Mongoose Publishing‘s Matthew Sprange sent out a notice to the company mailing list which showed just how evil he can be when he wants to. Sure, the email let us know that the Babylon 5 RPG will be there in case we don’t have it already, and that several other
Category: Conventions
Live from Origins 2003: stock update
Diet Evil Games is doing this thing kind of like Flying Buffalo’s Origins Metagame last year, wherein one buys some play-stock in various participating game companies, and participating in those companies’ events will get them more stock, et cetera. People are only allowed to make one trade a day, because
Live From Origins 2003: the eternal struggle continues
That’s all I’ll say about that. But the good news is I’m comfortably ensconced in an ideal location and have all the net I want for no extra cash. Also, this year I plan to actually sign up for actual events actually. We’ll see how that goes. I only had
Live from KublaCon ’03
Okay, first: wristbands suck. If anyone out there is planning a con, maybe you’re thinking about those locking wristband things as a handy, secure way of replacing those nastily tradeable, fakeable badges. Don’t do it. You will drive away any clientele who are not geeks and, hence, have other places
Gen Con Europe to split into little babies?
Nothing useful is at the Gen Con Europe site, but rumors are circulating that, rather than one large Europe show, there will be some smaller shows in various European locales, and that the main show is off for at least two years. GR has a notice with Peter Adkison’s name
GW announces date for first West Coast Games Day
This innocuous-looking page is the first public appearance of a firm date for, and open admission of, Games Day Los Angeles. It’s been rumored for a long, long time, but here’s the proof that Games Workshop will be covering both coasts as well as the Midwest with major events in
Gold Rush at Origins. Get your mining gear
Gold Rush Games is looking to tempt you into running its games at Origins 2003. If you run 16 hours of registered GRG gaming at Origins, including Sengoku, Usagi Yojimbo, San Angelo: City of Heroes, Action! System or anything else, you’ll get a bonus thank you. Not only will you
Origins 2003 online registration begins
GAMA has announced that online registration and events submissions are now open for Origins 2003, which takes place June 26-29 next year. The deadline to have events listed in the Pre-Reg Book is January 1, so get moving. If you miss that, the deadline for the Onsite Program is April
No Gen Con For You!
According to the GenCon.com front page, “Due to reorganization Gen Con So Cal has been pushed back to April 2004 and a new show, Gen Con Games Spectacular, will take place in Amsterdam in November of 2003.” First they make us drive, then they make us wait. *sigh* Are they
SCA Event – Wargy
The Society for Creative Anachronism (sca.org) is a medieval reenactment society that puts on events that range from feasts to giant wars in full armor. Wargy is a one day event on the 10th of February in San Jose, California, in the Kingdom of the West. The event is a