Where are you? What cons do you go to?

[RangerWickett]

It's been a while since we've had a big "Hi, my name is Ryan and I'm a gamer" threads. So, where are you? What's the gaming scene like in your area? What conventions (gaming or otherwise geeky) do you go to? (Or which ones do you avoid, and what's wrong with them?)

I'm Ryan, in Atlanta, Georgia. There are tons of gamers here, thanks in no small part to it being White Wolf's home town for a long time, and host to Dragon*Con. I know there are smaller cons here and there -- Anime Weekend Atlanta, for one -- but I spend most of my convention budget on GenCon in Indianapolis, and generally avoid the local cons. After all, I already have my own gaming group. I don't see much at the cons to interest me, since I'm not big into seeing celebrities. Maybe I'm doing the cons wrong.

How about you?

 

[RangerWickett]

Dear 70+ people who have looked at the thread and not responded,

Please respond.

-Ryan

 

[JeffB]

I game with my son and his peers. I barely have enough time for that as it is. No clue what the "scene" is like. Historically the gaming shops here in my area (western CT) are more about cards and comics.

I havent been t o a CON since the mid80s. Though I know of a couple that happen in CT.

in general I hate gaming at shops/cons with people I dont know..Too many stereotypical bad gamer experiences. Rules lawyers. Canon fodder. People who act like their characters are real people, the soap challenged, etc

 

[Umbran]

I'm in the Boston area.

We have a bunch of conventions in the area - Arisia, Boscone, Readercon, Anime Boston, PAX East, Boston Comic-con, and so on.

I don't generally go to cons to play games - I'm there for the sci-fi fantasy genre content, panels, and to socialize with some of the geek social circles I don't see so often. I'll go to the occasional house-con (for a while there was a string of Boston EN World gamedays, though those have fallen off), and there's one live-action game convention I go to each year, and I go to live-action game event now and then. But, for the most part, I'm a game-at-home, with people I know, kind of person.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Hello, Trace from Columbia, South Carolina - SCARAB is about the only local Gaming Convention but the good thing about Columbia is it is not all that far from other locations, such as Atlanta and Dragon Con. Only been to a couple of SCARAB just to check it out. It has been a few years on Dragon Con, found that it is not my type of convention being more fandom than gaming.

The one I go to most is Gen Con, just a nine hour drive away but four days of gaming heaven.

 

[Talmek]

Hello - John here from southeast Texas. Unfortunately I don't know of any gaming conventions that would apply to my tastes (D&D, FFG Star Wars, FFG WFRP, PF) within 4 hours of my location. All the conventions that I have found even in the Houston area are mainly Warhammer 40K or Anime based, neither of which really interest me. I have a local group that play once a week at my home, but the stigma surrounding D&D in this area is still rather pervasive and such kills most public events that people would desire to put on.