In the summer of 2012, I attended my first gaming convention: Gen Con. It was a wonderful experience, and I have been back every year since. Here are a few lessons learned from our first convention:
- Don’t schedule any events before 10 am. After a late night of gaming, we really wanted to sleep in. Now we won’t schedule anything before noon.
- Try something new. We did not try as many new things as we should have during the con. Now each year we make it a big priority to try something different.
- Create a budget for the Exhibit Hall and stick to it! We were like a kid in a candy shop the moment we entered the Exhibit Hall, and we went overboard with our purchases. In the following years, we spent money responsibly.
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- Awesome The Dark Night Joker cosplay
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- A session discussing the upcoming edition of D&D
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- Darth Vader
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- Standing next to a Drider
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- Standing next to Drizzt!
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- Awesome Silent Hill Cosplay
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- Demoing Summoner Wars
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- Solid Snake!
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- X-wing fighters
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- Dr. Who Cosplay
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- Halo Cosplay
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- Beside a Tardis
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- Giant Robo rally
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- Klingons
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- DICE!
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- In the skywalk
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- Lunch at PF Changs!
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- A wookie on stilts!
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- The balloon sculptor created a giant dragon
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- Vash the Stampede
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- Harvey Quinn and Han Solo
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- Exterminate!
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- Spin a yard with Ed Greenwood
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- Dwarven Forge
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- Me posing in front of a Drider in Wizard of the Coast’s booth
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- Ghostbuster Cosplay
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- Tracy Hickman’s Killer Breakfast
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- The Exhibit Hall
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- Mass Effect’s Jack Cosplay
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- Caught of glimpse of Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek’s Uhura)
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- Getting the lay of the land
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- Couple of Drows
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- Star Wars Boba Fett Cosplay
