Post-Apocalypse Speculation

[Lanefan]

If the unthinkable were to happen and GenCon be forced to sink outright under the weight of its financial issues, something would spring up - probably an existing annual con. just getting bigger - to take its place as the premier gaming convention and all-around Big Show. My question is, what and where and when would it be?

Lane-"but I'd still rather see GenCon survive about as-is"-fan

 

[exile]

Origins...good location, good time of year, previously big con in a bit of decline (perhaps thanks to Gen Con)...natural heir to the con throne.

Chad

 

[Wik]

Preferably, it'd be somewhere in Victoria.

Hell, I'd be willing to go as far as Vancouver.

 

[Lanefan]

Preferably, it'd be somewhere in Victoria.

Hell, I'd be willing to go as far as Vancouver.

Unfortunately for us, it'd pretty much have to be somewhere in the midwest US, and probably sometime during the summer*. Origins is one option someone mentioned, but I had the impression it had drifted sharply away from RPGs over the last ten or so years...can anyone confirm or deny this? (and where is Origins held...is it Columbus Ohio?)

* - this is (to me) why GenCon SoCal failed - they insisted on putting it in flippin' December when a large chunk of their customer base is either in school, or writing exams, or working in retail and thus not allowed to take vacation. Had it been in a more useful time of year I'd have gone - LA is a lot closer and cheaper to get to than Indianapolis!

Lanefan

 

[hong]

Origins...good location, good time of year, previously big con in a bit of decline (perhaps thanks to Gen Con)...natural heir to the con throne.

Chad

No, Chad would be a terrible place to hold a gaming convention. Trust me on this.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

*Shifty Eyes* Come on Fancom in Toronto!

 

[Kaodi]

Ah, Toronto. How I wish you had a great gaming convention.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Me to, me to, Fancom is like the closest thing and all there is, are a couple people selling old used books and people playing warhammer *sighs*

 

[Mercurius]

No, Chad would be a terrible place to hold a gaming convention. Trust me on this.

That's funny.