Onsite at Dragonflight [S4T8]

This week, we’re on location at the Dragonflight GameCon in Bellevue, WA! We hear about carefully engineered dice, the unsustainability of grimdark campaigns, and orange cats that are not burdened by an abundance of thought. Thanks to everyone who took the time to chat with us:

• Norwescon is a Science Fiction and Fantasy convention in the Seattle suburbs in April.
• Zephren Varner makes extremely cool minis and dice.
• Alchemical Press publishes Mice of Legend (and has a live Kickstarter for their new modules!).
• Nailon Realm makes some very fun minis.
• Stout Game Tables builds some very practical gaming tables.
• Found Family Adventurecrafts makes fun whimsical minis.
• PurrnelKitty Studio publishes The Golden Tuna and sells fun orange cat merch.
• Gameswell makes really elegant card games.
• Yeld is a fantasy TTRPG about children in a magical world (which we’ll be hearing more about later this season).
• Sketchsauce sells 3D printed toys and minis from a range of artists.
• Majestic Adventures runs some very fun LARP camps and parties.
• Alexandria RPG Library does an incredible job preserving and sharing TTRPG sourcebooks. We chatted with David about the old d6 Star Wars TTRPG and also Deadlands. 

At the beginning of the episide, we mention the profusion of wizard hats at OrcaCon in January. Here’s the first part and here’s the second part of our time at OrcaCon. 

We also remembered to get some pictures at Dragonflight! Here’s some of Zephren Varner’s minis and dice:

Here are some of the minis from Nailon Realm:

Here are some of the minis from Found Family Adventurecrafts:

Here are some of the swords from Majestic Adventures:

Here’s the big glowing sign for the Alexandria RPG Library:

And finally, because there’s probably a decent overlap between people who like pictures of TTRPG minis and people who like pictures of new transit infrastructure, and because this con was Jake’s first chance to ride the 2 Line, here’s a picture of a new light rail station with excellent views and very few riders:

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