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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 1671158" data-attributes="member: 1613">The Lawrence, Kansas, RPGA club KUGAR (KU Gamers and Roleplayers) created KULCon (KU-Lawrence Con) in the early to mid 1990s; KULCon eventually folded after moving to Topeka and holding a satellite con in Wichita once or twice IIRC.  ThunderCon was in KC (run by Thunder Castle Games, once the publishers of the Highlander CCG), but is now defunct; ShaunCon is still going strong @ <a href="http://www.rpgkc.org/Con/" target="_blank">http://www.rpgkc.org/Con/</a> and Archon is in the general area as well (they're still around at <a href="http://www.archonstl.org/" target="_blank">http://www.archonstl.org/</a>).  None of the regional KC shows, however, ever really took off to become a larger show.  I think GenCon was just too close while it was in Wisconsin---only an hour plane ride away, for cheap on Midwest Express.  Perhaps now that the big con is a little further away, KC can grow some of its local cons into larger events with 1500+ attendees (similar to DunDraCon in the SF Area, for example).Heh.  I lived in Lawrence and worked in KC for four years, and that 45-55 minute daily commute was the bane of my existence.  When I moved to San Jose (CA) my commute was cut by more than half <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" />  Relatedly, the Lawrence-Kansas City-Columubia, MO corridor spawned several game companies in the 1990s.  In rough chronological order:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pagan Publishing, publishers of the CoC fanzine The Unspeakable Oath as well as the pre-X-files government conspiracy CoC game Delta Green (among many other things) (originally in Columia, MO, later relocated to Seattle)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Epitaph Studios, publishers of Periphery and Age of Empire (Lawrence)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Biohazard Games, publishers of the Blue Planet rpg and the Killer Crosshairs universal supplement (founded by ex-Pagan folks in Columbia)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thunder Castle Games, publishers of the Highlander CCG (they also had an RPG under development but it never saw print)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Event Horizon Productions, publishers of Hong Kong Action Theatre, Swords of the Middle Kingdom, Heaven & Earth, and Age of Empire (bought from Epitaph); Lawrence-based EHP was later sold to Guardians of Order, who republished HKAT! and H&E (Swords of the Middle Kingdom remains in EHP hands)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Clockworks Games, publishers of Asylum, Spookshow, and Chosen (Lawrence then NYC now back in Lawrence I think)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Adamant Entertainment, designers of Skull & Bones, d20 Fulvimata, and other stuff (Lawrence then NYC now also back in Lawrence I think)</li> </ul>I am almost certainly forgetting some other KC publishers....   :\</blockquote>

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