CELESTICON - SF Bay Area Game Convention - LABOR DAY WEEKEND

[Spinachcat]

CELESTICON
September 2nd to 5th, Labor Day Weekend
Redwood City, California - Bay Area Peninsula between San Francisco and Silicon Valley
www.celesticon.com

CELESTICON is hosting over 150 events including RPGs, boardgames, Pathfinder Society, the War College with Dana Lombardy of the History Channel, Warhammer Tournaments and a Young Player's Room.

There is a whole litany of RPGs happening with a whole slew of Pathfinder events plus Cthonian Stars, Tunnels & Trolls, Dresden Files and lots more.

Special Guests include Ken Hite (Star Trek, Delta Green, Day After Ragnorak), James Ernest (Cheapass Games) and Ryan Macklin (Dresden Files) and many more!

Charlie Krank, the President of Chaosium, will be hosting a seminar on Friday night celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Call of Cthulhu and Kenneth Hite will be discussing "Keeping Cthulhu Scary" which will be awesome for GMs. And James Ernest will be doing a hands on boardgame design seminar teaching how you can publish your own games! James has published over 200 so he knows how its done.

The hotel is the Hotel Sofitel, one of the most beautiful hotels in the Bay Area with a luxurious pool and a very cool European flair. The convention has scored a great deal on the hotel rooms so check it out! If you are anywhere in California, Nevada or Oregon, CelestiCon would be an awesome weekend for you...and a non-gaming spouse too!

CelestiCon Game Convention

 

[Spinachcat]

Update!!!

We added a bunch of Living Forgotten Realms D&D 4e events! Also, we have a full weekend slate of Magic: the Gathering.

We need more RPG GMs! Especially Call of Cthulhu events.

If you are a GM and would like a FREE full weekend badge ($50 value), sign up by Monday online for just one 6 hour game for 6 players. Or run 2 games if you like!

 

[Mark CMG]

Looks like a cool event. I'll spread the word!

 

[Steel_Wind]

Looks like a cool event. I'll spread the word!

A FAR cooler event would be the Cagematch-to-the-Death between the organizers or PacifiCon and Celesticon.

Does one area REALLY need two Gaming cons on the same frikkin weekend?

I don't think so.

 

[Spinachcat]

Does one area REALLY need two Gaming cons on the same frikkin weekend?

Actually, there are 4 gaming conventions happening in California on Labor Day Weekend (CelestiCon, Gateway, PacifiCon, SoCal Smackdown). And more choice is a good thing. 2011 is CelestiCon's 3rd year and the con has been growing very fast.

Why are we growing so fast? Check out our website!

 

[Steel_Wind]

Actually, there are 4 gaming conventions happening in California on Labor Day Weekend (CelestiCon, Gateway, PacifiCon, SoCal Smackdown). And more choice is a good thing. 2011 is CelestiCon's 3rd year and the con has been growing very fast.

Well, California is a pretty damn big place, both in terms of area and people. There won't be many from Northern Cali going to So Cal for a regional con - and vice versa.

But two separate cons in the Bay area on the same weekend is a bit much. I hope no organizer is hurt by it.

I didn't realize that LA area also had two on the same weekend. LA has a lot more people than the Bay Area though so...

Good luck!