[This is the fifth in my series of game convention retrospectives, in an attempt to draw general conclusions about improving attendees’ and organizers’ convention experience.]
The One that Got Away: DunDraCon
(San Ramon Mariott, San Francisco Bay Area)
DunDracon, held every February during Memorial Day Weekend from Friday through Monday, has seen 36 editions — making the oldest in the list. It has a solid role-playing focus with a good amount of all types of other games, Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) presence, costuming, and panels.
Every time we have been at this convention we have run lots of role-playing games and the occasional miniatures or RPG tournament. This used to be my favourite convention, my benchmark for what I hoped a convention would look like.
(Things that went well, things that went poorly: after the cut.)