A Gnome's Ponderings

Over Labor Day weekend, a group of us got together virtually because we couldn’t do it any other way.  As I have mentioned before, a couple ...

  Time for more con memories... I have found that, with board games, first impressions can be completely wrong. It often takes multiple play...

The one virtual convention that I have actually attended so far in 2020 wasn’t for either board games or role playing games but for a casual...

Eight years ago, a friend of ours started having their own private convention. They’d rent a large meeting room at a hotel and set up a bloc...

From what I can tell, in-person conventions across the board have been canceled for the year. Some, like GenCon and Pax are going to be free...

The first weekend in October was also RinCon, Tucson’s own gaming convention. I went for Saturday and it was a pretty amazing time. When I w...

Saturday was the last RinCon fundraiser. I’d missed the ones in July and August so I wanted to make sure that I got this one in. I was there...

This last weekend was the first fundraiser for RinCon, Tucson’s own gaming convention. Since the fundraiser consists of two rooms, one for b...

In September, I went to what I realized was my fifth RinCon. (I don’t actually know when the convention started) And that’s not counting all...

Over last weekend, I went to the first RinCon fundraiser of the year. RinCon is Tuscon’s friendly little gaming convention, small but well-r...

I thought long and hard about what else I wanted to write about Mayfair Games closing up shop while that was still fresh and on my mind. I m...

RinCon is Tucson’s friendly local gaming convention. In fact, it might be the largest gaming convention in Arizona. It’s definitely powered ...

From a couple different sources, including Cheapass Games newsletter, I came across GenCan't, the blog for all the folks who are _not_ g...

Every year since we've moved to Tucson, I've attended Rincon, the friendly little gaming convention that is Tucson's own. I thin...