SkilGalen said:

Hmm, I was wondering what that was like and was looking forward to getting some feedback on the event. Mostly for future reference. I wanted to go this year but then one of my Pugs got sick and what with taxes so close, we couldn't even afford the relatively low price for the convention.

I didn't notice any pruning, only that the meetup message board has fewer posts than this one. Seem's almost like they want to restrict their board to discussion about their meetup group and nothing else. A real shame that.

I was hoping that this site would make it onto search engines sooner and attract a few more people. Next time I'm at great escape I must remember to drop some flyers off. Might be having a game there next week.

Might be an idea… Oh and if it makes you feel any better, you didn't miss much on the general RPGing front.  They kept on flipping around rooms, had at least 3 games going in each of the meeting rooms and had several of the scheduled RPG games going on in the main room… making it almost impossible to actually listen.  And by Sunday there was a shortage of players, several got canceled or merged simply because most of the non-RPGA ones were down to 2 players each.  The games that were run were fun though. :)

To give you an idea of how annoying it is, unless I hear of improvements I'm not planning on going to it next year, despite it being about 5 minutes from my house… I'd rather just do the one regular weekender game.

That having been ranted, I did notice that none of the 3 people who regularly organize the RPG section for the Avalon conventions were there this year… So I'm not blaming the con staff that were there.  The few I dealt with were trying their best, they are just not used to pesky RPGers who want things like signs telling them where signups are and what rooms games will be held in.

That having been said, they kept the starbucks open extended hours (until 9pm) which was my one and only supplies related gripe from last year.

SkilGalen said:

Hmm, it sounds a lot like the Denny's meetup group but at a bigger venue and open to all table top games.

That's about right actually.  But I'm still looking at doing pacificon (Sacramento Conquest) in the fall… The company running them is generally okay, just the sacramento hotel and layout sucks for RPGing.

Is anyone around here looking at going to KublaCon next month?  I'm debating it but have not been to that one before.