Announcing a Vintage/Old School RPG Gaming Convention in Connecticut!!

[joethelawyer]

It is called Fal-Con, and will be held in Middletown, CT this fall, October 16th. They are taking event submissions now. It is focused on all Vintage RPG's, not just DnD.

I spoke with the person organizing it, and he seems pretty cool. He was really impressed with GaryCon, and wanted to do something similar in CT.

After putting together my list of old school gamers in the state, I had the idea to do a East Coast Old School Con. I figured there were two in the center of the country, with the North Texas RPG Con, and GaryCon. Seems someone else had a similar idea. A friend of his was nice enough to point me to this, the inaugural event.

With Middletown CT roughly a 2-3 hour car drive from 30 million people, I'm sure we can fill the hall. My hope is that this becomes the premiere Vintage/Old School Con in the region.

As of now there are no luminaries or guests of honor, and no exhibitors, just a bunch of gamers. I think that's the way the event organizer wants it, the first time out. A low key, low cost, all day gaming event. Please don't let that stop anyone, luminary or not, from coming down for some Vintage RPG fun.

I am going to be running at least one session of Castle Zagyg: Upper Works, and perhaps a classic module as well---I am thinking of running a Judges Guild one. Anyone else interested?

Here's the link:

http://www.fal-con.org

 

[scruffygrognard]

It falls on my 40th birthday, plus I dig Old School gaming... so it must be full of awesomeness.

 

[MadLordOfMilk]

Sounds like fun! Wish I lived a bit closer, though; I'm probably about 7hrs or so away (western NY). Good luck with the con, though!

 

[Tav_Behemoth]

I plan to attend, and submitted an OD&D event - Jaquays' "Night of the Walking Wet". I'm thinking I might run it in all three slots, with new players entering each time to join those who'd already gone through one run. At Gary Con we played all night and barely scratched the surface of this awesome adventure, so although I don't want people to have to commit to all three I think it'd be cool to have three expeditions building on one another.

 

[Piratecat]

Huh. Cool. Maybe I'll run old-school Paranoia!

Err - would that even count?

 

[Mark]

If someone wanted to split a room and could pick me up at an airport, I might be able to swing such a trip. Perhaps getting in (kinda) early on Saturday, staying over, then flying out sometime on Sunday. CreativeMountain (at) gmail (dot) com if someone can help make that happen. TIA.

 

[howandwhy99]

I plan to attend, and submitted an OD&D event - Jaquays' "Night of the Walking Wet". I'm thinking I might run it in all three slots, with new players entering each time to join those who'd already gone through one run. At Gary Con we played all night and barely scratched the surface of this awesome adventure, so although I don't want people to have to commit to all three I think it'd be cool to have three expeditions building on one another.

Here's a big thumbs up, if you can snag a chair for Tavis's game.

I think there's about a dozen people with a standing invite for you to continue running the adventure come GaryCon III.

 

[MichaelSomething]

Fal-con? Can you tell me why this was the chosen name? You just made it really easy to insult your con simply by adding an I in there.

 

[Piratecat]

Michael, they answer your question on their FAQ.

I just got a really nice reply to my email, asking if a Paranoia game would fit in. I'll definitely be there!

EDIT: I'll be running a 2nd edition Paranoia adventure.

 

[Eridanis]

This sounds like fun - I'll throw it on my calendar!