Quick summary: Con of the North 2014 was good! Apart from a hiccup with parking, and some ickiness in one or two games, the weekend went well. Almost every game went well, and the new space was overall positive. I’ll … Continue reading
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Later today I’ll be going to Con of the North. As I mentioned before, I’ll be running three games there as part of the House of Indie Games. It’ll be great to have a weekend of wonderful gaming in a … Continue reading
Last weekend, I was at MethodCon. It was a lot of fun. A highlight for me was getting to do a Let’s Build a World activity again. We devised a world with a square orbit, constant meteor showers, and a … Continue reading
Way back at Con of the North, I think it was, I picked up a flyer for a new convention in town: MetaCon. It looks like MetaCon is primarily about anime and manga, but with a lot of other, more … Continue reading
Con of the North, the main gaming convention ’round these parts, has sent out the call for games for next year and (like the Everwayan) I’m considering what to run. Here are possibilities I’ve got stirring: A murder mystery set … Continue reading
This past weekend was yet another convention: Diversicon. It’s a very small con, hovering around 100 people (so it’s smaller than Convergence by near two orders of magnitude). But it can be a lot of fun, with some very interesting … Continue reading
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
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
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