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That is terrible, the conventions I attend have a good reputation in
the community and are hosted by the same facilities year after year.

On Dec 8, 5:29 pm, "W.A. Hawke Robinson" <ha...@rpgresearch.com>
wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I was just at a nice facility considering it for our upcoming Tolkien
> Moot 2011 convention (this summer)http://tolkienmoot.org
> During the tour and discussion process, they asked if we were associated
> in any way with SpoCon, a much larger general SciFi and gaming
> convention with around 600-800 participants this past summer.
>
> I indicated no. They actually sighed with relief out loud, but then
> again tensely asked if we were anything like them, most notably asking
> "is this a gaming convention with role playing gamers?" (I kid you not),
>
> I indicated that yes we did participate in RPGing as a core part of the
> convention, and when I asked why that was a concern, they indicated they
> had been approached by SpoCon, but when they interviewed SpoCon's
> previous host facilities (Gonzaga University), that they had trashed the
> facilities, been very roudy and out of control, so they had declined to
> allow Spocon to use their facilities, and they were concerned about
> other gamer-type conventions being the same.
>
> I assured them we were nothing like that, and I think I successfully
> assuaged their concerns.
>
> SpoCon has tried for 2 years now to talk me into merging my convention
> with theirs, but I have been repeatedly warned away by others that it
> would be a bad idea for various reasons, so I've continued with our much
> smaller gathering independently. (30 or so people).
>
> I wonder, how many of you have heard of, or seen yourself, role playing
> gaming conventions that have been similarly harmful to the reputation of
> gamers?
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