Origins 2022

[Necron 99]

Apparently the game list dropped last night for all events.

(3) OD&D events, (11) AD&D 2e events, some of them duplicates on different days. Mostly D&D 5e, which is expected (120) events, about (30) or so Dungeon Crawl Classics events offered. A few Supers games offered, mostly Mutants and Masterminds, though I did see DC and Marvel. A lot of Call of Cthulhu (70+) events, but the majority of events were being managed by a gaming "group" and I've not had good experience with events run by groups/organizers for CoC in previous conventions.

Surprisingly, there seems to be more Pathfinder offered (157) than D&D 5e, but I may have missed some D&D in the listings somewhere. There also appears to be a good amount of Shadowrun events (100+)

I saw some one-shot, single sessions of some obscure games like, Through the Flood (Tales from the Loop), Star Wars d6, and a few other Star Wars events, Star Trek, Space 1889, Ghostbusters, Conan, Aliens, Dune, Paranoia, Hollow Earth, etc. But nothing that really grabbed my interest.

There are a ton of Board Game events offered (2000+), more than twice the number of RPG events (900+). About (500) events for Miniatures offered, including a fair amount of Battletech and a few less than that for Card Games.

I did not see any of the following offered:
AD&D 1e
Basic D&D
OSR: (OSE, Basic Fantasy, S&W, Hyperborea, etc.)
Castles and Crusades
The One Ring
Lex Arcana
Warhammer Fantasy RPG
Ars Magica
MERP
The Fantasy Trip
Hackmaster

[Ancalagon]

Apparently the game list dropped last night for all events.

(3) OD&D events, (11) AD&D 2e events, some of them duplicates on different days. Mostly D&D 5e, which is expected (120) events, about (30) or so Dungeon Crawl Classics events offered. A few Supers games offered, mostly Mutants and Masterminds, though I did see DC and Marvel. A lot of Call of Cthulhu (70+) events, but the majority of events were being managed by a gaming "group" and I've not had good experience with events run by groups/organizers for CoC in previous conventions.

Surprisingly, there seems to be more Pathfinder offered (157) than D&D 5e, but I may have missed some D&D in the listings somewhere. There also appears to be a good amount of Shadowrun events (100+)

I saw some one-shot, single sessions of some obscure games like, Through the Flood (Tales from the Loop), Star Wars d6, and a few other Star Wars events, Star Trek, Space 1889, Ghostbusters, Conan, Aliens, Dune, Paranoia, Hollow Earth, etc. But nothing that really grabbed my interest.

There are a ton of Board Game events offered (2000+), more than twice the number of RPG events (900+). About (500) events for Miniatures offered, including a fair amount of Battletech and a few less than that for Card Games.

I did not see any of the following offered:
AD&D 1e
Basic D&D
OSR: (OSE, Basic Fantasy, S&W, Hyperborea, etc.)
Castles and Crusades
The One Ring
Lex Arcana
Warhammer Fantasy RPG
Ars Magica
MERP
The Fantasy Trip
Hackmaster

Emphais mine.
That's some discouraging fecal matter right there.

[Ancalagon]

For purposes of comparison, the Origins 2023 attendance numbers were released:

Origins 2023 hosted 16,082 attendees from June 21-25, 2023. This is up from last year's (2022) attendance totals, which was 11,689 people, representing a steady return toward pre-pandemic attendance numbers. At the last pre-pandemic show in 2019, Origins drew 20,642 people (see "Origins Attendance Up 11%"), and the 2023 attendance was about 22% short of that number.

[Necron 99]

Seems like folks are getting back to it, which I think is a good thing. Life is too short to not get some good gaming in.