In the middle of September, I went to the first table top gaming convention I’ve been to since 2019, Mega Moose Con in Richburg, SC.
The Pandemic really did a number on conventions and other table top gatherings. I realized that my only face-to-face gaming since 2020 had been with my immediate family. On the other hand, I really came to appreciate solitaire gaming and the Nintendo switch.
The con was really a vehicle to have a reunion with old gaming buddies who I had originally met in college. It had been well over a decade since I had seen most of them. Which was my ‘fault’ since I had moved the farthest away by a long shot.
With that said, Mega Moose was a really solid small convention. The only weak spot was that it didn’t have much in the way of dealers. Which really isn’t the draw of going to a smaller convention, just like the opposite is a true of going to GenCon and spending hours and too much money in a dealer hall the size of a football field. (I actually have no idea how GenCon’s dealer hall compares to a football field)
It had lots of gaming tables, certainly enough for the crowd. You could find a table but there wasn’t a sea of empty tables. The staff was friendly and helpful. The game library was solid. And the auction and flea market was actually one of the best that any of the gang could remember.
I honestly didn’t know what it would be like to play games face-to-face again after being out of that part of the hobby for so long. (And I used to think of that as the hobby itself!) But it was like falling off a bicycle. It comes back automatically.
High points for me were learning Last Light and Hadara. However, the real star of the convention for us was Medici. We were a six-player table and we kept on going back to Medici. I played more Medici than I had ever played before and came to enjoy more than ever.
Good times.
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