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<blockquote data-quote="Walking Paradox" data-source="post: 5535911" data-attributes="member: 96011">The summer convention season will be upon us very soon. Aside from all the big ones like Gen Con, Origins, and so on, there will be many local cons too. I've been to a few of them and they range from slap-dash affairs that take place in one room to cool operations that run like well-oiled machines. What are some of the best, and worst things that you have seen con' organizers do when putting together a local convention with gaming?For my part, I saw a poster near the sign-up table for a convention that had the wrong date on it. I pointed this out to the guy who was stamping hands and he panicked, not having realized that somebody hung up the poster for last year's convention. I've seen some organizers schedule more RPGs in the same time slot than there were roleplayers (one of whom played in an RPG and in a board game at the same time, going to the RPG table between turns to be &quot;in-character&quot; -- to this day I am not sure how he did it), and the sign-up desk being run by someone from a local store, who dutifully steered every comer over to &quot;sanctioned&quot; events in support of a particular product that she was really pushing hard to sell; at the expense of every other event in the same time slot.I'd love to hear some of your stories!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Walking Paradox, post: 5535911, member: 96011"] The summer convention season will be upon us very soon. Aside from all the big ones like Gen Con, Origins, and so on, there will be many local cons too. I've been to a few of them and they range from slap-dash affairs that take place in one room to cool operations that run like well-oiled machines. What are some of the best, and worst things that you have seen con' organizers do when putting together a local convention with gaming? For my part, I saw a poster near the sign-up table for a convention that had the wrong date on it. I pointed this out to the guy who was stamping hands and he panicked, not having realized that somebody hung up the poster for last year's convention. I've seen some organizers schedule more RPGs in the same time slot than there were roleplayers (one of whom played in an RPG and in a board game at the same time, going to the RPG table between turns to be "in-character" -- to this day I am not sure how he did it), and the sign-up desk being run by someone from a local store, who dutifully steered every comer over to "sanctioned" events in support of a particular product that she was really pushing hard to sell; at the expense of every other event in the same time slot. I'd love to hear some of your stories! [/QUOTE]

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