The fantable was run well by my wife Gretchen, Media Officer Tifni, Vice President Nate, Financial Officer Jane, and her husband Michael. We had a ton of visitors and got plenty of information out. We even held a raffle that was a success and raised some money for the Susan Petrey fund.
http://www.osfci.org/petrey/
The panels I was on went well. Some I spoke a lot in, some I did not. All was good. I go where needed.
The Game-anon panel (gamer lifestyle) centered on nerds bullying nerds. Jason Andrew (White Wolf) was the moderator and he focused us well. Rhianon Louve was a panelist, as was I obviously, and she was a perfect representative of the female aspect of gamer culture. We talked about bullying within the gamer community, touched on gaining the skill to determine what is and is not bullying, hygiene, women at the gaming table, delving out of the gamer culture a bit, ... and stuff like that. A really good talk in my opinion.
The Comics to Movies panel also went well. I did not bring much to the table as some other heavier industry people took over and that was fine. Other than "Avengers was cool..." I was able to bring up The Walking Dead comic to The Walking Dead TV show and how i felt about it (all good, my favorite TV show right now).
Saturday was the Practical Preparing for the Apocalypse panel. I sat on it with Karen Black (not the actress that just passed away this year but the writer and modern pioneer), Roget Rothferd and Rory Miller who moderated. It went well and was well-attended. We seemed to focus on defining what your "apocalypse" is, infrastructure, and the kinds of things one can do now in case there is a major disruption of life as we know it.
Jesse and Chin Chin from Heroes of Cosplay hung out with us a little bit at our table too. Good couple of folks and a lot of skill there. Hoping to work with them in the future some.
We had a room for Saturday night, it ended up being on the party floor, whoops. Anyways, we ended up partying a bit Saturday night. First we did a podcast via our friends Mathew and Brandon from The Orcbelly Inn. Brandon is Brandon Weaver and can be seen this December as Warbucks in the Annie production going on out in Forest Grove:
http://theatreinthegrove.org/wp/
After the podcast recording Gretchen and I, Nate, Brandon and Mathew set out to party and we did. By midnight it got a bit much for us old kids (Gretchen and I) so we went to bed.
We got up and had a delightful breakfast in Hospitality after a good shower and packing up some. We had great conversation with a lady dressed as a Jedi Knight and a gentlmen dressed like... well... a guy from the Pacific Northwest with his fleece vest and flannel shirt.
Some things to remember for next year:
1) Bring some healthier food. Like healthy meals.
2) Wash hands more often - I caught the Con-Crud.
I did get some good deals in the dealer room:
Shane Harris of Redwulf http://www.etsy.com/shop/RedwolfLtd gave me a discount on some "early period" brooch pins and hair pins for my wife. I've known the guy for almost a few decades via the SCA.
Red Castle Games http://redcastlegames.com/ gave me a little some-some of a discount on a Pathfinder map. I'm addicted to those laminated maps for my RPG table. Love those things. Then we talked about my opinion on new RPGers playing Pathfinder. I'll get into that in another blog post.
Guardian Games http://www.ggportland.com/ gave me a little some some of a discount with some wargaming dice. Always appreciate that. Then we talked about maybe hosting a Saga demo in the future.
Next year we plan to work with The Orcbelly Inn to bring a great party to the Con.
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