D&D Gaming Convention in SoCal next weekend!!

[Spinachcat]

Hail Fellow Dice Tossers!

I am the Minister of Propaganda for ORCCON 2007 - the Los Angeles Gaming Convention happening February 16th through 19th at the Westin Hotel located near the LAX airport. The Los Angeles conventions are under new ownership and new management! We are planning some major changes to enhance the fun and we want you there. Bring your dice!

We are expecting over 1500 gamers from across Southern California! We sent out thousands of postcards, direct emails and flyers at game stores from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Today and next week we have big display ads in a dozen major college papers. OrcCon is gonna be HUGE and glorious!

We have hundreds of games all weekend long. Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer, Axis & Allies, Magic: the Gathering, World of WarCraft CCG, Settlers of Catan and so many more RPGs, CCGs, TCGs, boardgames, miniatures and LARP events will be happening with players from across Southern California and beyond. RPGA is showing up in force with almost 50 events!!!

BTW, if you never played a Living Campaign with RPGA, you are in for a treat! This is an AWESOME experience. You create a 1st level character who gains XP throughout the weekend and you can level up at any convention across the country! OrcCon is VERY excited to have a great RPGA staff who will be running many exciting adventures!

Are you a SpyCraft fan? Patrick Kapera, the author of SpyCraft 1.0 and 2.0, will be running some down and dirty espionage action!

Do you like D&D tournaments? Some madman found the 1976 GenCon Official Dungeon on eBay and he's running it twice for prizes to the slayers of the dragon!

Reiner Knizia is our Guest of Honor! Dr. Knizia is the amazing designer behind the Lord of the Rings boardgame, Amun-Re, Ingenious, Lost Cities, Modern Art and many other award winning games. Come play in our massive Kniziathon!

You can learn more about convention events at www.strategicon.net and preregistration is $33 and $38 at the door. The LAX Westin Hotel is offering a special convention discount so pack a hotel room with all your friends. Don't miss the fun!

Best Wishes and Good Gaming,

Robert the Lionhearted
Minister of Propaganda
www.strategicon.net

 

[T. Foster]

Is that 1976 GenCon D&D tournament dungeon being run with the actual 1976 D&D rules, or is it adapted to that "d20" thing all the kids today seem to like so much? If the former, I may just have to make the drive down after all. If the latter, I'll probably pass...

 

[Spinachcat]

Is that 1976 GenCon D&D tournament dungeon being run with the actual 1976 D&D rules, or is it adapted to that "d20" thing all the kids today seem to like so much? If the former, I may just have to make the drive down after all...

First, let me say that RPGA is running LOADS of D20 events for all 3.5 fans. There are also several independant D&D events. My "GenCon 1976" are the Olde Skool events! There will also be a Tunnels & Trolls game happening as well.

I have run the 1976 Dungeon five times in the past year in Northern California at KublaCon, ConQuest SF and PolyCon. Only one team has slain the dragon! OrcCon will be the final two runs until 2016 for the 40th Anniversary.

The game rules are AD&D / D20 lite. I run convention games all year and sadly, nobody remembers THAC0 so I have converted the THAC0 into a + X to Attack and AC to the 10 + AC that is common to D20. There are no skills or feats, just Olde Skool special abilities and classes like Elf and Dwarf. The 1976 Dungeon doesn't even have a thief! Combat is fast and furious, non-grid combat you loved from AD&D.

I am using the 1976 concept that all weapons do 1D6 damage...however, we are using 20s = critical hits, x2 damage AND any attack roll over 21 does +1D6 damage so we can speed up the slaughter. But we got wandering monster tables, group initiative, fire and forget spells, and everything you have always loved about D&D.

This is a tournament about teamwork, wits and daring - rules can't save you here!

 

[Festivus]

With the demise of GenCon SoCal this looks more appealing to me, however it's too short of notice for me to go this year. I looked at the site but didn't see a place where I could sign up for a newsletter / announcements list, do you folks have one?

 

[T. Foster]

I think you've sold me on a 1-day pass for Sunday. How does event registration work? -- I'd hate to show up rarin' to go and find the event had already filled up before I got there.

 

[mattcolville]

I'll be there next weekend. I'm running a tournament for Avalon Hill's 1979 DUNE boardgame! The prize is a copy of the official, extremely rare, Dune RPG from Last Unicorn Games.

I'd like to run this event at every Strategicon, but this will be the only one where we give away the RPG. I was the designer/writer/art director on the project and I only own three copies!

 

[Tewligan]

I'm definitely planning to be there, but I'm also curious about event registration - if I wander in unregistered, will I be able to jump into games willy-nilly, space permitting?

 

[Spinachcat]

We will have pre-registration of games up and running at GameX in May, but not at this convention. However, we will be doing sign-ups in the morning of each day. If you come on Sunday, come early because nobody will have been able to sign up before Sunday morning so your chances are as good as anyone elses regardless if they are there one day or four days.

Also, people are ALWAYS free to wander around to see if there is an empty slot. I find that often 1-2 people who pre-reg don't show and leave a space for the lucky!

See y'all there!

 

[Spinachcat]

Another tournament has been added!

Return to the Tomb of Horrors
Game System: 2nd Edition AD&D
Gamemaster: Richard Meeks
The nightmare of Acererak's tomb once again hungers for life! This is a 2nd Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons - TOMES adventure, turned into a three part tournament. You will fight your way through death and deception, but will you triumph in the end?