Editing Gen Con (section)

== Events ==
[[File:Gen Con - 20030727 - Exhibit Hall.jpg|thumb|The Gen Con Indy 2003 exhibit hall]]
[[File:Cardhalla - Gen Con - 2005-08-20 - a.jpg|thumb|left|[[Cardhalla]] at Gen Con 2005]]
The convention features a large exhibit hall filled with game publishers, artists, and related businesses, wherein most attendees spend at least $100.<ref name="fddb" /> The only game to be on the event schedule every year since the convention's inception is ''[[Fight in the Skies]]'',{{sfn|Laws|2007|p=5}}<ref name="Henion 2006" /> later renamed ''Dawn Patrol''.

The [[D&D Championship Series|''D&D'' Championship Series]] (formerly the ''D&D'' Open) is a long-running series of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' games at Gen Con, beginning in 1977.<ref name="keeper-lore-history" /> The RPGA, beginning in 1981, has run large numbers of events at Gen Con, so extensive they have been given their own category. The RPGA events are primarily "Living" games where players create characters who persist between events. The RPGA first ran events in 1981.<ref name="keeper-lore-history" />

[[File:Gen Con - 20030724 - Game Base 7.jpg|thumb|The Game Base 7 games library from the 2003 Gen Con Indy]]
In 1987 a games library was added from which attendees could borrow games.<ref name="keeper-lore-history" /> Appearing in 1994 was the first [[Magic: The Gathering World Championship|''Magic: The Gathering'' World Championship]], won by Zak Dolan, who defeated France's Bertrand Lestrée in the finals.

Gen Con has 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.  The gaming group [[NASCRAG]] has run ''Dungeons & Dragons'' events at Gen Con since 1980. NASCRAG events sometimes donate their ticket fees to charity. The games run tend to be humorous. The Gen Con Live Games Auction is another long-running event, though the majority of the Auction (including the Consignment Store) is not run for charity.

[[File:Tim Kask GMs a D&D game, Gen-Con 2009.jpg|thumb|left|Original editor of Dragon Magazine, [[Tim Kask]], runs a Dungeons & Dragons Game at Gen Con 2009.]]
[[File:Enormous D20 and D8 relax near empty tables, Gen-Con 2007.jpg|left|thumb|A colossal D20 and nearly-as-colossal D8 at Gen Con 2007.]]
The EN World RPG Awards (the [[ENnies]]) are an annual awards ceremony devoted to role-playing games. Established in 2001, the ENnies have been hosted at Gen Con Indy since 2002,  and are organized and owned by [[EN World]], a ''D&D''/[[d20 System]] news website.{{sfn|Laws|2007|p=148}}

''[[True Adventures|True Dungeon]]'' is an immersive life-sized dungeon crawl [[live action role-playing game]] (LARP) run at Gen Con since 2003, featuring a series of puzzles and scenarios designed to recreate a ''D&D'' environment.