#284: Gen Con 2023 Preview

#284: Gen Con 2023 Preview

Author: Board Game Barrage July 20, 2023 Duration: 1:03:57

It's convention season, and the big one is almost upon us, as board gamers across America prepare to descend on Indiana. Gen Con! We won't be there this year, but that won't stop us anticipating what we could be playing at the show. Before we want what we can't have, we talk about Fancy Feathers, Beast, Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020, and Mercator.

Timecodes:

02:43 - Fancy Feathers
08:31 - Beast
16:55 - Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020
22:43 - Merkator
29:53 - Aurum
31:12 - Age of Innovation
35:06 - Ahau: Rulers of Yucatán
37:03 - Inheritors
40:11 - City of the Great Machine
42:41 - The Fox Experiment
44:01 - SpellBook
46:13 - Tesseract
48:15 - Wild Tiled West
50:14 - Kutná Hora: The City of Silver
52:38 - General Orders: World War II 
54:13 - 3 Ring Circus
56:21 - Wandering Towers
1:00:32 - The Search for Lost Species
1:01:02 - Legacies

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