Seek the Wolf in Thyself!
MACE 2012 Report Part 1 A lot of anticipation built up to the 2012 move to Charlotte. Quite of few detractors from the Raleigh area voiced their displeasure with the move. “It’s like a whole state away…” when it was just an extra hour drive. We sympathized with those displeased but a business decision had…
Hello, It is with much sadness that I announce my resignation from ConCarolinas Inc. 11 years with the group that started with helping the founders establish the organization and running the first several cons has ended abruptly and not entirely by my choice. I have put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into the…
ConCarolinas 2012 Gaming Report ConCarolinas 2012 marked a year that put us up against Origins on the same weekend. In some ways, that effected us while in others it did not. I did not try to plan around Origins, I just did what I do and hoped for the best. Overall, I feel that ConCarolinas…
The Green and the Gray Another claim to fame – A group of us donated some money to get our names in this Timothy Zahn book as characters. The names were myself, my wife, my step son Jordan and Jeff Smith. The book is well put together, a sort of urban fantasy meshed with sci-fi….
ConCarolinas2011 Con Chair Report This year was going to be an interesting year for us. It was going to be a truetest after all we went through the past summer. Coming from the person thatseemed to be at the center of all of it, I was eagerly waiting to see if allthe talk was just…
Overall, I feel that MACE West 2011 was a success. There was very little one could complain about other than the weather. With about 130 people, we were a little short from what we hoped to get but not too short to kill the idea for next year. The concept has potential and so I…
As many have already posted, emailed and FB’ed, MACE was an incredible weekend. I had a lot of fun! If you have not heard, we had just under 500 in attendance, including the most number of gaming professionals ever. This broke our previous record in 2007. That’s amazing considering we were coming off one of…
From the end of the 2008 ConCarolinas to the start of 2009, that year makes one where I have never worked harder on a con. Jeff Smith got the big ball rolling by negotiating a sweet deal with a new hotel – the Charlotte Hilton University Place. But from then on, I was the one…
When we started mini-mace, we were inspired by other events in the area that were running one-day game events (game days) and thought it would be a good way to keep the passion up for MACE, increase our exposure and get more games played. It has been 6 years since we started. Since then, mini-mace…
Tired and emotionally drained, I returned home Sunday night (Nov 9) after yet another MACE gaming con. Another successful year of gaming and fun behind us, I want to reflect and give you the bad, the good and the ugly. The bad was kind of obvious. We were down in attendance this year about 30%…