TSR TSR CON is running at the same time as Gary Con in Lake Geneva

[Saracenus]

Can't be a superspreader event if nobody shows up

So... it's a sub-spreader event?

 

[Sacrosanct]

Oh, the story is much better than just that flyer. They originally were scheduled to have their "convention" in the summer. Then they figured out no one would show, so they "just coincidentally" changed it to the same weekend as GaryCon. I think it's pretty obvious they wanted to capitalize on all the hard work the GaryCon organizers did for hotels and travel and marketing to get the people in town to begin with, so they wouldn't have to do any of that legwork themselves. Pretty typcial.

But then...

LaNasa had the audacity to ask Luke for $5000 for the right for GaryCon badge holders to also get into TSR Con for free.

Luke said a hard no.

Their entire convention is nothing but another grift; another way to try to get money without doing any actual work.

 

[J.Quondam]

It could still be a stuporspreader event, I suppose.

 

[J.Quondam]

LaNasa had the audacity to ask Luke for $5000 for the right for GaryCon badge holders to also get into TSR Con for free.

Gads! That's like $1300 per TSR Con attendee.

 

[Zardnaar]

I do have a morbid interest in the attendence I'll admit. Gonna laugh if they get 0 or close to it.

If it goes the other way I'll laugh then self medicate with some Russian beer breaking my diet.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I went to Gameholecon and it wasn’t a big deal. I had experiences that I would miss. Also only did I not get COVID I didn’t get con crud either.

Yeah at this point I've been packed in tight in so many crowds at metal festivals, casinos, airplanes, that I'm just going about life and the lack of a mask mandate would make me more likely to go. But this "Con" seems more like a game store game day or something. Is this more of an event where they are hoping that GaryCon attendees will stop by for a bit and play a game during break in GC events?

 

[Sacrosanct]

I will be at GaryCon, by the way (my first con in years, by the way, and first outing since COVID. I'm hoping the peak becomes a valley by then). however, I won't be masked up all day for 12 hours a day. I'll be masked at the hall, obviously. But I'm only running Chromatic Dungeons for 4 hours a day. I'll spend about another 5 hours or so around the convention, but I'll be taking breaks in my hotel room where I won't have my mask on, to get some rest. So my tactic is to approach the con in bursts between breaks.

 

[Retreater]

I already bought my ticket and hotel room for GaryCon. Sadly, they are non-refundable. So that means that I will not be able to refund my GaryCon ticket to pay for my TSR-Con ticket. Darn.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Why does middle of nowhere Wisconsin get another D&D Con, TSR should have put their con in Miami.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Why does middle of nowhere Wisconsin get another D&D Con, TSR should have put their con in Miami.

Their whole selling point is "you can game in Gary's old house!". Hard to do that in Miami.