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D&D General D&D Fan Expo: London Main Show Is Coming This August

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Category Dungeons & Dragons

Thread starter Morrus
Start date Thursday at 2:52 PM

Two days of events at London's O2 Arena.

On Saturday, August 22nd, the O2 Arena in London will host the D&D Fan Expo. This event features interactive elements, panels, and special guests.

Tickets go live at 10am on Friday, 6th March. A presale on Wednesday, 4th March will be open to subscribers of the AEG Presents newsletter (which you can sign up for on the site).

The event spans two days. On Friday, 21st August, D&D Actual play group The High Rollers will perform live in the Indigo at the O2. And then on the Saturday, the main event takes place in the O2 Arena, as Dungeon Master Jasmine Bhullar puts a group of actors through their paces.

There will also be panels, Q&As, performances, gaming tables, and traders, although information on those has not been released yet.

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Morrus is the owner of EN World and EN Publishing, creator of the ENnies, creator of the What's OLD is NEW (WOIN), Simply6, and Awfully Cheerful Engine game systems, publisher of Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition, and co-host of the weekly Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk podcast. He has been a game publisher and RPG community administrator for over 20 years, and has been reporting on TTRPG and D&D news for over two decades.

Bravesteel25

Baronet of Gaming

Today at 4:41 AM

Morrus said:
It’s a contained event. The O2 Arena has a capacity of 20,000. You could be in a country with a billion of your fans, but only 20,000 are going to be there.

Plus, it's not a zero-sum game. It doesn't block the existence of other events.

And, finally, it probably isn't done directly by WotC. It was probably a UK crew who went to them and offered to put on a licensed event at the O2 Arena. What's WotC gonna say? No? We only want events in America?

I don't particularly mean that they shouldn't do events outside America. I'm just surprised that something heralded as a big "D&D Fan Expo" isn't even in the country that hosts PAX, GenCon, and Gary Con. I never meant to make it come across that it was a zero-sum situation, I'm just surprised, 3rd party or not.