17:12:43Z")
OK - I don’t care one whit about Gen\*Con itself, but I’ve been meaning to get interest in an IndyDope started recently. See, we bought a house in April! And we would love to have folks over!
I know that convention parties can be quite fun, but I’d still love to meet some of you guys. And **Munch** , it’s been to long!
Please feel free to drop me an email. It’s avarie537 at [yahoo.com](http://yahoo.com).
Yay! IndyDopeFest!
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### Author:  [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-con-indy-or-five-days-of-gaming-paradise/258333/8 "2004-08-08T19:31:29Z")
Sent an email to everyone on this thread. If anyone wants to head up this shindig, feel free to email. 🙂
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-con-indy-or-five-days-of-gaming-paradise/258333/9 "2004-08-08T22:19:42Z")
Still kind of mad it left Milwaukee, even if I understand the reasons.
It was neat haveing a very big aviation event (EAA aka Airventure) and a big gaming event (GenCon) in the same state.
Brian