My Yearly.... What are you looking forward to getting post. I play it by ear as I am a Battletech guy hard core... I will always walk and find that 1 game to take back... but it has to be easy to pick up and something that my grand kids can play. Last year it was Kites. This year.. who knows....
I also love going by FFG and seeing the x wing tournaments and paint jobs.
Looking forward to playing Invisible Sun and getting some Star WarsUnlimited items
Warcrow, Corvus Belli's new fantasy skirmish game launches at Gen Con this year with a 2 player starter. Their other games (Infinity, Aristeia!, REM Racers) are some of my favourites and I did a beta test demo of it last year and thought it was fantastic.
Going to try and play Hackmaster for the first time, and try for a Cyberpunk RED game.
Going to play and probably get Wyrmspan, it's Wingspan with dragons, automatically great.
I'll try and fit some Battletech Grinder sessions in again this year too.
Looking forward to True Dungeon and a slew of interesting rpgs! Also Gamers: Live!
Running. I've done GenCon for twenty odd years and have never run an event other than the Math Trade. As a "forever DM" I was begged by my sister to teach her (54 years old) how to play D&D during my Christmas vacation. It went so well I'm turning it into a four hour game for new players on Saturday. Three sessions at 8, 2, and 8 with two hour breaks between them. Sure, I'm burning my Saturday at GenCon for this but as the saying goes, "If you love what you are doing, you'll never work a day in you life."
I'm travelling 4110 miles and it's my first (and possibly last) GenCon, so I'm looking forward to any game I can play .. and maybe run if I can't find something TBH.
I'm old school in that I don't prep to buy anything or really pay attention to what is new. I prefer to wander the vendor hall or consignment shop, see something interesting and buy it... kind of like I did in the 80s. So, what I'm looking forward to getting is to be determined 10 seconds after I see it.
Looking forward to running Dragonbane ( My home campaign is Dragonbane, currently) for some folks who have never tried it. Possibly finding some fun miniatures or co-op card games. Dice... you can never have enough dice. Since we didn't get a close hotel (Motel, 5 miles out), my usual "Spend 2k+ in the Dealer's Hall" will be a trickle of it's usual self, as I don't feel like lugging huger board-games around all day. But hey, I can just spend that money on a trip to France or something, to visit my sister.
It's the most hurtful on the wallet, but it's the most fun. :D