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WotC's 2017 Convention Schedule Includes New Hascon, No GenCon
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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 7707587" data-attributes="member: 6750306"><p>Actually... Providence, RI is the biggest "event" city between Boston and New York, and punches well above it's weight class as far as culture, arts, music and conventions of all kinds go. </p><p>The RI Convention Center is regularly booked for huge national-level events - the RI ComicCon has gotten to be just as much of a monster as the others. Outside of the Convention Center, Providence is also home to the yearly NecronomiCon for H.P. Lovecraft fans (Lovecraft lived there) and has twice hosted the national Rocky Horror Picture Show convention.</p><p></p><p>It's a wise financial move to hold HasCon there since it's the hometown of Hasbro itself. (Hasbro has<strong> <em>major</em> <em>mojo</em></strong> with the city - the Hasbro Children's Hospital is internationally known.) Since it's going to be drawing fans from not just D&D but also all the other Hasbro properties - most of which are much bigger than D&D, it's quite likely it'll draw people from all over the upper eastern quadrant of the US and maybe some eastern Canadians as well.</p><p>Since you live in the Midwest, one thing you might not realize is that the Interstate Highway system connects basically <em>every major city all up and down the east coast</em> from Canada to Florida, and city-to-city flights out here are relatively cheap - even somewhat long-distance travel is fairly fast, easy and inexpensive, and most folks don't have much of a problem traveling out-of-state since a three or four hour drive might well bring you through three different states.</p><p></p><p>I fully expect them to underestimate the number of people showing up, and as usual when there's something big going on in Providence, parking anywhere in the city will be a nightmare.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 7707587, member: 6750306"] Actually... Providence, RI is the biggest "event" city between Boston and New York, and punches well above it's weight class as far as culture, arts, music and conventions of all kinds go. The RI Convention Center is regularly booked for huge national-level events - the RI ComicCon has gotten to be just as much of a monster as the others. Outside of the Convention Center, Providence is also home to the yearly NecronomiCon for H.P. Lovecraft fans (Lovecraft lived there) and has twice hosted the national Rocky Horror Picture Show convention. It's a wise financial move to hold HasCon there since it's the hometown of Hasbro itself. (Hasbro has[B] [I]major[/I] [I]mojo[/I][/B] with the city - the Hasbro Children's Hospital is internationally known.) Since it's going to be drawing fans from not just D&D but also all the other Hasbro properties - most of which are much bigger than D&D, it's quite likely it'll draw people from all over the upper eastern quadrant of the US and maybe some eastern Canadians as well. Since you live in the Midwest, one thing you might not realize is that the Interstate Highway system connects basically [I]every major city all up and down the east coast[/I] from Canada to Florida, and city-to-city flights out here are relatively cheap - even somewhat long-distance travel is fairly fast, easy and inexpensive, and most folks don't have much of a problem traveling out-of-state since a three or four hour drive might well bring you through three different states. I fully expect them to underestimate the number of people showing up, and as usual when there's something big going on in Providence, parking anywhere in the city will be a nightmare. [/QUOTE]
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