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The state of gaming cons
Jun. 1st, 2021 08:02 pmToday on Discord:
Instead of cancellation or full moves to online, the summer gaming cons are delaying to fall. Origins, normally in June, is now at the end of September. Gen Con, usually in early August, is now in mid-September (across Yom Kippur, in fact, which has led to some fallout).
Con-Current, the online event originally created as a supplement to Origins last year, gets that weekend to itself again. And since the Pathfinder Society usually anchors the start of its season to Gen Con, a replacement online con has been pulled together in the form of PaizoCon Europe (which, despite the name, will have round-the-clock gaming).
Gen Con itself is planning to be a hybrid convention. It's capping physical attendance well below normal, but promising a robust online schedule and the return of Pop-Up Gen Con, an event held at local gaming stores on the Saturday of the con.
Instead of cancellation or full moves to online, the summer gaming cons are delaying to fall. Origins, normally in June, is now at the end of September. Gen Con, usually in early August, is now in mid-September (across Yom Kippur, in fact, which has led to some fallout).
Con-Current, the online event originally created as a supplement to Origins last year, gets that weekend to itself again. And since the Pathfinder Society usually anchors the start of its season to Gen Con, a replacement online con has been pulled together in the form of PaizoCon Europe (which, despite the name, will have round-the-clock gaming).
Gen Con itself is planning to be a hybrid convention. It's capping physical attendance well below normal, but promising a robust online schedule and the return of Pop-Up Gen Con, an event held at local gaming stores on the Saturday of the con.
