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WisCONline
While it’s still in memory, some notes about WisCONline, which happened at the end of May. I was part of the concomm, doing a bunch of work behind the scenes, so I’m kinda biased. But at the same time,...
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WisCONline, weekend after next
The in-person Wiscon 44 has been canceled, due to the pandemic. I’m sad to miss that; it’s always great to connect with a lot of people in person. However, Wiscon has moved online! Registration for the...
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The right tool for the job
In May, I got to go to WisCon again. (Recovering took a while, thus not getting around to posting last month.) There was a lot of great gaming programming, including some very fun and mind-expanding...
View ArticleHow to “Build a World”
At WisCon 41 in May, I again ran a session of “Build a World”, the quite fun group-world-building activity. It went pretty well. We ended up with a world where “with great hair comes great power”,...
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WisCon: Geekiness and ‘Productivity’
In May, I again got to go to WisCon, one of my favorite cons. The con was overall great: thought-provoking, energizing, validating, and just generally fun. Plus, I got to see a bunch of people I...
View ArticleA thought for Wiscon
A thought that I keep thinking in the run-up to Wiscon: I can’t decide if it should be “Grant minorities in RPG-maker circles the confidence of mediocre white men“, or “Grant mediocre white men the...
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Goodbye, Ursula
Ursula K. Le Guin recently passed away. Lots of people have mentioned how she touched their lives with her prose fiction, her advice, her politics, and many other things. Like so many others, I’m...
View ArticleThe ideal gaming con III: Membership
What is the role of attendees at a con? And how much should they pay for the privilege? Emphasis on membership The role of attendees at cons has has been an ongoing, but somewhat subtle, conflict...
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WisCon 39, part 3: Are casual gamers “real” gamers?
How do you structure a discussion about gaming? What kinds of gaming count as gaming? How do you assume your audience relates to gaming — as creators, players or something else? Do you assume your...
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Behind and forward
Convergence 2015 is over. Was some two days ago, actually. But the combination of being 13 hours away from CST, then coming right back into Convergence, is still messing with me. I’m starting to get...
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WisCon 39, part 2: The Dooms that Came to Chaegrae
I ran this at Con of the North, and since I had good luck with rerunning a game at last WisCon, I decided to do so again at WisCon 39. I was a little worried about whether or not anyone would show up....
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WisCon 39, part 1: Let’s Build a World
As you may have seen from my previous iterations of this activity/panel/audience participation exercise/thing, I have a lot of fun with it and have been pushing for more local cons to run it. I tried...
View ArticleWisCon 39 was great!
WisCon 39 is now over, sadly. It was mostly pretty great. Lots of wonderful, deep and important conversations; superb panels; some surprisingly good gaming; and general fannish enjoyment a-plenty. I...
View ArticleWisCon 39 coming up!
And with my Minicon 50 posts finally written up, I’m heading off to WisCon! I’m not scheduled for a lot that’s gaming-related, and it looks like I might even have a schedule conflict or two, but here’s...
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Towards a perpetual calendar of Minnesota-area cons
After some discussion on Steve Brust’s blog, I’m wondering if it’s possible to list all the cons in this area. There really are a lot of them, and it’s very easy to lose track. I’ve seen various...
View ArticleWisCon 38, part 3: Wrap-up
Other general things WisCon 38 has me thinking about: As always, WisCon this year had a lot of powerful, important discussions. The discussion about social isolation was, for me, the one most directly...
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WisCon 38, part 2: Actual gaming
This WisCon, I did a fair amount of actual gaming. Foremost among these, of course, was my Mountain Monastery Murder Mystery. As I’ve mentioned before, this is set in a monastery/abbey of Sister Earth,...
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WisCon 38, part 1: Social Isolation
As I mentioned before, a lot of the panels I went to at WisCon this year didn’t have much to do with gaming. This one, however, did: Social Isolation and WisCon For many of us, WisCon can be a magical...
View ArticleWisCon: Yay!
WisCon is over. Post-con blues have set in. But I have many pleasant memories. It was a great con. Not a lot that’s relevant to this blog, but I’ll be writing about a few things in upcoming posts. For...
View ArticleOff to WisCon!
Just about time to head off to WisCon. I’m looking forward to a weekend of passionate, buoyant geekery. Getting to run Blade & Crown tomorrow night will be an added bonus! I hope to see you there....
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