On this interview episode, Ben, Quarex, and Ben interviewed designers at conventions earlier this year!

• Stuart from Warcradle Studios, who was showing off Armoured Clash at Adepticon!
• Yochai from Cairn Press, who designed Cairn 2e, records the Between Two Cairns podcast, and is hosting Between Two Cons the weekend this episode releases!
• Sean from Relic Blade Studio, the engine behind the Relicblade miniatures game!
• Matt Fantastic from Forever Stoked Creative, former GAMA director, and current director of Unpub! Check out Matt's latest game, GOAT from Dolphin Hat Games!

You won't want to miss it!

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On this episode, it's chatting from the Origins exhibitor hall about RPGs and merch!

• Kelly with Red Raccoon Games, who was the lead at the Origins Merch Booth on Saturday!
• The better of the two interviews we conducted with Gabe and Le of Weird Place, publishers of Fluff 'n' Fury who were demoing their new game Chaotika!
• Alan from Tuesday Knight Games, publishers of the Mothership RPG, the explosive social deduction game Two Booms and a Room, and their latest offering... Fatherfog.

Check them out!

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On this episode, it's chatting from the Origins exhibitor hall about board games and components!

• David from Intersection Games, who was showing off Flip Draw: Mondrian and Concrete Canvas, currently available for preorder!
• Alyssa from Brooke and Joy Games, who was showing off their new game Speed Swap Chaos and the rest of their upcoming games!
• Paul from Limiting Factor Games, whose are non‑magnetic, non‑slip Dynamaps dungeon tiles are great for tabletop mapping!
• Emily from Pink Hawk Games, who was showing off Pirates of the High Teas and demoing Super Chonk and Good Kitties with Ben Jones... sign up to be the first to know when they come to Kickstarter in late September!
• An unnamed person definitely doing something Probably Illegal under Ohio state law. (Probably.)

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Coming up on Friday, June 12, it's the deadline to elect to have your Gen Con badge shipped to you! No need to brave the will call line, because your badges and event tickets will show up at your home.

With that in mind, your hosts interrupt our Origins coverage (and use our econ degrees!) to forecast when and when Gen Con will sell out in 2026.

Don't get caught by surprise when the badges sell out — get on it now!

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On this episode, we're talking with three creatives who will be at Origins Game Fair 50 Plus 1!

• Bug Boll of 9th Level Games, who is running so many games in the Hyatt while also manning booth 1808!
• Chrys from Hectic Electron Games, who is selling her queer sword and sorcery game Defy the Gods while also showing off the total chaos edition of Raccoon Sky Pirates, currently crowdfunding! Find her at booth 1813.
• Brian from Windmill Games Co, who are running sessions of Dread, Daggerheart, and Ben's favorite Origins game: Advanced Dimensional Green Ninja-Educational Preparatory Super-Elementary Fortress 555!

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On this episode, your hosts talk with game designer Ian Zang, who is a board member of the Unpublished Games Network!

• Check out the Unpub Network!
• Get involved at Unpub Festival or any of the the conventions Unpub has a presence!
• Become involved in either side of the Unpub Tabletop Mentorship Program!
• Check out the Unpub space in the GCCC at Origins Game Fair this month!

Don't forget to check out Ian's games, including:

• Please Fix the Teleporter!
• Genotype, a Mensa Recommends Award Winner!
• Kingdoms of the Deep!

And launching at Gen Con this year is A Familiar Find, a charming brand-new card game in the Critical world of Exandria!

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One of the more unique programs at Origins Game Fair is the Tournament of Pieces! This section of the exhibit hall is filled with all kinds of puzzling — speed puzzling, fun puzzling, live laugh love puzzling... and there's even three An Ohio State Cups you can compete in!

To help our dreamers assemble their plans for the Tournament of Pieces, we spoke with Linda Maxwell of Cobble Hill, the fine Canadian puzzling company who is helping bring the puzzles to the Origins Game Fair.

• Cobble Hill website
• Tournament of Pieces
• Tournament of Pieces signup on Tabletop.Events!
• 100 Piece Puzzle Chess
• The events page for the USA Jigsaw Puzzle Association

And there's so much more that will be revealed at the event itself that you couldn't possibly want to miss it!

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