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[Dausuul]

Even if they were it has been hateful and ham fisted.

being parasites on GaryCon is super distasteful.

Well, it's clearly an evil campaign.

 

[Bill Zebub]

The term for this I know of is "house con". A friend of mine runs an invite-only house con each year. We take over most of his home for a weekend. He can manage up to 8 games per slot, I think, including a garage and tents in the yard as play spaces.

So, 30 to 50 people, I think. Not what you'd call a major commercial venture.

That appeals to me more than a huge commercial con.

 

[J.Quondam]

Even if they were it has been hateful and ham fisted.

being parasites on GaryCon is super distasteful.

They should just cut to the chase and call it Con-con

 

[Charlaquin]

They should just cut to the chase and call it Con-con

Perhaps Non-con would be fitting for one run by LaNassa

 

[Mannahnin]

Jason Spracklin reopened it in 2016, though it doesn't seem to make much money. Might just be an online retailer type setup where he sells game stuff on EBay for all I know.

Ah; I think I know him. I believe you're right that it's just an online sales thing. As far as I'm aware there hasn't been a gaming store of that name in NH since the Tower in Nashua closed.

 

[schneeland]

They’re so convinced they can dig their way out of this hole.

Well, maybe they hope if they keep digging, they come out in Australia or so

 

[Mannahnin]

The term for this I know of is "house con". A friend of mine runs an invite-only house con each year. We take over most of his home for a weekend. He can manage up to 8 games per slot, I think, including a garage and tents in the yard as play spaces.

So, 30 to 50 people, I think. Not what you'd call a major commercial venture.

That appeals to me more than a huge commercial con.

Paul Siegel of Wandering DMs has been running a private house con where they rent a vacation house every year (for 12 years, until COVID), and had written game scheduling software for it once they got too big to just sort out between the players and GMs without losing valuable gaming time. And in 2019 even released a beta test of a commercial version of the software.

House Conventions

My news feed recently served up this blog post entitled Run Your Own Damn Convention! I’m actually really glad to see some evidence that I’m not the only lunatic doing this. For 12 year…

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HouseCon.Net

I finally got around to getting housecon.net ready for beta testers. At this point anyone can pop over there and sign up for an account, but only approved beta testers can host new conventions. The…

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It does sound pretty awesome.

 

[Umbran]

That appeals to me more than a huge commercial con.

Yeah. There are reasons I have gone to the house con every year, but have never been to GenCon.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Good lord, it keeps getting better (worse). Apparently they posted an image of their game, using images from Heroforge's site of the minis and were called out on it. So they replied with this:

Figures we posted for our board game that we were told from Anvl may have been from another site. We are getting with the person who made them, and determining what the heck? Will update in a few on this one.

Check with the person? Who? Michael from the treehouse again? Certainly are a lot of mysterious people making mistakes around these people.

 

[Steampunkette]

That appeals to me more than a huge commercial con.

Yeah. There are reasons I have gone to the house con every year, but have never been to GenCon.

You know...

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7 bedrooms. "Sleeps" 14. Rent it for $700/night, that's $50/person.

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9 Bedrooms. "Sleeps" 20. Rent it for $589/night. That's $30/night, Would be craaaazy.