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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 3029611" data-attributes="member: 478">Finding a good place to hold the convention is really the first step. Without knowing that you can get a decent enough place, there's little planning possible.Another very important step is advertisement. Make it known through multiple channels (flyers, placards in/near schools/university and/or gaming stores, local fanzines, internet, etc). Otherwise many possible visitors will simply not come because they do not know about the event.Then you can start looking into a program... getting some reliable gamemasters to offer games, which you can then put into the advertisement. Find someone to hold a tournament for some game, that is popular in your area (tabletop, card games, roleplaying games, etc).Make it a one day event, since otherwise you need to figure out where people can stay overnight.Start small, don't put your expectations too high (no, you won't get a second (third, fourth or whatever) GenCon there <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).If there is some way to gather feedback *before* the bulk of the planning is done, i.e. how people would like such an event and whether they would attend (if time permits and so on), that might get you some useful information to base the planning on.ByeThanee</blockquote>

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