Gen Con 2026 Day ZERO!

0:00 2026, we're here. After an hour of trying to find parking. Speaking of it, it is a mess this year. So, there's so much construction going on. And I want to show you just a little bit. There's construction there.

0:23 Right now, we're going to go pick up our badges. We just picked up some food from Walmart. Got a bunch of healthy groceries for the week. And better that way, cuz then we don't have to have a lot of like unhealthy stuff. You know, canned food.

0:45 Phil literally told us about this game over here, Flesh and Blood. And now there's this huge poster about this

0:50 new TCG. Yeah, this is all under construction right now. So, this is different. I don't know what they're adding to the convention hall, but this is new. Sneak peek in the exhibit hall, we have a Marvel Multiverse RPG. Ooh, we got Monte Cook Games. We have publishers over here starting to stock up there booths on the left side or like their display cases. We got the Cosmere and Super Boss Monster on the right side. Leader Games will be there on Saturday to demo uh cart, the brand new title. I knew that That booth from I V Studio, that's I V Studio. Always got a nice booth over here.

1:51 Let's look at their merch line. Badges secured. Oh. So, the line this year for badges honestly, it was it was really long, but they were really efficient and I think it was like a 25 minute wait. You definitely want to do the mail-in badge cuz that, you know, you don't have to wait in the line at all for this day and you can just go around and explore instead of waiting around for your badge, but it's not too bad either way even if you forget cuz we forget all the time. So, we just do pick up in person. Uber and parking, honestly right now is a

2:28 nightmare.

2:28 Nightmare.

2:30 Dude, you read my mind. I wasn't supposed to get anything, but there's a Bruce Lee versus Ali set right here, so I don't know. This is quite tempting. Oh, there's even a swamp. I want to play this game for so long.

3:03 Oh my gosh. All Warhammer sets and Josh, it is 15% off. They make a very convincing argument for Gen Con exclusive. Ooh, don't forget.

3:25 See, what's really cool is that a lot of these sets actually may be imported from Japan cuz I seen these directly from Japan anime shops. This store has it. They have a bunch of sets. Pokémon, Gundam. My first time seeing a store do this, too, where they have just a full layout of like dice trays and mats and everything. That's really fun. I hope more stores do this, too.

3:50 Wait, I don't think that's I don't think that's yours.

3:59 You got it?

3:59 Yeah, I got it. LA shenanigans.

4:03 It's a labyrinth.

4:04 Hey, LA shenanigans. How do you know we're from LA? Cuz you do stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, get it, get it, get it.

4:12 Comic Con. I mean I mean

4:14 Is that the wrong convention here? Wrong convention here?

4:17 Hold on.

4:18 Mambo. Hold on.

4:21 The green. Blue.

4:24 Beautiful.

4:25 Oh, it's the BLUE GOAT.

4:26 OH.

4:28 SO, WE TRADE?

4:29 It's the BLUE GOAT.

4:30 I WANT TO TRADE.

4:31 It's the blue blue goat.

4:35 Oh.

4:37 You're trying to get one of each.

4:39 I am.

4:39 There's only six. Okay, so you take a whole pack and exchange for one color goat. Like if you're playing with four people, somebody can play yellow. That's how it works. So, somebody would use all of those instead of yellow.

4:50 I would love a demon goat. Thanks, Paula.

4:55 Thank you.

4:56 Yes. I literally just told Josh I wanted a demon.

4:59 Did anybody order an old-fashioned?

5:02 Yeah, thanks.

5:03 That's cool.

5:09 What game is this? Hey, first person I saw, guess who it is.

5:14 Wow, I'm not the first person you saw.

5:16 You were the first person, the very first person.

5:18 You were the very first person, I promise.

5:19 Hello.

5:20 How's it going?

5:21 Is this Is this the

5:22 This is the fancy Osmond.

5:23 This is the poor pearl.

5:24 Oh, the poor. Excuse me.

5:26 Hi.

5:27 Wow.

5:28 Hi. I got my drinks, so everything's okay now.

5:31 There you go.

5:31 That was a little concerning.

5:34 And Okay?

5:36 Now I can handle losing all the games.

5:38 I'm your back. Stop number two, Tom's Watch Bar. Look at this.

5:55 I think it's like the board game version cuz the other one was like a tabletop RPG. Remember we measured out the lengths and stuff? That's what it originally was, but this is actually like a standalone board game. The first standalone board game. We got Star Wars: Legion. What's here? That tracks. Jesse's bounty. Just covered a tutorial on this one. He did a tutorial on this bad boy from Dotted Games. We got Betrayer Wizard tribute game.

6:47 Woah, these are hollows.

7:08 I got to get my Neuroscape playing right now against Josh. That's crazy. Oh, look who's walking by. It's day zero. I've already lost my voice because I was busy yelling at Josh at Neuroscape. Which he destroyed me in just now.

7:39 He's a third-rate Neuroscape dueler with a fourth-rate deck.

7:42 Hey, to be fair, I didn't draw my two main strong OP characters. But, it was a lot of fun. Enjoyed it. Also got some some swag. And we are making our way to last event of the night. I know it's super bright outside, but it's 7:45 p.m. right now. So, stuff's about to go down very soon. We're going to Pachette to finish off. This character is Tag Team. We have the Green Knight, Morgan. This is the Dragon and Excalibur.

8:33 Jason, you beat me in every single game we played. I need you to let me have this one.

8:37 I'm going to have to let you have this one.

8:39 you. I need this.

8:41 This is horrible.

8:43 Josh, I need to tell you something. I need this.

8:46 You know what? I'm rooting for you. I'm rooting for you.

8:51 Yeah, I better see those right there. Freaking frogs.

8:53 What is this? What?

8:56 Yeah, dude. This is dragon or scoring me major points. Thanks, by the way. All right, so I had 54.

9:02 Tim had 54.

9:04 Yes, we're tied at least.

9:09 Next is Josh. 55.

9:13 63.

9:19 Acted all nonchalant about that. 64, man.

9:22 And in with the first place is Alex with 64.

9:24 He killed it. He killed all of us.

9:29 Way to set the standard.

9:30 And that's it, man. You can just turn these back over. Hi, Jenna.

9:37 It was really good to see you.

9:37 Oh my god.

9:39 It's so good to see you.