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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 2883975" data-attributes="member: 20741">I think the first would have been Halcon IV in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1981.  Held at St, Mary's University.It was really not a gaming convention so much as it was a Sci Fi convention. It had a dealer room and that's where I bought Arm's Law, on the large thick parchment-style tables that came with the first edition of it. I still have them and used them for 20 years.First "Gaming convention", would have been Pandemonium, 1984 or 1985 in Toronto. Held in the Ryerson Cafeteria/ Student Union Building.The AD&D open that year was a lot of fun. Very shared experience thing going on with 30 other tables or so playing it in the same room.They've pushed Pandemonium around all over the place since those years, mostly in a lot of area hotels recently. Despite the overcrowding, I preferred Panda when it was held at Ryerson.I was at Gencon in 1997, last year for it at Mecca as it turns out I think.  It almost didn't happen at all as TSR was going under that year. WotC came in and saved the day that summer and there was a cool gig by the Violent Femmes in the street outside Mecca the first night. We all remember drinking and watching the Violent Femmes sing their "one good song" (they have five - I like the band) and thinking warm thoughts of WotC and Peter Adkinson.We enjoyed ourselves and drank a lot - but one guy in our group was so absolutely BLOTTOED  and was so hungover that missed all of his  gaming sessions the next day.Only Gencon I've been to. I got married again, as it were, and that stopped that. I do need to go again. 2007 is looking very good for me and Gencon and I'll bring the wife <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.</blockquote>

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