This is the second half of my post-con writing, following a con report style post that's not specific to my experience ( Read more... )

This is the first half of my post-con writing, to be followed by a post about my personal experience and weekend ( Read more... )

This weekend I'm at Shibaricon for the first time. I'm living in Chicago right now, so this may be my only chance to attend without paying for travel. I'm writing this on Sunday evening, while things are fresh on my mind. The event goes until Monday afternoon, so there's still one more night of play and a half day of classes ahead of me, but I don' ( Read more... )

After discovering the very thriving tabletop gaming community in Chicago I looked around and discovered that there are at least a few good medium size gaming conventions in the midwest that I had not previously heard of (aside from Origins and GenCon, which are rather large). The top one on my radar was Geekway to the West, where maybe 2500 gamers ( Read more... )

A bad Frolicon is still better than a good weekend at home. This was my worst one yet, but I still had fun ( Read more... )

I've just returned from the Geeky Kink Event, a small convention in its second year in New Jersey. Delivering exactly what it says on the tin, this event is geeky and kinky. That describes both the programming and attendees, covering the spectrum from geeky to kinky and combinations of the two. The demographics of the attendees skews a bit younger ( Read more... )

I spent this weekend in Boston at Arisia. ( Read more... )