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<blockquote data-quote="Richard Osterhout" data-source="post: 7718001" data-attributes="member: 6887505"><p>To the OP -</p><p></p><p>Welcome to Central Florida!! back in the 90s and early 2000s, we had a vibrant gaming community. I was part of SunQuest, and we ran a gaming convention in Orlando for a couple of years. We constantly had issues with finding GMs to run games, especially those other than D&D. As a former campaign director for Shadowrun, I pumped up the presence of that game as well. At most, I don't think we had more than about 300 on our best year. We also held the con in late January so as to appeal to the rest of the country "in the cold". We even had some guests like Michael Stackpole and Timothy Zahn, artists like Ruth Thompson, and others. We had a variety of games, but most were through the RPGA. We also had a dealer's room (for local vendors - Wizards wasn't going to come to a small con) and an art show. Other conventions might have as many as 10-12 tables of gaming such as Oasis and Necronomicon, but no where in size to SunQuest. We eventually got bought out by Megacon to run the gaming program for them, but by that time, most of us had burned out trying to keep the con up and running. Challenges with money (con space is expensive!!), worries about not having enough attendees, and not having enough GMs, takes a toll. If you want games other than D&D, you not only have to have GMs for them, but players as well. This is what has happened at Megacon. The person currently in charge of gaming is like a regional director for Pathfinder. He only has so many tables. He's not going to waste a table for Traveller for a GM to just sit there and have only one player show up, when he could be using it for another table of Pathfinder. For the games, it's a cart/horse problem - for the space, a money problem.</p><p></p><p>A new player is rising however, with Dice Tower Con making a mark. It's currently held in early July, but has doubled in attendance every year. It's primarily board games, but they now have some RPGs and mega-games ("Look to the Skies" and others) as well. I'll be attending for the first time this year and see how it goes...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard Osterhout, post: 7718001, member: 6887505"] To the OP - Welcome to Central Florida!! back in the 90s and early 2000s, we had a vibrant gaming community. I was part of SunQuest, and we ran a gaming convention in Orlando for a couple of years. We constantly had issues with finding GMs to run games, especially those other than D&D. As a former campaign director for Shadowrun, I pumped up the presence of that game as well. At most, I don't think we had more than about 300 on our best year. We also held the con in late January so as to appeal to the rest of the country "in the cold". We even had some guests like Michael Stackpole and Timothy Zahn, artists like Ruth Thompson, and others. We had a variety of games, but most were through the RPGA. We also had a dealer's room (for local vendors - Wizards wasn't going to come to a small con) and an art show. Other conventions might have as many as 10-12 tables of gaming such as Oasis and Necronomicon, but no where in size to SunQuest. We eventually got bought out by Megacon to run the gaming program for them, but by that time, most of us had burned out trying to keep the con up and running. Challenges with money (con space is expensive!!), worries about not having enough attendees, and not having enough GMs, takes a toll. If you want games other than D&D, you not only have to have GMs for them, but players as well. This is what has happened at Megacon. The person currently in charge of gaming is like a regional director for Pathfinder. He only has so many tables. He's not going to waste a table for Traveller for a GM to just sit there and have only one player show up, when he could be using it for another table of Pathfinder. For the games, it's a cart/horse problem - for the space, a money problem. A new player is rising however, with Dice Tower Con making a mark. It's currently held in early July, but has doubled in attendance every year. It's primarily board games, but they now have some RPGs and mega-games ("Look to the Skies" and others) as well. I'll be attending for the first time this year and see how it goes... [/QUOTE]
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