The Twilight of Ontario Gaming Cons (winter edition)
It kind of sucks, but Ontario used to have two really good mid winter gaming cons; you had Panda in TO and RedCon in Kingston.
Panda I never really attended, but RedCon rocked. It was put on by at RMC (Royal Military College, for the vast majority of you who aren't me) by their game club.
Let me tell you, until you've attended a gaming con at the nation's military academy, you've never lived. Just remembering the main gaming room, with the dealers on the overhead balcony area, and the divider separated gaming regions... It was great.
Of course, it was the site of my Worst Game Ever (yes, Brad, worse than the Champions game). But it was also the first place that I ever attended a con. Hell, it was the first place Dave Pulver gave me the great Game Writer's advice: "have someone else in the family who earns the main income."
Anyway, as I've probably said before, RedCon died when they lost the RMC strategy club (the early 90s were the twilight of great Strat clubs. Allow me to tell you about CUSC, which was half of my major in university). There were attempts to revive it as RoyalCon at Queens, but that kind of petered out.
And now Panda is valiantly attempting to soldier on after it hit the angst wall and sold out to the Realmsquest people. Dunno. It might be cool.
Damn. I miss it.
Panda I never really attended, but RedCon rocked. It was put on by at RMC (Royal Military College, for the vast majority of you who aren't me) by their game club.
Let me tell you, until you've attended a gaming con at the nation's military academy, you've never lived. Just remembering the main gaming room, with the dealers on the overhead balcony area, and the divider separated gaming regions... It was great.
Of course, it was the site of my Worst Game Ever (yes, Brad, worse than the Champions game). But it was also the first place that I ever attended a con. Hell, it was the first place Dave Pulver gave me the great Game Writer's advice: "have someone else in the family who earns the main income."
Anyway, as I've probably said before, RedCon died when they lost the RMC strategy club (the early 90s were the twilight of great Strat clubs. Allow me to tell you about CUSC, which was half of my major in university). There were attempts to revive it as RoyalCon at Queens, but that kind of petered out.
And now Panda is valiantly attempting to soldier on after it hit the angst wall and sold out to the Realmsquest people. Dunno. It might be cool.
Damn. I miss it.