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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5140812" data-attributes="member: 4937">As an outsider to the area, I have to say that I was stuck by how strong the local board gaming community was, and how relatively weak the local role playing community was.  I just don't think that there is the local passion necessary to hold a national convention that has relevance for RPG's in Columbus.  Sad but true.  Maybe there are some big organizations on the OSU campus that I'm missing, but for the size it is, it's just not as RPG friendly as I thought it would be.  Origins still I understand a relatively important board gaming convention (at least, I know abunch of board gaming geeks that attend every year), at least for the USA were board gaming is still not back to the stature it held in the '50s.  The name recognition is still there.  I keep meaning to attend but RL seems to continually intervene.As for awards being blazenly political and mired in corruption, it has happened to awards with much larger profiles than the Origin awards.  I fear that sort of thing is inevitable.  Awards kind go through cycles where they increase in relevance to the point that it really matters if you win, and then decrease in relevance because it does matter if you win and the purity of the award is ruined.</blockquote>