GEN CON: 25 Years of Fashion

Posted At : August 11, 2009 5:13 PM | Posted By : Tom
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I've been attending GEN CON since I was a teenager.

Each year as I pack for four days of Maximum Nerd Overload I face the same challenge: Which geeky t-shirt do I wear?

The options, as we shall see, are daunting....


Black: Slimming and intimidating. Is YOUR right breast a fire-breathing dragon?? -I didn't think so.


What do you mean you didn't pick up Planescape? Dude - it comes with its own GLOSSARY!


Why yes, that IS a tiny Dungeon Master's Guide in my pocket!


To quote esteemed game designer Monte Cook: "Airbrushing shirts is EXACTLY as fashionable now as it was then."


Today's gamer is a man on the go! New rules mean new books, so why not accessorize your commemorative black GEN CON 20 t-shirt with this stylish matching totebag?


Do not risk the wrath of the Dungeon Master. He will break you.


Adventure is not the ONLY thing this sensitive young geek is searching for! Anyone want to play Vampire:The Masquerade? I'll give you a free blood point...

-Tom, who's gotta go pick up some clove cigarettes and get his velvet suitcoat from the cleaners.

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Stylin and beguilin'.
# Posted By Glog | 8/11/09 5:53 PM
In the words of Strong Bad, "Set a course for sultriness..."
# Posted By Clay | 8/11/09 5:53 PM
What, no NASCRAG T-shirts! Sacrilege!
# Posted By themild | 8/11/09 7:39 PM
Being able to wear 10+ year old t-shirts perfectly without having gained 2 kgs/year: -20 Geek Points. You, sir, are the weakest link. Goodbye.
# Posted By Søren | 8/12/09 8:51 AM
I was expecting something along the lines of Greyhawk Underoos, and you went in another direction.
# Posted By Krunk's Next Victim | 8/12/09 9:29 AM
I like how the Lommel's problem is deciding which particular t-shirt to wear for FOUR DAYS. That's some mega-sized in-your-face geek cred right there.

The only way he could get more geek cred, in my opinion, would be to develop testicular cancer, then have the affected testicle removed, then replace it with that high-impact d20 seen in the first photo.

Whoa.
# Posted By DumpTruckof Love | 8/12/09 3:51 PM
So jealous. I miss GenCon. I miss NASCRAG. Confirm a crit for me. Or at least torture some newbs!

Also you are so nebbishly sexy.
# Posted By Thonya | 8/12/09 9:46 PM
About the only couture with more geek cred than Tom's twenty-year collection of official Gen Con wear would be, oh, i don't know, maybe a homemade "Neo-Otyughs need love too" t-shirt. I'm just sayin'...
# Posted By juice | 8/15/09 12:26 PM
On the other hand, the fact that Mr. Big Shot insists on wearing t-shirts scripted in a modern earth language just smacks of pandering to the "Normals."

(25 Years of GenCon Fashion) x d20 - [(Social Unacceptability)/(Women Spoken To Romantically)+1] = (Night of Adventure)

You'll note the formula accounts for a null value for Women, to ameliorate the humiliating real-world possibility of an infinite negative.
# Posted By Krunk's Next Victim | 8/17/09 11:00 AM
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