Do we know when that is? To not conflict with booth duty, I set up a super late night (8pm-12am) 4-hour Sentinels game on the Wednesday before the con. Which, to my shock, I just checked and is sold out. So it'll make me the sad if I have to skip out of dinner; hopefully it's early if it's Wednesday, or it's Thursday sometime.
I do hope G>G takes steps to ensure the volunteers running the demos are familiar with the rules to explain them at the demo!
Last year, I had one that was confused about 'Start of Turn' and other matters, I had to bring it up to the room hosts afterwards. Gotta remember that some people attend these demos to actually learn the game so they can teach their groups back home!
Looking forward to seeing folks – we're only two weeks away!!! 
As I mentioned earlier, I'll be running a number of Cold Steel Wardens events on Friday/Saturday/Sunday of GenCon.
However, I'll also be premiering a board game design at Publisher/Designer Speed Dating and promoting the CSW: Rogues Gallery Kickstarter relaunch.
...August is going to be a busy month.
At this point, it's a go that the Grasshopper & I will be there on Saturday. We've got badges & 3 generic event tickets each, with little-to-nothing in the way of definite plans. We'll definitely swing by the GtG booth for a while (and possible volunteer to help for a bit), see what catches our eye in the dealer hall to try out, spend time in the board game library, possibly stop by Games on Demand. Staying for the costume parade, but likely leaving a little bit after that, since I'll have to pick The Munchkin up from my ex's house that evening.
I will likely be in Indy by early to mid-afternoon on Wednesday, August 3, so if anyone that's there would like to meet up for drinks, let me know.
Murphy’s law has struck me again. My vacation request has been denied for the first time in my 25 years of employment.
I was looking forward to it too, I haven’t been to GenCon since it’s last year in Milwaukee. Ah well, I suppose I can try for next year.
Have fun all!
Bwah! Sorry to here, deddragon… 
Is it a good time to quit?
I’ve been wondering that for several months now. My game time is seriously depleted lately.
Me, and my Scholar costume, are ready.
wife's Ex-Patriette is almost there!
Normal Scholar or Scholar of the Infinite?
Normal Scholar. He's like The Dude, except with an item of immeasurable power. What's not to love?
GenCon 2016, day -2 and day -1:
The convention doesn't start in earnest until Thu, but GtG staff arrived Monday night in order to start setting up early Tuesday morning. I enjoyed getting to see them Monday night. They got a kick out of hearing that I'd recently played and enjoyed Galactic Strike Force. The mood was upbeat, but with an underlying steeling of nerves and preparation. GenCon is a week long assault on the senses and overfilling of the brain. For the people running the booths and the sideroom, it is a constant wall of sound and people. For the staff taking meetings, it is a concentrated period of forging contacts and deals as everyone in the industry shows up for this rare chance to meet physically.
The conversation at dinner was wide ranging, not just about gaming and business, but I did enjoy getting in a bunch of questions to Paul about how the business is run. I just find it fascinating. I also enjoyed hearing from Christopher about how he's been focusing on OblivAeon. It's not my place to possibly misquote any of the details, but he ran down a number of the areas he thought were pretty set versus other things that he was working on improving. He reiterated how useful it's been to hear from people what their experiences have been playtesting.
HEADS UP: Sunday 1-3 there's a free event Sentinel Comics Q&A (Crowne Plaza:Conrail) (SEM1694836) where you can ask anything you want about the lore of Sentinel Comics.
I worked during the day on Tuesday, but caught up w/ most of the GtG folks again briefly in the evening. Setups going fine, I think. Didn't hear a lot of complaints. Christopher had gone off to do some prep work for the Sentinels RPG sessions.
Today is day zero, as the con still doesn't really start until tomorrow, but the activity level will ramp up considerably with Will Call opening and lots official and unofficial events kicking off. I'm looking forward to maybe helping a bit with GtG setup and then attending the pre-con dinner tonight. So far I've managed to have 4.7 drinks and hang out with a couple dozen people, but have failed to play even one game!
Thanks for the report Andy. Have a good time at Gen Con
Now I’m jealous that we didn’t have a dinner or lore Q&A at PAX! I guess Gen Con is sorta home turf for the GtG team.
Enjoy all of this for me, Andy. 
Day 0: I helped some with the setup in the booth -- just little stuff - breaking down boxes, putting things where they should be, tidying up. The booth consists of a storage room on one end, with shelves inside to hold product, and Handelabra equipment on either side, outside the room. On one side are a collection of PCs and tablets for playing the digital game, on the other side are two large TVs -- not sure what they''ll be displaying. The booth is 20 feet by 50 feet. Next to the storage area is a thin register area, and then some tall shelves with product for people to purchase. At the far end is a roughly 20 x 20 ft area with 8 small, tall tables for demos. Each table is for a particular game -- there are two for SotM, for instance, which have spots drawn on them for Ra, Fanantic, Haka, a villain and an environment. I think it's Blade in Insula Primlais. Presumably people come in, express some interest, and then play a game, but only with those specific decks. Not sure if it will be a shortened game or a full game. The other tables have Bottom of the 9th, New Bedford, Compounded (I think?!) and maybe another one.
Craig, Jodie, and Jennifer seem to collectively be responsible for setting up and running the booth and the side room. I saw Christopher, Adam, Chris, and I think Paul in various meetings in the side room, sometimes with a game spread out in front of them. In fact, I saw that in other places in the dealer room as I happened to walk through to get to/from the booth. As mentioned previously, this is one of the few times where various people in the industry have a chance to get together. It's important to get useful meeting set up. In fact, I had an interesting discussion with a woman friend of mine about the difficulty she had getting meetings set up before she was able to get her title upgraded. She was responsible for doing certain types of business and making certain types of decisions, but until she had the right title, not everyone took her meeting requests seriously. Was it also a misogynistic thing. Unfortunately, I think so.
There's also a side room that has about 16 tables or so set up for ticketed events. This is where the Sentinels RPG, Spirit Island, and other events will be held. A few of us had some time to kill in the late afternoon and were able to do a playtest of Fate of the Elder Gods. I don't think it's kosher for me to share any details, but I'm happy to say that (A) It's complex enough that it took me a few turns to understand the mechanics and (B) many more to start to see how various choices affected each other. I lost pretty badly and I definitely want to play that some more. It's fun when Darrell overhears you trying to figure out the rules to the game and just interjects with the right answer.
There was a dinner for volunteers. I had some lovely food and perhaps more than my share of lovely drink. Apologies for not getting around to meet more people. Afterwards I ended up at the bar where the Diana Jones award was held. All the most insider of industry insiders ends up at this event. I've read about this event but never attended (not that there's a guest list or anything -- you can just walk in, I think). I know a few people and it was fun to see them. My guess is that there were all sorts of game writers, creators, and publishers around me, but I wouldn't recognize most of them. Last stop of the evening found us near the table of Luther and Kevin, of Tactics fame, and a couple others. It was great to see them and hang with Luther for a bit after the others took off.
My schedule for the rest of GenCon isn't very GtG specific, but I do hope to get to a few things and at least pop in to see how the booth and side room are doing.
Please help: What SotM lore questions should I ask on Sunday?
When will America's Cleverest Legacy get his own spin-off game?
Thanks for this!