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If you love tabletop games, conventions, and repurposing super jocky sports venues to fulfill nerdy needs, then you’re gonna’ LOVE GenCon. Four days chocked full of way more board games than you can throw your wallet at.
All of the biggest review sites will be there to check out the latest and greatest the industry has to offer this season and I’m happy to report that Love Thy Nerd will be there as well. There is so… so… so many games to see that there’s almost no way to really see them all while you’re there
Have no fear, Nerds. Free Play has your back!
We came up with a non-definitive top 9 games to check out at GenCon 2018 and we want to talk about it this week on the Free Play Podcast.
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Episode Hosts
Bubba is the CEO, President and Founder of LTN, host of the Free Play Podcast and the Church Nerds Podcast. He is also a full-time Nerd-Culture Missionary. Bubba, and his wonderful wife Anna, have 4 children who are pretty good most of the time. A communal gamer at heart who loves to get in and play games with other people #gameNightIStheRightNight
Matt is the CPO & Founder of LTN as well as one of the hosts of the Free Play podcast. When not bustin’ his rump for LTN, Matt can be found, more than likely, playing Gloomhaven. He and his wife Erin have something like a billion kids, and they all love to be in the woods all the time. If you follow him on Instagram, everything he posts is a day behind. You’ve been warned.
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Free Play’s Top 9 to Check Out at GenCon 2018
- The Reckoners
- Maximum Apocalypse
- My Little Scythe
- Scythe: Rise of the Fenris
- Brass
- Tower of Madness
- Everdell
- Forbidden Sky
- Dinosaur Tea Party
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