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<blockquote data-quote="Thondor" data-source="post: 5202677" data-attributes="member: 31955"><p>Ah Steel Wind your posts are always filled with appreciated insight.</p><p> </p><p>While I feel like enhancing the FanExpo gaming ness is an excellent goal. I feel like Toronto needs another general caming con. Probably not something near the size of FanExpo itself, I doubt it could support that especially early on.</p><p>I wondering if persuing something like Go-play Ottawa would be a feasible way of getting things started. A small, free, one day, stealth mini-con.</p><p>Of course it seems that the Toronto Area Gamers (meetup) do some similar things, with monthly RPG gatherings of 20-30 folks and similar events. I wonder if they are a viable launching pad, I just don't know enough about the organization. They did seemed to be involved in running the RPG room at FanExpo 2009. Of course you also don't want to be exhausting the same pool of volunteers and GMs all the time.</p><p>I question the arguement that such a con would need to be during university year. The folks who volunteer heavily probably won't be those in university, particular those who are from a different City. Many out of town students stay during the summers anyway, and they won't have school work preventing them from attending. There is of course also the possibility of Torontonian students attending other universities (in other cities) being willing (or looking for an excuse) to return home. Though this later arguement really applies equally to almost all time periods, barring exams. </p><p>As a student in Toronto from Ottawa, I've made treks to both conventions in Ottawa and in Toronto (wether I was currently in the City or not). But then being someone who has gotten into the writing and design game I'm a little more avid then most. </p><p>My point however is that things are a lot more complexed then simply the idea of "we should make a Con during the school year cause there's more students in the city".</p><p> </p><p>The only other thing that I can think to add to the discussion at this point is that FanExpo 2009 and Cangames 2010 both had about the same amount of RPGs running throughout the Con. That is somewhere around 8 tables being put to pretty constant use throughout.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thondor, post: 5202677, member: 31955"] Ah Steel Wind your posts are always filled with appreciated insight. While I feel like enhancing the FanExpo gaming ness is an excellent goal. I feel like Toronto needs another general caming con. Probably not something near the size of FanExpo itself, I doubt it could support that especially early on. I wondering if persuing something like Go-play Ottawa would be a feasible way of getting things started. A small, free, one day, stealth mini-con. Of course it seems that the Toronto Area Gamers (meetup) do some similar things, with monthly RPG gatherings of 20-30 folks and similar events. I wonder if they are a viable launching pad, I just don't know enough about the organization. They did seemed to be involved in running the RPG room at FanExpo 2009. Of course you also don't want to be exhausting the same pool of volunteers and GMs all the time. I question the arguement that such a con would need to be during university year. The folks who volunteer heavily probably won't be those in university, particular those who are from a different City. Many out of town students stay during the summers anyway, and they won't have school work preventing them from attending. There is of course also the possibility of Torontonian students attending other universities (in other cities) being willing (or looking for an excuse) to return home. Though this later arguement really applies equally to almost all time periods, barring exams. As a student in Toronto from Ottawa, I've made treks to both conventions in Ottawa and in Toronto (wether I was currently in the City or not). But then being someone who has gotten into the writing and design game I'm a little more avid then most. My point however is that things are a lot more complexed then simply the idea of "we should make a Con during the school year cause there's more students in the city". The only other thing that I can think to add to the discussion at this point is that FanExpo 2009 and Cangames 2010 both had about the same amount of RPGs running throughout the Con. That is somewhere around 8 tables being put to pretty constant use throughout. [/QUOTE]
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