Another delay between posts… This weekend is Minicon 49, so for the past nigh-unto-week I’ve been working on the Pocket Program and various other con committee-like duties. (The pocket programs are now printed! Yay!) At Minicon, I’m going to be … Continue reading
Tag Archives: local
Tonight before gaming, John texted me to let me know that Classified, the James Bond 007 retroclone, was back in stock at the Source. As I walked into the store, Burl greeted me with a friendly, “You must be here … Continue reading
As always, Con of the North is one of the best weekends of gaming for me. I don’t know how many people attend it, though I suspect the number is in the 500-1000 range. There are bigger cons in the … Continue reading
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
With a recent comment on my post about the Little Tin Soldier, I was curious what else I could find about Don Valentine on the net. With the exact search terms “Don Valentine” and “Little Tin Soldier”, Google returns just … Continue reading
The adventurers come across an uncanny mound in the forest. It sits next to the barely-worn deer path. Its shape suggests an artificial origin, but it has no stones or other markers nearby. It sits on higher ground, overlooking a … Continue reading
Minneapolis is kind of an amazing place. I’ve lived in other towns and been happy to find that there was a gaming scene at all. I’ve lived in places where the nearest FLGS wasn’t very L at all, often being … 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
Convention season is truly here: Just finished writing up WisCon 37, but it’s already time to look forward to Convergence 2013. Convergence is the second-largest con in the Twin Cities, second only to Anime Detour. Convergence will probably pull in … Continue reading
The “Minneapolis Ties to Gaming” panel that I mentioned before went pretty well. We went through local gaming history pretty much chronologically, starting with boardgames published in the area nearly 100 years ago and ending with the potential future of … Continue reading