On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:50:40AM -0500, Karen J. Cravens wrote: >Here, I gather it's all "Living Greyhawk" mindset. There's a lot of the RPGA, or whatever the RPGA has now turned into in the UK, at GenConUK - but not really anywhere else in this country that I've been. The once-per-two-years British Roleplaying Society cons are pretty good, Stabcons are twice a year and also pretty good - both are around 100-ish people (BRS might reach 150), which I think is a good size for this sort of thing. >Maybe. Star Trek at least has a strong presence in roleplaying, though, >so I'm not sure that was quite jumping the shark. Hmm. It certainly seemed to be to me - Star Trek guests are famously expensive, after all, and while there certainly are roleplayers who'd be happy to stand for hours in a queue for an autograph it's not as though it were a media con - or as though Doohan himself had ever had anything to do with gaming. The mood in the corridors, at least as I perceived it, was "we have celebrities of our own, we don't need to borrow them from other hobbies". But I might not have heard what was going on at carpet-level, as: >1994 was the only GenCon we ever went to, which was the (first) big year >for MtG. You couldn't walk down a hallway without stepping on Magic games >(literally; I gave up and walked on cards, which evidently the players >were used to). I remember it all too well. Happy fantasies of flamethrowers. >A certain amount of that is okay, I think, provided the "we think" is >accurately guessed, and some modicum of taste is enforced. (There's >certainly latitude; we *are* talking about a convention that involves >actual chainmail bikinis.) Not officially to start with - there was one dealer selling them, and he brought models (and offered a discount to anyone who'd walk around in one for half an hour), but that was it for several years. Not quite the same thing as putting on an official show. But what I flew across the Atlantic for was _role-playing gaming_, not meet-the-actor or computer games or Magic the Refinancing. Which is why I don't any more. >RBW>I haven't been to a GenCon since before it left Milwaukee. In fact I >RBW>think 1995's may have been the last one I got to. >I suppose this means we were in a game together in 1994 and didn't know it >(a la you and Tim last year)... Probably. I'm pretty sure you didn't play in any of the Dual Worlds I ran, because I got a list of everyone's names for that... -- Roger, gaming grognard Lots of role-playing stuff: http://tekeli.li/
