Seek the Wolf in Thyself!
2020 has been a disaster on all levels. COVID 19, racial unrest and protests, the election – just ugly. My life is no different. Between sporadic health issues (not COVID related) and the events behind this post, my life is probably changed forever. While my experience is not unique nor earth-shattering, it is an experience…
I have a ton of thoughts swirling through my head about this past weekend. ConCarolinas 2019 was a interesting for me. ConCarolinas has been a whirlwind of emotions for me over the years. My wife and I put 11 years of my life into it, helped it grow to what it is today, and then…
I have been involved with convention fandom since 1989. That’s nearly 30 years of going to conventions as well as running them. The biggest I ever attended was DragonCon and I continued my patronage of that convention until I started having multiple kids and focusing on that part of my life. Through those years, I…
Since 2012, I have often pictures That Con coming back to me and asking me to help dig it out of the hole that they dug themselves into. I imagined the satisfaction I would feel in knowing that in the end I was right. I pictured the smug smile I had when I told them…
Things went really well at ConCarolinas 2018 Gaming – partially because I really worked hard on my attitude and partially because people are starting to understand the system. There are a few areas I need to improve on still but for the most part, it works well. Communication to the players continues to be my…
At one time, I was proud to be at the center of THAT convention. I was proud that I built it from 300 attendees to 1300. I was proud to have hosted the largest attended Deep South Con (2010) since it’s inception. I was pretty proud of my accomplishments until it all came crashing down…
The 8th annual MACE West has come and gone. I keep telling people that they need to stop having so much fun at these things because we have to quit at some point. I am not doing this until I am 60 (I turn 50 next year). MACE West turned 8 this year which means…
Fri 8 pm – 12 am: Shatterzone Xenos Alpha I play tested this at RonCon. I am not sure how well this is going to go. I never ran SZ at a Con because of its complexities. I am going to try my best to nail those down and avoid book diving, but it may be…
So we got feedback from That Con because they like to do surveys and all that. While I am sure they have more than enough to deal with on the fandom end, by statistics, we did fine. Out of 66 respondents, about 3 were rather scathing and hurtful. So, cathartically, I am posting them here. It is a realization that if my work with That Con is going to continue, I have to really look inside myself and figure out what is going on. Is it burnout? Or is it something else? Can it change?