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thebitterguyIt kind of sucks, but Ontario used to have two really good mid winter gaming cons; you had Panda in TO and RedCon in Kingston.
Panda I never really attended, but RedCon rocked. It was put on by at RMC (Royal Military College, for the vast majority of you who aren't me) by their game club.
Let me tell you, until you've attended a gaming con at the nation's military academy, you've never lived. Just remembering the main gaming room, with the dealers on the overhead balcony area, and the divider separated gaming regions... It was great.
Of course, it was the site of my Worst Game Ever (yes, Brad, worse than the Champions game). But it was also the first place that I ever attended a con. Hell, it was the first place Dave Pulver gave me the great Game Writer's advice: "have someone else in the family who earns the main income."
Anyway, as I've probably said before, RedCon died when they lost the RMC strategy club (the early 90s were the twilight of great Strat clubs. Allow me to tell you about CUSC, which was half of my major in university). There were attempts to revive it as RoyalCon at Queens, but that kind of petered out.
And now Panda is valiantly attempting to soldier on after it hit the angst wall and sold out to the Realmsquest people. Dunno. It might be cool.
Damn. I miss it.
Panda I never really attended, but RedCon rocked. It was put on by at RMC (Royal Military College, for the vast majority of you who aren't me) by their game club.
Let me tell you, until you've attended a gaming con at the nation's military academy, you've never lived. Just remembering the main gaming room, with the dealers on the overhead balcony area, and the divider separated gaming regions... It was great.
Of course, it was the site of my Worst Game Ever (yes, Brad, worse than the Champions game). But it was also the first place that I ever attended a con. Hell, it was the first place Dave Pulver gave me the great Game Writer's advice: "have someone else in the family who earns the main income."
Anyway, as I've probably said before, RedCon died when they lost the RMC strategy club (the early 90s were the twilight of great Strat clubs. Allow me to tell you about CUSC, which was half of my major in university). There were attempts to revive it as RoyalCon at Queens, but that kind of petered out.
And now Panda is valiantly attempting to soldier on after it hit the angst wall and sold out to the Realmsquest people. Dunno. It might be cool.
Damn. I miss it.
REDCON
Date: 2006-11-19 05:31 pm (UTC)I helped with REDCON 94, and then I was the one who organized and ran REDCON 95 and REDCON 96. I remember REDCON 94 only being held in Yeo Hall, but I saw the potential of a greater event. Luckily the internet was growing in popularity and I was able to nearly doubled the attendance for REDCON 95; mind you, the popularity of MAGIC really helped. For that event I expanded the event from just Yeo Hall to include the old gym.
I think REDCON 95 was the best gaming convention (of the Three that I participated in), and it was amazing that all it took was me, and the 2 other members of the Wargames Club. It still boogles my mind that I ran one of the best gaming events in Ontario; but what is really awesome is that people (other than my close friends) remember the event and better yet, thought it was one of the best.
REDCON 96 was also good, but I had to move it to the SAM Centre since Yeo Hall was underconstruction. That turned out to be a better venue, more space for games, for vendors and this time, Bubba's for food.
Unfortunately REDCON 96 was the last event as I could find noone that wanted to donate their time to running REDCON 97. I saw that there was a game back in 2003. That's great. It's good to see it that it didn't completely die out. Ah, but to run another REDCON would be great. Too bad I am posted to Colorado Springs for the next 3 years.
Dave Kostuk
Re: REDCON
Date: 2008-04-16 06:44 pm (UTC)