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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LaernonGM" data-source="post: 2471106" data-attributes="member: 24299">Remember Wingames?About a 1,000 years ago (OK, maybe 21) I was president of the U of M Gaming Club and we ran a "gaming only" convention at the U of M - called WinGames.  Not sure if any of you are old enough to remember that.We had 128 D&D gamers in a single event that eventually got down to a single group of the best roleplayers.  Everyone in the last group got a prize and the overall winner got a sword.We also ran Call of Clthulu, Car Wars, Squad Leader, Top Secret and a bunch of other games.I think it IS possible to run a gaming only convention, just that the first couple of years would be tough getting out the word of mouth.Sponsors used to be pretty good, though there were more "big" gaming companies back then.</blockquote>