The contests are OVER! Thanks very much to everyone for playing!

[Quickbeam]

Hey CL! I'm rooting for you in the voting! I think you would make a fine judge. It looks like you are starting to pull ahead of me a bit - should be interesting to the end!

I voted for both of you (and myself), an imagine that either would do a fine job representing the community. Nonetheless, I hope to make a late push and overtake BOTH of you !!

As to the present contest, I attend gamedays and conventions to meet some of the people I've spoken with on these boards and to test new games and systems.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Do you go to gaming conventions? Why or Why not?

Yes, I've been to a few. Last year's GenCon was my first "Big" convention, but I've been to a fair number of small, local conventions starting back in 1986 or 1987 with Point*Con at West Point, when I was in high school.

I enjoy going to cons for several reasons, mainly to game with new people, but also to try out games that I haven't played before. Even if I might never play a particular game again, I like to try them out to see whats good or bad about it, and just to have fun. Plus, the sheer number of people together for a common interest is a great feeling. I don't care if you're into RPGs, LARPs, CCGs, board games, or what have you, the fact that you like gaming enough to spend the day or the weekend with like minded people is great!

Hey CL! I'm rooting for you in the voting! I think you would make a fine judge. It looks like you are starting to pull ahead of me a bit - should be interesting to the end!

Thanks!

Running neck & neck with you is making for some great competition (I'm sitting here at work checking the votes every hour or so). You'd make a damn fine judge too.
Best of luck to you, and may the best goblin/librarian/gamer win!

 

[Nifelhein]

I have already voted.. it was a though decision, ctulhu was in my list but I ended up choosing Psion instead...

Anyway, I cannot go to gaming conventions, I live in Brazil and here we don't have anything like a gaming convention... and when we have, it is too far ( a thousand kilometers far) and not very representative of the d20 market too...

 

[Macbeth]

I have already voted.. it was a though decision, ctulhu was in my list but I ended up choosing Psion instead...

You can vote for more then one...
For instance, you could vote for BFG, who is running an awesome contest, and me, 'cause I could use some votes... (hint, hint)

 

[Harlock]

I don't go to cons. I want to. But something always comes up. Like this year, my wife is due in Late August with our second child. I miss GenCon, yet again!

 

[Nifelhein]

edited out.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I don't want to know who's voting for whom. Can we please not post that info here? Thanks!

Rich

 

[Macbeth]

I don't want to know who's voting for whom. Can we please NOT post that info here? Thanks!

Rich

Sorry, I didn't think about how my comment might lead to sharing of info that should be kept confidential. I just wanted to shamelessly plug myself, to try and break 2% of the vote.

 

[Storminator]

Been to 3!

Went to Origins and GenCon last year, to see what the to-do was all about. Went to UniCon in Rochester NY last Nov to demo Reaper's CAV. Going to one this weekend (TotalCon) to demo CAV and Warlord.

Hopefully get into some gaming as well.

PS

 

[Taelorn76]

I don't go because I have never heard of happening around the area I live in. Though they do sound like alot of fun

 

[Buddha the DM]

wonders what his odds are of winning one of these contests are...

Ah well.. we shall see.

 

[Mirth]

I attended DragonCon/Atlanta Fantasy Fair once back in the 80s when I was in college, but I think the only gaming I did that weekend was with my buddies who went.

I go almost every year to HeroesCon in Charlotte and I've participated in a demo or two there but nothing hardcore. Mostly go to catch up with comic book creators and find import videos.

Wouldn't mind going to GenCon but it's simply too far away from me.

Mirth

 

[cptg1481]

Conventions Eh?

Been to one went for reason #3

 

[Conaill]

Do you go to gaming conventions? Why or Why not?

Only if you count going to the local Boston area get-togethers at Pkitty's place.

It's a combination of things really. I've got lots of other things going on in my life right now. Plus my partner is not a gamer, so that makes going to non-local conventions harder as well...

 

[CrusaderX]

I've never been to a gaming convention because there are none nearby.

I usually attend an annual comic book convention, though. The con atmosphere is always fun.

 

[ConnorSB]

I've attended KublaCon once, and.... Dragoncon, I think. They were both pretty fun, although it was hard getting into certain events.

I really liked going, mostly because at KublaCon I actually got into one of the six runs through a Dwarven Forge Mastermaze. Out of like 3000 people, me and my friend were two of the lucky 36. And at the other Con i went to, I got to be a Sith Apprentice in a Star Wars larp, until I pissed off a bounty hunter and shot a hole through my chest and put a thermal detinator inside. That was... pasty.

So, yes, I like going to cons, when I hear about and can pay for them...

 

[SamuraiY]

Nope. I can't get to any.

 

[Kesh]

I've never been to a gaming con. Lack of money and transportation.

I would love to go sometime, though. Perhaps, if I get a job here soon, I can save up to get to one of the cons in Indiana or Ohio.

 

[JoeBlank]

Used to go to many Cons around the southeastern U.S., but then having kids has limited that. In recent years I have only been to DragonCon, and it is local. Going to a Con during the day and coming home at night is certainly not the same experience.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I've been to DragonCon once...but only for a day. Other than that, I've been to an Atlanata ComiCon, but nothing gaming. I'll hopefully be hitting GenCon around 2005.