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What is Gen Con you might ask? The web site explains the event as “the original, longest running, best attended, gaming convention in the world.” Furthermore, ever year since it has been hosted in Indianapolis more than 25,000 people have attended. Every year. 25,000 people. Wow.

For further insights into how crazy this event I provide the following excerpts from Wikipedia:

The Klingon Jail and Bail are a group of people who dress as Klingons from Star Trek. For a donation to charity they will “arrest” another convention attendee for a short period of time. The Jail and Bail originally appeared at Gen Con in 1994.

Gen Con has also featured a number of events that raise money for a variety of charities. These include Cardhalla, in which donated cards are used to build a large city. Attendees are then invited to throw coins at the city to destroy it. The coins are collected for charity. Cardhalla was first run in 1999.

True Dungeon is an immersive life-sized dungeon crawl live action role-playing game (LARP), run at Gen Con since 2003. It features a challenging series of puzzles and scenarios designed to recreate a D&D environment and session. It emphasizes team work, creative thinking and problem solving, as well as employing a fighting and magic system; furthermore, unlike traditional LARPs, it does not require staying in-character throughout the experience.

I’m pumped and I’m going. If you are interested in swinging into Indy for the weekend, let me know. Below is a picture from Gen Con 2007.