Convergence is still the con where I talk about gaming the most. Why not at other conventions, like Con of the North (where there’s tons of gaming) or WisCon (where discussions are such a major focus, and so deep and … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Like a lot of general-purpose SF conventions, I didn’t do much actual gaming at Convergence. There’s a lot of gaming on the 22nd floor, but a) getting there, with the long lines for the elevators, is a major hassle and … Continue reading
My last panel of Convergence. This one also went pretty well. We started by discussing how different types of gaming are socially sanctioned. Are social games more acceptable somehow? What about games that are easier to interrupt with other activities? … Continue reading
Helló magyar barátaim! Lefordítottam ezt a Google Translate. Elnézést! I’ve gotten a few hits from this article. Sorry if this kind of post is annoying, but I’m tickled to see people sharing the love of RPGs around the world! … Continue reading
This panel was much more practical and much less political, and also much more narrowly focused on gaming. (Though perhaps not narrow enough; the panel was written to address all gaming, from electronic to board, card and book. We had … Continue reading
The third panel I was on; not RPG-specific, but important enough to discuss here. This one got into a lot of topics that are really important to me. We discussed our experiences with the Geek Hierarchy, and how it really … Continue reading
I wasn’t on this panel, just in the audience. It was quite a good panel. But then, with Beth Kinderman and Sherry Merriam on it, how could it not be? It dealt pretty well with its subject matter — namely, … Continue reading
The second panel I was on, this one covered a lot of ground. Our purpose: to introduce a bunch of good, but obscure, RPGs. We talked about so many games that I don’t have time to properly introduce all of … Continue reading
This panel went pretty well, though we had a lot of ground to cover: the description included all of gaming (tabletop RPGs, consoles, boardgames and everything else), as well as at least implicitly including every part of the LGBT alphabet … Continue reading
More than a week without a post! Apologies, I’m still recovering from Convergence, and trying to write up all the interesting conversations that happened there. More soon!