Pipes, Pints, and Polyhedrons

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

Necron 99 wrote: ↑May 17th, 2022, 10:10 am 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.

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.

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.