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Cabin Con 2016 Recap part 1

On July 3, 2016

So I finally have an open weekend to catch up a little bit and it’s time to recap the events of this year’s Cabin Con gathering. We decided to extend the convention by starting on Wednesday night instead of Thursday night. This is the length of our annual Gen Con adventure and that length always felt like the perfect amount of time without becoming too long.

I picked up an out of town friend on Wednesday afternoon and after a bit of traffic, we met up with some of the others and caravaned up to the cabin. After some grocery shopping to stock up, we made it to the cabin and immediately busted out the games.

Showcase: No Thanks!

By Christian

On June 26, 2016

In Cabin Con, Showcase

No Thanks! has been a favorite light game of ours for a long time. In 2013, a group of us decided to host our own private “convention” in a cabin near Rocky Mountain National Park and one of the games that came up all the time was No Thanks! again.

Since everyone enjoyed the “CabinCon” as we were calling it, we decided to make it an annual event and we started wanting to do our own convention swag. No Thanks! was such a hit, I decided to make a custom CabinCon set for every one.

CabinCon Logo created by Bret Bays

Cabin Con 2016 Prep part 2

By Christian

On June 5, 2016

In Cabin Con, Conventions, Dropzone Commander, Resources, The Walking Dead: All Out War

So this is the last weekend to get ready for our annual Cabin Con gaming and I’m still prepping material for some games. I’ve been making progress on my components but I’m still pretty behind. I’ll likely need to start scratching things off the list to make sure I can finish the most pressing projects in time.

First up are my Battle Buses from Dropzone Commander for use first in my Thunder Road Skull City variant.

CabinCon 2016 Prep

By Christian

On May 29, 2016

In Cabin Con, Conventions, Resources

In less than two weeks, my friends and I will trek into the mountains and unofficially start off the summer game convention season with our own private little game convention, CabinCon.

CabinCon logo designed by Bret Bays

Gen Con 2014 wrap-up: continued

By Christian

On February 1, 2015

In Conventions, Gen Con

So last time I talked about Aaron Jenkin’s massive 3D recreation of FFG’s A Game of Throne board game. This time I want to highlight some of the other large scale pimp-outs I saw at the convention.

I’ll start with a favorite area control game of mine, Domaine.

End of Summer: Gen Con 2014 wrap-up

By Christian

On September 5, 2014

In Conventions, Gen Con, General

So July and August have come and gone but one of my yearly highlights occurs during summer so I’d like to go show off a game pimper’s view of my favorite gaming convention: Gen Con. For those that don’t know it, Gen Con is one of North America’s largest gaming conventions. This year, it’s attendance topped Essen Germany’s Spiel convention. Since Spiel occurs in November every year, I’ll be interested to see if their numbers improve to edge out Gen Con.

How big is this convention? The latest numbers came in at a staggering 56,614 unique attendees over the 4 days (August 13th-17th). This was my eighth year and it was good to see that the convention still holds its charm and I still find a lot of great things to do.

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Category: Conventions

Cabin Con 2016 Recap part 1

Showcase: No Thanks!

Cabin Con 2016 Prep part 2

CabinCon 2016 Prep

Gen Con 2014 wrap-up: continued

End of Summer: Gen Con 2014 wrap-up