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Hosted by UT-BASH (The University of Toledo Benevolent Adventurers' Strategic Headquarters). Typically held in late February or early March, it is a three-day event filling much of UT's Student Union with: dealers from all over the Toledo area and beyond; an auction; and, of course, gaming of all sorts. A full day of convention-style open gaming at a very low cost. All sorts of strategy games: abstract boardgames, German games, wargames, and collectible and non-collectible cardgames. Historical miniatures gaming society. Mission, BC, Canada, in February. Features roleplaying, CCGs, miniatures and board games. Muskogee, Oklahoma, in August. HMGS standards in effect, with no more than 10% non-historical games allowed. Miniatures games from all historical periods are welcome. Run every March by the Clarksville Gamemasters Guild. Features roleplaying, miniatures, card games, board games and LARP. November, in Arlington Heights, IL. Cards, miniatures, board games, LARP. Held in a mystery location with twelve selected players (not open to the general public, although you are welcome to apply). Bed and breakfast atmosphere. Held in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, in April. Events include Magic:TG, AD&D, L5R, Live Action Vampire, and Battletech. Each September, in Rolla, Missouri. Roleplaying, CCGs, wargames, computer games. Organizers of ShoreCon (September) and MonCon (March), two NJ conventions. Board games, card games, miniature games, role-playing games, computer network gaming, live-action events. Non-profit, all volunteer games convention held annually in St. Paul, Minnesota. Roleplaying, war, board, miniatures, collectable card, and computer games. Roleplaying, cards, LARP. Winona, MN. October. Offers roleplaying games, collectible card games, miniatures games, board games, dealers room free to the public, charity raffle benefiting wildlife rescue, and a guest of honor. July. Tampa Bay, FL. Held in Northern California every Labor Day weekend. Features many different kinds of games, including miniatures games, role playing games (RPGs), board games, collectible card games (CCGs), and live action role playing games (LARPs). Welcomes all gamers and their families. Events held in Connecticut throughout the year. Includes may systems of roleplaying and wargames. Features a number of ongoing campaigns. Iowa State University's annual convention devoted to fun and games. Games, tournaments, auctions, prizes, lectures and special guests from the gaming industry. March. Annual science fiction convention, located in Beloit, WI. Events include roleplaying games, live action-roleplaying, network computer gaming, as well as wargaming and CCG tournaments. RPGA gaming, LARP, miniatures. August event at Seattle University, Washington, featuring board games, miniatures, roleplaying, CCGs and computer games. Puts on LARP/ren-faire style events in northern California. Currently has one event, The Last Inn, that runs twice a year. A February convention in San Ramon, California. Featuring board games, miniatures, card games, LARP, roleplaying, and SCA. RPGA gaming convention, March. A full weekend of roleplaying games in Durham, North Carolina. A three-day annual convention held in March at Southern Illinois University. Features games, auction, contests, dealers. Held in early January in Frederick, Maryland. Board games, strategic miniature games, card games, war games, video games, and a live-action roleplaying game (LARP). Promoting science fiction and fantasy in Nova Scotia through game cons, writing contests, artwork, costumes. A gathering of LARPs from around the South East, held in Atlanta, GA. Regular conventions held in various Florida locations. Live action games, CCGs, miniatures, PlayStation, Nintendo. Oakland convention held Memorial Day weekend. Lots of miniatures, roleplaying, LARP, board games, card games. Focuses on demonstration games for roleplaying, card games, board games and miniatures. Held in Southern California. Annual game fair held in Iowa City, Iowa. Offers roleplaying, CCGs, board and strategy games, miniatures events, and live-action roleplaying games (LARPs), as well as special guests, an auction, and free pop all weekend (That's soda, for those not from the mid-west). Recognized as the largest gaming convention in the US. Aims to offer something for every science fiction, fantasy, or general game-playing fan. A good spot to spend a squelching August, surrounded by famous celebrities, thousands of games, and shopping opportunities. February. Board gaming, RPGA roleplaying, miniature games, auctions, collectable card games, anime, junior con, live action, one of the region's largest dealers rooms. Presented by the Denver Gamers Association. Presents a yearly convention called QuinCon in Quincy, IL, as well as a series of Mini-Cons throughout the year. A gathering of fans of Jon Tuffley's science fiction rules for miniatures. Various events with prizes, a miniatures contest, a vendors area, and open gaming. Lancaster, Pennsylvania. July, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Includes roleplaying, board gaming, miniatures, live-action roleplaying, dealers room, miniatures painting contest, used-game auction, sanctioned Magic collector card game tournaments. Past special events have included 'Bot Bash, where the participants pit their robotic creations against each other. Science fiction/fantasy convention with a strong gaming track. Includes events such as roleplaying, miniatures, and collectible card gaming, tournaments with prizes, RPGA events and much more. Indianapolis, IN. July. Sponsored by the Interactive Literature Foundation. Conventions held regularly in various locations. Lots of live-action roleplaying (LARPing). A gathering of members of the Camarilla (an ongoing worldwide campaign set in White Wolf's World of Darkness setting). Usually held in October, in a different city each year. All-gaming convention run for 48 straight hours on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. RPGs, board games, CCGs, and more mundane games. Gainsville, Florida, in January. Mostly miniatures and historical games. A no-frills convention at a low price. A wargaming weekend in April in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Run by HGMS Midwest. Held in North Carolina. Featuring LARPs, roleplay, board, card and miniature games. Events by Hollow Hills, Game Society, RPGA and more. San Francisco, July. Three days of family gaming fun covering collectable card games, classic and modern board games, roleplaying games and miniatures. Activities include tournaments, special events, demonstrations, prizes, a game flea market and an exhibit hall filled with game manufacturers from around the country. Largest northeast gaming convention. Offers over 400 scheduled events, among them several roleplaying games including RPGA events, miniature, board and card games. North Chelmsford, MA. November. local Science Fiction, Fantasy, Science, Horror, and Gaming Convention September, in Austin, Texas. Lots of miniatures games. Could probably do with some help fixing the CAPS LOCK key. Wisconsin's other gaming convention for role-playing, board games, miniatures. June. Computer games contests held in various locations in the USA. Run by Double Exposure, Inc. Supported by a not-for-profit group that promotes the positive educational, creative, and social benefits of gaming, through the yearly convention and monthly events and located in Omaha, Nebraska. A slower-paced 'relaxacon', held in Cincinnati in October. Run by the Cincinnati Fantasy Group. Held in Tucson, Arizona, every March, and featuring board games, collectible card games, fantasy miniatures, historical miniatures, LARP, RPG, wargaming. Formerly known as A Gathering of Gamers (AGOG). A mini-convention hosted by the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Club at Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, IL (near Chicago), in April. Mainly a gaming convention. Columbus, Central Ohio, February. Includes: RPGA events Magic, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, miniatures events, board games, live action rpgs, scheduled rpg events, dealers. Thousands of games to play, including strategic war simulations, board games, card games, and miniatures. Held on the Fourth of July weekend, in the heart of Columbus, OH, a couple blocks away from the Midwest’s largest fireworks celebration. Managed by Wizards of the Coast. Toronto, Canada, in April. Roleplaying, board games, computer games, tournaments. Run by the Rigel Group. April, UMass' Campus Center, Amherst, MA. Mostly roleplaying with a touch of CCG and LARP. The largest and oldest gaming convention in the state of Indiana. It includes roleplaying games, miniatures games, board games, live action games, and some networked computer games. In addition, there is a large dealers area, special guest personalities, seminars, demonstrations by the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), a charity raffle, a charity Jail-N-Bail, and a flea market. Held in March in Platteville, Wisconsin, on the UW Platteville campus in the Ullsvik Center. Includes: White Wolf, SJ Games, WOTC CCGs, Atlas Games. Central Wisconsin, April. Featuring roleplaying games, strategy games, board games, collectible card games, Japanese animation, science fiction, and live action games. Held every year in late June on California's Central Coast. Has several Live Action Role Playing games, several tournaments, three days of non-stop gaming, RPGA, and several dealers in attendance. Over the course of twenty-two years, the PrinceCon system has grown from RPG infancy into rich fantasy world in which scores of players gather every year to pit their imaginations against a few of the most talented GMs around. October, at Texas A&M University. Live action, M:tG, computer network games, video games, roleplaying, wargames. Fayetteville, AZ. April. Raises money for small, local charities in the Rocky Mountain region, typically by holding various events throughout the year, many of which are gaming (like board games and role-playing games, not gambling) related. Rochester. Roleplaying, war games and card games. During the fall quarter generally around or before the first of november. Games Workshop and White Wolf are regular guests. RPGs, miniatures, board games, LARP, CCGs, painting contest. New Britain, CT. July. Miniatures gaming in San Antonio, Texas, in May. Also roleplaying, LARP, and card games. Annual convention in Memphis area (hosted by Shadow Legion) offers gaming, movies, costume contest, an auction, SCA-style fighting and fencing, SCA and mundane merchanting, and general revelry. LARP convention based on the Shadowrun system. Held in Red Bank, NJ, in November. Roleplaying, miniatures, card, and LARP games presented by the Role-Players Guild of Kansas City, Ltd, in November. Northern Nevada's only annual gaming convention. Columbus Day weekend. Roleplaying, miniatures, collectible card games. A one-day gaming convention in the South Bay area (Silicon Valley) in November. Featuring board games, card games, dealers room, flea market, miniatures, open gaming, roleplaying, and Live Wiz-War. Historical miniatures wargaming, featuring Napoleonics, Seven Years War, American Revolution, American Civil War, Ancients, Naval (all periods), British Colonial, WWI-II, Air Combat. September. Raleigh, North Carolina. Focuses on miniatures and card games. Held in Illinois in April. A series of monthly RPG mini conventions in Hillsborough, NJ, run by Greg Barry. Features White Wolf and AD&D. Runs many games conventions in the Orlando, FL area. Run each April by the GameMasters Guild of IIT in Chicago, IL. A three-day event that features both role-playing and war games. A full weekend of gaming held each October, in Knoxville TN. Representatives from dozens of manufacturers on hand, plus many games--from roleplaying games to card games to miniatures games to board games--run much of the day and all night. Meets monthly at Borders Book Shop for word game fun in Madison, Wisconsin. Fredericksburg. Magic: the Gathering, roleplaying, Diplomacy, board games. Roleplaying, miniatures, card, and LARP games presented by the Role-Players Guild of Kansas City, Ltd, in June. Three Northeast gaming conventions: Total Confusion (Andover, MA), MassConfusion (Worcester, MA), ConMan (Merrimack, NH). Includes roleplaying games, RPGA events, Vampire, LARPS, miniature, board and card games, painting contest, art shows. CCGs, roleplaying, LARP. Joplin, MO. November. Held in Ann Arbor, MI, in November. Roleplaying games, CCGs, board games, miniatures, train games, LARP, DCI-sanctioned Magic tournaments, dealers' room, auction, specialty gaming tracks. A charity day in December 99 sponsored by the American Gamers Association and benefiting needy children. Hosts two conventions in Richmond, Virginia: Patriot Games (May) and Reindeer Games (December). Roleplaying, CCGs, Camarilla, miniatures. A miniatures convention in June, in Atlanta, GA. May, Piscataway, NJ. Lots of wargames and board games. January, in Fort Wayne, IN. Roleplaying, RGPA Summit (seminars/discussions). Managed by Wizards of the Coast and featuring many of WotC's games. The Conflict Simulation Society hosts this event every first full weekend in February, in Champaign-Urbana, IL. Lots of miniatures and wargames, and a good selection of roleplaying too. One of the oldest games conventions in the world. One-day convention, January, in Warren, Mich. Roleplaying events, miniatures events, board game events, open gaming, on-site food, auction, collectible card games. |
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