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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 5074190" data-attributes="member: 1613">I've been attending RPG cons since I was ~10, but I didn't attend my first (WI) GenCon until the '90s.  I grew up on a steady diet of local east coast, regional cons, and find that I really enjoy that size and focus the best.  When I lived in San Jose, CA, I hit many of the local cons there, and I miss that (there aren't cons in Wichita, and while KC is close, the few cons there now aren't that hot from what I've heard).I try to attend DunDraCon whenever I'm able to be in San Jose in February for work trips.  I missed this year, unfortunately, but it's a lot of fun (more so than KublaCon, FYI).  When I was there last (2008), I played Cosmic Encounter for the first time, which was a wonderful afternoon well-spent in one of DDC's myriad pick-up games!This year I'm attending <a href="http://www.garycon.com/" target="_blank">GaryCon</a> in March, and the <a href="http://www.ntrpgcon.com/" target="_blank">North TX RPG Con</a> in June (for which I just completed my event registration <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ).  Both are small (~200 attendees or so vs. say DunDraCon's ~1500), and old-school-focused, so I'm sure to find games I want to play/run.  I've found GenCon Indy to be a double-edge sword:  I like going, and love getting to see folks there I don't otherwise see, play games, hit the auctions and exhibit hall, etc., but in general I find GenCon to have grown beyond my willingness to attend regularly as a gamer.  From a publisher POV, I'd like to be in a position to exhibit there again sometime, but that's in our future for now.  When I do attend GenCon, I try to dig into board games, minis companies, and the various smaller press RPG publishers vs. WotC, D&D, and the usual behemoths.I attended the first DragonCon in 1987 and returned to it several times in the '90s, although I haven't been back since then.  I'd enjoy hitting that again, I'm sure.  Ditto for Origins (last was '99).  Both are considerably larger now than when I last attended, I'm sure, though (DC was already pushing 10K in the late '90s, but Origins was still ~5K although it's grown in recent years to be pushing ~10-15K I think).</blockquote>

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