... I'll be there as will my wife and our housemate. I'll be doing a combination of both pickup games and scheduled events (and am working with the food ...
... Actually the real issues around Arisia finances center on questionable ... This points at one of the major problems with Arisia, the power in the hands of...
I am thinking about attending, but mostly for the chance to hear George R.R. Martin speak. Other than that, I might dip into a game or two. Depends on ...
... I haven't been to Arisia and don't plan to go this year, so I don't have a dog in this particular fight; still, given the choice between running an RPG...
Offical promo: Vericon VI (www.vericon.org), a science fiction, fantasy, anime, and gaming convention, is on January 27-29, 2006, thus a little over two months...
A month or so ago I read an NYTimes article about a web site that specializes in board games. Thousands of them. Does anyone remember reading that? Does anyone...
Hi all, In an effort to see people I haven't seen in a while, meet some new folks, have some holiday fun and get some gaming in too, I would like to invite all...
BoardGameGeek.com? Did you mean for sale or what? BoardGameGeek has extensive reviews etc of pretty much every boardgame out there. ... [Non-text portions of...
In a message dated 12/1/2005 9:09:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, unquietsoul@... writes: Gaming is less popular at Arisia because the gamers are voting...
... wrote: [much snipped] ... I just found this thread (I haven't been keeping up here), and I do have to say that I had much the same problem last year - I...
... Well, I'd wish that gamers would realize the third part too -- my experience is that gaming at sf cons is usually good for sf fans who like to game but...
I know it's not gaming, specifically, but I also knew a bunch of gamers who were actors before, so I figured I could pass this on. I was in one of Tuttle's...
... I think that it's the exact opposite: the hobby is growing, and so it's not something you do as an occasional activity at a con anymore. Sf fans who are...
I've been thinking about this (it beats working :D), and it seems to me that part of the decline of gaming at Arisia might also have something to do with the...
... But except for a LARP convention and one convention out in the impossible to reach lands of Western MA there aren't any accessible gaming conventions in ...
... Just because numbers stay in the same range doesn't mean the same people are attending. Often I've found that there are a lot of 'first timers' at a ...
... We've been over this at least twice before on this list, but hey, surprise, your decision to not go anywhere that isn't reachable on the T means you can't...
... Whereas I think it's in gamers' best interests to not bother with sf cons unless they would be going anyway or unless they find the gaming at an acceptable...
... Yes -- and the quality of the people that the attendees interact with is *directly* related to their perception of the quality of the con. The absolute...
For all those gamers who are looking for a GAMING convention, come to TempleCon in January 2006 in Providence RI. Go to http://www.templecon.com to check it...
... I have considered "various probability factors." In particular, as the number of people at a convention goes up, the percentage of good gamers tends to go...
I see that there's no RPGs due to lack of interest. Is there an open gaming room for this con or is it a (don't take this the wrong way) a what you see is on...
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